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HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Planned Parenthood Southwest Ohio Region v. Hodges

1:15-cv-00568 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio

Filed Date: Sept. 1, 2015

Case Ongoing

Two individual healthcare providers, represented by attorneys at the ACLU, Planned Parenthood, and Gerhardstein & Branch, brought this § 1983 suit in September 2015 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio to challenge new state regulations that imposed restrictions on abortion clinics. Plaintiffs in this case were the last two health clinics in southwest Ohio offering abortion procedures: Planned Parenthood of Southwest Ohio (PPSWO) and Women’s Medical Group Professional Co…
HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Preterm-Cleveland v. Himes

1:18-cv-00109 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio

Filed Date: Feb. 15, 2018

Closed Date: Feb. 9, 2024

Ohio House Bill 214 (“the Act”) was signed into law on December 22, 2017. The Act criminalized performing abortions if the provider knew that one reason for the decision to terminate the pregnancy was a fetal indication of Down syndrome. Three nonprofits, including Planned Parenthood; the owner and operator of a women’s medical center; and a licensed physician (“the plaintiffs”) brought this case in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio on February 15, 2018, alleging that th…
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
J.B.H. v. Knox County

4:24-cv-04096 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of Illinois

Filed Date: May 28, 2024

Case Ongoing

This case concerns the use of solitary confinement in juvenile detention facilities. Named plaintiffs, represented by the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois, filed a class action suit in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of Illinois. On May 28, 2024, an individual plaintiff, a 17-year-old boy who is currently detained at MDH, filed this lawsuit against the Mary Davis Detention Home (MDH). The plaintiff alleged that children at MDH spend the majority of their time in solit…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Roe v. Labrador

1:24-cv-00306 | U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho

Filed Date: June 28, 2024

Case Ongoing

This is a case about gender-affirming care in Idaho.  On June 28, 2024, three transgender women in Idaho prisons filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho, alleging that Idaho's House Bill 68, which prevents state funds and facilities from offering gender-affirming care, violated the U.S. Constitution's Eighth Amendment prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment. The case was assigned to Judge David C. Nye. The plaintiffs filed the suit on behalf of all incarcerated perso…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
NAACP v. Lee

3:20-cv-01039 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee

Filed Date: Dec. 3, 2020

Case Ongoing

 The following was a case that challenged Tennessee’s voting rights restoration process for those convicted of felonies. On December 3, 2020, this class action suit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee. It challenged the state's statutory scheme for restoring the voting rights of people with felony convictions. The plaintiffs included the NAACP and several individuals who had been convicted of felonies. Defendants included Tennessee’s governor, the Commissio…
POLICING
Black Lives Matter D.C. v. Trump

1:20-cv-01469 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: June 4, 2020

Case Ongoing

Black Lives Matter - D.C. and several individual protestors brought this lawsuit on June 4, 2020, in the U.S. District Court for the District of D.C. in response to President Trump's use of military police to disperse peaceful protesters in Lafayette Square Park on June 1, 2020. Protesters had gathered as part of the nationwide outcry following the police killing of George Floyd. Around 6:30 in the evening, following an order to clear the square from Attorney General Barr, military and federal …
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Beatty v. Lamont

3:22-cv-00380 | U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

Filed Date: March 14, 2022

Closed Date: Oct. 16, 2024

Connecticut General Statute §§18-85a-c required current and formerly incarcerated people to pay $249 per day incarcerated as a so-called “pay-to-stay” law. This law resulted in debt that the state frequently collected against formerly incarcerated people's property. On March 14, 2022, two plaintiffs, represented by the ACLU, filed suit against Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont, responsible for overseeing the Department of Corrections, and Attorney General William Tong, vested with authority to fi…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Doe v. Wasden

1:20-cv-00452 | U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho

Filed Date: Sept. 23, 2020

Closed Date: Nov. 10, 2022

This case was about whether the state of Idaho could force people who had oral or anal sex to register in its sex offender registry, despite the fact that laws criminalizing such acts were declared unconstitutional in the 2003 Supreme Court decision Lawrence v. Texas.  On September 23, 2020, an anonymous private plaintiff—who was criminally convicted in another state of engaging in oral sex before Lawrence v. Texas made the criminalization of such acts unconstitutional—brought this lawsuit in t…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Planned Parenthood Arizona Inc. v. Betlach

2:16-cv-02337 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: July 14, 2016

Closed Date: Sept. 7, 2016

On July 14, 2016, two health care clinics, an Arizona obstetrician-gynecologist, and five Arizona Medicaid patients filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Arizona. The plaintiffs sued the Arizona Health Care Containment System under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for violations of the federal Medicaid statute and the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. The plaintiffs asked the court for declaratory and injunctive relief enjoining the defendant from enforcing H.B…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Contreras v. Illinois State Board of Elections

1:21-cv-03139 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: June 10, 2021

Closed Date: Dec. 30, 2021

This lawsuit was filed on June 10, 2021, by Latino and Latina voters against the state of Illinois, the Illinois State Board of Elections, the State Senate, and the State House of Representatives alleging that the new legislative districts under a redistricting plan adopted in June 2021 resulted in equal protection violations in the form of malapportionment. A similar lawsuit was also brought around the same time by an Illinois State Senator, McConchie v. Illinois State Board of Elections, and …