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State of New York v. U.S. Department of Commerce

1:18-cv-02921 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: April 3, 2018

Closed Date: Dec. 31, 2020

This was a legal challenge brought by an alliance of states, counties, and municipalities to the Trump Administration’s proposed addition of a question about citizenship status to the 2020 U.S. Census. The plaintiffs filed this lawsuit on April 3, 2018, in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York and sought declaratory and injunctive relief. The plaintiffs alleged that the federal government, by asking census participants about their citizenship status, would deter undocume…
PRISON CONDITIONS
In Re HCV Prison Litigation

3:19-cv-00577 | U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada

Filed Date: Dec. 9, 2019

Case Ongoing

This consolidated, class action lawsuit brought by people in the custody of the Nevada Department of Corrections (NDOC) challenged the Department's Hepatitis C treatment policies and protocols. Eight named plaintiffs, represented by private counsel, sued the NDOC alleging violations of their Eighth and Fourteenth Amendment rights and the Americans with Disabilities Act. The lawsuit sought a court order requiring NDOC to identify and monitor inmates with Hepatitis C, provide medical care that me…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Barfield v. Cook

3:18-cv-01198 | U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

Filed Date: July 19, 2018

Case Ongoing

Plaintiffs, persons in the custody of the Connecticut Department of Correction suffering from the Hepatitis C Virus (HCV), filed this putative class action lawsuit against the Department on July 19, 2018 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut. U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea was assigned. Plaintiffs, represented by private counsel, sought to represent a class of all people who are or will be prisoners in the custody of the Connecticut Department of Corrections, and who…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
CODING IN PROCESS
United States v. State of Idaho

1:22-cv-00329 | U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho

Filed Date: Aug. 2, 2022

Case Ongoing

(This summary is temporary, while we research the case.) On August 22, 2022, the U.S. Department of Justice filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho to protect what it alleged were rights of patients to access emergency abortion care guaranteed by federal law. The suit challenged Idaho Code § 18-622, which was set to go into effect on Aug. 25 and to impose a near-total ban on abortion. The complaint sought a declaratory judgment that § 18-622 conflicted with, and …
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
CODING IN PROCESS
Duncan v. LaRose

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

Filed Date: May 6, 2020

Case Ongoing

NOTE: This case is being tracked in close to real time by the Stanford/MIT Healthy Elections Project. So for information, see their tracker. According to their summary as of 09/06/2020, Plaintiff is a presidential candidate, arguing that the signature requirement to appear on the Ohio ballot is unconstitutional in light of the Gov.'s stay at home order; P moved for a PI to either waive the signature requirement or put P on the ballot.
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts v. Leavitt

1:09-cv-10038 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: Jan. 12, 2009

Closed Date: Jan. 16, 2013

The ACLU of Massachusetts brought this suit against the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on January 12, 2009 in the District of Massachusetts; Judge Richard G. Stearns heard the case. Represented by its national and Massachusetts in-house legal teams, the ACLU alleged that the Department violated the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment by allocating grant funding to a religious organization that imposed religiously-based restrictions on sub-grants. The ACLU specifically chal…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Aid for Women v. Foulston

6:03-cv-01353 | U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas

Filed Date: Oct. 3, 2003

Closed Date: Oct. 16, 2008

Individual licensed professionals, including healthcare providers and social workers, joined Aid for Women, a gynecological medical practice in Kansas City, to bring this putative class action lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas, against district attorneys in Kansas and (in an amended complaint) the state attorney general. They filed the case on October 3, 2003, after the attorney general of Kansas issued a 2003 advisory opinion, interpreting the state’s child abuse report…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
White v. State Board of Election Commissioners

4:22-cv-00062 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi

Filed Date: April 25, 2022

Case Ongoing

This case concerns the racial makeup of the districts by which Mississippi Supreme Court justices are elected. On April 25, 2022, a group of four Black citizens and civic leaders filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi. The plaintiffs sued the Mississippi State Board of Election Commissioners and the state of Mississippi, alleging that the districts used to elect state Supreme Court justices are discriminatory against Black voters in violation of t…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Doe v. Trump

2:17-cv-00178 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: Feb. 7, 2017

Closed Date: Feb. 3, 2022

This class action challenged President Trump's January 27, 2017, Executive Order (EO-1) which prohibited admission to the US for nationals of Iraq, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen. The plaintiffs commenced this lawsuit on February 7, 2017, in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington. The plaintiffs were represented by the ACLU of Washington and private counsel. On November 29, 2017, this case was consolidated with Jewish Family Service of Seattle v. Trump, No…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Iglesias v. Federal Bureau of Prisons

3:19-CV-00415 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois

Filed Date: April 12, 2019

Case Ongoing

In this case, a transgender person incarcerated in the Federal Bureau of Prisons sought gender affirming health care and placement in a women's prison. The plaintiff, who was assigned male at birth, filed a pro se complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois on April 12, 2019. The case was assigned to District Judge J. Phil Gilbert. In her complaint, she brought numerous legal claims against Bureau of Prisons (BOP) officials centered around the agency's failure to …