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Apr 16, 2020
Costa v. Bazron - Challenging Conditions at St. Elizabeths Hospital During Month-Long Water Outage and COVID-19 Crisis
This case challenges the failure of the District of Columbia government to protect some of its most vulnerable patients from back-to-back crises at their treatment facility: first, an extended water outage in the fall of 2019, and second, the COVID-19 pandemic in the spring of 2020.
Apr 3, 2020
Williams v. Federal Bureau of Prisons - Challening Life-Threatening Lack of COVID-19 Precautions at D.C. Halfway House
In early April 2020, the ACLU-DC, Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights, and the law firm Latham & Watkins, sued federal and D.C. defendants and Hope Village, Inc., on behalf of two specific Hope Village prisoners and the class of everyone at the facility.
Mar 30, 2020
Banks v. Booth - Challenging Life-Threatening Lack of COVID-19 Precautions at the D.C. Jail
On March 30, 2020, the ACLU-DC and the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of all the detainees in D.C.’s jails.
Jan 13, 2020
Mwimanzi v. Wilson – Challenging Unconstitutional Sexually Invasive Search by MPD Officer
Apr 29, 2019
Price v. Gupton - Challenging Warrantless Search of Residential Property Belonging to Mother Whose Son Had Just Been Killed by D.C. Police
Aug 16, 2018
ACLU-DC v. Department of Justice - FOIA Re: Shackling Of Detainees In Court Appearances
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