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IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
United States v. State of Texas

7:25-cv-00055 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas

Filed Date: June 4, 2025

This case, brought by the federal government, challenged a Texas law that allowed noncitizens unlawfully present in the U.S. to receive in-state tuition rates. Federal law prohibited unlawfully present "aliens" from being eligible for any postsecondary education benefit that is not equally available to U.S. citizens. 8 U.S.C. § 1623(a). In-state tuition rates were available to certain noncitizens in Texas, but not to U.S. citizens who resided in states other than Texas. On June 4, 2025, the U.S…

Injunction Granted

HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Planned Parenthood Great Northwest v. Alaska

3AN-19-11710CI | Alaska state trial court

Filed Date: Dec. 12, 2019

This case is a challenge to an Alaskan law restricting who could provide abortion care. On December 12, 2019, Planned Parenthood of the Great Northwest and the Hawaiian Islands (“Planned Parenthood”) filed a lawsuit in a state superior court, challenging an Alaska and Board of Nursing policy (collectively, the “APC Ban”) that barred advanced practice clinicians (“APCs”) from providing abortion care. APCs encompass advanced practice registered nurses and physician assistants. Represented by in-h…

Judgment for Plaintiff

Pending in Supreme Court

ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Nelson v. Warner

3:19-00898 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia

Filed Date: Dec. 17, 2019

Closed Date: Oct. 15, 2021

This case is about a West Virginia statute, West Virginia Code § 3-6-2(c)(3), that requires ballots for all statewide partisan offices to list first the party whose presidential candidate received the most votes in the last presidential election. On December 17, 2019, registered voters affiliated with the Democratic Party, the West Virginia Democratic Party, and the West Virginia Democratic House Legislative Committee filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of We…

Case Dismissed (Involuntary)

Reversed

ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
U.S. v. Texas

65-cv-01570 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

Filed Date: 1965

Closed Date: May 2, 1966

This is a case about a Texas policy that provided  that, in order to vote in Texas, a person must pay the State's poll tax. In 1966, the Attorney General, on behalf of the United States, filed this lawsuit against the State of Texas; the Presiding Judge for Precinct Number 239 of Travis County, Texas; the Associate Judge for Precinct Number 239 of Travis County, Texas; the mayor of Austin, Texas; the Travis County Democratic Executive Committee; the Travis County Republican Executive Committee;…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Texas State Conference of The NAACP v. Abbott

1:21-cv-01006 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

Filed Date: Nov. 5, 2021

Closed Date: May 23, 2022

The Texas State Conference of the NAACP (“NAACP”) sued Texas Governor Abbott and Texas Secretary of State John Scott on November 5, 2021 in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas. NAACP alleged that Texas’s newly enacted redistricting maps for the state house, the state senate, and U.S. Congress violated the Constitution and the Voting Rights Act. First, NAACP asserted that race was the controlling factor the Texas legislature considered when drawing the voting maps, and that…
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Etienne v. Ferguson

3:25-cv-05461 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: May 29, 2025

This case challenged a Washington state law, SB 5375, which required priests to report any suspected child abuse or neglect disclosed by penitents in confession. Confession is one of the seven sacraments of the Catholic Church and has been an integral part of its theology for two millennia. "Eternal damnation" and automatic excommunication from the Catholic Church await any priest who breaks the confidentiality of confession. Washington's three Catholic dioceses already mandated reporting for s…

Preliminary Injunction Granted

SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Visual Arts Collective, LLC v. Powell

1:16-cv-00414 | U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho

Filed Date: Sept. 15, 2016

Closed Date: March 12, 2018

This is a case about the application of the First Amendment to burlesque performances. When this lawsuit was filed (in 2016), Idaho had a state regulation (I.C. § 23-614) prohibiting liquor licensees from allowing female nudity or simulated sexual activity regardless of artistic context. In March 2016, undercover officers from the Idaho State Police attended a burlesque performance at Visual Arts Collective (“VAC”), a contemporary fine art gallery and performance venue. The state then initiated…
EDUCATION
Doe v. Horne

4:23-cv-00185 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: April 17, 2023

This is a case challenging an Arizona statute (A.R.S. § 15-120.02) that excludes transgender girls from participating in school-based sports teams that align with their gender identity. On April 17, 2023, the plaintiffs — school-aged transgender teens who were denied participation on several girls' school sports teams due to their assigned sex at birth — filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona against the state's Superintendent of Public Instruction, the Arizona Inters…
HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Planned Parenthood of Montana v. State of Montana

DV 21-999 | Montana state trial court

Filed Date: Aug. 16, 2021

Planned Parenthood of Montana and a physician brought this lawsuit challenging several laws restricting abortion, including a 20-week abortion ban, a heartbeat bill, ultrasound viewing, and restrictions on the use of abortion-inducing medications. On August 16, 2021, Planned Parenthood of Montana and a private physician who provided abortion care at Planned Parenthood of Montana (collectively, “PPMT”), sued, on behalf of themselves and their patients, the State of Montana through their Attorney…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Florida Immigrant Coalition v. Uthmeier

1:25-cv-21524 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida

Filed Date: April 2, 2025

This case challenged a Florida law that criminalizes undocumented immigrants’ presence in the state. On April 2, 2025, the Florida Immigrant Coalition (FLIC) and the Farmworker Association of Florida (FWAF), along with two anonymous individual plaintiffs, filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida. The plaintiffs, represented by the ACLU Immigrants’ Rights Project, Americans for Immigrant Justice, and the Community Justice Project, sued the Florida Attorn…

Preliminary Injunction Granted

Pending in Supreme Court