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King v. State of Georgia

1:21-cv-03082 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: June 22, 2021

Case Ongoing

A group of private plaintiffs, represented by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and private counsel, filed this putative class action in Georgia state court on June 22, 2021. They alleged that delays in the State of Georgia’s unemployment benefits system during the COVID-19 pandemic violated Georgia state law, the Georgia state constitution, and the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The plaintiffs sought declaratory and injunctive relief as well as compensatory damages. Georgi…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
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

Case Ongoing

The Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC) and several private parties filed this action November 15, 2017, in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina. They named North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper and Administrative Office of the Courts Director Marion R. Warren as defendants. The ACLU, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), and a private practitioner served as plaintiffs’ counsel. At issue was a North Carolina state law which limited the ability of farmworkers to or…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Diamond v. Ward

5:20-cv-00453 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia

Filed Date: Nov. 23, 2020

Case Ongoing

This case involved a Black transgender woman who was incarcerated by the Georgia Department of Corrections (“GDC”). In 2015, she successfully sued GDC officials after challenging its policies for failing to protect transgender people from sexual assault and failing to provide them adequate treatment for gender dysphoria. 131 F. Supp. 3d 1346 (M.D. Ga. 2015). After a parole violation, she was incarcerated again by GDC. The Center for Constitutional Rights and the Southern Poverty Law Center subs…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
National Federation of the Blind of Alabama v. John H. Merrill

2:22-cv-00721 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama

Filed Date: June 8, 2022

Case Ongoing

This case challenged Alabama’s accommodations for disabled voters. The suit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama on June 8, 2022. by three plaintiffs, two of whom were blind. The third individual had “print disabilities” (any condition which makes it difficult to read, mark, or handle paper documents). The lone defendant was Alabama’s Secretary of State, John H. Merrill, designated as the “chief election official” under Alabama law. Plaintiffs alleged that A…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
L.E. v. Ragsdale

1:21-cv-04076 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: Oct. 1, 2021

Case Ongoing

This is a case about COVID-19 policies for schools in Cobb County, Georgia. On October 1, 2021, four students, whose disabilities made them particularly vulnerable to COVID-19 and put them at an increased risk for severe symptoms or death from an infection, filed this lawsuit in the District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. The plaintiffs sued the Cobb County School District, members of the Cobb County School Board and the Board’s superintendent under Title 2 of the Americans with Di…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Harvard v. Inch

4:19-cv-00212 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida

Filed Date: May 8, 2019

Case Ongoing

Six incarcerated persons with mental or physical disabilities from the Florida Department of Corrections (FDC) filed a class action complaint against the Secretary of the FDC and FDC in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida on May 8, 2019. Plaintiffs alleged that defendants frequently, unnecessarily, and harmfully used solitary confinement against people with physical and mental disabilities. They also alleged that defendants were aware of the heightened risk that solitar…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
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

Filed Date: June 9, 2022

Case Ongoing

This case alleged that the redistricting plan for Georgia’s Cobb County Board of Education (CCBE) was a racial gerrymander. On March 2, 2022, the Governor of Georgia signed HB 1028 which would redistrict Board of Education districts for the next ten years. Following the 2018 elections, the board’s membership had gone from a 6-1 white majority to a 4-3 white majority. Defendants claimed a primary goal for the redistricting plan was compliance with Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act (VRA). Under …
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
K.L.W. v. James

2:04-cv-00149 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi

Filed Date: April 13, 2004

Closed Date: Dec. 2, 2004

This is a lawsuit challenging the attorney visitation policy and legal assistance program at Columbia Training School, a rehabilitative facility for juvenile offenders placed in the custody of the state of Mississippi. The named plaintiff, a developmentally disabled child incarcerated in Columbia, filed a putative class action suit on April 13, 2004 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi against the prison's administrator, the Executive Director of the Mississippi D…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Georgia NAACP v. State of Georgia

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

Filed Date: Dec. 30, 2021

Case Ongoing

Georgia NAACP v. State of Georgia This is a case about protecting the power of voters of color in Georgia. On December 30, 2021, the Georgia NAACP, the Georgia Coalition for the People's Agenda, Inc. (GCPA) and the Galeo Latino Community Development Fund, Inc. (Galeo) filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. Appointed to the case was a three-judge panel comprised of District Judges Steven D. Grimberg and Steve C. Jones and Circuit Judge Elizab…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Singleton v. Taylor

2:20-cv-00099 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama

Filed Date: Feb. 12, 2020

Case Ongoing

On February 12, 2020, the Southern Poverty Law Center, ACLU, and National Law Center of Homelessness & Poverty filed suit against the City of Montgomery, the Sheriff of Montgomery County, and the Secretary of the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama. The case was assigned to Judge Andrew L. Brasher. The plaintiffs were three Montgomery residents experiencing homelessness, on behalf of themselves and a class of those similarly situ…