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In re: Niz-Chavez

05-00967 | No Court

(This summary is temporary while we research the case.) This case involved eligibility for “cancellation of removal,” a type of discretionary immigration relief available in removal proceedings that requires noncitizens to demonstrate that they have accrued a specific period of continuous residence or continuous physical presence in the United States.
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
State of New York v. U.S. Department of Commerce

1:18-cv-02921 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: April 3, 2018

Closed Date: Dec. 31, 2020

This was a legal challenge brought by an alliance of states, counties, and municipalities to the Trump Administration’s proposed addition of a question about citizenship status to the 2020 U.S. Census. The plaintiffs filed this lawsuit on April 3, 2018, in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York and sought declaratory and injunctive relief. The plaintiffs alleged that the federal government, by asking census participants about their citizenship status, would deter undocume…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Jackson Women's Health Organization v. Dobbs

3:18-cv-00171 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi

Filed Date: March 19, 2018

Case Ongoing

In this case challenging Mississippi House Bill 1510 (HB 1510), a state law that banned abortions after 15 weeks (months before viability), the Supreme Court on June 24, 2022, overruled Roe v. Wade, and held there is no constitutional protection for abortion rights.   On March 19, 2018, the Jackson Women's Health Organization, the last remaining abortion clinic in Mississippi, and Jackson Women's Health Organization's Medical Director filed the case, represented by the Center for Reproductive R…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
June Medical Services LLC v. Caldwell

3:14-cv-00525 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana

Filed Date: Aug. 22, 2014

Case Ongoing

This is a case challenging an abortion restriction in the state of Louisiana. Act 620 prevented doctors from providing abortion services in the state unless they secured admitting privileges at a hospital within 30 miles of where they provide abortion care. On August 22, 2014, three women's reproductive health clinics and two individual doctors who perform abortions filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana. The plaintiffs sued the Attorney General of Lo…
PUBLIC HOUSING
Gautreaux v. Chicago Housing Authority

1:66-cv-01459 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Aug. 9, 1966

Case Ongoing

Filed in 1966 and still ongoing as of 2022, this is one of the most significant housing desegregation cases ever, leading to the nation's first desegregative housing mobility voucher program. In collaboration with BPI, the Chicago public interest organization that has for decades represented the plaintiffs in this case, the Clearinghouse has acquired and posted the full litigation record—over 2100 documents, all told.  About 230 "core" documents are set to display here; if you click on "show mo…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Sandoval v. Alexander

2:96-cv-01875 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama

Filed Date: Dec. 31, 1996

Closed Date: 2001

On December 31, 1996, a non-English speaking Alabama resident filed suit pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama, challenging the policy of Alabama Department of Public Safety under which driver's license examinations were administered only in English. Plaintiff alleged that the policy was unconstitutional and in violation of 42 U.S.C. § 1981, 42 U.S.C. § 1983, and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. § 2000d, et seq., and its im…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Velazquez v. Legal Services Corp

1:97-cv-00182 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: Jan. 14, 1997

Closed Date: July 23, 2013

Plaintiff lawyers, indigent clients, and grantees filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, alleging that government restrictions on the activities of organizations who accepted federal funds distributed by the Legal Services Corporation ("LSC") were unconstitutional. LSC was a federally-chartered nonprofit corporation created and funded by Congress to distribute federal funds to local legal assistance programs that provided basic legal services for the indige…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Palmigiano v. Baxter

1:72-cv-05053 | U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island

Filed Date: Nov. 15, 1972

Closed Date: 1976

In 1973, a prison inmate brought suit seeking damages and declaratory and injunctive relief under 42 USC § 1983 challenging due process violations in prison disciplinary procedures at Rhode Island's Adult Correctional Institutions (A.C.I.). The inmate had been charged with inciting a disturbance, and though told that the charge might result in an additional prosecution in state courts, was not allowed to have an attorney present at the disciplinary hearing. He was also advised that his silence …
JAIL CONDITIONS
Rutherford v. Block

2:75-cv-04111 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: Feb. 9, 1975

On February 9, 1975, prisoners represented by the ACLU Foundation of Southern California filed a class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, challenging the practices and conditions of confinement at the Los Angeles County Central Jail (the "Jail"). On December 31, 1975, the District Court certified the class.Following a 17 day trial on the matter and unannounced jail inspections by the Court, the District Court (Judge William P. Gray) entered an orde…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt

1:14-cv-00284 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

Filed Date: April 2, 2014

Case Ongoing

This is a case challenging a 2013 Texas law requiring (1) a physician providing abortion services to obtain admitting privileges at a local hospital no farther than 30 miles from the clinic and (2) abortion clinics to meet the building specifications of ambulatory surgical centers. On April 2, 2014, a group of Texas abortion clinics and physicians filed this lawsuit on behalf of themselves and their patients in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas. The plaintiffs sued the c…