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SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Falls v. DeSantis

4:22-cv-00166 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida

Filed Date: April 22, 2022

Case Ongoing

This is a case about legislation suppressing Florida's teachers and employers from encouraging discourse regarding critical race theory (“CRT”) and sex. CRT was a concept that encompassed a wide range of ideas and concepts, and it generally focused on the idea that racism is inherent in U.S. legal systems in a way that create and maintain social, economic, and political inequities. On April 22, 2022, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed into law a ban on CRT,  known as the Stop Wrongs Against O…
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
NetChoice v. Moody

4:21-cv-00220 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida

Filed Date: May 27, 2021

Case Ongoing

This is a case about content regulation of social-media providers in Florida. On May 27, 2021, NetChoice and Computer & Communications Industry Association (two trade associations that seek to promote and protect free speech and free enterprise on the Internet) filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida. The trade associations sued Florida state officials, including the Attorney General of Florida, Deputy Secretary of the Florida Department of Management …
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Toor v. Berger

1:22-cv-01004 | U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

Filed Date: April 11, 2022

Case Ongoing

This is a case about individuals who were denied religious accommodations to practice their faith while in recruit training for, or serving in, the U.S. Marine Corps. On April 11, 2022, four Sikh Americans filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. The plaintiffs sued the Department of Defense (DOD), the Department of the Navy, officials in both departments, and officials in the U.S. Marine Corps under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, the Religious Freedom and Restoration Act (RFRA), …
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Nielsen v. Ann Arbor Public Schools

2:22-cv-12632 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: Nov. 1, 2022

Case Ongoing

This is a case about free speech in a public high school's school-wide announcements at Skyline High School in Ann Arbor, Michigan. One week before Election Day, on November 1, 2022, the Skyline Republican Club ("the Club") and its president, a high school senior, filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan against Ann Arbor Public Schools, the Skyline High School principal, and the Skyline secretary. The plaintiffs claimed their constitutional and statutor…
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…
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
NetChoice LLC v. Paxton

1:21-cv-00840 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

Filed Date: Sept. 22, 2021

Case Ongoing

Two trade associations filed suit against Ken Paxton, the Attorney General of Texas, in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas on September 22, 2021. Represented by private counsel, they challenged a Texas state law, H.B. 20, that placed restrictions on social media platforms with over 50 million active users in the United States within one calendar month. They targeted two sections: section 2, which implemented detailed disclosure and moderation requirements, and section 7, …
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Sobel v. Cameron

22-CI-005189 | Kentucky state trial court

Filed Date: Oct. 6, 2022

Case Ongoing

This is a case about Kentucky’s abortion laws (Revised Statutes KRS 311.710 et seq.), and the ways in which they allegedly restricted religious freedom. The statutes posed a complete ban on abortions, beginning at fertilization, and provided exceptions only to save the pregnant person's life and/or to prevent serious risk to the pregnant person's physical health. The statutes also made it a felony for physicians to perform an abortion on a viable fetus except to preserve the life and health of …
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
St. Joseph Parish St. Johns v. Nessel

1:22-cv-01154 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan

Filed Date: Dec. 5, 2022

Case Ongoing

On December 5, 2022, a Catholic church in rural Michigan filed this lawsuit against the state, arguing that new sex and gender protections under civil rights law prevent its elementary school from hiring and teaching according to its faith. The church filed the lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan, Southern Division, and named the Michigan Attorney General, Michigan Department of Civil Rights, and Michigan Civil Rights Commission as the defendants. The church …
PRISON CONDITIONS
Elmajzoub v. Davis

3:19-cv-00196 | U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada

Filed Date: March 27, 2020

Case Ongoing

On March 27, 2020, an incarcerated individual in the custody of the Nevada Department of Corrections (NDOC) filed suit against the Lovelock Correctional Center (LCC) and various LCC officials in their individual and official capacities. The plaintiff, a practicing Muslim, brought the suit pro se in the U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and 42 U.S.C. § 2000cca, alleging violations of the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA), the First …
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Gruber v. Tennessee Tech Board of Trustees

2:21-cv-00039 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee

Filed Date: Oct. 5, 2021

Case Ongoing

Facts Turning Point USA (TPUSA) is a conservative organization that publishes profiles of progressive college professors, potentially to harass them. Outsiders, including the two professors, characterize TPUSA as a hate group with ties to white supremacy. Tennessee Tech University (TTU) has a chapter of TPUSA. On February 4, 2021, after witnessing the TTU TPUSA faculty advisor, also a professor, celebrate a local school's decision to maintain "the Redskins" as their mascot, the two professors p…