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PUBLIC HOUSING
National Alliance to End Homelessness v. Turner

1:25-cv-00447 | U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island

Filed Date: Sept. 11, 2025

In National Alliance to End Homelessness & Women’s Development Corporation v. Turner, the case tests whether HUD may attach sweeping political and ideological conditions to federal homelessness funding. On September 11, 2025, the National Alliance to End Homelessness (NAEH) and the Women’s Development Corporation (WDC) filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island before District Judge Mary S. McElroy and Magistrate Judge Austin E. McConaghy, naming Housing and Urban De…

Case Is Ongoing

ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Georgia State Conference v. State of Georgia

1:21-cv-05338 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: Dec. 30, 2021

This is a case about redistricting in Georgia.   On December 30, 2021, the Georgia State Conference of the NAACP (NAACP), Georgia Coalition for the People’s Agenda (GCPA), and Galeo Latino Community Development Fund, Inc (GALEO) (collectively, “Plaintiffs”) filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia.  Plaintiffs sued the State of Georgia, the Governor of the State of Georgia, and the Secretary of State of Georgia (collectively, “Defendants”) for …

Administrative Stay Granted

ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Georgia Coalition for the Peoples' Agenda v. Deal

4:16-cv-00269 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Georgia

Filed Date: Oct. 12, 2016

Closed Date: Oct. 18, 2016

This case involved requiring the State of Georgia to extend the voter registration deadline in Chatham County ahead of the November 8, 2016 general election due to the state of emergency caused by Hurricane Matthew.   On October 12, 2016, the Georgia Coalition for the Peoples’ Agenda, Inc., the George State Conference of the NAACP and Third Sector Development Inc. filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Georgia.  The plaintiffs sued the Governor of Ge…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska v. Thurston County, Nebraska

8:23-cv-00020 | U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska

Filed Date: Jan. 19, 2023

Closed Date: Jan. 26, 2024

This case is about two American Indian tribes and a handful of members of each tribe who also reside in and are registered to vote in Thurston County, Nebraska challenging Thurston County’s redistricting plan for the Thurston County Board of Supervisor districts. The plaintiffs alleged that the new redistricting plan diluted the voting strength of Non-Hispanic American Indian or Alaska Native voters and voters from the reservations of the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska and the Omaha Tribe of Nebra…

Settled: Case Closed

POLICING
Cottman v. Baltimore Police Department

1:21-cv-00837 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: April 1, 2021

This case challenged the Baltimore Police Department (“BPD”) policy and practice of searching, seizing, retaining, and destroying the personal property of victims of violent crimes. On April 1, 2021, three plaintiffs filed this class-action lawsuit against BPD and the City of Baltimore in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland. Represented by the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law and private counsel, the plaintiffs sued under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, alleging that BPD’s pract…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
O. Doe v. Trump

1:25-cv-10135 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: Jan. 20, 2025

This case is one of several challenging President Trump's effort to narrow birthright citizenship--the Fourteenth Amendment right to U.S. citizenship to individuals born on U.S. soil and "subject to the jurisdiction thereof." You can see all these cases here.  President Trump was sworn in to his second term as President on January 20, 2025, and immediately issued a number of Executive Orders--including Executive Order 14160, which proclaimed that birthright citizenship under the Fourteenth Amen…

Preliminary Injunction Granted

Appeal Pending

ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Virginia Coalition for Immigrant Rights v. Beals

1:24-cv-01778 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

Filed Date: Oct. 7, 2024

This is a case about voter rolls in Virginia ahead of the 2024 election. Plaintiffs, the Virginia Coalition for Immigrant Rights and the League of Women Voters of Virginia, brought suit on October 7, 2024 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia against the Virginia Commissioner of Elections, the Virginia State Board of Elections, and the Virginia Attorney General. Represented by the Protect Democracy Project, Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Campaign Legal …
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Texas NAACP v. Abbott

1:20-cv-01024 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

Filed Date: Oct. 6, 2020

Closed Date: Oct. 16, 2020

This case is about the Texas Governor’s order on October 1, 2020, limiting each Texas county to one mail ballot drop-off location for the November 2020 election. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Governor had issued an order on July 27, 2020, extending early voting and allowing absentee voters to hand deliver their mail-in ballot during the early voting period. In response to that order and the expected surge of mail-in voting, county officials, particularly in counties with large popul…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
New Florida Majority Ed v. Detzner

4:18-cv-00466 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida

Filed Date: Oct. 10, 2018

Closed Date: Dec. 14, 2018

This case is about access to voter registration in Florida leading up to the 2018 election. On October 10, 2018, three nonprofits focused on voter engagement and voter registration filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida. The case was assigned to Judge Robert Lewis Hinkle.  The plaintiffs sued Ken Detzner in his official capacity as Secretary of State of the State of Florida under 42 U.S.C. §§ 1983 and 1988 for his decision to not extend the v…
FAIR HOUSING/LENDING/INSURANCE
Open Communities Alliance v. Carson

1:17-cv-02192 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Oct. 23, 2017

Closed Date: Aug. 15, 2018

The background to this case concerns a policy known as the Small Area Fair Market Rent (“FMR”) rule that was set to go into effect on January 1, 2018, after years of advocacy, research, and public debate. The rule required the public housing agencies (PHAs) that administered the Housing Choice Voucher program (formerly Section 8) to set voucher values in 24 metropolitan areas based on the prevailing private market rents for each distinct zip code within those regions. The revised methodology re…