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Harris v. Quinn

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

Filed Date: April 22, 2010

Closed Date: 2014

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, …
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Equality Florida v. DeSantis

4:22-cv-00134 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida

Filed Date: March 31, 2022

Case Ongoing

This case, filed on March 31, 2022, challenged Florida House Bill 1557, the Florida statute widely known as the "Don't Say Gay" law. H.B. 1557 banned any school instruction on "sexual orientation and gender identity." Individual plaintiffs were made up of organizations, students, parents, and teachers in Florida. They brought this suit under § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida and alleged constitutional and statutory violation. Specifically, plaintiffs alleged…
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South Bay United Pentecostal Church v. Newsom

3:20-cv-00865 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California

Filed Date: May 8, 2020

Case Ongoing

COVID-19 Summary: This is a suit brought by a church against the State of California’s enforcement of stay-at-home orders and prohibition of in-person religious policies. The plaintiffs alleged that California’s four-stage “Reopening Plan,” had relaxed the stay-at-home order for certain retail organizations as part of Stage 2 of the reopening, however, churches were to be opened months later. On May 15, the court denied the TRO and the plaintiffs appealed. The Ninth Circuit denied the injunctio…
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Frese v. MacDonald

1:18-cv-01180 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire

Filed Date: Dec. 18, 2018

Case Ongoing

A person twice convicted under New Hampshire's criminal defamation law, N.H. Rev. Stat. § 644:11, sued New Hampshire's attorney general to challenge that law. The suit was filed on December 18, 2018, in the United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire and was assigned to Judge Joseph N. Laplante. The plaintiff asserted that the criminal defamation law violated the First Amendment because it was excessively vague. The plaintiff sought declaratory relief, a permanent injunction …
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Sander v. State Bar of California

08-58880 | California state trial court

Filed Date: Oct. 3, 2008

Case Ongoing

On October 3, 2008, a UCLA Law School professor, a former governor of the California State Bar, and the California First Amendment Coalition (a nonprofit public interest group) filed a lawsuit under California's common law right of access to court records and Proposition 59 (a California ballot measure passed in 2004 endorsing the public's right of access to information) against the State Bar of California and its governing body, the Board of Governors of the State Bar, in the San Francisco Cou…
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American Civil Liberties Union Foundation v. Department of Justice

3:19-cv-00290 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Jan. 17, 2019

Case Ongoing

This is a case about transparency into government surveillance. The ACLU (the plaintiffs) sued various branches of the federal government (the defendants) including the Department of Justice, FBI, and Department of Homeland Security for failing to timely produce records related to social media surveillance. The ACLU filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California on January 17, 2019. The case was assigned to Judge Edward M. Chen. On May 24, 2018, the ACLU submitted…
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Kariye v. Mayorkas

2:22-cv-01916 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: March 24, 2022

Case Ongoing

This lawsuit challenged U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) policies which subjected Muslim Americans to questioning about their religion. After these interrogations, border officers retained the answers in a law enforcement database for up to 75 years. The plaintiffs asserted that this questioning was part of a broader 20-year practice of border officials targeting Muslim American travelers because of their religion. On March 24, 2022, the plaint…
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Edgar v. Coats

8:19-cv-00985 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: April 2, 2019

Case Ongoing

This case is about the government’s prepublication review (PPR) regime which exposed intelligence-agency employees and military personnel to possible sanction if they wrote or spoke about their government service without first obtaining the government’s approval. On April 2, 2019, five former employees of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the Central Intelligence Agency, and the Department of Defense filed this suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland. The…
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Midwest Fastener Corp. v. Sebelius

1:13-cv-01337 | U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

Filed Date: Sept. 5, 2013

Closed Date: 2015

On September 5, 2013, the voting stockholders of Midwest Fasteners, a Michigan for-profit corporation, filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia against the Federal Government under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA), the First Amendment, and the Administrative Procedure Act (APA). The plaintiffs, represented by private counsel, asked the court to issue a preliminary and permanent injunction prohibiting enforcement of provisions of the Affordable Care Act…
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Pittsburgh Press Company v. The Pittsburgh Commission on Human Relations

70-00768 | Pennsylvania state trial court

Filed Date: 1970