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SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Bronx Household of Faith v. Board of Education of the City of New York

1:01-cv-08598 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Sept. 24, 2001

Closed Date: June 2, 2011

Plaintiff was an evangelical Christian church founded in 1971 and located in the Bronx, New York. The legal battle between Plaintiff and the New York Board of Education (the "Board") started from 1994, when Plaintiff applied to use space in one middle school in the Bronx, New York, for its Sunday morning church services. According to Plaintiff's application, its services would include "singing of Christian hymns and songs, prayer, fellowship with other church members and Biblical preaching and …
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Chasin v. District of Columbia

1:05-cv-01792 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Sept. 9, 2005

Case Ongoing

This case was one of two that challenged D.C. Fire and Emergency Medical Services Department (DC Fire) rules prohibiting beards and long hair under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA).  The plaintiffs, a group of DC Fire employees with religious convictions prohibiting them from shaving their beards, brought this lawsuit against the District of Columbia in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on September 9, 2005. The plaintiffs challenged a DC Fire rule which required …
PRISON CONDITIONS
Williams v. Harry

1:23-cv-00037 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Feb. 17, 2023

Case Ongoing

This case challenged a Pennsylvania prison policy which said that faith-based religious groups could not purchase food items from outside vendors for religious feasts.  The plaintiff, a prisoner at Pennsylvania State Correctional Institution- Albion (SCIA) who proceeded in forma pauperis, filed a motion for a temporary restraining order and a preliminary injunction in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania on February 17, 2023. The plaintiff sought to prevent the actin…
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Hobby Lobby v. Sebelius

5:12-cv-01000 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma

Filed Date: Sept. 12, 2012

Closed Date: Sept. 4, 2014

This case was about whether private companies were entitled to a religious exception to covering emergency contraception under the Affordable Care Act. Please note that this case was previously titled Sebelius v. Hobby Lobby Stores. Sylvia Burwell was automatically substituted as petitioner when she was approved by the U.S. Senate as the Secretary of Health and Human Services after being nominated by President Barack Obama to replace Kathleen Sebelius following Sebelius' resignation on Apr. 10,…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Doe v. Trump

4:25-cv-03140 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: April 7, 2025

Case Ongoing

This case is one of numerous lawsuits challenging the Trump administration’s abrupt termination of immigration visas—mostly student or work visas—with no notice to the visa-holders and with dubious or no legal basis. You can see all of the cases here. This case challenged termination of an international student's status. The case was filed on April 7, 2025, in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California.  The pseudonymous plaintiff, John Doe, was represented by atto…
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
O.R. v. Greenville County South Carolina

6:25-cv-02599 | U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina

Filed Date: March 28, 2025

Case Ongoing

This case challenged the Greenville, South Carolina library system’s alleged purging of positive portrayals of transgender or gender non-conforming people. The plaintiffs were a group of four minors who lived in Greenville, South Carolina and brought their claims through their parents. One of those plaintiffs was a 17-year old transgender boy who represented the “Juvenile & Young Adult Class,” which consisted of all minor, transgender library patrons who lacked adult library cards. Another plai…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Dunsmore v. State of California

3:20-cv-00406 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California

Filed Date: March 2, 2020

Case Ongoing

This class action lawsuit alleged that the San Diego County Jail denied proper health accommodations to detainees. On March 2, 2020, a jail detainee filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California. The plaintiff sued the State of California, San Diego County, the San Diego Sheriff's Department, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, the San Diego County Sheriff, and the Attorney General of California. Proceeding pro se and in forma pau…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Jones v. South Carolina Department of Corrections

2024CP4203780 | South Carolina state trial court

Filed Date: Sept. 18, 2024

Case Ongoing

On September 18, 2024 four individuals incarcerated at Tyger River Correctional Facility filed suit against South Carolina’s Department of Corrections, alleging breach of contract, breach of contract accompanies by fraud, unjust enrichment, detrimental reliance and violation of South Carolina’s Unfair Trade Practices Act and South Carolina’s Payment of Wages Act. Plaintiffs filed suit in South Carolina’s Court of Common Pleas Seventh Judicial Circuit seeking damages. They were represented by Wi…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Saravia v. Sessions

3:17-cv-03615 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: June 22, 2017

Case Ongoing

This case, filed on June 22, 2017, was brought by a parent on behalf of her minor child for wrongful incarceration by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The complaint alleged that the child, A.H., was released into the plaintiff's custody but that a few years later, ICE arrested and detained him without cause. Represented by the ACLU of Northern California, the ACLU Immigrants' Rights Project, and the private law firm Cooley LLP, the plaintiff argued that the government violated th…

Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus

June 22, 2017

First Amended Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus and Class Action Complaint for Injunctive and Declaratory Relief

Aug. 11, 2017

Order Granting the Motion for Preliminary Injunction, the Motion for Provisional Class Certification; Granting in Part and Denying in Part the Federal Defendants' Motion to Dismiss; Granting in Full the Non-Federal Defendants' Motions to Dismiss

Nov. 20, 2017

Order Granting The Motion For Preliminary Injunction; Granting The Motion For Provisional Class Certification; Granting In Part And Denying In Part The Federal Defendants' Motion To Dismiss; Granting In Full The Non–Federal Defendants' Motions To Dismiss

Nov. 20, 2017

Order Granting in Part Plaintiffs' Emergency Application for Relief

Nov. 27, 2017

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HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
CODING IN PROCESS
Poe v. Coleman

24-CI-008072 | Kentucky state trial court

Filed Date: Nov. 12, 2024

Case Ongoing

This is a case challenging the legality of Kentucky's abortion bans. On November 12, 2024, a pregnant Kentucky woman – referred to as Mary Poe –  filed a lawsuit in Jefferson County Circuit Court, challenging two state abortion bans: a ban on any abortions except in narrow emergency situations (the “Total Ban”) and a law that criminalized providing abortion care after embryonic cardiac activity became detectable, which usually occurs at six weeks of pregnancy (the “Six-Week Ban”). The plaintiff…