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ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
United States v. Manning

61-08257 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana

Filed Date: April 28, 1961

Closed Date: Feb. 16, 1963

On April 28, 1961, the U.S Attorney General charged the State of Louisiana and Cecil Manning, the Registrar of Voters for East Carroll Parish, with having engaged in acts preventing people from voting on the basis of race. The action was filed in the Western District of Louisiana, and was assigned to Chief Judge Ben C. Dawkins, Jr. The Attorney General sought injunctive relief, seeking to end the systemic voter registration denial for persons of color.  At the end of the 1960 voter registration…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Liu v. Democratic National Committee

1:21-cv-00767 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Jan. 28, 2021

Closed Date: Sept. 22, 2022

This case challenged the Democratic National Committee’s (DNC) rules that permit only four states (Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada, and South Carolina) to hold presidential primaries or caucuses before a certain date in February each election cycle. On January 28, 2021, a registered Democratic voter in the State of New York filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York against the DNC. Represented by private counsel, the voter alleged that the DNC’s rules on th…

Case Dismissed (Involuntary)

Affirmed

ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Liu v. Mcconnell

1:19-cv-07057 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: Dec. 17, 2019

Closed Date: Nov. 30, 2020

This case is about the lack of a confirmation process for Chief Judge Merrick Garland after President Barack Obama nominated him to the U.S. Supreme Court. On December 17, 2019, Equal Vote America Corp., a nonprofit voting-rights organization, and a registered voter from the state of New York filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York. The plaintiffs sued the Senate Majority Leader and the Chairman of the Senate Judicial Committee. They alleged that denyi…

Case Dismissed (Involuntary)

ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Emrit v. Montevista Mental Hospital

1:18-cv-00443 | U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaii

Filed Date: Nov. 9, 2018

Closed Date: May 31, 2019

None

Case Dismissed (Involuntary)

Affirmed

CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Caddell v. Campbell

1:19-cv-00091 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio

Filed Date: Feb. 1, 2019

On February 1, 2019, an individual arrested in Butler County, filed this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio, Western Division. This action came about as a result of his arrest on February 23, 2017. After his arrest, he was detained in the Butler County Jail for five days without appearance before a judicial officer. The plaintiff sued the Presiding and Administrative Judge of the Fairfield Municipal Court as well as the City of Fairfield, Ohio, arg…

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PRISON CONDITIONS
Mallet v. New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision

1:22-cv-01604 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Feb. 25, 2022

This is a case about a formerly incarcerated individual who was denied medical care by New York correctional facilities. On February 25, 2022, a man who was formerly incarcerated in numerous New York correctional facilities filed this lawsuit against the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. The plaintiff, who had recently been diagnosed with late-stage advanced prostate cancer, alleged that …