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PRISON CONDITIONS
DOJ Investigation of Minnesota Department of Corrections

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On September 30, 2022, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced it had concluded an investigation into the Minnesota Department of Corrections (MNDOC). It found MNDOC violated Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) by failing to provide adequate benefits for disabled incarcerated persons in their post-secondary education GED programs. While MNDOC generally allowed disabled individuals to join the GED program, they unlawfully denied them an equal opportunity to participate b…
POLICING
Levy Armstrong v. City of Minneapolis

0:20-cv-01645 | U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota

Filed Date: July 28, 2020

Case Ongoing

This civil rights suit arose out of protests in Minneapolis following the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis Police Department (MPD) officer Derek Chauvin in May 2020. On July 28, 2020, four protesters brought suit on behalf of themselves and other similarly situated protesters under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota. They sued the City of Minneapolis, the Minneapolis Chief of Police, the president of the Police Officers Federation of Minneapolis (“Pre…
POLICING
Samaha v. City of Minneapolis

0:20-cv-01715 | U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota

Filed Date: Aug. 6, 2020

Case Ongoing

Seven individuals who protested in Minneapolis following the death of George Floyd filed this putative class action lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota on August 6, 2020. The plaintiffs–represented by private counsel–sued the City of Minneapolis, the Minneapolis Police Department (“MPD”), MPD Chief Medaria Arradondo, and individual police officers. They requested declaratory and injunctive relief for violations of their First, Fourth, and Fourteenth Amendme…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
K.O. v. Mueller

0:21-cv-01837 | U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota

Filed Date: Aug. 12, 2021

Case Ongoing

On August 12, 2021, the Minnesota P&A (the Minnesota Disability Law Center), filed this class action lawsuit in the Minnesota federal district court against the State of Minnesota and its Department of Education on behalf of a young man with intellectual disabilities. It challenged a Minnesota’s statute that ended special education eligibility on July 1 of the year a student turns 21. Jason Kim, of Schneider Wallace Cottrell Konecky LLP,  was pro bono co-counsel with the P&A. The plaintiff cont…
POLICING
Williams v. Minneapolis

0:20-cv-01303 | U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota

Filed Date: June 2, 2020

Closed Date: Sept. 15, 2021

This class-action lawsuit was brought on June 2, 2020, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota under § 1983. The suit arose out of the protests that engulfed the nation following the police killing of George Floyd in May of 2020. Defendants in this case were the City of Minneapolis and John Does 1-100, one of whom was a police officer who allegedly pepper sprayed the plaintiff. The complaint alleged that Minneapolis law enforcement used tactics during these protests that violat…
POLICING
Goyette v. Minneapolis

0:20-cv-01302 | U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota

Filed Date: June 2, 2020

Case Ongoing

This lawsuit was filed on June 2, 2020 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota. The case arose out of the 2020 protests that began after Minneapolis police killed George Floyd. The plaintiffs in this case alleged that Minneapolis police targeted journalists covering the protests in violation of the First, Fourth, and Fourteenth Amendments. The original complaint sought class certification for a class consisting of "all members of the news media . . . who intend to engage in new…
SCHOOL DESEGREGATION
Cruz-Guzman v. Minnesota

15-cv-19117 | Minnesota state trial court

Filed Date: Nov. 5, 2015

Case Ongoing

On November 5, 2015, seven families and a non-profit organization (One Family One Community) filed this class-action suit on behalf of students enrolled or to be enrolled in the Minneapolis and Saint Paul Public Schools against the State of Minnesota in the Hennepin County District Court. The plaintiffs, represented by private attorneys, alleged that the segregation in the Saint Paul and Minneapolis school districts had produced a "separate and unequal" educational environment in violation of t…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Baker v. Minnesota Department of Corrections

20-cv-05143 | Minnesota state trial court

Filed Date: Oct. 22, 2020

Case Ongoing

COVID-19 Summary: This is a class action petition for a writ of mandamus alleging that the Minnesota Department of Corrections failed in its legal duty to protect individuals under its custody or control from COVID-19. On October 22, 2020, thirteen individuals in the custody and control of the Minnesota Department of Corrections (MNDOC) filed this petition for a writ of mandamus in the Second Judicial District of Minnesota on behalf of themselves and all others similarly situated. Represented b…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Malcolm v. Starr

0:20-cv-02503 | U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota

Filed Date: Dec. 9, 2020

Closed Date: March 15, 2021

COVID-19 Summary: This habeas action and putative class action lawsuit was filed on December 9, 2020 by a group of medically vulnerable incarcerated individuals in FCI-Waseca, seeking release or home confinement and changes to the COVID-19 procedures in the prison. The court denied the petitioners' temporary restraining order and dismissed the case for lack of subject matter jurisdiction on March 11, 2021.This petition for a writ of habeas corpus and class action lawsuit is about the spread of …
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Siddiqui v. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

0:20-cv-00793 | U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota

Filed Date: March 24, 2020

Closed Date: Dec. 22, 2020

This case centers on the government’s obligations to the medical needs of immigration detainees during the COVID-19 pandemic.Petitioners were a large group of immigrant detainees held by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) at the Sherburne County Jail in Elk River, MN. As plaintiffs constructed the suit, they each fell into one of two groups: those at high risk of severe illness or death if they contracted COVID-19 and those who were generally at risk from COVID-19. On March 24, 2020…