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PRISON CONDITIONS
Roppolo v. Linthicum

2:19-cv-00262 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas

Filed Date: Sept. 11, 2019

Case Ongoing

On September 11, 2017, individuals with Hepatitis C detained by the state of Texas brought this suit against the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) and its medical providers: Correctional Managed Healthcare Committee and the University of Texas Medical Branch. Hepatitis C, if left untreated, causes severe damage to a person’s liver. Yet Texas refused to provide Direct Acting Antiviral (DAA) medications to persons in custody of its state prison system, which the plaintiffs alleged viola…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Flores v. Town of Islip

2:18-cv-03549 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: June 18, 2018

Closed Date: Oct. 14, 2020

This case alleged that the town of Islip, New York's election scheme unconstitutionally diluted the strength of the Latino vote.  On June 18, 2018, Latino voters and a New York-based voting rights group sued the town of Islip, New York; the Islip Town Board; and the Suffolk County Board of Elections in the Eastern District of New York. Plaintiffs claimed that the city's at-large election scheme had the effect of impairing Islip’s minority Latino voters right to an equal opportunity to participa…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Powers v. McDonough

2:22-cv-08357 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: Nov. 15, 2022

Case Ongoing

This is a class-action lawsuit against the Department of Veterans' Affairs for allegedly failing to provide sufficient housing to veterans in L.A. County. On November 15, 2022, fourteen unhoused veterans with severe disabilities sued VA Secretary Denis Richard McDonough as well as several senior VA officials for the Los Angeles region in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. Represented by the public interest law firm Public Counsel, the plaintiffs sued under the Rehab…
NATIONAL SECURITY
In re: National Security Letter, Under Seal v. Holder (Sealed)

3:13-cv-01165 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: March 14, 2013

Case Ongoing

For the complete Civil Rights Litigation Clearinghouse collection of FISA Matters, see our special collection. This Clearinghouse entry describes litigation between the government and the internet infrastructure company Cloudflare about National Security Letters. For a similar case involving phone company CREDO Mobile, see here (the "prior case"). This case involves a dispute over administrative subpoenas known as National Security Letters (NSLs). In 1986, Congress empowered the FBI to issue N…
NATIONAL SECURITY
In re National Security Letter (3 cases)

3:11-cv-02173 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: May 2, 2011

Case Ongoing

For the complete Civil Rights Litigation Clearinghouse collection of FISA Matters, see our special collection. This case involves a dispute over administrative subpoenas known as National Security Letters (NSLs). In 1986, Congress empowered the FBI to issue NSLs as part of authorized investigations to protect against international terrorism and clandestine intelligence activities. NSLs are directed to electronic communications service providers in order to obtain specified limited information;…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Galvan v. Pablos

7:18-cv-00113 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas

Filed Date: April 11, 2018

Closed Date: Dec. 12, 2023

This case involved allegations that Texas’s law surrounding rejection of mail-in ballots violated federal constitutional rights. Two unsuccessful candidates for public office filed suit initially in District Court of Starr County, Texas, on April 11, 2018. Defendants included Texas Secretary of State, presiding judge of the Early Voting Ballot Board (EVBB) for Starr County, and four members of the EVBB for Starr County. Plaintiffs alleged that Texas’s statutory framework for rejection of mail-i…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Common Cause Indiana v. Marion County Election Board

1:17-cv-01388 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana

Filed Date: May 2, 2017

Closed Date: July 12, 2019

This lawsuit involved allegations that county officials violated the First and Fourteenth Amendments and Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (“VRA”), 52 U.S.C. § 10301, by placing an undue burden on the right to vote and exhibiting arbitrary, capricious, and unjustified treatment against voters.    On May 2, 2017, in the United States District Court Southern District of Indiana Indianapolis Division, Common Cause Indiana, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (th…
NATIONAL SECURITY
Shubert v. Obama

4:07-cv-00693 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: May 17, 2006

Case Ongoing

On May 17, 2006, American citizens who use the telephone and internet filed a putative class action lawsuit on behalf of themselves and others similarly situated in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York. The plaintiffs sued the President of the United States of America, the National Security Agency and the Attorney General under the Declaratory Judgment Act and Bivens. Represented by private counsel, they sought declaratory, injunctive, and monetary relief, claim…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Missouri State Conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People v. Ferguson-Florissant School District

4:14-cv-02077 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri

Filed Date: Dec. 18, 2014

Case Ongoing

This is a voter dilution case that challenged an at-large election system utilized by the Ferguson Florissant School District in the State of Missouri to elect members to its School Board.  On December 18, 2014, the Missouri State Conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and certain African American residents and registered voters of the District filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri. Plaintiffs sued Ferguson-Florissa…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Kelly v. Johnson

2:08-cv-00025 | U.S. District Court for the District of Montana

Filed Date: April 8, 2008

Closed Date: May 25, 2012

This is a case about Montana’s ballot-access scheme for independent and minor-party candidates who were seeking to run for non-presidential offices in the November 2008 general election. On April 8, 2008, a prospective independent candidate wanting to run for the U.S. Senate, along with a Gallatin County registered voter who wanted to have the opportunity to vote for that candidate in the general election, filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Montana.  Plai…