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ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Stringer v. Cascos

5:16-cv-00257 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

Filed Date: March 14, 2016

Closed Date: Aug. 3, 2021

On March 14, 2016, four individual plaintiffs filed a suit against the Texas Secretary of State and the Director of the Texas Department of Public Safety (“DPS”), seeking declaratory and injunctive relief to redress defendants’ alleged systemic and ongoing violations of the “motor voter” provisions of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (“NVRA”). The plaintiffs also alleged that the defendants’ conduct violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment due to alleged dispa…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Pavek v. Simon

0:19-cv-03000 | U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota

Filed Date: Nov. 27, 2019

Closed Date: Aug. 26, 2020

This case is about a Minnesota law, Minn. Stat. § 204D.13(2), that requires general election ballots to list the major political party candidates in reverse order based on the average number of votes their party received in the last state general election. Because the Minnesota Democratic Party, called the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party (DFL), received the highest average vote share in the 2018 general election, the ballot order statute required DFL candidates to be listed last on the 2020 gener…

Case Dismissed (Voluntary)

Appeal Dismissed

PRISON CONDITIONS
Chimenti v. Pennsylvania Department of Corrections

2:15-cv-03333 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: June 12, 2015

Closed Date: Oct. 18, 2022

On June 12, 2015, three individuals incarcerated and suffering from complications due to Hepatitis C viral infections filed this class action suit in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. The plaintiffs sued the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, claiming violations of the Eighth Amendment, and of Article I § 13 of the Pennsylvania Constitution. Represented by private counsel and the PA Institutional Law Project, the plaintiffs alleged that th…
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Kluge v. Brownsburg Community School Corporation

1:19-cv-02462 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana

Filed Date: June 18, 2019

This case is about a public-school corporation’s policy requiring teachers to call transgender students by their preferred name based on an official database. Brownsburg Community School Corporation (BCSC) established a policy allowing students to change their name in the official student database at the request of the student, their parents, and a health care provider. Once entered, teachers would then be required to call the student by their preferred name. The plaintiff, a Christian teacher …

Case Is Ongoing

Appeal Pending

PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
American Council of Learned Societies v. McDonald

1:25-cv-03657 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: May 1, 2025

On May 1, 2025, the American Council of Learned Societies, the American Historical Association, and the Modern Language Association filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. They named the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and its Acting Chairman, DOGE, and various DOGE officials as defendants. Plaintiffs challenged the dismantling of NEH, including eliminating nearly all of its programs and conducting mass firings of staff. Plaintiffs allege…

Preliminary Injunction Granted

PRISON CONDITIONS
Bell v. Little

2:22-cv-01516 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Oct. 27, 2022

This is a case about inmates at the Fayette County state prison who alleged that they had been subjected to cruel and unusual punishment in the form of solitary confinement. On October 27, 2022, the plaintiffs, 47 inmates who were part of the Security Threat Group Management Unit (STGMU) with mental illness conditions, filed this complaint forma pauperis in the Western District of Pennsylvania. Plaintiffs filed suit against the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections’ secretary, former secretary…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Saravia v. Sessions

3:17-cv-03615 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: June 22, 2017

This case, filed on June 22, 2017, was brought by a parent on behalf of her minor child for wrongful incarceration by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The complaint alleged that the child, A.H., was released into the plaintiff's custody but that a few years later, ICE arrested and detained him without cause. Represented by the ACLU of Northern California, the ACLU Immigrants' Rights Project, and the private law firm Cooley LLP, the plaintiff argued that the government violated th…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Minnis v. Johnson

1:10-cv-00096 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

Filed Date: Jan. 29, 2010

Closed Date: March 30, 2016

On January 29, 2010, prisoners in the Virginia Department of Corrections (VDOC) who were deaf or hard of hearing filed this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia under the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Rehabilitation Act, the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000, and Virginia state law against Virginia state agencies, departments, and employees thereof. The plaintiffs, represented by the Washington Lawyers Committee a…
PRISON CONDITIONS
VanValkenburg v. Oregon Department of Corrections

3:14-cv-00916 | U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon

Filed Date: June 6, 2014

Closed Date: June 9, 2017

On June 6, 2014, a deaf prison inmate who primarily communicates in American Sign Language filed a lawsuit in the District Court of Oregon against the Oregon Department of Corrections. The plaintiff brought disability discrimination claims under the ADA and a state anti-discrimination statute, as well as an unjust enrichment claim. The plaintiff, represented by private attorneys, sought $460,000 in damages, claiming that there was a failure by the prison system to communicate with him since the…

Case Dismissed (Involuntary)

DISABILITY RIGHTS
C.B. v. Moreno Valley Unified School District

5:21-cv-00194 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: Feb. 2, 2021

On February 2, 2021, an eleven-year-old child with a disability filed suit through his parents, alleging that school police officers used excessive force and discriminated against him based on his disability and race when they violently handcuffed him multiple times while at school. The plaintiff also alleged that Defendants’ actions, inactions, policies, practices, customs, and procedures violated and continue to violate his rights under the U.S. and California Constitutions, the Americans wit…