Government

May 23, 2022 A proposed class action lawsuit alleges Alaska's child welfare system has “long failed” those in foster care, in particular Alaska Native children.

April 13, 2022 Tennessee’s Grainger County, its sheriff and two corrections officers face a proposed class action that alleges multiple female inmates at the Grainger County Jail have been subjected to sexual abuse.

April 8, 2022 A class action alleges the commissioner of the Georgia Department of Human Services has unconstitutionally denied legal representation and extended foster care to undocumented children and young adults.

March 29, 2022 A class action alleges SMART Alabama and AGWM United have for years “cheated the United States immigration system” to employ Mexican nationals as underpaid auto parts production line workers.

March 28, 2022 A class action alleges the federal government has misinterpreted a component of immigration law and wrongfully denied hundreds of noncitizens the opportunity to apply to adjust their status and become lawful permanent U.S. residents.

March 10, 2022 A class action alleges the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps refuse to refer certain reservists not on active duty orders into the duty-related path to evaluate their eligibility for disability benefits without a line-of-duty benefits letter.

March 9, 2022 A class action challenges the federal government’s allegedly unconstitutional refusal to timely resolve and approve applications for employment authorization documents for abused, neglected or abandoned minor immigrants.

March 2, 2022 A class action aims to challenge the Jefferson County, New York Correctional Facility’s alleged practice of routinely denying life-sustaining medical treatment to individuals in recovery from opioid addiction.

February 25, 2022 A class action has been filed over the Jackson, Miss. police department’s use of a set of roadblock procedures that are allegedly found disproportionately in majority-Black and low-income neighborhoods.

February 23, 2022 Fresno, California and a number of public officials face a class action over the city’s allegedly longstanding practice of “mistreating and marginalizing” its homeless population.

February 16, 2022 A Missouri school district faces a class action after removing from circulation in school libraries eight critically acclaimed books.

February 14, 2022 DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and acting ICE Director Tae D. Johnson face a class action over ICE’s apparent confiscation of government-issued documents held by individuals in removal proceedings.

January 6, 2022 A class action alleges the introduction of Facebook to Myanmar has materially contributed to the development and spread of anti-Rohingya hate speech, misinformation and the incitement of extreme violence against the Muslim minority group.

January 4, 2022 A hazard pay lawsuit alleges the U.S. GSA has long known that the Goodfellow Federal Complex in St. Louis was contaminated by cancer-causing agents yet took no action to protect workers or visitors.

November 29, 2021 A class action alleges the Maryland Department of Labor has systemically failed to administer unemployment insurance benefits to tens of thousands of state residents.

November 15, 2021 U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services and the Dept. of Homeland Security face a class action wherein asylum-seekers allege they’ve lost or will soon lose out on jobs due to unreasonable work authorization delays.

November 15, 2021 New York City faces a class action over its alleged practice of issuing parking tickets to “unaltered” commercial vehicles before issuing a companion summons.

November 15, 2021 A class action alleges Tennessee’s ban on mask mandates has harmed students at a severe risk of illness due to COVID-19 and its variants as a result of their disabilities.

November 11, 2021 A class action aims to challenge Washington’s Long-Term Services and Support Trust Program, whereby workers in the state will pay into a trust fund $0.58, after tax, for every $100 earned.

November 8, 2021 A class action alleges the D.C. Metro Police Department seized a woman's vehicle and the iPhones of her two sons and wrongfully kept the property long after it was needed for evidentiary purposes.

November 5, 2021 A class action alleges the D.C. Metro Police Dept. has routinely held cell phones seized from arrested individuals for months or years past the point when there's a legitimate reason for doing so.

November 3, 2021 A class action alleges the rights of thousands of pre- and post-trial detainees in NYC jails have been violated as a result of long-known staffing issues and ineffective leadership.

September 21, 2021 Thirteen plaintiffs have signed onto a lawsuit in which they allege the Utah Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control and several officials have failed to pay proper overtime wages.

September 20, 2021 A class action alleges EB-5 immigrant investors were defrauded into pouring hundreds of thousands of dollars into what they were led to believe was a project to build a Queens, NY hotel and convention center,

September 16, 2021 A lawsuit alleges the Air Force has separated “countless” veterans from the military with less-than-honorable discharges over minor infractions while refusing to acknowledge mental health or sexual trauma factors.

