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ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Greater Birmingham Ministries v. State of Alabama

2:15-cv-02193 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama

Filed Date: Dec. 2, 2015

Closed Date: Jan. 10, 2018

This case is about Alabama House Bill 19 ("HB 19"). HB 19 required voters to present photographic identification in order to vote, with exceptions that include if an election worker could "positively identify" a potential voter. While the bill passed in 2011, the law did not take effect until 2014. On December 2nd, 2015, the Alabama chapter of the NAACP and Greater Birmingham Ministries filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama against the State of Alaba…
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…
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Dream Defenders v. DeSantis

4:21-cv-00191 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida

Filed Date: May 11, 2021

Case Ongoing

On May 11, 2021, the NAACP, ACLU of Florida, and Community Justice Project filed suit against Governor Ron DeSantis, the Attorney General of the State of Florida, the Sheriff of Leon County, the Sheriff of Jacksonville/Duval County, and the Sheriff of Broward County in the U.S. District Court of Florida to challenge a state law designed to chill First Amendment rights to free speech and assembly following demonstrations against police violence in the summer of 2020. The Florida-enacted law, the…
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

Closed Date: Nov. 16, 2020

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
Thomas v. Merrill

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

Filed Date: Nov. 16, 2021

Case Ongoing

The Southern Poverty Law Center, ACLU and NAACP Legal Defense Fund filed suit on behalf of four named plaintiffs and two organizational plaintiffs 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. Plaintiffs allege that the Alabama districts signed into law on November 4, 2021 violated the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment as wel…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Sostre v. Otis

1:70-cv-01114 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: March 1, 1970

This is a historic case about the receipt of mail in New York prisons, one of the Clearinghouse's  collection of cases brought by prisoners' rights activist Martin Sostre, whose wikipedia biography is here.  Martin Sostre sought an order enjoining the officers at Wallkill Correctional Facility from interfering with his receipt of literature which he ordered through the prison mail. He had been transferred to that prison in early August 1969. Sostre sued the former Walkill warden and the former …
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Harding v. Edwards

3:20-cv-00495 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana

Filed Date: Aug. 3, 2020

Closed Date: May 17, 2021

This is a case about Louisiana voters who wished to avoid potential exposure to COVID-19 while casting their ballots in the November 2020 general election and December 2020 second-round runoff election. Some of the plaintiffs here had previously challenged Louisiana voting laws (with respect to the 2020 primary elections) in a case consolidated with Clark v. Edwards in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana. Chief District Judge Shelly D. Dick dismissed that case for lack …
PRISON CONDITIONS
Inmates of Attica Correctional Facility v. Rockefeller

1:71-cv-00410 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York

Filed Date: Sept. 13, 1971

This case is part of the Clearinghouse's special collection on the Attica Uprising. In September of 1971, incarcerated people in New York's Attica Correctional Facility took control of the prison and took several staff members hostage. The uprising ended when state police violently stormed the prison, killing over 40 incarcerated people and staff members. Attica was one of the most significant events in the American prisoners' rights movement and drew public attention to poor conditions in pris…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Horne v. Reading

2:05-cv-06334 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Dec. 8, 2005

Notes from the NAACP website: On February 27, 2006, the National NAACP and the Reading Branch NAACP joined an employment lawsuit, originally filed on December 8, 2005, against the City of Reading, Pennsylvania. The suit charged the Reading Fire Department with implementing discriminatory recruitment and hiring practices against African Americans and other minorities. Although the City of Reading was 11% Black and 37% Latinx, the Fire Department was virtually all-white. Of the Fire Department's …
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Lewis v. Bentley

2:16-cv-00690 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama

Filed Date: April 28, 2016

Closed Date: Sept. 9, 2020

This is a case about Birmingham, Alabama's attempt to pass a higher city minimum wage law. On April 28, 2016, the Alabama chapter of the NAACP, Greater Birmingham Ministries, and two African-American plaintiffs filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama. The plaintiffs sued the Governor and Attorney General of the State of Alabama in their official capacities under the Fourteenth Amendment’s equal protection clause and 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The plaintiffs sou…