Government

June 1, 2020 A class action claims the Dept. of Treasury and Dept. of Education have continued to collect on student loans by offsetting fed. income tax returns despite a CARES Act directive.

May 12, 2020 A class action claims several executive orders issued by Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf and the state’s Department of Health Secretary in relation to the COVID-19 crisis are unconstitutional.

April 13, 2020 A class action looks to represent small businesses nationwide who some California companies say have been harmed due to China's handling of the COVID-19 pandemic.

April 10, 2020 A class action claims Georgia's requirement that voters pay for their own postage on mail-in absentee ballots amounts to an unconstitutional poll tax.

January 31, 2020 A proposed class action filed by several Georgia municipalities claims Airbnb has failed to remit occupancy taxes to local governments despite purporting to collect such from customers.

January 10, 2020 A collective action claims the City of Philadelphia’s “flawed” payroll system has deprived thousands of city employees of timely and proper overtime pay.

December 11, 2019 A class action claims Rikers Island correction officers exhibited a pattern and practice of falsely accusing visitors of drug-smuggling and arresting them without probable cause.

August 29, 2019 A proposed class action lawsuit claims employees of the state of Ohio have been forced to continue to pay union dues throughout the term of their collective bargaining agreement despite their requests to opt out.

August 27, 2019 Two New York corrections officers claim in a proposed class action lawsuit that they were unlawfully suspended after refusing to shave the beards they wore for religious reasons.

August 22, 2019 The City of Cleveland is facing a suit for allegedly allowing public servants to accumulate excess compensatory time.

July 9, 2019 Siemens Industry, Inc. has been hit with a proposed class action lawsuit over its alleged failure to provide accurate water meters and billing services to ratepayers in Jackson, Mississippi and its surrounding municipalities.

June 19, 2019 A proposed class action alleges that the U.S. government unlawfully delays providing alien registration files to noncitizens seeking immigration benefits.

March 29, 2019 A lawsuit that claims that the systemic failure to timely process Medicaid applications in Alaska is “hurting communities across the state.”

March 28, 2019 A proposed class action lawsuit has been filed against Pennsylvania's The Glen Mills Schools by two former students who claim they were subjected to physical abuse at the hands of staff members.

March 28, 2019 A class action filed in Tennessee alleges that state employees issue parking tickets in the Memphis area without the legal authority to do so.

March 26, 2019 The City of Albuquerque has been hit with a proposed class action that alleges it operates an illegal car forfeiture program.

March 26, 2019 Two plaintiffs have filed a proposed class action in which they claim the city of New York has allowed officers of the NYPD to detain individuals and conduct illegal warrant searches when no reasonable suspicion for such detention exists.

March 5, 2019 A lawsuit alleges that US Citizenship and Immigration Services unlawfully denies and delays petitions for Special Immigrant Juvenile Status.

February 12, 2019 A lawsuit alleges that the government’s use of videoconference hearings at NYC’s Varick Street Immigration Court violates immigrants' right to due process.

February 7, 2019 A proposed class action lawsuit filed by a former firefighter and the Retired Firefighters Legal Defense Fund, Inc. claims retired firefighters in Hollywood, Florida have been unlawfully robbed of their pension benefits.

February 7, 2019 A proposed class action filed in New York alleges Onondaga County and its sheriff and chief executive have unlawfully denied juvenile offenders the right to private counsel with an attorney.

February 6, 2019 A proposed class action has been filed in Indiana federal court over allegedly unconstitutional overcrowding and understaffing in the Henry County Jail.

February 5, 2019 3M Company is staring down a class action filed by a U.S. Marine Corps officer who claims the defendant supplied defective Combat Arms earplugs to the military for more than 10 years and consequently subjected soldiers to avoidable hearing loss.

January 24, 2019 A class action challenges NY state's alleged policy of keeping mentally ill individuals in prison past their scheduled release dates while they wait for a vacancies in community-based health programs.

January 18, 2019 Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin, Inc. is one of the plaintiffs behind a proposed class action lawsuit that challenges the state’s laws that determine, among other restrictions, which medical professionals are authorized to provide abortion services.

January 14, 2019 A class action takes issue with water and wastewater capacity fees charged by Charlotte, NC on homes that have yet to be connect to the city's water systems.

