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REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Whole Woman's Health v. Smith

1:16-cv-01300 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

Filed Date: Dec. 12, 2016

Case Ongoing

Whole Woman's Health and several other reproductive healthcare providers filed this lawsuit against the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas on December 12, 2016. Plaintiffs were represented by the Center for Reproductive Rights as well as private counsel. The suit challenged proposed regulations published by the Texas Department of State Health Services. These proposed regulations would require embryonic and fetal tissue …
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Harper v. Professional Probation Services Inc.

2:17-cv-01791 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama

Filed Date: Oct. 23, 2017

Case Ongoing

This is a case about the constitutionality of a private probation company’s extension of probationers’ sentences pursuant to a contract with the Gardendale Municipal Court. On October 23, 2017, the Southern Poverty Law Center filed this lawsuit in the Northern District of Alabama on behalf of probationers who could not pay their fines immediately. They sued Professional Probation Services (PPS), the city of Gardendale, and the municipal court judge under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The plaintiffs sought …
PRISON CONDITIONS
Lang v. Taylor

4:20-cv-00030 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi

Filed Date: Feb. 25, 2020

Case Ongoing

This is a case about conditions in the Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman, MS (Parchman). Parchman is Mississippi's only maximum security prison and houses over 2,600 prisoners. Parchman has long had staffing shortages, leading to what the complaint calls "abhorrend conditions, abuse and constant violence, inadequate health care and mental health care, and overuse of isolation." The case is a "sister case" to, and was eventually consolidated with, Amos v. Hall, (N.D. Miss 4:20-cv-00007)…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Hernandez v. New York State Board of Elections

1:20-cv-04003 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: May 22, 2020

Case Ongoing

This is a case about the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the 2020 election cycle in New York. On April 9, 2020, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo issued a series of executive orders allowing any voter in the state to apply to vote in the June 23, 2020 primary election using a paper absentee ballot mailed to their home. The plaintiffs are four disabled individuals and four disability advocacy groups: Disability Rights New York, National Federation of the Blind of New York State, American Council…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
MKB Management Corp v. Burdick

1:13-cv-00071 | U.S. District Court for the District of North Dakota

Filed Date: June 25, 2013

Closed Date: April 15, 2016

This is a case about North Dakota’s 2013 ban on abortions as early as the sixth week of pregnancy. On June 25, 2013, the plaintiffs—including the last women’s health clinic in the state that provided abortions and a physician who performed family planning services, including abortions, for the clinic’s clients—filed this lawsuit in the District of North Dakota. The plaintiffs sued the state attorney for the county in which the clinic was located, the state attorney general, and the North Dakota…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
White v. Shwedo

2:19-cv-03083 | U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina

Filed Date: Oct. 30, 2020

Closed Date: Sept. 17, 2021

On October 30, 2019, several people whose drivers licenses had been suspended filed this putative class action lawsuit against the Director of the South Carolina Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) and a Judge of Administrative Law who oversaw South Carolina DMV hearings. The plaintiffs filed their complaint in the U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina; it was assigned to Judge Richard M. Gergel. Represented by various public interest law organizations, including the ACLU and th…
EDUCATION
Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard

1:14-cv-14176 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: Nov. 17, 2014

Case Ongoing

On November 17, 2014, Students for Fair Admissions Inc. filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts under the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. § 2000d against Harvard College. The plaintiff, represented by private counsel, asked the court for declaratory and injunctive relief to prohibit the consideration of race in college admissions, claiming that Harvard's admissions policy discriminated against Asian American applicants. Specifically, the plainti…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
State of New York v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security

1:19-cv-07777 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Aug. 21, 2019

Case Ongoing

This case is one of several brought nationwide by States, counties, and nonprofit organizations challenging the Trump administration's revised, final public charge rule, which expands the types of programs that the federal government will consider in public charge determinations to now also include previously excluded health, nutrition, and housing programs. District court judges from across the countries granted preliminary injunctions enjoining the government from implementing the public char…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Hamama v. Adducci

2:17-cv-11910 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: June 15, 2017

Case Ongoing

Petitioners in this class action/habeas petition are Iraqi nationals—many, perhaps most, Chaldean Christian—who have resided in the United States for many years. They have been subject to final orders of removal for years, but the U.S. government permitted them to reside in the community under orders of supervision. In early 2017, political negotiation by the Trump administration with Iraq (related to Iraq's desire to be taken off the Trump Executive Order travel-ban list) led to Iraq’s agreeme…
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
T.S. v. Twentieth Century Fox Television, Inc.

1:16-cv-08303 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Aug. 24, 2016

Case Ongoing

This case involved claims arising from a juvenile detention center being used for a television show. Two children previously detained in the Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center (JTDC) filed this class action lawsuit on August 24, 2016. Defendants included numerous Fox entertainment companies (collectively “Fox”); Cook County, Illinois; the Chief Judge of the District Court of Cook County; and various officials connected to JTDC. The complaint was brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and f…