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Twitter v. Barr [Holder]

4:14-cv-04480 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Oct. 7, 2014

Closed Date: Jan. 8, 2024

[Note: This case was previously known as Twitter v. Holder, then Twitter v. Lynch, then Twitter v. Sessions] On October 7, 2014, Twitter -- an online social networking service -- filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California against the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) under the Administrative Procedure Act. Twitter, represented by private counsel, asked the court for declaratory judgment and injunctive relief, a…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Jensen v. Thornell

2:12-cv-00601 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: March 22, 2012

Case Ongoing

This case is a direct descendant of Gamez v. Ryan, which was dismissed with prejudice on March 21, 2012. The district court judge determined that the sudden expansion of the case to include thirteen new plaintiffs and class treatment in the third amended complaint was not within the court's contemplation when it permitted the plaintiff to file a third amended complaint. On March 22, 2012, fourteen Arizona prisoners brought this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Texas Democratic Party v. Hughs

5:20-cv-00008 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

Filed Date: Jan. 6, 2020

Closed Date: June 30, 2021

This is a case about the rejection of voter registration applications submitted through a mobile app due to a lack of a wet signature and the application of sovereign immunity to the Secretary of State's public comments regarding the wet signature rule.  On January 6, 2020, the Texas Democratic Party ("TDP"), the national senatorial committee of the Democratic Party ("DSCC"), and the national congressional committee of the Democratic Party ("DCCC") filed this lawsuit in the United States Distri…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Shilling v. Trump

2:25-cv-00241 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: Feb. 6, 2025

Case Ongoing

This case is one of several challenging President Donald J. Trump’s January 27, 2025 executive order banning transgender people from serving in the military, which reverses the U.S. Armed Forces’ policy of permitting transgender people who meet military standards to serve. (To see the Clearinghouse's collection of legal challenges to trans-related actions by the second Trump Administration, click here.) On January 27, 2025, a week after his inauguration, President Trump signed Executive Order 1…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Arizona Democratic Party v. Arizona Republican Party

2:16-cv-03752 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: Oct. 21, 2016

Closed Date: Nov. 9, 2016

This is a case about alleged voter intimidation in Arizona during the 2016 Presidential election.  On October 31, 2026, after alleged reports of voter intimidation in anticipation of the 2016 presidential election, the Arizona Democratic Party initiated the present suit in the United States District Court for the District of Arizona against Donald J. Trump for President, Inc., the Arizona Republican Party, Roger J. Stone, Jr., and Stop the Steal, Inc., seeking injunctive relief for violations o…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Arizona Democratic Party v. Hobbs

2:20-cv-01143 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: June 10, 2020

Closed Date: Jan. 3, 2022

This case was about the State of Arizona's policy concerning mail-in ballots without a signature. According to state law, mail-in ballots missing a signature must be corrected by the voter by 7 p.m. on voting day. This policy differed from the state's policy regarding mail-in ballots with a signature that does not match the voter's registration record. When a mail-in ballot signature does not match, the voter was afforded five days to correct the signature. The plaintiffs in this case, the Ariz…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
One Wisconsin Institute v. Nichol

3:15-cv-00324 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin

Filed Date: May 29, 2015

Closed Date: Jan. 13, 2023

This is a lawsuit regarding a set of changes in Wisconsin's voter registration and election laws. On May 29, 2015, the advocacy groups of One Wisconsin Institute and Citizen Action of Wisconsin Education Fund, as well as individual voters, filed suit in the United States Western District Court of Wisconsin, represented by Perkins Coie. The defendants in this case are members of the Wisconsin’s Government Accountability Board (“GAB”), a state governmental entity that oversees Wisconsin’s campaig…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Lane v. Kitzhaber (later, Brown)

3:12-cv-00138 | U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon

Filed Date: Jan. 25, 2012

Closed Date: Aug. 12, 2022

On January 25, 2012, this class action was brought by individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD) and the United Cerebral Palsy Association of Oregon and Southwest Washington, Inc. in the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon. The plaintiffs claimed that the State of Oregon and its Offices of Developmental Disability Services and Vocational Rehabilitation Services, along with other state agencies, violated the Americans With Disabilities Act ("ADA") and the Reha…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
LULAC Texas v. Esparza

1:21-cv-00786 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

Filed Date: Sept. 7, 2021

Closed Date: Sept. 30, 2021

On September 7, 2021, various non-profit and civil rights organizations and a statewide labor union filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas against the Texas Deputy Secretary of State, Texas Attorney General, and various Texas County Elections Administrators. Plaintiffs alleged that Texas’ Senate Bill 1 (“SB 1”) was an omnibus voter suppression bill that unlawfully burdened voters, restricted access to the vote, and targeted the very measures tha…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Bethune-Hill v. Virginia State Board of Elections

3:14-cv-00852 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

Filed Date: Dec. 22, 2014

Closed Date: Sept. 17, 2020

This case involved a constitutional challenge to Virginia's 2011 House of Delegates Redistricting Plan.   On December 22, 2014, 12 voters from 12 districts filed a lawsuit against the Virginia State Board of Elections and Virginia Department of Elections in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.  The case was considered by a three-judge panel, in accordance with 28 U.S.C. § 2284, comprised of Senior District Judge Robert E. Payne, District Judge Gerald Bruce Lee, and Circ…