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PRISON CONDITIONS
Chatman v. Otani

1:21-cv-00268 | U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaii

Filed Date: June 9, 2021

Closed Date: Sept. 10, 2021

This class action lawsuit, brought in 2021 by persons incarcerated or detained in Hawai'i correctional facilities, alleged that the conditions in the state's jails and prisons during the COVID-19 pandemic had contributed to multiple COVID-19 outbreaks and sought implementation of health and safety protocols. On June 8, 2021, this case was removed from Hawaii’s First Circuit Court to the U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaii. On June 9, plaintiffs filed their first amended class action …
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Jackson v. Abercrombie

1:11-cv-00734 | U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaii

Filed Date: Dec. 7, 2011

On January 27, 2012, a same-sex couple and another individual in a same-sex relationship, all citizens of Hawaii, filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court of Hawaii under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the state of Hawaii. The plaintiffs, represented by private attorneys, asked the court for a declaration that the restriction of the right of marriage to opposite sex couples under § 572-1 of the H.R.S and under the "marriage amendment" violates Due Process and Equal Protection under the U.S. Constit…
EDUCATION
Doe v. Hawaii

1:11-cv-00550 | U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaii

Filed Date: Sept. 9, 2011

On August 11, 2010, the plaintiffs--deaf students who were sexually assaulted by a group of fellow students at a state-run school for the blind and deaf--brought this suit against the State of Hawaii. Represented by private counsel, and suing both individually and on behalf of a class of students sexually assaulted at the school between 2001 and 2013, they filed the case in Hawaii state court requesting damages, injunctive relief, and attorneys' fees. The lawsuit alleged a hostile environment,…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Chelius v. Wright

1:17-cv-00493 | U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaii

Filed Date: Oct. 3, 2017

Case Ongoing

In 2000, the FDA approved the drug mifepristone under the brand name Mifeprex for use in terminating an early pregnancy. Mifeprex was the only drug approved for this purpose. However, the FDA subjected Mifeprex to a Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy ("Mifeprex REMS") that burdened health care providers and limited patient access to the medication. The Mifeprex REMS provided that a patient could not obtain the medication by prescription at a retail pharmacy and instead had to be handed the…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Bernard v. State of Hawaii

1:02-cv-00367 | U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaii

Filed Date: June 18, 2002

Closed Date: 2004

On June 18, 2002, deaf inmates filed a lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the United States District Court for the District of Hawaii against the Public Safety Department of Hawaii, the Hawaii Paroling Authority, and the state of Hawaii. Represented by attorneys from the National Association of the Deaf Law Center and the Levin Education Access Project, the plaintiffs alleged violations of their constitutional rights. Further information about the complaint is unavailable because all of the case…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Hawaii v. Trump

1:17-cv-00050 | U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaii

Filed Date: Feb. 3, 2017

Closed Date: Oct. 2, 2018

The below summary is a condensed version. The full summary can be found here on the Clearinghouse website. Hawaii Attorney General Douglas S. Chin filed this lawsuit on February 3, 2017 against President Trump’s Jan. 27, 2017 Executive Order (EO-1) barring legal immigrants, visitors, and refugees from seven majority-Muslim countries from entering the US and barring Syrian refugees indefinitely. The State filed a concurrent complaint and motion for a temporary restraining order in the U.S. Distr…
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
Ishii v. Chang

1:75-00238 | U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaii

Filed Date: July 10, 1975

Closed Date: Sept. 18, 1975

In approximately 1975, inmates at Hawaii Youth Correctional Facility filed a class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaii against the Facility on behalf of present and future juveniles at the facility. The plaintiffs, represented by Legal Aid Society of Hawaii, alleged unconstitutional denial of their access to counsel and due process in the courts. On September 18, 1975, the parties entered into a Settlement Agreement, stating that the juveniles had a right to l…
EDUCATION
R.P.-K. v. Hawaii Department of Education

1:10-cv-00436 | U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaii

Filed Date: July 27, 2010

Case Ongoing

On July 27, 2010, four students with disabilities and the Hawaii Disability Rights Center filed this class action against the Hawaii Department of Education seeking declaratory and injunctive relief. The plaintiffs, represented by Hawaii Disability Rights Center, contended that the Department was failing to comply with its obligations to provide a Free Accessible Public Education (FAPE) under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) and their right to a discrimination-free educati…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
CODING IN PROCESS
De Jean v. Nago

1:20-cv-00280 | U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaii

Filed Date: 2020

Case Ongoing

NOTE: This case is being tracked in close to real time by the Stanford/MIT Healthy Elections Project. So for information, see their tracker. According to their summary as of 11/19/2020, Khistina De Jean, independent presidential candidate, seeks to add her name to the 2020 ballot without meeting the threshold number of petition signatures (4,377) before the August 8 primary.
PRISON CONDITIONS
Rodrigues v. Espinda

16-00073 | Hawaii state trial court

Filed Date: Jan. 14, 2016

Case Ongoing

On January 14, 2016, a Native Hawaiian prisoner filed this lawsuit in the First Circuit Court in Honolulu. The plaintiff sued the Department of Public Safety and the Hawaii Community Correctional Center. Represented by the Native American Legal Corporation, the plaintiff sought injunctive relief, claiming that officials at the Hawaii Community Correctional Center were preventing him from practicing his religion. Specifically, he claimed that the officials prevented him from accessing sacred rel…