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JAIL CONDITIONS
Dunsmore v. State of California

3:20-cv-00406 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California

Filed Date: March 2, 2020

Case Ongoing

This class action lawsuit alleged that the San Diego County Jail denied proper health accommodations to detainees. On March 2, 2020, a jail detainee filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California. The plaintiff sued the State of California, San Diego County, the San Diego Sheriff's Department, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, the San Diego County Sheriff, and the Attorney General of California. Proceeding pro se and in forma pau…

Case Is Ongoing

Appeal Dismissed

PRISON CONDITIONS
Coleman v. Newsom

2:90-cv-00520 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California

Filed Date: April 23, 1990

Case Ongoing

NOTE: All the documents in this case relating to the prison overcrowding proceedings, which led to imposition of a statewide prison population cap, affirmed by the Supreme Court, are presented in a related case record, Plata v. Newsom. On April 23, 1990, incarcerated persons with mental illnesses in California state prisons filed this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California. The plaintiffs sued California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitatio…

Judgment for Plaintiff

JAIL CONDITIONS
Hernandez v. County of Monterey

5:13-cv-02354 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: March 23, 2013

Case Ongoing

On May 23, 2013, prisoners and recently released prisoners from Monterey County Jail filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. The plaintiffs sued the County of Monterey and the California Forensic Medical Group (CFMG) under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and state law. The plaintiffs, represented by attorneys from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Northern California, the ACLU National Prison Project, the Monterey Public Defender, and private attorneys…
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Judgment for Plaintiff

HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Planned Parenthood Southwest Ohio Region v. Ohio Department of Health

21-cv-2101148 | Ohio state trial court

Filed Date: April 1, 2021

Case Ongoing

This is a challenge to Ohio's 2020 ban on telemedicine medication abortion. On April 1, 2021, Planned Parenthood Southwest Ohio Region (PPSWO), a physician, and Planned Parenthood of Greater Ohio filed this lawsuit in the Court of Common Pleas, Hamilton County, Ohio. The providers sued the Ohio Department of Health (ODH), the ODH Director, the State Medical Board of Ohio, and three county prosecutors. Represented by the American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio Foundation and private counsel, the …
HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Texas v. Bruck

25-02536 | New York state trial court

Filed Date: July 25, 2025

Case Ongoing

This case arose from Texas's attempt to use New York's courts to enforce a judgment against a New York physician who prescribed abortion-inducing medication via telehealth to a Texas patient. On July 25, 2025, the Attorney General of Texas filed this Article 78 proceeding in the Supreme Court of the State of New York, County of Ulster. Texas sued the Acting County Clerk of Ulster County, seeking a writ of mandamus compelling him to file a Texas default judgment against a New York doctor, who ha…
HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Texas v. Carpenter

471-08943-2024 | Texas state trial court

Filed Date: Dec. 12, 2024

Closed Date: 2025

This case tested whether states can reach across their borders to penalize out-of-state physicians for prescribing abortion medication to their residents. The Texas Attorney General brought this lawsuit against a New York-based doctor who allegedly prescribed and mailed abortion-inducing medication to a Texas patient via telehealth. On December 12, 2024, the State of Texas filed a complaint against the doctor in the District Court of Collin County, Texas. The State brought the action under the …

Judgment for Plaintiff

PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Monk v. United States

3:22-cv-01503 | U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

Filed Date: Nov. 28, 2022

Case Ongoing

This case concerns allegations of systemic discrimination against Black veterans by the U.S. On November 28, 2022, a Black veteran filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut against the United States of America for the acts of its employees under the Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA) and state law. The lawsuit followed a Freedom of Information Act-prompted release of data in 2021 by Veterans Affairs that demonstrated a statistically significant differenc…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Lewis v. Cain

3:15-cv-00318 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana

Filed Date: May 20, 2015

Case Ongoing

On May 20, 2015, inmates incarcerated at Louisiana State Penitentiary filed this class-action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana (Baton Rouge). The plaintiffs sued the Louisiana State Penitentiary and the Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections under the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Rehabilitation Act, and 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The plaintiffs, represented by the ACLU and private counsel, asked the court for declaratory and injunctive relief…
HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Smart Approaches to Marijuana v. Kennedy

1:26-cv-01081 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: March 30, 2026

Case Ongoing

On March 30, 2026, multiple anti-drug organizations, the Illinois Family Institute, and a 78-year-old Medicare beneficiary filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia against federal health officials. The plaintiffs challenged the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' (CMS) creation of the Substance Access Beneficiary Engagement Incentive (BEI) program on March 20, 2026, which distributed hemp-derived products containing delta-9 THC to Medicare beneficiaries. The comp…

Preliminary Injunction Denied

HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Trust Women Foundation Inc. v. Bennett

19-CV-00060 | Kansas state trial court

Filed Date: Jan. 30, 2019

Case Ongoing

This case is about telemedicine abortion in Kansas. The case follows directly from Trust Women v. Schmidt, in which plaintiff Trust Women, a reproductive health care clinic in Kansas that relies on telemedicine, won a preliminary injunction and temporary restraining order preventing the state from enforcing House Bill 2028's ban on telemedicine abortion. However, following that preliminary injunction, Kansas appealed on January 30, 2019 and asserted that Kansas Healing Arts, other Kanas abortio…