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Riggleman v. Clarke

5:17-cv-00063 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia

Filed Date: June 26, 2017

Case Ongoing

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EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
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DOJ Investigation of Maryland Department of State Police

No Court

Filed Date: July 15, 2022

Case Ongoing

(This summary is temporary, while we research the case.) This is an investigation by the Department of Justice into an alleged pattern or practice of discriminatory hiring policies by the Maryland Department of State Police (MDSP) that harmed Black people seeking jobs and promotions.
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Whole Woman's Health v. Paxton

2022-38397 | Texas state trial court

Filed Date: June 27, 2022

Case Ongoing

This case is about Texas’ effort to criminalize abortions prior to the six-week mark of pregnancy through enforcement of a state law from 1925. Prior to the Supreme Court’s ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization overturning Roe v. Wade and ending the federal constitutional right to abortion after 50 years of precedent, Texas had already effectively banned abortions after six weeks through SB 8. 142 S.Ct. 2228. A limited number of providers continued to perform abortion care up t…
POLICING
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DOJ Investigation of the New York City Police Department's Special Victims Division

No Court

Filed Date: June 30, 2022

Case Ongoing

(This summary is temporary while we research the investigation.) This Department of Justice investigation of the New York City Police Department's Special Victims Division looked at whether the division engaged in a pattern or practice of gender-biased policing, including when handling sexual assault crime investigations.
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
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June Medical Services, LLC v. Landry

22-5633 | Louisiana state trial court

Filed Date: 2022

Case Ongoing

(This summary is temporary while we research the case.) This case is about Louisiana's abortion "trigger law," which had been enacted in 2006 in anticipation of the U.S. Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade. On June 27, 2022, three days after the Supreme Court issued its decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, Judge Robin M. Giarrusso of the Orleans Parish Civil District Court granted a temporary restraining order blocking enforcement of the Louisiana law and set a show cause…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Generation to Generation, Inc. v. Florida

37 2022 CA 000980 | Florida state trial court

Filed Date: June 10, 2022

Case Ongoing

On June 10, 2022, Generation to Generation, a South Florida synagogue, filed this lawsuit in the Second Circuit of the State of Florida in and for Leon County, Florida. Plaintiff sued the state of Florida on state constitutional claims to challenge HB 5, a state law criminalizing the provision of abortion care after fifteen weeks from an individual's last menstrual period. The complaint alleged that this ban on pre-viability abortions violated the Florida Constitution's rights to privacy, relig…
CHILD WELFARE
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DOJ Investigation of Maine's Behavioral Health System for Children

No Court

(This summary is temporary while we research the case.) In 2021, the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division opened an investigation into Maine’s compliance with Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act in response to a complaint submitted on behalf of children across the state. The investigation determined that Maine violated the ADA by failing to provide behavioral health services to children in the most integrated setting appropriate to their needs.
DISABILITY RIGHTS
American Hospital Association v. Heckler (later Bowen v. Am. Hosp. Ass'n)

1:83-cv-02638 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: April 6, 1983

Case Ongoing

In 1982, a newborn child with Down’s Syndrome in Bloomington, Indiana was denied life-saving surgery to repair a blocked esophagus (unrelated to the child’s disability) after the parents of the child refused to consent to surgery. The child’s death generated such widespread public discussion that the President directed the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office of Civil Rights to remind healthcare providers receiving federal funding that Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Sostre v. Otis

1:70-cv-01114 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: March 1, 1970

This is a historic case about the receipt of mail in New York prisons, one of the Clearinghouse's  collection of cases brought by prisoners' rights activist Martin Sostre, whose wikipedia biography is here.  Martin Sostre sought an order enjoining the officers at Wallkill Correctional Facility from interfering with his receipt of literature which he ordered through the prison mail. He had been transferred to that prison in early August 1969. Sostre sued the former Walkill warden and the former …
PRISON CONDITIONS
Pierce v. LaVallee

1:59-cv-07813 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York

Filed Date: 1959

Closed Date: June 17, 1963

This is a historic case about religious liberty and discipline in New York prisons. It's part of the Clearinghouse's collection of several cases brought by prisoners rights activist (and prisoner) Martin Sostre, whose wikipedia biography is here.  Sostre brought this lawsuit to challenge policies surrounding religious expression at Clinton State Prison in New York. In August 1959, prison officials charged Sostre and two other individuals with “agitating.” The plaintiffs sued the Clinton State P…