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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

ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Cooper v. Raffensperger

1:20-cv-01312 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: March 26, 2020

Closed Date: Sept. 14, 2020

NOTE: Information about this case can also be found on the Stanford/MIT Healthy Elections Project's tracker.  The two plaintiffs in this case, the Green Party and Libertarian Party nominees for seats in the Georgia State House of Representatives, filed this case in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia on March 26, 2020. Their complaint alleged that Georgia state laws requiring extensive collection of signatures to get on the ballot as a third party candidate should be re…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Fraihat v. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

5:19-cv-01546 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: Aug. 19, 2019

Closed Date: March 17, 2025

On August 19, 2019, Al Otro Lado and the Inland Coalition for Immigrant Justice, as well as 15 individuals who are currently being detained by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in a total of 8 facilities across 6 states, filed this class-action suit in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. The plaintiffs are represented by the Civil Rights Education and Enforcement Center, Disability Rights Advocates, the Southern Poverty Law Center, and private counsel. The…
JAIL CONDITIONS
United States v. Hinds County

3:16-cv-00489 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi

Filed Date: June 23, 2016

Case Ongoing

On May 21, 2015, the Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) completed an investigation into Hinds County, Mississippi, over conditions at the Hinds County Adult Detention Facility and Work Center in Raymond (RDC) and the Jackson Detention Center in Jackson. The DOJ found that the facilities were chronically understaffed, that staff were not adequately trained or supervised, and that the facilities were poorly designed and ill-maintained. Facility staff in turn fa…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Mays v. County of Sacramento

2:18-cv-02081 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California

Filed Date: July 31, 2018

Case Ongoing

On July 31, 2018, prisoners in the County of Sacramento jail system, with the assistance of counsel from Disability Rights California, Prison Law Office, and Cooley LLP, filed this suit against the County of Sacramento. The plaintiffs alleged a series of problems with the County of Sacramento Jail system, including understaffing, prolonged and harmful isolation, lack of minimally adequate mental health care, lack of minimally adequate medical care, and discrimination on the basis of disability.…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Thompson v. DeWine

2:20-cv-02129 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio

Filed Date: April 27, 2020

Closed Date: Dec. 28, 2021

On April 27, 2020, ballot petition circulators and three Ohio voters filed this lawsuit against the Director of Ohio Department of Health and the Ohio Secretary of State, challenging the constitutionality of Ohio’s in-person signature and witness requirements for ballot initiatives in light of COVID-19. The plaintiffs brought this lawsuit seeking declaratory and injunctive relief under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, alleging that the existing requirements for remote signature gathering for ballot initiative…

Case Dismissed (Involuntary)

Affirmed

IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Calderon Jimenez v. Nielsen

1:18-cv-10225 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: Feb. 5, 2018

Case Ongoing

COVID 19 Summary: A member of a class of immigrants and their spouses suing ICE over its removal policies was ordered released on March 25, 2020. On March 24 the plaintiffs filed a motion for immediate release of that class member because he was detained in a facility where an employee tested positive for COVID-19. On April 16, the parties filed a joint status report that altered the terms of release for the class member and the court lifted the stay on the class member's removal by ICE. ICE im…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Subramanya v. United States Citizenship and Immigration Services

2:20-cv-03707 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio

Filed Date: July 22, 2020

Closed Date: March 17, 2021

This is a case about how quickly United States Citizenship and Immigration Services must process, print, and mail Employment Authorization Documents (EADs or Form I-766) for immigrants who have received approval for their Applications for Employment Authorization (Form I-765). On July 22, 2020, an immigrant who had received employment approval but had not received her EAD filed this class action suit in the Southern District Court of Ohio Eastern Division. She sued the agency and its Acting Dir…
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JAIL CONDITIONS
Mays v. Dart

1:20-cv-02134 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: April 3, 2020

Closed Date: June 10, 2024

As of April 3, 2020, at least 167 detainees and 46 staff members at Cook County Jail ("the Jail") in Chicago had tested positive for the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19. In response, the plaintiffs filed this class action complaint under 18 U.S.C. § 1983 on behalf of the class of persons who are detained in the Jail and are facing unreasonable and unnecessary risks of exposure to the coronavirus. The plaintiffs alleged that despite being aware of the substantial risk of harm that COVID-1…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Busby v. Bonner

2:20-cv-02359 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Tennessee

Filed Date: May 20, 2020

Closed Date: Oct. 17, 2023

Two individuals with medical conditions that rendered them especially vulnerable to COVID-19 filed this petition for a writ of habeas corpus on May 20, 2020 against the Shelby County Sheriff's Office in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Tennessee under 28 U.S.C. § 2241. They sought to represent a class of Shelby County Jail detainees with disabilities or who were medically vulnerable to COVID-19. Represented by lawyers from the ACLU as well as private counsel, they alleged violati…

Settled: Case Closed

Affirmed