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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
League of Women Voters v. Ashcroft

2:18-cv-04073 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri

Filed Date: April 17, 2018

Case Ongoing

On April 17, 2017, League of Women Voters of Missouri, St. Louis A. Philip Randolph Institute, and Greater Kansas City A. Philip Institute filed a suit against the Missouri Secretary of State and the Director of the Missouri Department of Revenue. The plaintiffs alleged that the defendants continuously failed to comply with portions of the “Motor Vehicle” provisions of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993, 52 U.S.S. § 20501, et seq. (“NVRA”). Plaintiff alleged that the defendants failed …
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Baker v. Florissant

4:16-cv-01693 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri

Filed Date: Oct. 31, 2016

Closed Date: May 13, 2024

In this case, a Missouri city settled for $2.9 million over allegations that it had jailed plaintiffs for being unable to pay fines. On October 31st, 2016, a group of plaintiffs who had allegedly been jailed for their inability to pay fines owed to the City of Florissant, Missouri for traffic tickets or other minor municipal offenses sued the City for due process violations in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri. The plaintiffs were represented by the Advancement Projec…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Namphy v. Desantis

4:20-cv-00485 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida

Filed Date: Oct. 6, 2020

Closed Date: Oct. 13, 2020

This case involved allegations that failures of Florida’s online voter registration system on the afternoon of the registration deadline, and failures of the Florida Secretary of State to adequately publicize extension of the registration deadline as a remedy, deprived aspirational voters of their fundamental rights to vote. Although critical of the state, the court ultimately found the failures not to rise to the level of constitutional violation and denied a request for preliminary injunction…
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 …
JAIL CONDITIONS
Cameron v. Bouchard

2:20-cv-10949 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: April 17, 2020

Case Ongoing

COVID-19 Summary: This is a habeas action brought on behalf of classes of pre-trial and post-trial detainees at the Oakland County Jail, seeking release in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. The plaintiffs also sought an injunction that would require the defendants to take concrete steps towards protecting those in the jail from COVID-19. On May 21, the judge conditionally certified the class and granted the preliminary injunction, requiring the jail to take certain safety and hygiene measures. Th…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Belton, Jr. v. East Baton Rouge Parish Prison

3:20-cv-00278 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana

Filed Date: May 4, 2020

Closed Date: April 7, 2021

COVID-19 Summary: This is a class action filed by inmates in the East Baton Rouge Parish Prison, seeking the release of medically vulnerable people and appropriate hygiene and social distancing measures for those still in the facility. The court declined to issue a temporary restraining order, and on February 4, 2021, the court granted the defendants' motions to dismiss. On May 5, 2020, an incarcerated person in the East Baton Rouge Parish Prison filed this pro se action in the U.S. District C…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Ryan v. Smith

3:20-cv-00843 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana

Filed Date: Dec. 14, 2020

Case Ongoing

COVID Summary: This is a class action suit regarding the legality of detention orders that are holding detainees at East Baton Rouge Parish Prison for up to years and detrimental to life during the COVID-19 pandemic. The plaintiffs moved for a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction on December 14, 2020, but withdrew the request for a temporary restraining order in January 2021. A settlement conference is scheduled for March 11, and a joint status report is due on March 21. This …
JAIL CONDITIONS
Russell v. Wayne County

2:20-cv-11094 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: May 4, 2020

Case Ongoing

COVID-19 Summary: This is a class action complaint brought by six detainees in Wayne County Jail, seeking injunctive, declaratory and habeas relief. The petitioners sought the release or transfers to home confinement of medically vulnerable inmates in light of the virus, as well as an injunction requiring COVID-19 mitigation measures. The case was almost immediately stayed and the issues moved to a longstanding state-court litigation about the jail's conditions, Wayne County Jail Inmates v. Wa…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Swain v. Junior

1:20-cv-21457 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida

Filed Date: April 5, 2020

Closed Date: Sept. 29, 2020

COVID-19 Summary: On April 4, 2020, individuals detained in Miami-Dade County jails filed a class action complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, seeking habeas, injunctive, and declaratory relief. The court granted plaintiff’s motion for a TRO and preliminary injunction in part, and the defendants appealed to the Eleventh Circuit. On June 15, the Eleventh Circuit vacated the preliminary injunction. A jury trial was scheduled for March 1, 2021, but the case was…