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Collins v. City of Milwaukee

2:17-cv-00234 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin

Filed Date: Feb. 22, 2017

Case Ongoing

Plaintiffs, ACLU national and the ACLU of Wisconsin, along with Covington & Burling attorneys, filed this class action alleging that the Milwaukee Police Department's (MPD) stop-and-frisk policies were unconstitutional. The case was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin on February 22, 2017. The complaint alleged under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 that Milwaukee's stop-and-frisk policies violated the Fourth Amendment's search and seizure protections as well as the Fourteent…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Ruiz v. Estelle

4:78-cv-00987 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas

Filed Date: June 1, 1972

Closed Date: June 17, 2002

This was a prisoner led class action which broadly challenged conditions and practices within the Texas state prison system. Issues covered included overcrowding, inadequate healthcare, unsafe working conditions, inadequate access to the justice system, and severe and arbitrary disciplinary procedures. The plaintiff’s 1980 trial victory was followed by over two decades of appeals and negotiations which culminated in numerous consent decrees. As one of the longest running prisoners' lawsuit in U…
POLICING
Shaw v. Schulte

6:19-cv-01343 | U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas

Filed Date: Dec. 19, 2019

Case Ongoing

This case involved an alleged unconstitutional policy of the Kansas Highway Patrol (KHP) whereby they stopped motorists with out of state plates who were driving the I-70 corridor to or from the state of Colorado. On December 19, 2019, the three named plaintiffs on behalf of a class filed this lawsuit pro se in the District of Kansas. The plaintiffs sued the Kansas Highway Patrol superintendent and two named officers in their official capacity for the alleged unconstitutional stops and seizures…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Little Rock Family Planning Services v. Jegley

4:21-cv-00453 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas

Filed Date: May 26, 2021

Case Ongoing

This case is one in a string of challenges to Arkansas’s abortion access restrictions. A few months prior to the filing of this suit, the Eighth Circuit enjoined the state’s pre-viability bans on abortion via Act 493 (criminalizing abortion at 18 weeks) in Little Rock Family Planning Services v. Rutledge.  The present case was filed in response to Act 309 (“Act 309”), signed into law on March 26, 2021, which effectively prohibited abortion in nearly all cases and imposed criminal penalties on d…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Preterm-Cleveland v. Attorney General of Ohio

1:19-cv-00360 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio

Filed Date: May 15, 2019

Closed Date: July 7, 2022

COVID-19 Summary: This is an ongoing lawsuit regarding Ohio state legislation that would criminalize certain abortions that was amended to include a request for relief in light of COVID-19. The plaintiffs sought a temporary restraining order against the Department of Health's order which had banned all "non-essential surgeries and procedures" starting on March 18, 2020. The judge granted the temporary restraining order for a period of 14 days, which was affirmed by the Sixth Circuit on April 6,…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Lucero-Gonzalez v. Kline

2:20-cv-00901 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: May 8, 2020

Case Ongoing

COVID-19 Summary: This is a class-action brought by five prisoners with high-risk medical issues held at the federal Central Arizona Florence Correctional Complex against the U.S. Marshals Service and the Bureau of Prisons. The plaintiffs alleged that the defendant’s failure to implement basic social distancing and hygiene measures violated their Eighth and Fifth Amendment rights. The court denied the plaintiffs’ motion for injunctive relief, finding that the plaintiffs had failed to show delib…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Huisha-Huisha v. Mayorkas

1:21-cv-00100 | U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

Filed Date: Jan. 12, 2021

Closed Date: May 11, 2023

This is a case about immigration policy that restricted refugee and asylum entry into the United States on account of health concerns around the coronavirus pandemic. On January 12, 2021, families of asylum- and refugee-seekers, who were detained by the Department of Homeland Security, sued the U.S. federal government for humanitarian protection in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. With the spread of coronavirus, on March 20, 2020, the Department of Health and Human Services…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Lathrop v. Deal

2012-cv-224423 | Georgia state trial court

Filed Date: Nov. 30, 2012

Closed Date: June 19, 2017

On November 30, 2012, the American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Georgia filed this lawsuit in Georgia's Superior Court of Fulton County on behalf of three Georgia obstetrician-gynecologists. The plaintiffs sued twenty state officers in their official capacities. They challenged Georgia Bill H.B. 954, which criminalized virtually all abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy, except for abortions in medical emergencies. Violations of the law were subject to a penalty of ten years imprisonme…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Planned Parenthood of Alaska v. Perdue

3AN-98-7004 CI | Alaska state trial court

Filed Date: June 1, 1998

Case Ongoing

Two medical doctors and Planned Parenthood of Alaska filed this lawsuit in the Superior Court, Third Judicial District of Alaska in June 1998. Represented by the ACLU of Alaska, ACLU Foundation, and Reproductive Freedom Project, the plaintiffs sued the Alaska Department of Health and Social Service (DHSS) and sought declaratory and injunctive relief. Plaintiffs challenged 7 AAC 43.140, a regulation that, beginning July 1, 1998, swapped out Alaska's older General Relief Medical Program for a new…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Southampton Community Healthcare v. Bailey

23SL-CC01673 | Missouri state trial court

Filed Date: April 24, 2023

Case Ongoing

This is a case about access to gender-affirming care for transgender people in Missouri. On April 13, 2023, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey promulgated an emergency regulation that imposed restrictions on gender-affirming care for both minors and adults. The regulation was the first of its kind in that it applied to adults too, not just minors. It required providers to inform patients of certain claims and to ensure that patients were eligible for the care. To be eligible, patients must…