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Aziz v. Trump

1:17-cv-00116 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

Filed Date: Jan. 28, 2017

Closed Date: June 1, 2017

On January 28, 2017, lawful permanent residents (LPRs) of the United States, represented by the Legal Aid Justice Center and Mayer Brown, filed this case in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. The plaintiffs brought the action as a petition for writ of habeas corpus and a civil complaint for declaratory and injunctive relief. They simultaneously filed an emergency application for a temporary restraining order (TRO). The plaintiffs were 50 to 60 lawful permanent residen…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Darweesh v. Trump

1:17-cv-00480 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: Jan. 28, 2017

Closed Date: Sept. 21, 2017

This lawsuit challenged President Trump’s January 27, 2017 Executive Order (EO-1) barring admission to the U.S. of nationals of Iraq, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen. The plaintiffs–visa holders who were detained at JFK airport and threatened with deportation pursuant to EO-1–filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus and a civil complaint in District Court for the Eastern District of New York on January 28, 2017. Simultaneously, the plaintiffs filed a motion to certify…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
O'Hanlon v. Uber

2:19-cv-00675 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: June 11, 2019

Case Ongoing

On June 11, 2019, four individuals with mobility disabilities filed this class-action lawsuit against Uber Technologies, Inc. and two of its subsidiaries in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania. Represented by Disability Rights Advocates and private counsel, the plaintiffs alleged that Uber discriminated against individuals with mobility disabilities by failing to provide wheelchair accessible vehicles ("WAVs") in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act. The…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Dhillon v. Wobensmith

1:20-cv-02197 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: July 28, 2020

Closed Date: Aug. 28, 2020

This is a case challenging Maryland’s mayoral signature gathering requirements in light of COVID-19. On July 28th, 2020, a prospective, unaffiliated candidate for mayor of Baltimore filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Maryland seeking to relax Maryland’s signature-gathering requirements for the upcoming November 2020 election.  Represented by private counsel, the prospective candidate sued the Secretary of State for Maryland under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 seeking …
JAIL CONDITIONS
Criswell v. Boudreaux

1:20-cv-01048 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California

Filed Date: July 29, 2020

Case Ongoing

COVID-19 Summary: This constitutional action was filed on July 29, 2020 by inmates in Tulare County in California seeking improved safety and health conditions in light of COVID-19. The court granted part of the plaintiffs' temporary restraining order and provisional class certification on September 2, 2020. However, on December 23, 2020 the court denied to certify the class and enter a preliminary injunction. On July 29, 2020, plaintiffs, four incarcerated individuals in custody of the Tulare …
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Arizona v. Centers for Disease Control & Prevention

6:22-cv-00885 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana

Filed Date: April 3, 2022

Case Ongoing

This case concerns several states' challenge to the Biden Administration's decision to end a Centers for Disease Control (CDC) policy whereby migrants were summarily expelled to prevent further COVID-19 spread. Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, the CDC engaged in rulemaking that allowed the Director of the CDC to prevent individuals from entering the United States during a period deemed necessary to avert the danger of introducing a "quarantinable communicable disease into the United States." (Ti…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Texas Democratic Party v. Abbott

5:20-cv-00438 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

Filed Date: April 7, 2020

Case Ongoing

NOTE: This case is being tracked in close to real time by the Stanford/MIT Healthy Elections Project. So for more current information, see their tracker.  On April 7, 2020, the Chair of the Texas Democratic Party, the Texas Democratic Party, and individual voters filed this lawsuit in the Western District of Texas. The plaintiffs sued the Governor of Texas, the Texas Secretary of State, the Travis County Clerk, and the Bexar County Elections Administrator under Section 2 of the Voting Rights …
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Hawaii v. Trump

1:17-cv-00050 | U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaii

Filed Date: Feb. 3, 2017

Closed Date: Oct. 2, 2018

The below summary is a condensed version. The full summary can be found here on the Clearinghouse website. Hawaii Attorney General Douglas S. Chin filed this lawsuit on February 3, 2017 against President Trump’s Jan. 27, 2017 Executive Order (EO-1) barring legal immigrants, visitors, and refugees from seven majority-Muslim countries from entering the US and barring Syrian refugees indefinitely. The State filed a concurrent complaint and motion for a temporary restraining order in the U.S. Distr…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Nellson v. Barnhart

1:20-cv-00756 | U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado

Filed Date: March 18, 2020

Closed Date: Oct. 22, 2020

COVID-19 Summary: Prisoner in the custody of the Federal Bureau of Prisons sought injunctive and declaratory relief after the prison in which he was incarcerated failed to implement COVID-19 testing and other precautionary protocols. Because the plaintiff failed to exhaust administrative remedies before filing suit, the claim was dismissed. The COVID-19 outbreak began in late 2019 and grew quickly in the United States in March 2020. The World Health Organization declared a health emergency in J…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Bostock v. Clayton County

1:16-cv-01460 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: May 5, 2016

Case Ongoing

This was the lead case before the Supreme Court in 2020 when it held that "[a]n employer who fires an individual merely for being gay or transgender violates Title VII [of the Civil Rights Act of 1964]."District CourtOn May 5, 2016, a male county employee filed this lawsuit, pro se, in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, against his employer, the Clayton County Board of Commissioners. He sued for damages under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, claimin…