September 10, 2021 A proposed class action lawsuit challenges the Army’s alleged decision to deny reserve component soldiers proper housing allowance entitlements.

September 8, 2021 Seven foreign citizens have filed a class action in which they allege Vermont and state officials took Burke Mountain hotel investors’ money and used it to pay Jay Peak contractors and facilitate the state’s tax revenues.

September 7, 2021 The City of San Leandro has been hit with a class action over its allegedly unconstitutional practice of physically marking lawfully parked vehicles with chalk to check for parking violations.

September 1, 2021 A class action alleges the S.C. State Transport Police’s system of fines for commercial vehicles unconstitutionally penalizes those who are unable to pay within a certain amount of time.

August 12, 2021 The Ravalli County Sheriff’s Office saddles arrestees with unconstitutional pre-trial supervision fees without assessing their ability to pay, a lawsuit alleges.

August 10, 2021 A class action looks to recover monetary damages stemming from allegedly unlawful road maintenance fees charged and collected by South Carolina’s Horry County.

August 3, 2021 A lawsuit claims the Georgia Department of Labor has failed to timely process and pay out unemployment insurance benefits in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic.

July 19, 2021 A class action alleges the city of Mountain View, California’s plan to enforce a ban on the parking of oversized vehicles on its streets is unconstitutional.

June 11, 2021 A class action alleges the city of Long Beach, California has for years subjected Black employees to unequal pay and other forms of discrimination amid a “pattern and practice of anti-Black culture.”

June 3, 2021 Financial heavy-hitters face a class action over an alleged years-long conspiracy to set and reset the interest rates of Variable Rate Demand Obligations issued by public entities in California.

May 28, 2021 A class action alleges the Peace Corps has discriminated against invitees with disabilities.

May 27, 2021 The company responsible for managing inspections and emissions testing for the Connecticut DMV faces a class action in the wake of a late-March 2021 data breach.

May 24, 2021 A proposed collective action alleges language specialists employed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation are owed unpaid overtime wages.

May 20, 2021 A class and collective action alleges United States Postal Service (USPS) workers are owed hazardous duty pay for exposure to “virulent biologicals” amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

May 19, 2021 A class action alleges Grubhub has overcharged Los Angeles restaurants for the use of its platform in violation of a fee-cap ordinance passed by the city in May 2020.

April 15, 2021 A class action aims to secure relief over Virginia’s alleged “gross failures” in providing “tens of thousands” of state residents with unemployment benefits, and determining others’ eligibility for benefits.

April 14, 2021 A class action alleges the District of Columbia has failed to provide special education to students with disabilities who have been incarcerated during the COVID-19 pandemic.

April 14, 2021 A class action alleges the New York City Campaign Finance Board unlawfully changed resident-contribution-matching laws “in the middle of an election."

April 2, 2021 The Baltimore Police Department is among the defendants in a class action that alleges the BPD has employed a “pattern and practice” of unconstitutionally searching, seizing and retaining the personal property of violent crime victims in the city.

March 30, 2021 A class action alleges St. Louis and its collector of revenue have refused to pay earnings tax refunds owed to nonresidents who’ve worked any number of days outside of the city, including those working from home due to the pandemic.

March 30, 2021 The mayor of Gurdon, Ark. alleges Suddenlink owes the city and others in the state quarterly five-percent franchise fees.

March 29, 2021 A class action alleges New York City and the Dept. of Correction have unconstitutionally kept young pretrial detainees in “stealth isolation confinement facilities” indefinitely without due process or a legitimate purpose for doing so.

March 29, 2021 A class action aims to challenge the Social Security Administration’s reconsideration and ultimate withdrawal of benefits entitlements linked to cases handled by a Miami psychiatrist indicted and jailed for fraud.

March 16, 2021 Two Howard County, Maryland residents aim to challenge the county’s system that allows children who attend public schools, but not those who attend private religious schools, to vote for a student member of the board of education.

March 15, 2021 A class action challenges Pacifica, Calif.’s use of municipal ordinances to prohibit individuals from living in their recreational vehicles.