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Dream Defenders v. DeSantis

4:21-cv-00191 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida

Filed Date: May 11, 2021

Case Ongoing

(This summary is temporary while we research the case) The NAACP, ACLU of Florida, and Community Justice Project filed suit against Governor Ron DeSantis in the U.S. District Court of Florida challenging H.B.1, a state law designed to chill First Amendment rights to free speech and assembly following demonstrations against police violence in the summer of 2020.
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Fulton v. City of Philadelphia

2:18-cv-02075 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: May 18, 2018

Case Ongoing

On May 17, 2018, a Catholic foster care and social services agency and {} filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, against the City of Philadelphia. The plaintiffs, represented by private counsel and by conservative public interest organization the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, alleged that city of Philadelphia revoked new referrals of foster children to their organization because of their faith-based opposition to same-sex marriage. The compl…
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Wilson v. Wallace

1:17-cv-00582 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio

Filed Date: Sept. 5, 2017

Case Ongoing

On September 5, 2017, a group of citizens in Ohio sued an elected county representative in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio for allegedly violating their First Amendment rights when he banned them from his Facebook page. The Facebook page was one of the representative’s primary means of communicating with constituents about local issues and was commonly used to address issues of concern to Township residents. Each citizen involved in the lawsuit had their comments delet…
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Courthouse News Service v. Forman

4:22-cv-00106 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida

Filed Date: March 9, 2022

Case Ongoing

This case is about Florida's "no-access-before-process" policy that delayed public access to new non-confidential circuit court civil complaints while they sat in review queues until clerical processing was completed. On March 9, 2022, Courthouse News Service filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida against the Broward County, Florida Clerk of Courts, the Florida E-Filing Authority, and the chair of the Florida E-Filing Authority. Courthouse News alleged a…
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Pro-Football, Inc. v. Blackhorse

1:14-cv-01043 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

Filed Date: Aug. 14, 2014

Closed Date: March 20, 2018

Prior to this case, five Native American petitioners brought an administrative complaint seeking the cancellation of the Washington Redskins’ (Pro-Football) trademarks containing the word “Redskins” because, they said, the word disparaged Native Americans and violated Section 2(a) of the Lanham Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1520(a). The Trademark Trial and Appeal Board of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (“TTAB”) ruled in the petitioners’ favor and cancelled six federal trademark registrations containin…
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Honeyfund.com, Inc. v. DeSantis

4:22-cv-00227 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida

Filed Date: June 22, 2022

Case Ongoing

This is a case about legislation impacting private employers' ability to offer DEI trainings. This case was filed on June 22, 2022, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida against Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, the Florida attorney general, the senior chair of the Florida Commission on Human Relations, the vice chair, and nine commissioners of the commission. It was initially assigned to Judge Allen Winsor. The plaintiffs, private employers with DEI programs in Florida, …
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 summary is temporary while we research the case.) This case is about a Florida state law that, among other things, prevented DEI discussions in schools.
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NetChoice LLC v. Paxton

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

Filed Date: Sept. 22, 2021

(This summary is temporary while we research the case) In September 2021, Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed into law a statute that created new restrictions on the moderation practices of social media platforms. Shortly thereafter on October 7, 2021, NetChoice and the Computer and Communications Industry Association filed suit against the state in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas seeking to enjoin the law for violating the First Amendment. The U.S. Court of Appeals for …
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
State of Nebraska v. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

4:12-cv-03035 | U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska

Filed Date: Feb. 23, 2012

Closed Date: Aug. 21, 2013

Seven states (Nebraska, South Carolina, Michigan, Texas, Florida, Ohio, and Oklahoma) and Catholic organizations filed this lawsuit on February 23, 2012 in the United States District Court for the District of Nebraska. It is one of a number of cases across the country seeking injunctive and declaratory relief against the federal government on a similar theory. Plaintiffs claimed their free exercise of religion and freedom of speech rights were violated by the portion of the interim final regula…
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Minton v. Dignity Health

CGC 17-558259 | California state trial court

Filed Date: April 19, 2017

Case Ongoing

(This summary is temporary, while we research the case.) This case is about whether a Catholic-affiliated health care provider may deny a transgender person medical care on the basis of their gender identity.