Search for:
clear search

Docket Number

Key Dates

Filing Date

Settlement / Judgment Date

Terminating Date

Plaintiffs

Defendants

Case Details

Outcome

Issues

MORE▾

Document Details

Document Filing Date

MORE▾

Document Citation (Choose One)

Use this for most court reporters

S.Ct. reporter and WL only

LEXIS and L.Ed. only

Search for:
294 cases, 3742 documents
Ordered by
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
CODING IN PROCESS
Thomas v. Merrill

2:21-cv-01531 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama

Filed Date: Nov. 16, 2021

Case Ongoing

(This summary is temporary while we research the case) The Southern Poverty Law Center, ACLU and NAACP Legal Defense Fund filed suit on November 15, 2021, in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama alleging that new state legislative districts drawn in 2021 deliberately diminished the power of Black voters.
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts v. Leavitt

1:09-cv-10038 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: Jan. 12, 2009

Closed Date: Jan. 16, 2013

The ACLU of Massachusetts brought this suit against the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on January 12, 2009 in the District of Massachusetts; Judge Richard G. Stearns heard the case. Represented by its national and Massachusetts in-house legal teams, the ACLU alleged that the Department violated the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment by allocating grant funding to a religious organization that imposed religiously-based restrictions on sub-grants. The ACLU specifically chal…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
White v. State Board of Election Commissioners

4:22-cv-00062 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi

Filed Date: April 25, 2022

Case Ongoing

This case concerns the racial makeup of the districts by which Mississippi Supreme Court justices are elected. On April 25, 2022, a group of four Black citizens and civic leaders filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi. The plaintiffs sued the Mississippi State Board of Election Commissioners and the state of Mississippi, alleging that the districts used to elect state Supreme Court justices are discriminatory against Black voters in violation of t…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
CODING IN PROCESS
Farm Labor Organizing Committee v. Roy Cooper

1:17-cv-01037 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina

Filed Date: Nov. 15, 2017

Closed Date: Sept. 15, 2021

(This summary is temporary while we research the case) North Carolina farmworkers and the Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC), represented by the ACLU and Southern Poverty Law Center, filed suit against Joshua Stein, the Attorney General of North Carolina and Marion R. Warren, the Director of the North Carolina Administrative Office of the Courts, in their official capacities on November 15, 2017. Plaintiffs alleged that the North Carolina Farm Act of 2017 violated the First Amendment right …
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
CODING IN PROCESS
EMW Women's Surgical Center v. Cameron

22-CI-3225 | Kentucky state trial court

Filed Date: June 27, 2022

Case Ongoing

(This summary is temporary while we research the case.) This case is about Kentucky's "trigger law" banning abortion following the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. On July 22, 2022, Jefferson County Circuit Judge Mitch Perry granted a temporary injunction that blocked enforcement of the ban.
JAIL CONDITIONS
Rutherford v. Block

2:75-cv-04111 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: Feb. 9, 1975

On February 9, 1975, prisoners represented by the ACLU Foundation of Southern California filed a class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, challenging the practices and conditions of confinement at the Los Angeles County Central Jail (the "Jail"). On December 31, 1975, the District Court certified the class.Following a 17 day trial on the matter and unannounced jail inspections by the Court, the District Court (Judge William P. Gray) entered an orde…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Singleton v. Cannizzaro

2:17-cv-10721 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana

Filed Date: Oct. 17, 2017

Case Ongoing

On October, 17, 2017, eight residents of Louisiana who were victims of or witnesses to crimes filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana, alleging that they had been jailed or threatened with jail by prosecutors in hopes of ensuring their testimony in court. They sued the District Attorney of Orleans Parish along with several assistant district attorneys under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and state law. The plaintiffs, represented by the ACLU and Civil Rights Corps,…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective v. Kemp

1:19-cv-02973 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: June 28, 2019

Case Ongoing

The ACLU, the ACLU of Georgia, the Center for Reproductive Rights, and Planned Parenthood filed this suit June 28, 2019, challenging an imminent Georgia law banning abortions as early as six weeks into pregnancy. The plaintiffs, which also included health care providers and their patients, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, Atlanta Division, against the Georgia state governor, attorney general, health officials, and district attorneys. On due process grounds,…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Hopkins v. Jegley

4:17-cv-00404 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas

Filed Date: June 20, 2017

Case Ongoing

This is a case challenging abortion restrictions in the state of Arkansas. On June 20, 2017, a board-certified obstetrician-gynecologist and abortion provider, filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas. The plaintiff sued the Prosecuting Attorney for Pulaski County and the Arkansas State Medical Board under the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Represented by the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, the Center for Reproductive Rights …
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Lee v. Orr

1:13-cv-08719 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Dec. 6, 2013

Case Ongoing

Plaintiffs -- four same-sex Illinois couples who wished to marry--filed this case on December 6, 2013, in the U.S. district court for the Northern District of Illinois. They sued the Cook County Clerk; the state attorney general intervened. Plaintiffs brought the suit just a month after the Illinois legislature enacted Senate Bill 10, which amends the Illinois Marriage Act to allow same-sex couples to be legally married in Illinois. S.B. 10, Ill. 98th Gen. Assemb., First Reg. Sess. (Ill. 2013…