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DISABILITY RIGHTS
CODING IN PROCESS
Carr v. Becerra

3:22-cv-00988 | U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

Filed Date: Aug. 3, 2022

Case Ongoing

(This summary is temporary, while we research the case.)  On August 3, 2022, Disability Rights Connecticut and several other non-profits filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut, on behalf of several individual plaintiffs with disabilities.  The case challenged the Trump Administration interim rule, issued November 2020, that channeled individuals with disabilities into low-benefit programs that did not pay for many of their needs, rather than leaving them i…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
CODING IN PROCESS
Jacksonville Branch of the NAACP v. City of Jacksonville

3:22-cv-00493 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida

Filed Date: May 3, 2022

Case Ongoing

(This summary is temporary while we research the case) The Southern Poverty Law Center filed suit on May 3, 2022 in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida after the city of Jacksonville, Florida adopted racially gerrymandered voting maps diluting the voting power of Black residents in city council and school board elections.
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
CODING IN PROCESS
Greater Birmingham Ministries v. State of Alabama

2:15-cv-02193 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama

Filed Date: Dec. 2, 2015

Closed Date: Jan. 10, 2018

(This summary is temporary while we research the case) In 2011, Alabama passed HB19, a restrictive voter ID law. On December 2, 2015, the Legal Defense Fund filed suit on behalf of Greater Birmingham Ministries ("GBM") and the Alabama NAACP against the state in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama, alleging that HB19 had a racially discriminatory effect on voters of color in violation of the U.S. Constitution and the Voting Rights Act.
EDUCATION
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YU Pride Alliance v. Yeshiva University

154010/2021 | New York state trial court

Filed Date: April 26, 2021

Case Ongoing

(This summary is temporary, while we research this case.) This is a case alleging that Yeshiva University violated New York City Human Rights Law by refusing to officially recognize YU Pride Alliance, an an unofficial undergraduate student organization forLGBTQ students and their allies.
DISABILITY RIGHTS
CODING IN PROCESS
A.A. v. Buckner

2:21-cv-00367 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama

Filed Date: May 20, 2021

(This summary is temporary while we research the case) On May 20, 2021, the Alabama Disabilities Advocacy Program, Children's Rights, and Southern Poverty Law Center filed suit in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama against the state's Department of Human Resources (DHR) on behalf of four teens with mental disabilities placed unnecessarily in or at risk of segregation in pyschiatric residential treatment facilities. 
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
CODING IN PROCESS
Farm Labor Organizing Committee v. Roy Cooper

1:17-cv-01037 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina

Filed Date: Nov. 15, 2017

Closed Date: Sept. 15, 2021

(This summary is temporary while we research the case) North Carolina farmworkers and the Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC), represented by the ACLU and Southern Poverty Law Center, filed suit against Joshua Stein, the Attorney General of North Carolina and Marion R. Warren, the Director of the North Carolina Administrative Office of the Courts, in their official capacities on November 15, 2017. Plaintiffs alleged that the North Carolina Farm Act of 2017 violated the First Amendment right …
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Progeny v. City of Wichita

6:21-cv-01100 | U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas

Filed Date: April 15, 2021

Case Ongoing

This is a case challenging the Wichita Police Department’s (WPD) usage of gang lists, alleging that they imposed a disparate impact on Black and Latinx residents and that they were unconstitutional in their implementation. The plaintiffs, Progeny (a community based organization seeking to prevent the incarceration of young people) and private individuals within Wichita who had been impacted by these policies, were represented by Kansas Appleseed Center for Law & Justice and the ACLU of Kansas. …
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Noel v. New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission

1:11-cv-00237 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Jan. 13, 2011

Closed Date: Dec. 31, 2020

On January 13, 2011, New York wheelchair users and several disability rights organizations filed this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. The plaintiffs sued the the New York Taxi and Limousine Commission (TLC) under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, and the New York City Human Rights Law. Represented by Disabilities Right Advocates, the plaintiffs claimed the TLC failed to give meaningful access to per…
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Wilson v. Wallace

1:17-cv-00582 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio

Filed Date: Sept. 5, 2017

(This summary is temporary, while we research the case.) Plaintiffs sought an injunction to prohibit the defendant, a county representative, from banning them from the representative's Facebook page.
POLICING
NAACP v. San Jose

4:21-cv-01705 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: March 11, 2021

Case Ongoing

On March 11, 2021, the NAACP and several individuals filed this class-action lawsuit against the city of San Jose and public officials. The plaintiffs stated that they were peacefully protesting police brutality and institutionalized racism when San Jose police fired impact munitions and attacked them with flash-bang grenades, chemical weapons, and batons. The plaintiffs contended that the defendants had exhibited a long history of targeting Black, Brown, and Muslim communities, and that the us…