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HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Planned Parenthood of the Heartland, Inc. v. Hilgers

D02CI230001820 | Nebraska state trial court

Filed Date: May 30, 2023

Closed Date: July 26, 2024

This lawsuit challenged a Nebraska state law (L.B. 574) that imposed a twelve-week abortion ban and prohibited gender-affirming care for transgender youth under nineteen years of age. On July 19, 2023, Planned Parenthood of the Heartland, Inc. and its medical doctor, abortion service providers in Nebraska, filed the lawsuit, represented by the ACLU of Nebraska and the ACLU’s State Supreme Court Initiative, in the District Court of Lancaster County, Nebraska. The Plaintiffs sued the Attorney Gen…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Mcdonald v. Federal Communications

3:19-cv-00072 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee

Filed Date: Jan. 8, 2019

Closed Date: Sept. 23, 2020

This is a case alleging a violation of the FCC's "equal time" provision that requires that broadcasters to give equal media coverage to major party candidates.  On January 8, 2019, the plaintiff, a pro se individual, filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee (the "District Court") against the Federal Communications Commission ("FCC") and Tennessee Elections Commission ("TEC"), accompanied by a request to have fees and court costs waived due to plaintiff's insuff…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Daly v. Tennant

3:16-cv-08981 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia

Filed Date: Sept. 19, 2016

Closed Date: May 16, 2017

This case considered the constitutionality of West Virginia's January filing deadline for independent candidates and minor party candidates seeking to add their names to the general election ballot in November.   Two candidates from independent political parties filed this lawsuit on September 19, 2016 in the United States District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia alleging that they were improperly excluded from West Virginia's general election ballot for the November 2016 elect…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
De La Fuente v. Simon

0:19-cv-02995 | U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota

Filed Date: Nov. 26, 2019

Closed Date: April 27, 2020

This case is about a constitutional challenge to a Minnesota election law, Minnesota Election Code § 207A.13, subd. 2(a), that provides that candidates seeking the 2020 Republican presidential nomination could only appear on Minnesota's primary election ballot if the candidate was selected by the party and the chair of the party submitted the candidate's name to the secretary of state no later than 63 days before the presidential nomination primary. On November 26, 2019, a member of the Republi…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Rosenbloom v. Election Voting Board

1:19-cv-24096 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida

Filed Date: Oct. 3, 2019

Closed Date: Oct. 9, 2019

On October 3, 2019, a resident of Miami, Florida, filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida. The pro se complaint named the Election Voting Board—an entity that did not exist—as the defendant. Proceeding pro se, the plaintiff expressed his belief that primary elections for all states should be on the same day and that the Electoral College should be eliminated. The case was assigned to District Judge Darrin P. Gayles. On October 9, 2019, the district cou…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Tomasella v. Division of Child Support Services of Texas

3:19-cv-00771 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas

Filed Date: March 28, 2019

Closed Date: Dec. 11, 2019

The plaintiff, a private individual, filed this action pro se on March 29, 2019 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas against the Division of Child Support Services for the State of Texas, the Texas Attorney General, and other agencies and state officials. Plaintiff claimed in relevant part that his legal obligation to pay child support, and subsequent incarceration for failure to pay child support, violated his Fourteenth Amendment right to due process because he was no…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Grant v. Gonzales County, Texas

5:06-cv-01099 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

Filed Date: Dec. 14, 2006

Closed Date: Feb. 15, 2007

This is a case about a challenge to Gonzales County, Texas's change of locations of an election polling place without administrative or judicial preclearance. On December 14, 2006, three African American registered voters in Gonzales County filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas San Antonio Division. The plaintiffs sued Gonzales County, Texas under the Voting Rights Act. Represented by private counsel, the plaintiffs sought a declaration that El…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Jefferson County Drainage District No. 7 v. Holder

1:11-cv-00461 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: March 2, 2011

Closed Date: June 1, 2021

This is a case about a County seeking to remove itself from the preclearance procedures under the Voting Rights Act. Jefferson County Drainage District Number 7 is a political subdivision of the State of Texas subject to the special provisions of the Voting Rights Act, including Section 5, 42 U.S.C.  § 1973c.  This was based on a coverage determination made pursuant to Section 4(b) of the Voting Rights Act.  Under Section 5, the District is required to obtain preclearance from either the United…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Harrington v. United States Parcel Service

1:20-cv-05303 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Sept. 8, 2020

Case Ongoing

This is a case about a voter's right to vote by mail.  On September 8, 2020, an individual who wanted to vote via mail-in ballot filed suit in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois and alleged that the Postmaster General of the United States Parcel Service, the Chairman of the Postal Service Board of Governors, and the United States Parcel Service violated Plaintiff’s right to vote by unlawfully consolidating post offices in violation of 39 U.S.C. § 404. Specifi…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Bill Nelson For US Senate v. Detzner

4:18-cv-00535 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida

Filed Date: Nov. 16, 2018

Closed Date: Nov. 16, 2018

This case is about the vote recount procedures required by Florida law for close elections. On November 15, 2018, a political campaign organization, Bill Nelson for U.S. Senate, filed a complaint in the Circuit Court of the Second Judicial Circuit of Florida against the Florida Secretary of State under state law and 42 USC § 1983. The plaintiff sought an injunction to require Florida counties to follow a state rule that required a manual recount of a close election to be undertaken sequentially…