January 14, 2019 The Connecticut State Police Union alleges the state has failed to pay troopers for half-hour meal periods that are excluded from their regular rates of pay when calculating OT.

January 11, 2019 A lawsuit out of Wisconsin federal court alleges that the state routinely fails to provide legal representation to detainees who can’t afford an attorney.

January 2, 2019 Out of Alabama comes a proposed class action that claims the Madison County Detention Center in Huntsville puts female inmates in danger of sexual abuse by allowing unsupervised contact with male guards in the prison’s infirmary.

December 21, 2018 A proposed class action out of California claims two Alameda County jail facilities subject prisoners with mental health disabilities to extended periods of isolation that exacerbate their illnesses instead of relieving symptoms.

December 19, 2018 A proposed class action filed against U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, in his official capacity, claims he has “nonsensically” denied Medicare coverage for continuous glucose monitors (CGMs) for diabetes patients.

December 5, 2018 A proposed class action out of Illinois federal court claims the City of Pekin has discriminated against residents with mobility disabilities by neglecting to install and maintain accessible pedestrian rights-of-way throughout the city.

December 5, 2018 Two Honduran refugees have filed a proposed class action lawsuit challenging a recent interim final rule and proclamation set in place by the Trump Administration that effectively prevents aliens from seeking asylum in the United States.

November 30, 2018 Participants in the State of Minnesota Sex Offender Program claim in a class action that the state’s policy of subjecting sex offenders to conditional release terms after their sentences have expired is unconstitutional.

November 15, 2018 A former union member challenges the CSLEA and CALEE's policies of deducting union dues from public employees' pay as a condition of employment.

November 14, 2018 A class action challenges Georgia's three-day cure period for counting provisional ballots, arguing the window has caused "confusion and disarray" across counties.

October 16, 2018 A consumer has filed a lawsuit claiming more than 2,000 Arizonians were barred from voting in the November 2016 Election due to an unlawful registration deadline.

September 17, 2018 A lawsuit claims the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau unlawfully discriminates against minority and female employees, causing them to receive “lower pay and performance appraisals and fewer promotions” than their white or male coworkers.

September 10, 2018 The sheriff of Culpeper County, Virginia has been named in a proposed class action lawsuit in which the plaintiff accuses the man of detaining immigrants past the date on which they were scheduled to be released without any legal justification.

August 13, 2018 An employee of Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority claims he was unlawfully forced to pay union "agency fees" as a condition of his employment.

July 29, 2018 An amended lawsuit against several government departments and individuals takes issue with the alleged lack of orderly waiver process following Trump's 'travel ban.'

July 24, 2018 A lawsuit filed against Miami-Dade County claims local law enforcement's alleged practice of arresting and detaining individuals in response to detainers issued by U.S. Immigration Customs and Enforcement (ICE) is unconstitutional.

July 16, 2018 A proposed class action filed by three incarcerated individuals claims the Pennsylvania State Department of Corrections has denied proper healthcare to prisoners.

June 30, 2018 Eight relocated Puerto Rican citizens have filed a proposed class action lawsuit against the Federal Emergency Management Agency—FEMA—and three of its top officials over the agency’s response to the crisis caused by the devastating Hurricane Maria.

June 15, 2018 A proposed class action filed by three former or current Pennsylvania public school teachers takes issue with the Pennsylvania State Education Association’s policy of requiring non-union members to pay 'fair-share fees' to the union.

June 15, 2018 Three incarcerated individuals claim the NC Department of Public Safety (DPS) and several officials in charge of the state’s prison system refused to provide proper treatment to inmates diagnosed with hepatitis C (HCV).

June 14, 2018 A proposed class action claims the protected personal information of government employees was stolen in a data breach in early 2015 due to negligence on the part of the United States and several government agencies.

April 25, 2018 A proposed class action lawsuit recently removed to North Carolina federal court claims Cherokee County' Department of Social Services (CCDSS) has unlawfully separated children from their parents’ custody.

March 28, 2018 A proposed class action challenges Mississippi's position on not restoring voting rights to those convicted of crimes who have completed their prison sentences.

March 27, 2018 Fort Myers, Florida and its mayor and city manager face a lawsuit over an alleged arsenic-contaminated open dump site in the city's Dunbar neighborhood.