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Thomas v. Merrill

2:21-cv-01531 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama

Filed Date: Nov. 16, 2021

Case Ongoing

(This summary is temporary while we research the case) The Southern Poverty Law Center, ACLU and NAACP Legal Defense Fund filed suit on November 15, 2021, in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama alleging that new state legislative districts drawn in 2021 deliberately diminished the power of Black voters.
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
White v. State Board of Election Commissioners

4:22-cv-00062 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi

Filed Date: April 25, 2022

Case Ongoing

This case concerns the racial makeup of the districts by which Mississippi Supreme Court justices are elected. On April 25, 2022, a group of four Black citizens and civic leaders filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi. The plaintiffs sued the Mississippi State Board of Election Commissioners and the state of Mississippi, alleging that the districts used to elect state Supreme Court justices are discriminatory against Black voters in violation of t…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
VAYLA New Orleans v. Schedler

3:16-cv-00305 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana

Filed Date: May 4, 2016

Closed Date: June 13, 2016

(This summary is temporary while we research the case) On May 4, 2016, the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Fair Elections Legal Network filed suit on behalf of three naturalized citizens challenging an 1874 Louisiana requirement that naturalized citizens provide citizenship documents when registering to vote. The suit was filed against the Louisiana Secretary of State and Louisiana Commissioner of Elections in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana. 
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Jacksonville Branch of the NAACP v. City of Jacksonville

3:22-cv-00493 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida

Filed Date: May 3, 2022

Case Ongoing

(This summary is temporary while we research the case) The Southern Poverty Law Center filed suit on May 3, 2022 in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida after the city of Jacksonville, Florida adopted racially gerrymandered voting maps diluting the voting power of Black residents in city council and school board elections.
DISABILITY RIGHTS
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A.A. v. Buckner

2:21-cv-00367 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama

Filed Date: May 20, 2021

(This summary is temporary while we research the case) On May 20, 2021, the Alabama Disabilities Advocacy Program, Children's Rights, and Southern Poverty Law Center filed suit in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama against the state's Department of Human Resources (DHR) on behalf of four teens with mental disabilities placed unnecessarily in or at risk of segregation in pyschiatric residential treatment facilities. 
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
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Farm Labor Organizing Committee v. Roy Cooper

1:17-cv-01037 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina

Filed Date: Nov. 15, 2017

Closed Date: Sept. 15, 2021

(This summary is temporary while we research the case) North Carolina farmworkers and the Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC), represented by the ACLU and Southern Poverty Law Center, filed suit against Joshua Stein, the Attorney General of North Carolina and Marion R. Warren, the Director of the North Carolina Administrative Office of the Courts, in their official capacities on November 15, 2017. Plaintiffs alleged that the North Carolina Farm Act of 2017 violated the First Amendment right …
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Innovation Law Lab v. Nielsen

3:19-cv-00807 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Feb. 14, 2019

Case Ongoing

On February 14, 2019, a group of asylum seekers from Central America and several legal organizations filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. The plaintiffs sued the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP). The plaintiffs, represented by the ACLU, the Southern Poverty Law Center, and the Center for Gender & Refugee Studies, sought declaratory and injunctiv…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Sandoval v. Alexander

2:96-cv-01875 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama

Filed Date: Dec. 31, 1996

Closed Date: 2001

On December 31, 1996, a non-English speaking Alabama resident filed suit pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama, challenging the policy of Alabama Department of Public Safety under which driver's license examinations were administered only in English. Plaintiff alleged that the policy was unconstitutional and in violation of 42 U.S.C. § 1981, 42 U.S.C. § 1983, and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. § 2000d, et seq., and its im…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
People First of Alabama v. Merrill

2:20-cv-00619 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama

Filed Date: May 1, 2020

Case Ongoing

COVID-19 Summary: This lawsuit was filed by Alabama voters to temporarily enjoin Alabama’s voting law provisions during the COVID-19 pandemic. The plaintiffs challenged the witness and photo ID requirement, requiring absentee voters to obtain witness or notary signatures, and submit a photocopy of their ID with their ballot. The plaintiffs sought declaratory and injunctive relief to enjoin enforcement of the Witness and ID requirement and to allow curbside voting during the primary, municipal, …
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
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Karen Finn, et al. v. Cobb County Board of Elections and Registration, et al.

1:22-cv-02300 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

(This summary is temporary while we research the case.) The Southern Poverty Law Center and ACLU of Georgia filed suit on June 9, 2022, after the Cobb County Board of Education in Georgia and state legislators used racial demographic information to "pack" Black and Latinx voters into three of seven school board voting districts to diminish their political power.