Constitution of the United States of America

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.

February 8, 2022 A class action alleges San Diego State University has discriminated against female student-athletes by failing to pay equal athletic financial aid for more than a decade.

February 8, 2022 Brookside, Alabama faces a proposed class action over what a Shelby County resident calls the small town’s practice of “policing for profit.”

December 3, 2021 A class action alleges the 3 Rivers Telephone Cooperative has discriminated against Native American owner-members by denying them the use of capital credits worth nearly $9 million.

December 1, 2021 A lawsuit claims students at The Utah System of Higher Education’s eight public universities are owed refunds for certain costs paid during the COVID-19 pandemic.

November 30, 2021 Starbucks faces a class action that alleges the coffee giant has discriminatorily favored younger job applicants at the expense of older individuals.

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 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 24, 2021 A class action claims the U.S. Dept. of Labor has unlawfully failed to provide notice to disabled coal miners of their right to “extremely valuable” medical benefits.

September 21, 2021 A class action alleges SSI recipients have been harmed by both the closure of SSA field offices during the pandemic and an overpayment waiver rule.

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 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 3, 2021 The state laws that allow for the criminalization of the eviction process in Arkansas are the subject of a proposed class action lawsuit.

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 11, 2021 The United States’ and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s moratorium on evictions amid the pandemic is unconstitutional, Mich. property owners allege in a class action.

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.

July 16, 2021 Abortion providers and rights activists have filed a class action aiming to halt a new Texas law they say “flagrantly violates the constitutional rights of Texans seeking abortion” and serves solely an anti-abortion agenda.

July 8, 2021 Former President Donald Trump has filed separate class actions against Twitter, YouTube, Facebook over what he alleges to be the tech giants’ “impermissible censorship.”

May 13, 2021 A lawsuit alleges the builders of a Hindu temple in New Jersey trafficked and then force Indian nationals to perform stonework and other construction after obtaining “R-1” religious visas to come to the United States.

May 11, 2021 A class action alleges the Town of Brookside, Ala. wrongfully confiscated and kept a man’s vehicle following the arrest of an individual to whom the car was loaned.

May 4, 2021 A lawsuit alleges Louisiana State University has systemically failed to address known issues in its response to reports of sexual misconduct.

April 30, 2021 A class action lawsuit alleges Santa Clara County, Calif. has wrongfully employed a policy of keeping individuals incarcerated for several days after the county district attorney’s office has declined prosecution.

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 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 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 22, 2021 A lawsuit claims New York City authorities charged excessive fines for alleged price gouging during the COVID-19 pandemic while ignoring companies’ due process rights.

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 1, 2021 The former chief of the Knightstown, IN Police Department alleges he is one of more than two dozen who have been unconstitutionally banned from commenting or posting on the department’s Facebook page.

February 25, 2021 A class action claims Vero Beach, FL and its police dept. violated the constitutional rights of East Spa customers as they surveilled the business amid an investigation into suspected human trafficking.

February 11, 2021 A class action alleges Valley Brook, Oklahoma and several public officials have perpetuated a "debtors' prison" for minor municipal offenses.

February 4, 2021 A class action claims the Jefferson County District Court has violated the rights of those facing eviction by changing the details of Zoom hearings without providing notice.

February 2, 2021 A proposed class action claims those in control of the Metropolitan Correctional Center are to blame for two COVID-19 outbreaks at the Chicago prison.

January 21, 2021 A lawsuit claims California’s orders prohibiting hair and nail salons from operating amid the COVID-19 crisis amount to a seizure of property without compensation.

January 19, 2021 A lawsuit claims a group of elderly and/or medically vulnerable inmates were placed at a heightened risk of contracting COVID-19 after being transferred to a remote prison.

January 19, 2021 ASCAP and BMI face a class action that claims, among other charges, that the mandatory arbitration agreement wielded by the music licensing fee and royalty processors is void and unenforceable.

January 15, 2021 A lawsuit claims Florida's parole policies are unconstitutional for juvenile offenders who are effectively provided no opportunity to demonstrate maturity and rehabilitation.

January 15, 2021 A class action claims the Auburn Valley Humane Society charged increasingly excessive fees to pet owners whose animals were impounded at the shelter more than once.