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REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
New Mexico Right to Choose NARAL v. Johnson

New Mexico state trial court

Filed Date: April 21, 1995

Case Ongoing

This is a case about reproductive rights in New Mexico. This lawsuit was filed on April 21, 1995, in a New Mexico state trial court. The plaintiffs were four doctors and three nonprofit organizations: Abortion and Reproductive Health Services, Planned Parenthood of the Rio Grande, and New Mexico Right to Choose/NARAL. They were represented by Planned Parenthood, the ACLU, the Center for Reproductive Rights, and private firms. Plaintiffs sued New Mexico under a state cause of action, alleging th…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Torrez v. Board of County Commissioners for Lea County

S-1-SC-39742 | New Mexico state supreme court

Filed Date: Jan. 23, 2023

Case Ongoing

This is a case about reproductive rights in New Mexico. This lawsuit was filed on January 23, 2023 in the New Mexico Supreme Court under its original jurisdiction. New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez sued two counties and two cities in the state that had recently passed local ordinances significantly limiting abortion rights. The AG alleged that these ordinances violated the state Constitution, both by infringing on individual liberties and exceeding local governmental authority. The AG sou…
CHILD WELFARE
Kevin S. v. Jacobson

1:18-cv-00896 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico

Filed Date: Sept. 22, 2018

Closed Date: March 26, 2020

This is a case about administration of child welfare. Plaintiffs were private citizens of New Mexico and non-profit organizations Disability Rights New Mexico and Native American Disability Law Center, bringing a class action complaint against Secretary for the Children, Youth, and Families Department (CYFD) Monique Jacobson and Secretary for the Human Services Department (HSD) Brent Earnest. The action was brought in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico on December 28, 2018. …
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Carranza v. ICE

2:20-cv-00424 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico

Filed Date: May 4, 2020

Closed Date: May 18, 2021

COVID-19 Summary: This is a class-action habeas petition brought on May 4, 2020, by two individuals in ICE custody, seeking better access to phone calls. The defendants moved to dismiss the case on June 29. The magistrate judge recommended the court dismiss the case for lack of jurisdiction and deny all other motions as moot; the plaintiffs filed a stipulation of dismissal on May 18, 2021. On May 4, 2020, two individuals in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) brought …
POLICING
U.S. v. City of Albuquerque

1:14-cv-01025 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico

Filed Date: Nov. 12, 2014

Case Ongoing

On November 12, 2014, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) filed this lawsuit against the city of Albuquerque in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico. The DOJ brought this action under the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, 42 U.S.C. § 14141, alleging that officers of the Albuquerque Police Department (APD) were engaging in a pattern or practice of use of excessive force, including deadly force, in violation of the Fourth Amendment and § 14141. Specifically…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Duran v. Martinez

1:77-cv-00721 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico

Filed Date: Nov. 15, 1977

Case Ongoing

On 11/15/1977, prisoners of the Penitentiary of New Mexico, represented by the National Prison Project of the American Civil Liberties Union, filed a Section 1983 class action suit in the District of New Mexico against the Governor of New Mexico and officials of the New Mexico Department of Corrections. In the first amended complaint, the plaintiffs alleged that "the totality of the overcrowding and other conditions at PNM fall beneath standards of human decency, inflict needless suffering on p…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Amaro v. New Mexico

1:16-cv-00993 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico

Filed Date: Sept. 2, 2016

Case Ongoing

This is a case about allegations of civil rights deprivations at Guadalupe County Correctional Facility’s (GCCF). The plaintiff, a prisoner of GCCF, alleged that GCCF’s negligently operated a medical facility and a correctional facility, denied prisoners due process, subjected them to inhumane conditions of confinement, and unlawfully inflicted cruel and/or unusual punishment. On September 2, 2016, a prisoner of GCCF filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico. …
JAIL CONDITIONS
McClendon v. City of Albuquerque

6:95-cv-00024 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico

Filed Date: Jan. 10, 1995

Case Ongoing

On January 10, 1995, detainees at the Bernalillo County Detention Center (BCDC) in Albuquerque, New Mexico filed this class-action lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of New Mexico. Represented by private counsel, the plaintiffs sued the BCDC under 42 U.S.C. §§ 1981, 1983, 1985, and 1986, and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (42 U.S.C. § 2000d), alleging that gross overcrowding and racial discrimination at the jail violated the First, Fourth, Fifth, Eighth, Thir…
INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY (FACILITY)
Jackson v. Fort Stanton Hospital & Training School

1:87-cv-00839 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico

Filed Date: July 8, 1987

Case Ongoing

On July 8, 1987, the Supporters of Developmentally Disabled New Mexicans, Inc. and twenty-one persons with developmental disabilities filed this class action in District Court for the District of New Mexico. The plaintiffs sued under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, challenging the institutionalization of developmentally disabled persons at two state-owned and operated institutions: 1) Fort Stanton Hospital and Training School (Fort Stanton) and 2) Los Lunas Hospital …
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Kennicott v. Sandia Corporation

1:17-cv-00188 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico

Filed Date: Feb. 7, 2017

Closed Date: May 24, 2019

On February 7, 2017, three current and former female employees of Sandia Corporation filed this class-action lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of New Mexico. The plaintiffs sued Sandia Corporation, a federally-funded nuclear weapons research and development contractor, under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the New Mexico Human Rights Act, and the New Mexico Fair Pay for Women Act. The plaintiffs, represented by private counsel, sought declaratory and injunc…