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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

JAIL CONDITIONS
Butler v. Suffolk County

2:11-cv-02602 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: May 27, 2011

On May 27, 2011, twenty persons then confined in the Suffolk County Correctional Facility (SCCF), which consists of the Riverhead Correctional Facility (a medium/maximum security jail) and the Yaphank Correctional Facility (a minimum security jail), filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, pursuant to 42 U.S.C. §1983. The lawsuit was filed pro se as a class action, on behalf of those individuals and all others similarly situated. The plaintiffs sought …

Settled: Implementation Ongoing

IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
A.M. v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security

3:25-cv-02308 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California

Filed Date: Sept. 4, 2025

This case challenges the Department of Homeland Security’s practice of arresting and re-detaining asylum seekers at the San Diego Immigration Court after they have been released on bond, parole, or recognizance. On September 4, 2025, two asylum seekers—A.M. and C.L.V.—filed this class action lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and the Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) in the U.S. District Court for the Sout…

Case Is Ongoing

IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Flores v. Reno

2:85-cv-04544 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: July 11, 1985

Note: We've tagged this case as one challenging President Trump's immigration executive orders because those executive orders and their implementing memoranda, included as "resources," below, touch on many of the matters subject to longstanding court oversight in this case. On July 11, 1985, attorneys from the National Center for Immigrants' Rights, the National Center for Youth Law, and the ACLU Foundation of Southern California represented four minors who filed this class action complaint aga…

Settled: Implementation Ongoing

Appeal Pending

IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights v. Department of State

1:25-cv-01774 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: June 5, 2025

This case challenged the series of agreements between the Department of State and El Salvador by which El Salvador agreed to accept individuals from the United States and to hold them in detention facilities. This agreement was made on February 3, 2025. Secretary of State Rubio explained that President Bukele of El Salvador “has agreed to accept for deportation any illegal alien in the United States who is a criminal from any nationality, be they MS-13 or Tren de Aragua, and house them in his j…

Case Is Ongoing

PRISON CONDITIONS
Amos v. Hall

4:20-cv-00007 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi

Filed Date: Jan. 14, 2020

Closed Date: Jan. 13, 2023

On January 14, 2020, this putative class action lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi on behalf of prisoners at the Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman, Mississippi. The suit arose after the publication of an open letter dated January 9 from Jay-Z to Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant, decrying the conditions at state correctional facilities. The plaintiffs were represented by lawyers affiliated with Team ROC, the social justice wing of the J…

Case Dismissed (Voluntary)

PRISON CONDITIONS
Lang v. Taylor

4:20-cv-00030 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi

Filed Date: Feb. 25, 2020

Closed Date: March 1, 2022

This is a case about conditions in the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman. Parchman is Mississippi's only maximum security prison and houses over 2,600 prisoners. The case is a "sister case" to, and was eventually consolidated with, Amos v. Hall, (N.D. Miss 4:20-cv-00007), another case about prison conditions at Parchman. Both cases were supported by rapper Jay-Z through Team ROC, the social justice arm of his entertainment company Roc Nation. These cases were filed separately, with lit…

Case Dismissed (Involuntary)

PRISON CONDITIONS
Bradley v. Haley

2:92-cv-00070 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama

Filed Date: Jan. 15, 1992

Closed Date: Jan. 1, 2005

On January 15, 1992, a group of prisoners incarcerated in the Alabama Department of Corrections brought suit in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama under 42 U.S.C. §1983 challenging the adequacy of mental health treatment provided by state prison officials. The plaintiffs, mentally ill prisoners, were represented by private counsel and the Southern Poverty Law Center. The case was assigned to Judge W. Harold Albritton III. The plaintiffs were granted class certification o…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Murray v. Santa Barbara

2:17-cv-08805 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: Dec. 6, 2017

On December 6, 2017, several prisoners of the Santa Barbara County Jail (SBCJ) in pre-trial detention filed this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. The plaintiffs sued the County of Santa Barbara and the Sheriff's Office under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, claiming violations of Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), 42 U.S.C. §12101 et seq., Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, 29…

Case Is Ongoing

PRISON CONDITIONS
Palmigiano v. Garrahy

1:74-cv-00172 | U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island

Filed Date: July 16, 1974

Closed Date: Feb. 19, 2014

On 01/11/2007, six inmates in the "awaiting trial" section of the Adult Correctional Institutions of Rhode Island (ACI) filed a lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. §1983 against the Rhode Island Department of Corrections in the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island. The plaintiffs, represented in part by the National Prison Project of the American Civil Liberties Union, asked the Court for declaratory and injunctive relief, alleging that their constitutional rights had been violated because …