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REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky v. Commissioner

1:13-cv-01335 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana

Filed Date: Aug. 22, 2013

In 2013, Indiana made two changes to its state laws regulating abortion clinics. These amendments changed the definition of “abortion clinic” to include not only clinics which provide surgical abortions, but also clinics which provided abortion-inducing medicine. They also imposed new regulations on any clinic which fell under the new definition of “abortion clinic,” requiring that all abortion clinics meet standards only necessary for facilities which conducted surgical abortions. The new defi…
POLICING
United States v. City of New Orleans

2:12-cv-01924 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana

Filed Date: July 24, 2012

Case Ongoing

In 2010, New Orleans Mayor Mitchell Landrieu invited the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to review civil rights issues at the New Orleans Police Department (NOPD), and propose any necessary reforms. The DOJ opened the requested investigation on May 15, 2010, pursuant to the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968, and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Following a comprehensive investigation, on March 17, 2011, the DO…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Torres v. Milusnic

2:20-cv-04450 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: May 16, 2020

Closed Date: Oct. 14, 2022

COVID-19 Summary: This is a class action originally brought by five individuals held at Lompoc, a low-security prison facing one of the largest outbreaks of COVID-19 among U.S. federal prisons. The plaintiffs alleged that the defendants failed to undertake reasonable preventative measures, which allowed the virus to spread to 60% of those in custody. The plaintiffs sought declaratory and injunctive relief for improved conditions of confinement, as well as a writ of habeas corpus for release. On…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Neese v. Becerra

2:21-cv-00163 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas

Filed Date: Aug. 25, 2021

Closed Date: Nov. 22, 2022

Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) prohibits sex discrimination in health programs or activities that receive federal financial assistance. On May 10, 2021, Secretary Becerra announced that HHS would interpret and enforce this provision to include gender identity and sexual orientation discrimination. On August 25, 2021 two doctors sued Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), Xavier Becerra, and the United States in the U.S.District Court for the Northern District of Texas to e…
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, …
POLICING
Smith v. City of Chicago

1:06-cv-06423 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Nov. 22, 2006

Case Ongoing

This civil rights class action lawsuit challenged the Chicago Police Department’s asset forfeiture program. The named plaintiffs were persons who had property seized and detained by the Chicago Police Department pursuant to the Illinois Drug Asset Forfeiture Procedure Act (725 ILCS 150) and who had not been afforded a prompt post-seizure hearing to determine probable cause for the property seizure. On November 2, 2006, the plaintiffs filed their initial complaint against the City of Chicago, Su…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
U.S.A. v. South Dakota

3:00-cv-03015 | U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota

Filed Date: March 28, 2000

Closed Date: Dec. 12, 2002

This is a case about the protection of the voting rights of Native Americans in state legislature elections.  South Dakota has 35 legislative districts, each of which elects one senator and two representatives.  Before the 1990 census, the two representatives were elected at large to represent the entire legislative district.  The legislature redistricted in 1991 "in order to protect minority voting rights”: District 28 in the north central part of the state was split into two single-member Hou…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Diamond v. Ward

5:20-cv-00453 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia

Filed Date: Nov. 23, 2020

Case Ongoing

This case involved a Black transgender woman who was incarcerated by the Georgia Department of Corrections (“GDC”). In 2015, she successfully sued GDC officials after challenging its policies for failing to protect transgender people from sexual assault and failing to provide them adequate treatment for gender dysphoria. 131 F. Supp. 3d 1346 (M.D. Ga. 2015). After a parole violation, she was incarcerated again by GDC. The Center for Constitutional Rights and the Southern Poverty Law Center subs…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Davis v. Jones

3:17-cv-00820 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida

Filed Date: July 19, 2017

Case Ongoing

On July 19, 2017, death-row inmates in Florida filed this lawsuit alleging that the practice of placing death-row inmates in solitary confinement indefinitely violated their Eighth and Fourteenth Amendment rights. Specifically, they claimed that the permanent solitary confinement posed a serious risk of harm to the health and safety of the plaintiffs. The plaintiffs filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida against employees of the Florida Department of Co…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Karen Finn, et al. v. Cobb County Board of Elections and Registration, et al.

1:22-cv-02300 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: June 9, 2022

Case Ongoing

This case alleged that the redistricting plan for Georgia’s Cobb County Board of Education (CCBE) was a racial gerrymander. On March 2, 2022, the Governor of Georgia signed HB 1028 which would redistrict Board of Education districts for the next ten years. Following the 2018 elections, the board’s membership had gone from a 6-1 white majority to a 4-3 white majority. Defendants claimed a primary goal for the redistricting plan was compliance with Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act (VRA). Under …