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EDUCATION
Wadley v. University of Iowa

4:20-cv-00366 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa

Filed Date: Nov. 12, 2020

Case Ongoing

This is a case about racial discrimination and race-based threats on the University of Iowa football team. On November 12, 2020, a group of thirteen Black former and current Iowa football players filed this lawsuit in the Iowa District Court for the State of Iowa, Polk County (a state trial court). However, shortly after, on December 1, 2020, the defendants successfully removed the case to a federal court, the United States District Court for the Southern District of Iowa, Central Division. The…
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Pernell v. Florida Board of Governors of the State University System

4:22-cv-00304 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida

Filed Date: Aug. 18, 2022

Case Ongoing

A group of Florida educators and students, including a constitutional law professor and several professors of race and gender studies, filed this complaint against Florida and various Boards of Governors, trustees, and commissioners of Florida public colleges and universities. Plaintiffs filed suit on August 18, 2022 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida, Tallahassee Division, and were represented by the ACLU, ACLU of Florida, NAACP Legal Defense Fund, and a private la…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Donald J. Trump for President v. Cegavske

2:20-cv-01445 | U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada

Filed Date: Aug. 4, 2020

Closed Date: Sept. 21, 2020

This is a 2020 case about voting by mail during pandemics and other disasters in Nevada. Nevada passed Assembly Bill 4 (AB4) on August 2, 2020. AB4 allowed areas impacted by a pandemic or other disaster to expand their use of mail-in and absentee voting, effective in time for the November 2020 election. AB4 Sections 11 and 12 also authorized particular numbers of polling places depending on county populations. On August 4, 2020, plaintiffs Donald J. Trump for President, the Republican National …
PRISON CONDITIONS
Allah v. Thomas

2:15-cv-05593 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Oct. 9, 2015

Closed Date: April 9, 2021

On October 9, 2015 plaintiff filed a complaint against several prison officials and medical providers at SC-Chester, a state prison in Pennsylvania. Plaintiff, an incarcerated individual with chronic Hepatitis C virus (HCV) and other illnesses filed his lawsuit under Section 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania alleging violations of the First and Eighth Amendments. The case was assigned to Judge Gene E.K. Pratter. Plaintiff alleged that he was improperly den…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Simmons v. Baker

1:22-cv-11715 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: Oct. 11, 2022

Case Ongoing

This is a case about how the state of Massachusetts allowed thousands of people with disabilities to languish and often deteriorate in nursing facilities, even though they could be living independently. On October 11, 2022, six individuals with disabilities residing in nursing facilities in Massachusetts filed this putative class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court of Massachusetts. The plaintiffs sued Governor Charlie Baker and state officials employed at the Executive Office of Health a…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Democratic Party of Georgia, Inc. v. Raffensperger

1:19-cv-05028 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: Nov. 6, 2019

Closed Date: March 23, 2020

This is a case about voting rights in Georgia. This lawsuit was filed on November 6, 2019, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. The plaintiffs were the Democratic Party of Georgia, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, all represented by private law firms. They sued Georgia under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, alleging that the procedures by which the state evaluated and rejected mail-in ballots infringed on the constit…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Bernier v. Allen

1:16-cv-00828 | U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

Filed Date: May 3, 2016

Closed Date: Sept. 6, 2022

Plaintiff, proceeding pro se, filed this lawsuit on May 3, 2016 against the United States and the Federal Bureau of Prisons (FBOP), the medical director of the FBOP, and Gilead Sciences in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.  He brought claims under Bivens, challenging the delayed treatment of his chronic Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) -- and FBOP's related policies for determining DAA eligibility and priority -- as a violation of the Eighth Amendment. Plaintiff further alleged that …
POLICING
Melendres v. Arpaio

2:07-cv-02513 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: Dec. 12, 2007

Case Ongoing

On December 12, 2007, a group of plaintiffs filed this lawsuit in United States District Court for the District of Arizona against the County of Maricopa and the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office (MCSO), as well as Sheriff Joe Arpaio. The plaintiffs sought to represent a class of Latino persons who have been or will be stopped, detained, interrogated, or searched by the Sheriff or his agents in moving or parked vehicles in Maricopa County. They alleged claims under the Fourth Amendment (search a…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Turner v. Wetzel

4:18-cv-00361 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Jan. 19, 2018

Case Ongoing

Plaintiff, a person serving a life sentence in the custody of the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, was diagnosed with Hepatitis C virus (HCV) in the mid 1990s and, in this lawsuit, sought to compel the Department to provide direct acting antiviral (DAA) treatment.  On January 19, 2018, plaintiff filed this action pro se in the Court of Common Pleas for Schuylkill County against various employees of the Department of Corrections ("DOC defendants") and Correct Care Solutions, the Departmen…
EDUCATION
Balow v. Michigan State University

1:21-cv-00044 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan

Filed Date: Jan. 15, 2021

Closed Date: Jan. 23, 2023

This is an ongoing Title IX case about Michigan State University's attempt to eliminate its varsity aquatics program. In October 2020, MSU –– a NCAA Division 1 school –– announced it would discontinue its women's and men's varsity swimming and diving programs at the end of the 2020-2021 season due to budget cuts. Eleven women on the team then hired private counsel to sue the University, president, its board of trustees, and its director of athletics. Their January 15, 2021 complaint, filed in t…