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REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Gainesville Woman Care, LLC v. Florida

2015-CA-1323 | Florida state trial court

Filed Date: June 11, 2015

Case Ongoing

This is a state court case challenging an abortion restriction in the state of Florida. According to the plaintiffs, House Bill 633 (the Mandatory Delay Law) sought to restrict women’s access to abortion services in Florida by imposing a minimum 24-hour delay between receiving state-mandated information about the nature and risks of abortion and the abortion procedure. Florida Statutes § 390.0111 required physicians to provide the information in-person (an earlier case challenging that provisio…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
American Medical Association v. Stenehjem

1:19-cv-00125 | U.S. District Court for the District of North Dakota

Filed Date: June 25, 2019

Case Ongoing

This is a case about constitutional challenges to two North Dakota laws that required physicians to provide patients with allegedly misleading and non-medical information about reproductive health. On June 25, 2019, American Medical Association, the Red River Women's Clinic, and the Clinic’s medical director, filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of North Dakota seeking declaratory and injunctive relief. Represented by private counsel, the plaintiffs sued the A…
EDUCATION
Tennessee v. United States Department of Education

3:21-cv-00308 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee

Filed Date: Aug. 30, 2021

Case Ongoing

20 Republican state attorneys general brought this lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Education (DoE) and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) to challenge their packages of directives that extended federal sex discrimination protections to transgender people in schools and government employment. The case was filed on August 30, 2021, in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee. President Biden directed the DoE and EEOC to reinterpret the law afte…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Coleman v. Brown

2:90-cv-00520 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California

Filed Date: April 23, 1990

Case Ongoing

COVID-19 Summary: This is a class action for California prisoners with mental illness. After a three-judge court denied a motion for a prisoner release order as premature, plaintiffs sought relief before a single district judge. Relief has been achieved to an extent. The defendants have continued to comply with the broader injunction while staying mindful of the public health demands of the pandemic. In particular, the parties have been able to reach agreements concerning quarantine and isolati…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
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
Wagafe v. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services

2:17-cv-00094 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: Jan. 23, 2017

Case Ongoing

This lawsuit challenges President Trump's January 27, 2017 Executive Order (EO) suspending entry into the United States of citizens or nationals of Syria, Iraq, Iran, Yemen, Somalia, Sudan, and Libya. This case also challenges the government's Controlled Application Review and Resolution Program (CARRP), alleging it was a precursor to the EO's "extreme vetting" of Muslims, and chronicled the government's attempts to resist disclosure of documents about this program. The original complaint was f…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Washington & Minnesota v. Trump

2:17-cv-00141 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: Jan. 30, 2017

Closed Date: Nov. 9, 2018

Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson filed this federal lawsuit on January 30, 2017 against President Trump’s January 27, 2017, Executive Order (EO-1) barring legal immigrants and refugees from seven majority-Muslim countries from entering the U.S. and barring Syrian refugees indefinitely. The State filed a complaint and an emergency motion for a temporary restraining order in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington. The State of Minnesota also signed on as a plaintif…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Irish 4 Reproductive Health v. United States Department of Health and Human Services

3:18-cv-00491 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana

Filed Date: June 26, 2018

Case Ongoing

The suit challenged a settlement agreement between the Trump Administration and the University of Notre Dame to deny students, employees, and their dependents insurance coverage of contraceptive care guaranteed to them by the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The lawsuit also challenged the Trump administration’s interim final rules announced in October 2017 that would have allowed virtually any employer or university to refuse to comply with the ACA contraceptive coverage requirement. On June 26, 201…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Harrison v. Madigan

1:10-cv-03425 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: June 4, 2010

Closed Date: Oct. 15, 2012

This class action, filed on June 4, 2010 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, challenged a Palos Hills Police Department policy under which every person taken into custody was subjected to video monitoring and recording while using the toilet. Plaintiff, along with a class of others who had been subjected to the policy after arrest, sued the Village of Palos Hills and its police chief, Paul J. Madigan, pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for Fourth Amendment, Fourteenth Am…
FAIR HOUSING/LENDING/INSURANCE
Mt. Holly Gardens Citizens in Action v. Township of Mount Holly

1:08-cv-02584 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

Filed Date: May 5, 2008

Case Ongoing

On May 5, 2008, an association of residents of a New Jersey neighborhood filled a lawsuit under the Fair Housing Act and 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey. The residents, represented by lawyers from South Jersey Legal Services, asked the court for declaratory, injunctive, and monetary relief, claiming that the defendants' redevelopment plan for the Gardens neighborhood represented a violation of the Fair Housing Act and of the Equal Protection Clauses of…