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PRISON CONDITIONS
Sundstrom and Fields v. Frank

2:06-cv-00112 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin

Filed Date: Jan. 24, 2006

Closed Date: May 23, 2012

On January 24, 2006, two transgender state prisoners in various Wisconsin prisons filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Division. Represented by the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, Inc., the ACLU Foundation, Inc., the ACLU of Wisconsin Foundation, Inc., and private counsel, Plaintiffs brought this lawsuit against various officials from the Wisconsin Department of Corrections (WDC) and staff from the various state prisons. Plaintif…
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Lavin v. Husted

1:10-cv-01986 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio

Filed Date: Sept. 3, 2010

Closed Date: May 21, 2018

This case was a challenge to an Ohio campaign finance law brought by physicians who served patients through the Medicaid program. They filed a suit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio on September 3, 2010, against the Secretary of State, challenging a state law that made it a crime for attorney general or county prosecutor candidates to accept campaign contributions from Medicaid providers or any person having an ownership interest in the provider. The plaintiffs intend…
POLICING
Medrano v. Allee

1:67-cv-00036 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas

Filed Date: 1967

Closed Date: 1974

This case concerns Texas’s selective law enforcement against picketing Mexican-American farm workers in the 1960s. In 1966 and 1967, the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (“UFW”), encouraged Mexican-American farm laborers in the lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas to join the union and strike for greater economic benefits. The strike resulted in daily picketing, destruction of farm and railroad property, and violen…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
City of El Cenizo v. State of Texas

5:17-cv-00404 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

Filed Date: May 8, 2017

This suit challenged Texas's "Sanctuary City" legislation, Senate Bill 4 (SB4), which required local Texas law enforcement to cooperate with federal immigration officials and punished them if they did not. Unlike the other suits in this special collection, this suit did not challenge President Trump's "Sanctuary City" Executive Order. There were three other cases addressing SB4 (in addition to this one). This case was before Judge Orlando L. Garcia, as was El Paso County v. Texas, No. 17-cv-004…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Gomillion v. Lightfoot

57-cv-00462 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama

Filed Date: 1957

Closed Date: Feb. 17, 1961

This case challenged an Alabama law, Act 140, that redrew Tuskegee’s borders, excluding all but five of the city’s black voters. Prior to this law, activists were making a concerted effort to register more black voters in the city. Ultimately, the U.S. Supreme Court held that federal courts had authority to hear this claim despite municipal boundaries traditionally being exclusively under state control. Following World War II, the number of black registered voters in Tuskegee surged. This was i…
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 summary is temporary while we research the case.] This is a case in which the plaintiffs alleged that Texas poll taxes had the effect of disenfranchising poor people and African-Americans and argued that these taxes should therefore be eliminated. The case was filed in 1966, in the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas.
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
A. Phillip Randolph Institute v. Hargett

3:20-cv-00374 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee

Filed Date: May 1, 2020

Closed Date: Jan. 26, 2023

On May 1, 2020, two qualified voters and five public interest organizations whose many members were not eligible to vote by mail filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee, against the Tennessee Secretary of State, the Tennessee Coordinator of Elections, and the Shelby County District Attorney General. The plaintiffs challenged Tennessee’s restrictions on absentee voters, its criminal penalties against those who aid voters in obtaining absentee ballots, a…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Barnes v. Jeffreys

1:20-cv-02137 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: April 5, 2020

This case involved a challenge to the continued imprisonment of individuals who completed prison sentences for sex offenses but remained incarcerated because they could not find housing that complied with an Illinois statute. On April 5, 2020, a male individual filed a class action lawsuit against the Illinois Department of Corrections (“IDOC”) under 42 U.S.C. §1983 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. Represented by private counsel, the plaintiff sought declaratory…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Fair Maps Nevada v. Cegavske

3:20-cv-00271 | U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada

Filed Date: May 6, 2020

Closed Date: June 9, 2020

This is a case about the constitutionality of Nevada's signature-gathering requirements for ballot initiatives during the COVID-19 pandemic. Near the end of 2019, a political action committee called Fair Maps Nevada filed a ballot initiative that would amend the Nevada Constitution to provide for the establishment of an independent redistricting commission. After social distancing measures were implemented at the beginning of the pandemic, the organization discovered that it would be unable to …
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
De Jean v. Nago

1:20-cv-00280 | U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaii

Filed Date: June 19, 2020

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 11/19/2020, Khistina De Jean, independent presidential candidate, seeks to add her name to the 2020 ballot without meeting the threshold number of petition signatures (4,377) before the August 8 primary.