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SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Black Polaski v. Stein

7:24-cv-00004 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina

Filed Date: Jan. 4, 2024

Case Ongoing

In January 2024, two paralegals and the non-profit North Carolina Justice for All Project, filed this lawsuit challenging North Carolina's prohibition on nonlawyers providing any legal advice. The plaintiffs, represented by the Institute for Justice and private counsel, claimed the prohibition prevented them from providing simple legal advice to North Carolinians about how to properly fill in common, court-created legal forms. They sued under 42 USC § 1983, alleging that the ban violated their …
PRISON CONDITIONS
Holt v. Payne

5:19-cv-00081 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas

Filed Date: March 1, 2019

Case Ongoing

This case concerns allegations of failure to accommodate the religious practices of three Muslim people incarcerated by the Arkansas Department of Corrections (“ADC”) through policies on religious services and headdresses. Represented by CAIR Legal Defense Fund, Plaintiffs filed suit on March 1, 2019, against various named ADC employees in their official and individual capacities in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas. The complaint alleged violations of the First Amend…
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Kluge v. Brownsburg Community School Corporation

1:19-cv-02462 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana

Filed Date: June 18, 2019

Case Ongoing

This case is about a public-school corporation’s policy requiring teachers to call transgender students by their preferred name based on an official database. Brownsburg Community School Corporation (BCSC) established a policy allowing students to change their name in the official student database at the request of the student, their parents, and a health care provider. Once entered, teachers would then be required to call the student by their preferred name. The plaintiff, a Christian teacher …
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Brown v. Yost

2:24-cv-01401 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio

Filed Date: March 27, 2024

Case Ongoing

This case concerns whether Ohio’s ballot initiative process violated the First Amendment by allowing the Attorney General to repeatedly block a proposed state constitutional amendment. On March 27, 2024, three Ohio voters filed this lawsuit after Ohio Attorney General David Yost rejected the summary of their proposed amendment, Protecting Ohioans’ Constitutional Rights—for the seventh time. The proposed amendment created a private cause of action to sue state officials for constitutional rights…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Gilliam v. Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services

1:23-cv-01047 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: April 18, 2023

Case Ongoing

This case concerns allegations of harassment and abuse experienced by three incarcerated transgender women with gender dysphoria--one pretrial detainee and two post-conviction prisoners. All three alleged failure to protect, failure to provide adequate medical care, and cruel and unusual punishment under the 14th Amendment (for the pretrial detainee) or the 8th Amendment. All three also brought claims under the Equal Protection Clause, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), Section 504 of t…
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
Kennedy v. Kentucky Department of Juvenile Justice

1:24-cv-00016 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky

Filed Date: Jan. 15, 2024

Case Ongoing

This is a case about a juvenile facility with allegations of abuse and neglect in Kentucky. Named plaintiffs, two juvenile individuals held at Adair County Youth Detention Center (ACYDC), filed a class action against the ACYDC, the Kentucky Department of Juvenile Justice (DJJ), the Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services (CHFS), and various DJJ officials in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky. The DJJ officials included its Commissioner, Executive Director of Of…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Dalton v. Hao

1:23-cv-11216 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: May 31, 2023

Closed Date: June 20, 2023

This is a case about grant funding that favored women, people of color, and LGBTQ people.  On May 31, 2023, a white male owner of a for-profit firearms academy filed a lawsuit in the District if Massachusetts against the Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts’s Executive Office of Housing and Economic Development and the Massachusetts Growth Capital Corporation (the administrator of the grant), alleging that the state's program for pandemic relief, the Inclusive Recovery Grant Program, …
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Marie v. Moser

2:14-cv-02518 | U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas

Filed Date: Oct. 10, 2014

Closed Date: July 22, 2016

This case is a constitutional challenge to Kansas laws which prohibited same-sex marriages. On October 10, 2024, two same-sex couples who reside in Kansas sued the Secretary of the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, a Clerk of the District Court for the 7th Judicial District, and a Clerk of the District Court for the 18th Judicial District, in U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas, Kansas City Division. Plaintiffs challenged the state of Kansas’ practice of denying marriage s…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Wilkins v. Austin III

1:22-cv-01272 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

Filed Date: Nov. 10, 2022

Case Ongoing

This lawsuit is about a challenge to U.S. military policy screening out applicants with HIV. Three private plaintiffs and Minority Veterans of America brought suit on November 10, 2022, in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, Alexandria Division, against the U.S. Secretary of Defense and Secretary of the Army. Plaintiffs held that, longstanding Department of Defense policies created an accessions bar for people living with HIV, which prevent appointment, enlistment, or …
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Meriwether v. Hartop

1:18-cv-00753 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio

Filed Date: Nov. 5, 2018

Closed Date: April 14, 2022

This lawsuit involves a First Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment challenge to disciplinary policies at Shawnee State University. On November 5, 2018, a Shawnee State University philosophy professor sued the following entities and individuals at the University: the Trustees; the Interim President (also the Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs); Acting Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences; Chair of the Department of English and Humanities; Title IX Coordinator; Deputy Title IX Coordin…