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IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Texas v. United States

6:21-cv-00016 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas

Filed Date: April 6, 2021

Case Ongoing

This is a case challenging the Biden Administration's efforts to use systemic prosecutorial discretion in immigration enforcement. On April 6, 2021, the states of Texas and Louisiana filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas. The plaintiffs sued the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) under the Immigration and Nation…
EDUCATION
Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard

1:14-cv-14176 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: Nov. 17, 2014

Case Ongoing

On November 17, 2014, Students for Fair Admissions Inc. filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts under the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. § 2000d against Harvard College. The plaintiff, represented by private counsel, asked the court for declaratory and injunctive relief to prohibit the consideration of race in college admissions, claiming that Harvard's admissions policy discriminated against Asian American applicants. Specifically, the plainti…
EDUCATION
Students for Fair Admissions v. University of North Carolina

1:14-cv-00954 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina

Filed Date: Nov. 17, 2014

Case Ongoing

On Nov. 17, 2014, Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina under 42 U.S.C. §§ 1981, 1983, and the Civil Rights Act of 1964 against the University of North Carolina (UNC). The plaintiff, represented by private counsel, asked the court for declaratory and injunctive relief to prohibit the consideration of race in college admissions, claiming that UNC's current admissions policy discriminated against Asian A…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Cummings v. Premier Rehab, P.L.L.C.

4:18-cv-00649 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas

Filed Date: Aug. 7, 2018

Closed Date: April 28, 2022

An individual plaintiff brought this suit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas on August 7, 2018, against a physical therapy provider who declined to provide the plaintiff with an ASL interpreter. The complaint alleged violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the Rehabilitation Act, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), and the Texas Human Resources Code. The plaintiff sought injunctive relief and damages for the emotional distress she ex…
NATIONAL SECURITY
In Re: Guantanamo Bay Detainee Litigation

1:08-mc-00442 | U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

Filed Date: July 2, 2008

Case Ongoing

After the U.S. opened a military prison at Guantanamo Bay in January 2002, hundreds of the 780 men detained as enemy combatants filed petitions for writs of habeas corpus in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. The detainees alleged that the President of the United States, the Secretary of the Department of Defense, and high-ranking army officials failed to provide evidence that the detainees were enemy combatants, and also failed to advance any justification for the arrest, in…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
State of New York v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security

1:19-cv-07777 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Aug. 21, 2019

Closed Date: March 6, 2023

This case is one of several brought nationwide by States, counties, and nonprofit organizations challenging the Trump administration's revised, final public charge rule, which expands the types of programs that the federal government will consider in public charge determinations to now also include previously excluded health, nutrition, and housing programs. District court judges from across the countries granted preliminary injunctions enjoining the government from implementing the public char…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Perez v. Sturgis Public Schools

1:18-cv-01134 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan

Filed Date: Oct. 2, 2018

Case Ongoing

On October 2, 2018, a deaf student filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan against Sturgis Public Schools and the Sturgis Public Schools Board of Education. The plaintiff was represented by Michigan’s Protection and Advocacy (P&A) Service and the National Association of the Deaf Law and Advocacy Center. The plaintiff sued under Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act (the ADA), and Michigan’s Persons with Disabilities…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Virginia Office for Protection and Advocacy v. Reinhard

3:07-cv-00734 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

Filed Date: Dec. 3, 2007

Closed Date: Sept. 6, 2011

This is a case about whether the Eleventh Amendment bars a lawsuit by a state-operated Protection and Advocacy (P&A) agency asserting its records access authority. On December 3, 2007, Virginia Office for P&A filed this lawsuit against the Commissioner of the Virginia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. The P&A filed this lawsuit under the Developmental Disabilities Assistance and Bill of Rights Act (‘DD Act…
EDUCATION
University of California Regents v. Bakke

S.F. No. 23311 | California state trial court

Filed Date: 1974

Closed Date: July 3, 1978

This suit was brought in California state court by a white man whose application to the Medical School of the University of California at Davis was rejected against the University of California Board of Regents. The plaintiff challenged the school’s special admissions program, which reserved 16 of 100 positions in the class for disadvantaged minority students. The plaintiff alleged violations of Section 601 of Title VI of the Civil Rights Acts of 1964, the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourtee…
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Harris v. Quinn

1:10-cv-02477 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: April 22, 2010

Case Ongoing

On April 22, 2010, individuals who provide home care to disabled individuals enrolled in Illinois Medicaid-waiver programs filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois against the State of Illinois, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Healthcare of Illinois & Indiana, SIEU Local 73, and the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees Council 31. The plaintiffs, represented by the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, …