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POLICING
Cottman v. Baltimore Police Department

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

Filed Date: April 1, 2021

Case Ongoing

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

Case Ongoing

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…
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

Case Ongoing

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…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
A. Phillip Randolph Institute v. Hargett

3:20-cv-00374 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee

Filed Date: May 1, 2020

Closed Date: Jan. 26, 2023

On May 1, 2020, two qualified voters and five public interest organizations whose many members were not eligible to vote by mail filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee, against the Tennessee Secretary of State, the Tennessee Coordinator of Elections, and the Shelby County District Attorney General. The plaintiffs challenged Tennessee’s restrictions on absentee voters, its criminal penalties against those who aid voters in obtaining absentee ballots, a…
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…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
New Virginia Majority Education Fund v. Virginia Department of Elections

3:20-cv-00801 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

Filed Date: Oct. 13, 2020

Closed Date: Oct. 14, 2020

On the morning of October 13, 2020, Virginia's final day of voter registration for the November 3, 2020 election, the online voter registration system in Virginia, the Citizen Portal, experienced a network-wide outage due to a cut fiber optic cable. That same day, New Virginia Majority Educational Fund, Virginia Civic Engagement Table, and League of Women Voters of Virginia requested a temporary restraining order and sought injunctive relief against the Virginia Department of Elections and its …
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Feenstra v. Sigler

4:19-cv-00234 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma

Filed Date: March 21, 2019

Closed Date: Oct. 10, 2023

This case alleged that Oklahoma state courts unconstitutionally imposed fines at sentencing without considering 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 fined by th…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Boustani v. Blackwell

1:06-cv-02065 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio

Filed Date: Aug. 29, 2006

Closed Date: Oct. 26, 2006

This lawsuit is about a state law that would have allowed poll workers to ask whether a voter is a native or naturalized citizen and, if naturalized, would have required voters to provide citizenship documentation prior to casting their ballot. On August 29, 2006, 24 plaintiffs, including private citizens and several non-profit organizations – the Asian American Bar Association, the Federation of India Community Association, the Service Employees International Union District 1199 AFL-CIO, the A…