Cases Archive - LCCRSF

J.C.O.C. v. United States (Family Separation)

Posted: November 6, 2023

Status: ACTIVE

Description On October 16, 2023, a Honduran father and daughter* in the Bay Area filed a lawsuit against the United States government for forcibly tearing them apart at the border and subjecting them …

Mendez v. U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE)

Posted: March 9, 2023

Status: CLOSED Description On February 23, 2023, five people detained at the Mesa Verde ICE Processing Center in Bakersfield, CA, and the Golden State Annex in McFarland, CA, filed a …

Coalition on Homelessness v. City and County of San Francisco (Homeless Rights)

Posted: November 15, 2022

Status: ACTIVE

Description On September 27, 2022, the Coalition on Homelessness and seven individual plaintiffs filed suit against the City and County of San Francisco and Mayor London Breed for their efforts to criminalize …

I.T. et al. v. United States (Family Separation)

Posted: September 20, 2022

Status: ACTIVE

Description Three indigenous Guatemalan families ripped apart under the family separation policy filed a lawsuit against the United States government. The plaintiffs join a group of, now, ninety-nine plaintiffs who …

Debt Collective v. San Mateo Superior Court, County of San Mateo (Civil Assessments)

Posted: January 27, 2022

Status: CLOSED

On January 27, 2022, LCCRSF filed suit against San Mateo County Superior Court’s for their unlawful practice of automatically imposing a $300 charge every time an individual misses a payment …

White et al. v Sacramento Police Department (Police Brutality)

Posted: December 30, 2021

Status: ACTIVE

On December 30, 2021, LCCRSF and co-counsel filed suit against the Sacramento Police Department and City of Sacramento on behalf of demonstrators brutalized by police during racial justice protests in …

LCCRSF v. City of Sacramento, Sacramento Police Department (Police Accountability)

Posted: December 7, 2021

Status: ACTIVE

On December 7, 2021, LCCRSF filed suit against the City of Sacramento for withholding dozens of public documents regarding the police department’s response to protests , including disparities between the …

Vega v. Management and Training Corporation (Immigrant Detention)

Posted: October 21, 2021

Status: CLOSED

Description On October 14, 2021, Carlos Murillo Vega, a man who spent 14 months in solitary confinement while detained by ICE, sued private detention company Management and Training Corporation (MTC) …

Wilbur P.G. et al v. United States of America (Family Separation)

Posted: June 10, 2021

Status: ACTIVE

Description Three Bay Area families who were separated at the U.S.–Mexico border in 2018 filed suit this morning against the U.S. government seeking damages for the harm immigration officials inflicted …