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PRISON CONDITIONS
Kosilek v. Spencer

1:00-cv-12455 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: Dec. 12, 2000

Closed Date: Oct. 14, 2022

On December 12, 2000, a transgender person who was incarcerated at the Massachusetts Correction Institute in Norfolk filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts. Filing pro se, the plaintiff sued the Massachusetts Department of Corrections (the "DOC"), the Correctional Medical Services, and the University of Massachusetts Medical School under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The incarcerated person sought injunctive relief and damages to be determined by the jury, alleging …
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Local 8027, AFT-New Hampshire, AFL-CIO v. NH Department of Education, Commissioner

1:21-cv-01077 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire

Filed Date: Dec. 20, 2021

Case Ongoing

This is a case about enforcement of the “Banned Concepts Act” (also known as the “Divisive Concepts Act”) in New Hampshire schools. The plaintiffs in this case were New Hampshire teachers and diversity, equity, and inclusion school administrators as well as the National Education Association’s New Hampshire branch. They filed suit on December 20, 2021 in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire against the New Hampshire Department of Education, the New Hampshire Commission for …
CHILD WELFARE
Eknes-Tucker v. Ivey

2:22-cv-00184 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama

Filed Date: April 19, 2022

Case Ongoing

This lawsuit was filed on April 19, 2022 on behalf of a four transgender children and their parents, two medical professionals, and a Reverend in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama. Plaintiffs challenged Alabama's Vulnerable Child Compassion and Protection Act, which was set to take effect on May 8. The plaintiffs—represented by the National Center for Lesbian Rights, GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders, Southern Poverty Law Center, Human Rights Campaign Foundation, and pr…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Doe v. Massachusetts Department of Corrections

1:17-cv-12255 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: Nov. 15, 2017

Closed Date: July 8, 2019

The plaintiff in this case is a trans woman who was housed in a men's prison in Massachusetts for a nonviolent drug possession charge. Because of her gender presentation and identity, she faced degrading sexual harassment from both staff and other prisoners. She was forced to use communal showers and bathrooms without locks, and was subject to strip searches conducted by male staff in front of other prisoners. The living conditions and repeated sexual harassment during her time there prompted h…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Stockman v. Trump

5:17-cv-01799 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: Sept. 5, 2017

Case Ongoing

On September 5, 2017, three named and two anonymous transgender service members and a transgender rights nonprofit filed this lawsuit against the President of the United States, the Secretary of Defense, and other federal officials in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. The case was transferred to the Eastern District that same day. The plaintiffs, represented by the National Center for Lesbian Rights and GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders, sought declaratory and inju…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Doe v. Trump

1:17-cv-01597 | U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

Filed Date: Aug. 9, 2017

Case Ongoing

On August 9, 2017, five active duty servicemembers in the United States military who openly identified as transgender people filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia against the President, Department of the Army, Department of the Air Force, and other government agencies. Three additional plaintiffs, including one student at the U.S. Naval Academy and one student participating in the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps, were added to the suit in an amended complai…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Cote v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.

1:15-cv-12945 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: July 14, 2015

Closed Date: 2017

On July 14, 2015, a female Walmart employee filed this class action lawsuit against Wal-Mart in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts. Represented by the Washington Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs and the Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders, the plaintiff alleged that Wal-Mart had intentionally deprived her of employment-based spousal health insurance benefits because the plaintiff and her wife were the same sex. This, she alleged, violated Title VII of…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Tevyaw v. Colvin

1:14-cv-00425 | U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island

Filed Date: Sept. 29, 2014

Closed Date: 2014

On September 29, 2014, the surviving widow of a same-sex marriage filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island against the Social Security Administration (SSA). The plaintiff, represented by the Gay & Lesbian Advocates and Defenders, asked the court to declare that several SSA regulations were invalid and contrary to the governing Social Security statutes, affirm that the plaintiff met the marriage requirements, declare that a person previously married to someon…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Goodridge v. Department of Human Health

01-01647 | Massachusetts state trial court

Filed Date: 2001

Closed Date: 2003

On September 24, 2002, fourteen private citizens of five different Massachusetts counties filed this lawsuit in the Suffolk Superior Court in Massachusetts. The plaintiffs, all of which were in long-term same-sex relationships, sued the Massachusetts Department of Human Health because they believed that the Department’s refusal to issue them marriage licenses violated their rights under the Massachusetts Constitution. Represented by lawyers associated with GLAD, the plaintiffs asked the court f…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Baker v. Vermont

97-01009 | Vermont state trial court

Filed Date: 1997

Closed Date: 1999

In 1997, three same-sex couples filed suit against the state of Vermont and their respective town governments after they attempted to obtain marriage licenses and were denied based on the fact that they were not of different sexes than their partners. They alleged violations of the state constitution, ch. 1 art. 7, the Common Benefits clause, which predates by nearly a century but is substantially similar in content to the federal Equal Protection clause, although more expansive. The trial cour…