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Arizona Coalition Against Domestic Violence v. Greene

2:11-cv-01626 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: Aug. 18, 2011

Closed Date: Feb. 27, 2012

(This summary is temporary, while we research the case.) The American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Arizona and the Arizona Coalition Against Domestic Violence (AzCADV) have filed a First Amendment challenge to an Arizona law that would exclude any nonprofit organization that provides abortion referrals or counseling from receiving donations through the state's Working Poor Tax Credit Program.
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
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.
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Duncan v. LaRose

2:20-cv-02295 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio

Filed Date: May 6, 2020

Closed Date: Aug. 24, 2020

This case is about the constitutionality of Ohio’s ballot access laws. The plaintiff, an individual Ohio voter and repeated independent presidential candidate, filed this complaint pro se on May 6, 2020, against the Governor of Ohio, the Secretary of State of Ohio, and the Ohio General Assembly in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio. The plaintiff sued under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, arguing that the state’s 5000 signature requirement and deadline of August 5 to appear on the Nove…
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…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
United States v. Uber Technologies, Inc.

3:21-cv-08735 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Nov. 10, 2021

Case Ongoing

On November 10, 2021, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) sued Uber in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California for violating the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) by charging wait time fees for passengers that needed more than two minutes to get into a car. There are various disability-based reasons for which a passenger needs more than two minutes, such as needing time to break down a wheelchair and put it in the car. The DOJ sought (1) a declaratory judgment decla…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Innovation Law Lab v. Nielsen

3:19-cv-00807 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Feb. 14, 2019

Case Ongoing

On February 14, 2019, a group of asylum seekers from Central America and several legal organizations filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. The plaintiffs sued the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP). The plaintiffs, represented by the ACLU, the Southern Poverty Law Center, and the Center for Gender & Refugee Studies, sought declaratory and injunctiv…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Thomas v. Merrill

2:21-cv-01531 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama

Filed Date: Nov. 16, 2021

Case Ongoing

The Southern Poverty Law Center, ACLU and NAACP Legal Defense Fund filed suit on behalf of four named plaintiffs and two organizational plaintiffs on November 15, 2021, in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama alleging that new state legislative districts drawn in 2021 deliberately diminished the power of Black voters. Plaintiffs allege that the Alabama districts signed into law on November 4, 2021 violated the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment as wel…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
North Carolina Growers' Association, Inc. v. Solis

1:09-cv-00411 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina

Filed Date: June 9, 2009

Closed Date: 2013

On June 9, 2009, several agricultural growth and trade associations that employ immigrant workers under the H-2A or H-2B nonimmigrant visa programs filed a class action lawsuit in the Middle District Court of North Carolina under the Administrative Procedure Act and the Fair Labor Standards Act against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Department of Labor ("DOL"). The plaintiffs, represented by private counsel, sought injunctive relief, declaratory relief, and attorneys' fees a…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Samuel v. Signal International, LLC

1:13-cv-00323 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas

Filed Date: May 21, 2013

Case Ongoing

This case is part of the series of Signal International cases. It is stayed during defendant's bankruptcy and settlement proceedings.On May 21, 2013, 17 Indian guestworkers filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas for harm suffered as a result of an allegedly fraudulent and coercive employment recruitment scheme. Plaintiffs filed this suit after District Judge Jay Zainey denied class certification on Jan. 3, 2012, in a related case, David v. Signal Internatio…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Preterm-Cleveland v. Himes

1:18-cv-00109 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio

Filed Date: Feb. 15, 2018

Case Ongoing

Ohio House Bill 214 (“the Act”) was signed into law on December 22, 2017. The Act criminalized performing abortions if the provider knew that one reason for the decision to terminate the pregnancy was a fetal indication of Down syndrome. Three nonprofits, including Planned Parenthood; the owner and operator of a women’s medical center; and a licensed physician (“the plaintiffs”) brought this case in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio on February 15, 2018, alleging that th…