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JAIL CONDITIONS
Brown v. Smith

1:20-cv-08463 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

Filed Date: July 8, 2020

Case Ongoing

On July 8, 2020, the plaintiff, a pretrial detainee at the Cumberland County Department of Corrections (CCDOC) in the state of New Jersey filed this lawsuit in the District of New Jersey individually, and in another similar lawsuit on June 26, 2020, Brown v. Warren, on behalf of a class. The plaintiff filed pro se, and was repeatedly denied his request for an attorney until a New Jersey firm took on his case pro bono. The plaintiff filed suit against the CCDOC, Cumberland County New Jersey, CFG…
ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE
South Camden Citizens in Action v. New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection

1:01-cv-00702 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

Filed Date: Feb. 13, 2001

Closed Date: March 31, 2006

This is a case about disparate impact in the permitting and building of environmentally hazardous facilities. The plaintiffs, the advocacy group South Camden Citizens in Action and 10 local residents, filed this suit against the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) in the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey. The case was assigned to Judge Stephen M. Orlofsky.  In their complaint, filed on February 13, 2001, the plaintiffs alleged that the defendant h…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Kavadas v. Martinez

MER-L-1004-15 | New Jersey state trial court

Filed Date: May 1, 2015

Closed Date: 2019

This lawsuit challenged New Jersey’s practice of suspending the driver’s licenses of non-custodial parents who were unable to pay child support. A New Jersey state statute provided for automatic license suspension when a bench warrant was issued for failure to pay child support or a parent failed to appear at a child support hearing. Several named plaintiffs, most of whom had been the subject of license suspensions under this statute, filed this putative class action lawsuit on May 1, 2015 in t…
PRISON CONDITIONS
James v. Global TelLink Corp.

2:13-cv-04989 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

Filed Date: Aug. 20, 2013

Closed Date: Oct. 10, 2020

This is a case about the unfair business practices of Global Tel*Link, a private company with a state granted monopoly on telephone services in New Jersey's prison systems. On August 20, 2013 the plaintiffs, people incarcerated in New Jersey prisons and people who created accounts with Global Tel*Link to receive calls from New Jersey prisoners, filed this class action lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey, where it was assigned to United States District Judg…
FAIR HOUSING/LENDING/INSURANCE
Mt. Holly Gardens Citizens in Action v. Township of Mount Holly

1:08-cv-02584 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

Filed Date: May 5, 2008

On May 5, 2008, an association of residents of a New Jersey neighborhood filled a lawsuit under the Fair Housing Act and 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey. The residents, represented by lawyers from South Jersey Legal Services, asked the court for declaratory, injunctive, and monetary relief, claiming that the defendants' redevelopment plan for the Gardens neighborhood represented a violation of the Fair Housing Act and of the Equal Protection Clauses of…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Kneisser v. McInerney

1:15-cv-07043 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

Filed Date: Sept. 23, 2015

(This summary is temporary, while we research the case.)This is a case about a college student who was jailed for failing to pay a littering fine. In 2014, the plaintiff was fined $239 for throwing a cigarette butt from the window of his car. Unable to pay the fine by the due date, the plaintiff appeared before Burlington County Municipal Court Judge McInerney to plead guilty and request a payment plan or community service. Judge McInerney told the plaintiff to call someone who could help him p…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Donald J. Trump for President v. Murphy

3:20-cv-10753 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

Filed Date: Aug. 18, 2020

Closed Date: Oct. 22, 2020

This is a challenge to voting procedures in New Jersey leading up to the 2020 election. On August 14, 2020, New Jersey’s governor issued Executive Order 177 (EO 177) in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. EO 177 provided that the state would send every registered voter a mail-in ballot, while all ballots cast in person would be considered provisional ballots. It also declared that unpostmarked ballots received by county boards of election within 48 hours of the close of polls on Election Day wou…
PRISON CONDITIONS
United States v. New Jersey (DOJ CRIPA Investigation of Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women)

2:21-cv-15031 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

Filed Date: Aug. 10, 2021

Case Ongoing

On August 10, 2021, the Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division announced that it had reached a settlement with the New Jersey Department of Corrections regarding conditions at the Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women. At the same time, it filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey, requesting that the court approve and enforce the purposed consent decree. DOJ had opened a Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act (CRIPA) investigation into the faci…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Fang v. Saldana

2:17-cv-02092 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

Filed Date: March 30, 2017

Case Ongoing

This is a case brought by noncitizen students facing immigration enforcement about the fallout from a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement sting operation. The noncitizens had entered the U.S. on student visas, and had enrolled in the University of Northern New Jersey (UNNJ) to maintain their student visa status after graduating from other U.S. universities and beginning work. As it turned out, in April 2016 ICE revealed that the UNNJ was a fake university it created to investigate and pros…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Rafael L.O. v. Tsoukaris

2:20-cv-03481 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

Filed Date: April 1, 2020

Closed Date: Oct. 6, 2020

Five individuals detained on immigration-related charges in the Newark, New Jersey Essex Correctional Facility filed this complaint and petition for writ of habeas corpus on April 1, 2020 in the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey. The case was brought against employees of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), employees of the Department of Homeland Security, and employees of the Essex County Correctional Facility, collectively referred to as “the government.” Repre…