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Black Voters Matter Capacity Building Inst., Inc. v. Byrd

No. 2022 CA 000666 | Florida state trial court

Filed Date: April 22, 2022

Case Ongoing

This is a case challenging a redrawing of congressional districts in the state of Florida. The plaintiffs in this case were a coalition of non-profit, civil and voting rights organizations and citizens of the state of Florida. They filed their complaint in the Circuit Court of the Second Judicial Circuit in Leon County, Florida on April 22, 2022, against Florida’s Secretary of State, Attorney General, Senate, House of Representatives, and legislative leaders. The plaintiffs alleged that the red…
CHILD WELFARE
M.D. v. Abbott

2:11-cv-00084 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas

Filed Date: March 29, 2011

Case Ongoing

This class action (previously, M.D. v. Perry) involving long-term foster care in Texas was filed on March 29, 2011, in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas. The plaintiff class of children in long-term foster care was represented by private counsel and Children's Rights, Inc.; they sought declaratory and injunctive relief, claiming that the state failed to protect foster children from systemic harm. The complaint alleged that defendants' frequent moves of the foster care c…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Doe v. Washington State Department of Corrections

4:21-cv-05059 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Washington

Filed Date: April 7, 2021

Case Ongoing

Disability Rights Washington -- Washington's protection and advocacy system for persons with disabilities statewide -- and the ACLU of Washington, in collaboration with private counsel, filed this lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Washington on April 7, 2021. They sought to prevent the Washington State Department of Corrections, as well as Stephen Sinclair, the Secretary of the Department, from releasing records, requested through Washington’s Public Records Act, that w…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Monroe v. Baldwin

3:18-cv-00156 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Jan. 31, 2018

Case Ongoing

On January 31, 2018, five transgender women housed in Illinois men’s prisons brought a class action suit against the governor of Illinois, the Director of the Illinois Department of Corrections (“IDOC”), IDOC’s Chief of Health Services, its Statewide Mental Health Supervisor, and two members of its Gender Identity Disorder (“GID”) Committee (GID is now clinically referred to as Gender Dysphoria). The case was assigned to Chief Judge Nancy J. Rosenstengel in the United States District Court for …
POLICING
People of New York v. New York

1:21-cv-00322 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Jan. 14, 2021

Case Ongoing

On behalf of the residents of New York, New York Attorney General Letitia James brought this lawsuit against the New York City Police Department on January 14, 2021 in the Southern District of New York. The complaint alleged that NYPD officers regularly used excessive force against and falsely arrested peaceful protesters exercising their First Amendment rights during the widespread racial justice protests that took place from May 28, 2020 to December 11, 2020. The plaintiff sued all defendants…
PUBLIC ACCOMMODATIONS/CONTRACTING
Sines v. Kessler

3:17-cv-00072 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia

Filed Date: Oct. 11, 2017

Case Ongoing

In this case, ten private citizens of Charlottesville, Virginia, sued a host of individuals identified as organizers and promoters of the far-right “Unite the Right” rally held in the city on August 11-12, 2017. The plaintiffs filed this lawsuit on October 11, 2017, in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia. Represented by private counsel, the plaintiffs invoked state law and 42 U.S.C. § 1985, a Reconstruction Era federal statute creating a cause of action against those wh…
POLICING
NAACP Delaware State Conference of Branches v. City of Wilmington

1:23-cv-01205 | U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware

Filed Date: Oct. 24, 2023

Case Ongoing

This case concerns the constitutionality of the Wilmington Police Department (“WPD”)’s police practices. On October 24, 2023, the Delaware affiliate of the NAACP (“NAACP-DE”) and two individual Wilmington residents filed a class action lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Delaware. Represented by the ACLU-Delaware and private counsel, plaintiffs sued the City of Wilmington (“City”), the mayor, and the WPD Chief under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and Title VI of the Civil Rights A…
POLICING
Harris v. Dobbins

3:22-cv-00479 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi

Filed Date: Aug. 16, 2022

Case Ongoing

This is a case about the discriminatory practices of a police department in Lexington, Mississippi. On August 16, 2022, five residents of Mississippi filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi. The plaintiffs sued the interim chief of police of Lexington, Mississippi and the former chief of police of Lexington, Sam Dobbins, in his individual capacity under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Represented by private counsel, JULIAN, and the National Police Accountability…
EDUCATION
B.P.J. v. West Virginia State Board of Education

2:21-cv-00316 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia

Filed Date: May 26, 2021

Case Ongoing

The state of West Virginia passed HB 3293 in April of 2021, and it was set to go into effect on July 8, 2021, before the start of the 2021-22 school year. HB 3293 mandated that all athletic teams or sports sponsored by any public schools in West Virginia are to be designated as either male or female on the basis of biological sex alone, and further dictated that “[a]thletic teams or sports designated for females, women, or girls shall not be open to students of the male sex where selection of s…
POLICING
DOJ Investigation of Minneapolis Police Department

No Docket | No Court

On April 21, 2021, Attorney General Merrick B. Garland announced that the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) was opening a pattern and practice investigation into the City of Minneapolis, Minnesota and the Minneapolis Police Department (MPD). According to Garland, the investigation, initiated under the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, was to examine whether the City and MPD violated the First, Fourth, and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution, the 1964 Civil Rights Act, …