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DOJ Investigation of Mount Vernon Police Department

No docket | No Court

On December 3, 2021, the U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division, along with the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced a pattern and practice investigation into the Mount Vernon Police Department (MVPD). The investigation would assess whether the MVPD engaged in practices of discriminatory policing. The Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 gave the investigators the authority to bring the inquiry. The act prohibited state and local governments …
POLICING
McCormick v. Lawrence, Kansas

2002-cv-000512 | Kansas state trial court

Filed Date: Sept. 24, 2002

Closed Date: Oct. 29, 2007

On September 24, 2002, Plaintiff filed a lawsuit under K.S.A. 22-2521, K.S.A. 22-2522, and K.S.A. 22-2523 against the City of Lawrence and Lawrence police officers in the Douglas District Court. Plaintiff, represented by private counsel, asked for actual damages and costs, alleging that Lawrence police officers illegally subjected him to a strip and body cavity search. Specifically, Plaintiff alleged that on June 9, 1999, Lawrence police officers arrested him and put him in the back of a patrol…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Graff v. County of Salem

1:07-cv-02259 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

Filed Date: May 14, 2007

Closed Date: May 7, 2009

On May 14, 2007, two individuals who had been arrested on minor charges filed a 42 U.S.C. §1983 class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey, challenging the Salem County Correctional Department's policy and practice of strip searching all detainees regardless of the nature of their charged crime and regardless of the absence of reasonable suspicion to believe the detainees were concealing weapons or contraband. Plaintiffs, represented by private counsel, alleg…
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Khairullah v. Garland

3:23-cv-30095 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: Sept. 18, 2023

This lawsuit relates to a terrorism watchlist maintained by the United States government. Several Muslim American citizens, permanent residents, and asylees brought this lawsuit alleging that the US government placed names on the list without valid reason, and that the Muslims on the list face scrutiny only because of anti-Muslim discrimination. On September 18, 2023, twelve Muslim-Americans filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts against the heads of twenty-nine…
POLICING
Zoe Adberg v. City of Seattle

20-2-14351-1 | Washington state trial court

Filed Date: Sept. 25, 2020

Closed Date: Jan. 23, 2024

This is a case about the use of excessive force against protesters during the 2020 Black Lives Matter/George Floyd protests. On September 25, 2020, protesters filed a complaint against the City of Seattle, the State of Washington, and King County in King County Superior Court, a general jurisdiction state trial court based in Seattle, Washington. The plaintiffs sought monetary damages, attorneys’ fees, and costs for wrongful death, personal injuries, and civil rights injuries under Washington s…
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Logan v. Shealy

1:80-cv-00210 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

Filed Date: March 4, 1980

Closed Date: Feb. 22, 1982

A woman who was strip searched after refusing to take a breathalyzer test after an arrest for a DWI brought this action in the Eastern District of Virginia against Arlington County and various judicial, prosecutorial, and law enforcement officers to challenge the County’s blanket strip search policy for all arrestees. The plaintiff, represented by private counsel, alleged violations of the Fourth Amendment right to be free from unreasonable search and the Fifth Amendment right to counsel based …
POLICING
Horse v. District of Columbia

1:17-cv-01216 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: June 21, 2017

Closed Date: July 21, 2021

On June 21, 2017, a photojournalist, a practicing attorney, and two demonstrators filed this lawsuit against the District of Columbia, the individual police officers who committed the alleged acts, the police officers’ supervisors, and the chief of D.C. police in the U.S. District Court of the District of Columbia. Another female demonstrator and her 10-year-old son joined the suit through an amended complaint on January 3, 2018. The plaintiffs claimed, under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, that the defendan…
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Leith v. County of Nassau

2:22-cv-06933 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: Nov. 14, 2022

This is a case about allegations of racial discrimination against police officers conducting traffic stops in Nassau County. On November 14, 2022, a mother, who was stopped by Nassau police with her infant son and detained for 11 hours without being charged, filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York. The plaintiff sued the Nassau County Police Department (NCPD), as well as individual officers and a New York State Trooper who were involved in her stop and…
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Pitney v. City of Chester

2:19-cv-00799 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Feb. 25, 2019

The plaintiff in this case was strip-searched after being arrested for a minor offense. He was not suspected of possessing drugs or weapons, and he was ultimately not charged with any crime, but the City of Chester's policy allowed police to conduct strip searches on anyone they arrested. In this lawsuit, filed by private counsel on February 25, 2019, in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, the plaintiff named the City of Chester and three police officers as defenda…
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Maryland State Conference of NAACP Branches v. Baltimore City Police Department

1:06-cv-01863 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: June 15, 2006

Closed Date: Dec. 31, 2014

The plaintiffs in this case were the Maryland State Conference of NAACP Branches and the Baltimore City Branch of the NAACP, alongside a putative class of individuals allegedly subject to constitutional violations by the Baltimore Police Department (BPD). They filed suit in Maryland state trial court on June 15, 2006, represented by the ACLU of Maryland and private counsel, alleging violations of the First, Fourth, and Fourteenth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution; analogues in Maryland’s stat…