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JAIL CONDITIONS
Monroe v. Precythe

2:23-cv-04129 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri

Filed Date: June 27, 2023

Closed Date: July 18, 2025

[This summary is in progress while we research the case.] This case is about a transgender inmate who died of HIV complications while being placed in solitary confinement by the Missouri Department of Corrections.

Case Dismissed (Voluntary)

ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Lindsey v. Carson

4:19-cv-00612 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri

Filed Date: Aug. 5, 2019

Closed Date: Aug. 12, 2019

On August 9, 2019, Plaintiff, a private citizen, filed this complaint pro se in the Western District of Missouri. In the complaint, Plaintiff accused Ben Carson in his capacity as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development of (1) breaching a duty to provide Plaintiff housing and (2) murdering Plaintiff's nephew in an attempt to prevent Plaintiff from obtaining the same. Plaintiff sought "specific performance" compelling Ben Carsen to provide Plaintiff housing. Plaintiff also sought to "punish e…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Gray v. St. Louis City Board of Elections

4:16-cv-01548 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri

Filed Date: Sept. 30, 2016

Closed Date: Oct. 13, 2016

This case is about absentee voting accommodations for voters with visual impairments.   On September 30, 2016, two blind voters filed a federal complaint in the Eastern District of Missouri.  The plaintiffs sued the St. Louis Board of Election Commissioners (“Election Board”) under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act.  Represented by the Saint Louis University Legal Clinic and the Missouri Protection and Advocacy Services, the plaintiffs sought a …
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Berry III v. Kander

4:16-cv-00508 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri

Filed Date: April 13, 2016

Closed Date: Aug. 22, 2016

This case involved allegations that Missouri Congressional District Map violates Equal Protection Clause of the U.S. Constitution, the Missouri constitution, and the Voting Rights Act and by utilizing race a factor in the construction of Missouri congressional boundaries.  An African American, also a Republican congressional candidate for Missouri Congressional District One seat (the "Plaintiff"), filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri on April 13, 2016. Defe…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Hamilton v. Foley

25AC-CC04135 | Missouri state trial court

Filed Date: 2025

(This summary is temporary as we research the case further). On May 9, 2025, six inmates at Algoa Correctional Center in Missouri filed a putative class action against the Missouri Department of Corrections in state court. Represented by the MacArthur Justice Center, plaintiffs alleged that the excessive heat in the prison violated their constitutional rights. 
SCHOOL DESEGREGATION
Liddell v. Board of Education for the City of St. Louis

4:72-cv-00100 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri

Filed Date: Feb. 18, 1972

Background On February 18, 1972, five African-American parents and their minor children filed this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri. They sued the Board of Education of the City of St. Louis and a number of its officials under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The plaintiffs, represented by private counsel, asked the court for injunctive relief, claiming that the defendants operated city schools in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment. Specifically, the plai…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Jones v. City of St. Louis

4:21-cv-00600 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri

Filed Date: May 24, 2021

This case involves allegations of excessive force and conditions of confinement amounting to punishment, experienced by four pre-trial detainees. The original complaint was filed on May 24, 2021, in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri by three pre-trial detainees at City Justice Center (“CJC”). (A final amended complaint, naming all four plaintiffs, was filed on June 10, 2022.) All plaintiffs were detained at the CJC. The defendants in this lawsuit included the City of …

Case Is Ongoing

Appeal Pending

IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Doe v. Noem

4:25-cv-00664 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri

Filed Date: May 8, 2025

This case is one of numerous lawsuits challenging the Trump administration’s abrupt termination of immigration visas—mostly student or work visas—with no notice to the visa-holders and with dubious or no legal basis. You can see all of the cases here. On May 8, 2025, an international student—attending school on an F-1 visa—filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri against the Department of Homeland Security, the Secretary of Homeland Security, a…

Case Is Ongoing

CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Dixon v. City of St. Louis

4:19-cv-00112 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri

Filed Date: Jan. 28, 2019

Closed Date: Oct. 8, 2021

On January 28, 2019, several arrestees from St. Louis filed this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri. None of the four named plaintiffs could afford to pay their monetary release conditions, which ranged from $10,000 to $30,000, and were thus incarcerated at one of the City’s two detention centers without access to showers or medical care and forced to endure allegedly unconscionable conditions, including extreme heat and cold, rat and cockroach …

Case Dismissed (Involuntary)

PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Citizens Against Donald Trump, Inc. v. Trump

4:25-cv-00311 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri

Filed Date: March 13, 2025

This case challenged the legality of various actions by President Donald J. Trump during his third term in office. On March 13, 2025, Citizens Against Donald Trump, Inc., doing business as Citizens Against Donald for Democracy (CAT), filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri against Donald J. Trump and other unnamed federal officials, asserting broad claims of constitutional and statutory violations. The plaintiff was represented by private counsel. The case was…

Case Is Ongoing