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PRISON CONDITIONS
Dobbey v. Weilding

1:13-cv-01068 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Feb. 8, 2013

Closed Date: April 29, 2025

This case was originally filed in 2013. The original plaintiff, Lester Dobbey, was an inmate in the custody of the Illinois Department of Corrections in the Stateville Correctional Center. On February 8, 2013, the original plaintiff filed a pro se complaint in the Northern District of Illinois (in Chicago) against employees at Stateville Correctional Center. He brought suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 alleging Eighth and Fourteenth Amendment Violations. Specifically, the original plaintiff complaine…

Settled: Case Closed

PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Mid-America Milling Company v. U.S. Department of Transportation

3:23-cv-00072 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky

Filed Date: Oct. 26, 2023

This case challenged the U.S. Department of Transportation’s (DOT) Disadvantaged Business Enterprise Program (DBE). DBE was a legislatively mandated program, established in 1982, that ensured that federally-assisted contracts for highway, transit, and aviation projects were made available to small businesses owned and controlled by socially and economically disadvantaged individuals, including women and certain racial and ethnic minority groups. While any small business owner may qualify as soc…

Preliminary Injunction Granted

PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Nuziard v. Minority Business Development Agency

4:23-cv-00278 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas

Filed Date: March 20, 2023

Closed Date: July 22, 2024

On March 20, 2023, three individual white business owners filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas, Fort Worth Division under the Equal Protection clause of the U.S. Constitution and the Administrative Procedure Act (5 U.S.C. § 706). Named defendants included President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. (“President Biden”), Secretary of Commerce Gina M. Raimondo (“Secretary Raimondo”), and the Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA). They claimed that the defendant…
POLICING
Illinois v. City of Chicago

1:17-cv-06260 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Aug. 29, 2017

This case established a consent decree related to alleged systemic misconduct by the Chicago Police Department.  On August 29, 2017, the State of Illinois filed this lawsuit against the City of Chicago in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, the Illinois Civil Rights Act of 2003, and the Illinois Human Rights Act. The State brought this action on behalf of the people of Illinois to ensure that the City enacted comprehensive, lasting reform of th…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Bradley v. City of San Diego

3:25-cv-02186 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California

Filed Date: Aug. 25, 2025

This is a case challenging the absence of humane conditions and reasonable accommodations for unhoused residents of municipally administered camps.  On August 25, 2025, eight unhoused people with disabilities filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California. Represented by Community Advocates for Just and Moral Governance, in addition to private counsel, the plaintiffs sued the City of San Diego and two non-profit organizations—Dreams for Change and Downtown…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
C.G. v. Noem

1:25-cv-00079 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas

Filed Date: May 15, 2025

This case challenged the detention and threatened removal of a Venezuelan asylum-seeker under the Trump administration’s March 2025 proclamation invoking the Alien Enemies Act (AEA), 50 U.S.C. § 21. On April 15, 2025, F.J.C.G. (a pseudonym), represented by the Children’s Legal Center, filed a habeas petition in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois against Kristi Noem (Secretary of Homeland Security), Pamela Bondi (Attorney General), ICE Field Office Director Ladeon Fran…

Temporary Restraining Order Granted

ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Montana Green Party v. Stapleton

6:18-cv-00087 | U.S. District Court for the District of Montana

Filed Date: Aug. 13, 2018

Closed Date: March 30, 2022

This case involved the State of Montana’s signature requirement for the recognition of a political party, particularly Montana’s per-legislative-district signature requirement. On August 13, 2018, eight residents and registered voters in the State of Montana, along with the Montana Green Party, filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Montana (Helena). The Defendant is the Secretary of State for the State of Montana. Plaintiffs were represented by private counsel. Plaintiffs ci…
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
City of Tucson v. Turner

4:25-cv-00353 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: June 27, 2025

This case challenged the imposition of new conditions on funding grants to the City of Tucson under the Preservation and Reinvestment Initiative for Community Enhancement (PRICE) and the Pathways to Removing Obstacles to Housing (PRO). In July 2024 and January 2025, Tucson received around eleven million from the PRICE grant and seven million from the PRO grant. However, on June 5, 2025, Tucson received an email from the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), the agency that administ…

Case Is Ongoing

JAIL CONDITIONS
Jones v. Gusman

2:12-cv-00859 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana

Filed Date: April 2, 2012

On April 2, 2012, ten prisoners at the Orleans Parish Prison -- the New Orleans Jail (NOJ) -- brought this class action suit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana against the Orleans Parish Sheriff, under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The plaintiffs, represented by the Southern Poverty Law Center, asked for both declaratory and injunctive relief, alleging that they suffered from abusive and unconstitutional treatment while confined at the NOJ. The case was assigned to Judge Lance…

Injunction Granted

Pending in Supreme Court

ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Bally v. Whitmer

1:20-cv-01088 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan

Filed Date: Nov. 11, 2020

Closed Date: Nov. 16, 2020

This case challenged the certification of Michigan’s presidential electors for the 2020 election, citing various reports of irregularities and fraud in Ingham, Washtenaw, and Wayne counties, all of which voted overwhelming for Joe Biden. On November 11, 2020, three Michigan voters filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan. They sued the Governor of Michigan, the Michigan Board of Canvassers, the Ingham County Board of Canvassers, the Washtenaw County Boa…

Case Dismissed (Voluntary)