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Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky v. Commissioner

1:13-cv-01335 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana

Filed Date: Aug. 22, 2013

In 2013, Indiana made two changes to its state laws regulating abortion clinics. These amendments changed the definition of “abortion clinic” to include not only clinics which provide surgical abortions, but also clinics which provided abortion-inducing medicine. They also imposed new regulations on any clinic which fell under the new definition of “abortion clinic,” requiring that all abortion clinics meet standards only necessary for facilities which conducted surgical abortions. The new defi…
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…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
American College of Obstetricians & Gynecologists v. United States Food and Drug Administration

8:20-cv-01320 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: May 27, 2020

Closed Date: May 19, 2021

On May 27, 2020, the American College of Obstetricians & Gynecologists ("ACOG"), a nonprofit organization representing obstetricians and gynecologists, a New York-based nonprofit advocacy organization representing family medicine, a nationwide nonprofit representing women and transgender people of color, and a family medicine doctor and certified mifepristone (a medical abortion pill) prescriber, represented by the ACLU, filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of ­­Maryland. The …
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Anonymous Plaintiffs 1-5 v. Individual Members of the Medical Licensing Board of Indiana

49D01-2209-PL-031056 | Indiana state trial court

Filed Date: Sept. 8, 2022

Case Ongoing

This case is a challenge, on religious grounds, to Indiana's post-Dobbs anti-abortion law. Indiana Senate Enrolled Act 1 (SEA 1) criminalized all abortion, from conception onwards, except in some cases of rape, incest, fatal fetal abnormality, or when the pregnant woman faces the risk of death or certain severe health risks. This Indiana ban was the first to make it to the books following the Supreme Court's June 2022 decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health. The ACLU of Indiana filed this c…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Torres v. Milusnic

2:20-cv-04450 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: May 16, 2020

Closed Date: Oct. 14, 2022

COVID-19 Summary: This is a class action originally brought by five individuals held at Lompoc, a low-security prison facing one of the largest outbreaks of COVID-19 among U.S. federal prisons. The plaintiffs alleged that the defendants failed to undertake reasonable preventative measures, which allowed the virus to spread to 60% of those in custody. The plaintiffs sought declaratory and injunctive relief for improved conditions of confinement, as well as a writ of habeas corpus for release. On…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Whole Woman's Health v. Paxton

2022-38397 | Texas state trial court

Filed Date: June 27, 2022

Closed Date: Oct. 10, 2022

Legislative Background This case is about Texas’ effort to criminalize pre-6-week abortions by enforcing 1925 state law, even prior to the effectuation of Texas' abortion trigger ban. On June 24, 2022, the Supreme Court's decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization overturned Roe v. Wade and ended the federal constitutional right to abortion. Prior to Dobbs, Texas had already effectively banned abortions after six weeks through Senate Bill (SB) 8. 142 S.Ct. 2228. A few providers co…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Connecticut State Conference of NAACP Branches v. Merrill

3:20-cv-00909 | U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

Filed Date: July 2, 2020

Closed Date: Sept. 25, 2020

This is a case about how Connecticut's restrictions on eligibility for mail-in ballot voting during the COVID-19 pandemic threatened voters' constitutional and statutory rights. On July 2, 2020, a complaint was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut by the Connecticut State Conference of NAACP Branches, the League of Women Voters of Connecticut ("the League"), and an individual member of the League whose age made her susceptible to serious complications of COVID-19. Th…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Mabel Wadsworth Women's Health Center v. Mayhew

PORSC-CV-2015-527 | Maine state trial court

Filed Date: Nov. 24, 2015

Closed Date: Jan. 14, 2020

On November 24, 2015, the American Civil Liberties Union, ACLU of Maine, and Planned Parenthood Federation of America filed a lawsuit in the Superior Court of Maine (Maine's only trial-level court), Cumberland County, seeking to restore abortion coverage for women receiving free and low-cost Maine Medicaid ("MaineCare") as health insurance. These nonprofit organizations filed on behalf of Mable Wadsworth Women's Health Center, Maine Family Planning, and Planned Parenthood of New England, each a…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Planned Parenthood Northwest v. Members of the Medical Licensing Board of Indiana

53C06-2208-PL-001756 | Indiana state trial court

Filed Date: Aug. 31, 2022

Case Ongoing

The plaintiffs in this lawsuit are Planned Parenthood Great Northwest (which covers Indiana, among other states, and is the largest provider of reproductive health services in Indiana), three other plaintiffs operating in Indiana and offering either licensed abortion clinics or other services and a doctor who provides abortions in the state of Indiana. The plaintiffs filed this lawsuit on August 31, 2022, to challenge Indiana's abortion ban, Senate Enrolled Act 1 (SB 1). SB 1 criminalized all a…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Planned Parenthood Association of Utah v. Miner

2:19-cv-00238 | U.S. District Court for the District of Utah

Filed Date: April 10, 2019

Closed Date: June 27, 2022

On April 10th, 2019, Planned Parenthood of Utah sued the State of Utah in the United States District Court for the District of Utah, alleging that the state's 18-week abortion ban was unconstitutional. In the complaint, Planned Parenthood specifically alleged that Utah House Bill 136 violated the Fourteenth Amendment by banning virtually all abortions at 18 weeks of pregnancy, in contravention of the constitutional right to abortion established by the Supreme Court in Roe v. Wade. Planned Paren…