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17 cases, 242 documents
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IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Alasaad v. Duke

1:17-cv-11730 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: Sept. 13, 2017

Closed Date: April 21, 2021

On September 13, 2017, ten U.S. citizens and a lawful permanent resident filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts. Represented by the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts, the plaintiffs sued the United States Customs and Border Protection (“CBP”) and the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (“ICE”) under 28 U.S.C. § 2201, seeking a declaration that the defendants had violated their First and F…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Conservative Party of New York State v. New York State Board of Elections

1:10-cv-06923 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Sept. 14, 2010

Closed Date: Nov. 6, 2018

This case was a challenge by minor political parties as to the constitutionality of New York Election Law § 9-112(4).  New York permits a political candidate to accept the nomination of multiple political parties.  As a result, such candidate’s name can appear on a ballot multiple times, once for each party for which the candidate accepted a nomination.  Under New York Election Law § 9-112(4), if a voter “double votes” by voting for one candidate on more than one party line, only the “first” vo…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
National Urban League v. Ross

5:20-cv-05799 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Aug. 18, 2020

Closed Date: April 22, 2021

On August 18, 2020, a coalition of cities, counties, Indian tribes, advocacy organizations, and individuals represented by the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights, the Brennan Center for Justice, and the law firm Latham & Watkins LLP sued the U.S. Department of Commerce (“Department”), the Department Secretary, the U.S. Census Bureau (“Bureau”), and the Bureau Director in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. The plaintiffs alleged that the defendants violated the U.S…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
California v. Ross

3:18-cv-01865 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: March 26, 2018

Closed Date: Dec. 31, 2020

On March 26, 2018, the State of California filed this claim against the Secretary of Commerce and the U.S. Census Bureau in the U.S. District Court of Northern California. It challenged the defendants' plans to add a citizenship question to the 2020 U.S. Census. California alleged that this question will undermine the defendants' duty to collect an "actual enumeration" of the U.S. population mandated by the Enumeration Clause, Article I of the Constitution. In addition, California claims that t…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
State of New York v. U.S. Department of Commerce

1:18-cv-02921 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: April 3, 2018

Closed Date: Dec. 31, 2020

This was a legal challenge brought by an alliance of states, counties, and municipalities to the Trump Administration’s proposed addition of a question about citizenship status to the 2020 U.S. Census. The plaintiffs filed this lawsuit on April 3, 2018, in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York and sought declaratory and injunctive relief. The plaintiffs alleged that the federal government, by asking census participants about their citizenship status, would deter undocume…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
La Unión Del Pueblo Entero v. Ross

8:18-cv-01570 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: May 31, 2018

Closed Date: Oct. 16, 2020

This case is one of many challenging the Census Bureau's decision to add a citizenship question to the 2020 Census.This lawsuit was filed on May 31, 2018, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland (Greenbelt), by La Union del Pueblo Entero and several other immigrant advocacy groups, seven state legislative caucuses, five state government representatives who represent districts with relatively large non-citizen populations, and two other private plaintiffs. The case was assigned t…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Center for Popular Democracy Action v. Bureau of the Census

1:19-cv-10917 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Nov. 26, 2019

Closed Date: April 15, 2020

This is a case challenging the Trump Administration’s oversight of the 2020 census. In the years prior to the census, the government cancelled planned field tests for census operating procedures in 2017 and 2018. The government also cancelled two of three sites for the 2018 End-to-End Census Test, dress rehearsals that serve as the basis for many final decisions about decennial census methods and operations. Additionally, the government truncated the one remaining 2018 End-to-End testing site, …
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Kravitz v. United States Department of Commerce

8:18-cv-01041 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: April 11, 2018

Closed Date: June 20, 2021

This case challenged a Trump Administration decision by the United States Census Bureau to add a citizenship question to the 2020 Census. This lawsuit was filed on April 11, 2018 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland by seven U.S. citizens who regularly use public services that receive federal funding -- funding, they explained, that could be negatively altered depending on the results of the decennial census count. The case was assigned to District Judge George Jarrod Hazel.T…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Zakzok v. Trump

1:17-cv-02969 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: Oct. 6, 2017

Case Ongoing

This lawsuit was filed on October 6, 2017 over Section 2 of President Trump’s Sep. 24, 2017 Proclamation ("Executive Order #3" or "EO-3") barring travel to the United States from six Muslim-majority countries. The plaintiffs were U.S. citizens or permanent residents who would not be able to reunite with their family members or who otherwise claimed injury as a direct result of EO-3. Specifically, the plaintiffs were a Syrian national and U.S. lawful permanent resident ("LPR"), a U.S. citizen of…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Brennan Center for Justice v. U.S. Department of State

1:17-cv-07520 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Oct. 2, 2017

Case Ongoing

On October 2, 2017, the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law brought this suit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. Represented by Muslim Advocates and private counsel, the Brennan Center sued the Department of State (DOS) under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). The Brennan Center is an organization with a mission "to advance effective national security policies that respect the rule of law and constitutional values." They sought info…