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POLICING
Allen v. City of Oakland

3:00-cv-04599 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Dec. 17, 2000

Case Ongoing

On December 17, 2000, several citizens filed this §1983 class action lawsuit against the City of Oakland and its police department in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, alleging a group of rogue police officers within the OPD known as "the Riders" violated the plaintiffs’ constitutional rights by kidnapping, beating, and planting drugs on the plaintiff. The plaintiffs sought damages and attorneys’ fees.  On March 26, 2001, District Judge Charles A. Legge ordered th…
PUBLIC HOUSING
Sanders v. HUD

2:88-cv-01261 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: June 3, 1988

Closed Date: Jan. 28, 2005

In 1988, public housing residents and applicants filed this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania against the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), Allegheny County, the Allegheny County Housing Authority (ACHA), and the Redevelopment Authority of Allegheny County (“RAAC”).  The plaintiffs were represented by attorneys from the Neighborhood Legal Services Association of Pittsburgh and the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Und…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Zepeda Rivas v. Jennings

3:20-cv-02731 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: April 20, 2020

Case Ongoing

COVID-19 Summary: This is a class-action lawsuit brought on April 20, 2020, by seven individuals in immigration detention at the Mesa Verde Detention Facility (MVDF) and the Yuba County Jail (YCJ), seeking immediate release from unsafe conditions of the jail in light of the global coronavirus pandemic. The court granted the request for TRO on April 29, requiring ICE to provide information and access to detainees to facilitate a process of considering bail requests. On June 9, the court granted …
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Parham v. Watson

3:20-cv-00572 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi

Filed Date: Aug. 27, 2020

Closed Date: Oct. 20, 2020

NOTE: This case was tracked in close to real time by the Stanford/MIT Healthy Elections Project. For more information, see their tracker. This is a case brought by voting rights organizations and individuals because of the health risks of absentee voting regulations during the COVID-19 pandemic. On August 27, 2020, the League of Women Voters Mississippi, Mississippi State Conference of the NAACP, and three individuals filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of M…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Lichtenstein v. Hargett

3:20-cv-00736 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee

Filed Date: Aug. 28, 2020

Case Ongoing

This case challenged Tennessee’s statute that forbids anyone but employees of election commissions to provide absentee ballots to any person. Plaintiffs are organizations (and one individual) who engage in voter outreach. The statute stood in the way of their plan to send absentee ballot applications to both their members and non-members.  On August 28, 2020, the Memphis and West Tennessee AFL-CIO Central Labor Council (along with its Executive Secretary), the Tennessee State Conference of the …
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Lyon v. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

3:13-cv-05878 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Dec. 19, 2013

On December 19, 2013, four immigration detainees of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) filed this class-action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California under 28 U.S.C. § 2201 against ICE and the Department of Homeland Security. The plaintiffs, represented by the ACLU and private counsel, asked the court for declaratory and injunctive relief, claiming that ICE violated the plaintiffs’ rights under the First and Fifth Amendments and the Immigration an…
POLICING
NAACP v. Peterman

1:20-cv-00613 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina

Filed Date: July 2, 2020

Case Ongoing

The complaint for this case was filed on July 2, 2020 in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina. The complaint challenged an ordinance in Graham, North Carolina that forced would-be organizers of protests to obtain a permit from the city at least twenty-four hours in advance. The ordinance gave the police chief total discretion to grant or deny permits based on whether the protest would cause a disturbance. Plaintiffs were individuals and organizations, including the …

Motion for a Temporary Restraining Order and Preliminary Injunction

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Alamance County Branch v. Peterman

July 2, 2020

Complaint for Injunctive and Declaratory Relief

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People v. Peterman

July 2, 2020

Brief in Support of Plaintiffs' Motion for a Temporary Restraining Order and Preliminary Injunction

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People v. Peterman

July 3, 2020

Consent Temporary Restraining Order

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People v. Peterman

July 6, 2020

Defendants Terry S. Johnson and Bryan Hagood's Response in Opposition to Plaintiffs' Motion for Preliminary Injunction

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People v. Peterman

July 15, 2020

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ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Georgia Association of Latino Elected Officials v. Gwinnett County Board of Registration and Elections

1:20-cv-01587 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: April 14, 2020

Case Ongoing

This is a case about whether Georgia's mailing of English-only absentee ballots for the June 2020 primary violated the Voting Rights Act. On April 14, 2020, several non-profit voting rights organizations filed this lawsuit in the Northern District of Georgia. They sued the Georgia Secretary of State and members of the Gwinnett County Board of Registration and Elections (“BORE”) for declaratory and injunctive relief under Section 203 and Section 4(e) of the Voting Rights Act (“VRA”). Section 203…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Feenstra v. Sigler

19-cv-00234 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma

Filed Date: March 21, 2019

Case Ongoing

This case alleged that the Oklahoma court system unconstitutionally imposed fines at sentencing without consideration for an individual's ability to pay the fines assessed. The plaintiffs in this case further alleged that the courts violated their due process and equal protection rights, as well as their right to counsel, based on the "cost docket" procedures and the possible penalty of incarceration for failure to pay outstanding fines. The plaintiffs were three indigent individuals who were f…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
A. Philip Randolph Institute of Ohio v. Larose

1:20-cv-01908 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio

Filed Date: Aug. 12, 2020

Closed Date: Oct. 28, 2020

This is a case about voting procedures in Ohio’s 2020 general election. On August 12, 2020, the Ohio Secretary of State issued directive 2020-16, which interpreted Ohio law to require each county board of elections to provide only one absentee ballot drop-off location. The plaintiffs here are three nonpartisan civil rights organizations — the A. Philip Randolph Institute of Ohio, the League of Women Voters of Ohio, and the Ohio State Conference of the NAACP — and seven individual Ohio voters. O…