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ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
North Carolina State Conference of the NAACP v. North Carolina State Board of Electors

1:16-cv-01274 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina

Filed Date: Oct. 31, 2016

Closed Date: Dec. 20, 2019

This is a case about the en mass cancelation of voter registrations by local boards of elections in North Carolina prior to the November 8, 2016 election. Shortly before the federal general election in 2016, boards of elections (BOEs) in at least three North Carolina counties, including Beaufort, Moore, and Cumberland counties, canceled thousands of voters’ registrations based on challenges by private individuals. The private individuals claimed that because a piece of mail was returned as unde…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Gore v. Lee

3:19-cv-00328 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee

Filed Date: April 23, 2019

Case Ongoing

This case is about the right of transgender individuals born in Tennessee to change the gender marker on their birth certificates. On April 23, 2019, four transgender adults brought this lawsuit against the governor of Tennessee and the Commissioner of the Tennessee Department of Health, challenging the State’s categorical refusal to change the gender marker on transgender people’s birth certificates. Represented by Lambda Legal and private counsel, Plaintiffs alleged that such a policy violate…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Committee For A Fair And Balanced Map v. Illinois State Board of Elections

1:11-cv-05065 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: July 27, 2011

Closed Date: Dec. 15, 2011

This was a challenge to the congressional redistricting plan adopted by the State of Illinois after the 2010 census (the “Adopted Map”). Plaintiffs were an organization called the Committee for a Fair and Balanced Map (a not for profit organization created by Illinois citizens concerned about the congressional redistricting process in Illinois), ten incumbent Republican members, ten incumbent Republican members of Congress, and six registered voters (including some who identify themselves as La…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Ms. L. v. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

3:18-cv-00428 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California

Filed Date: Feb. 26, 2018

Case Ongoing

On February 26, 2018, an asylum seeker from the Democratic Republic of Congo (Ms. L.) filed this lawsuit and a writ for habeas corpus in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California. 2018 WL 1310160. The plaintiff sued the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and its parent agency, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and several other government entities and officials, all under the federal asylum statute and the Administrative Procedure Act (APA). Repre…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Gomez v. Trump

1:20-cv-01419 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: May 28, 2020

Case Ongoing

This case involves a dispute about visa processing. Following a March 20, 2020 decision by the State Department to cease most visa services, President Trump issued Presidential Proclamation 10014 on April 20, suspending the entry of all immigrants into the U.S. for two months, unless they qualified for an exception. Two months later, the entry suspension was extended to December 31, 2020 and expanded to include temporary nonimmigrant visas in Proclamation 10052. As a result, the State Departmen…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
National Women's Law Center v. OMB

1:17-cv-02458 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Nov. 15, 2017

Closed Date: Feb. 22, 2022

On November 15, 2017, the National Women’s Law Center and the Labor Counsel for Latin American Advancement filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. The case was assigned to Judge Tanya S. Chutkan. The plaintiffs sued the federal Office of Management and Budget (OMB), the Administrator for the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) (a division of the Office of Management and Budget), and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), under the…
FAIR HOUSING/LENDING/INSURANCE
In re Wells Fargo Mortgage Discrimination Litigation

3:22-cv-00990 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Feb. 17, 2022

Case Ongoing

This case, originally captioned as Williams v. Wells Fargo, is about whether Wells Fargo illegally discriminated against non-white applicants for home mortgage loans or refinancing options. On February 17, 2022, a Black home borrower from Georgia brought a putative class action lawsuit against Wells Fargo in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. The original complaint alleged that Wells Fargo maintained a nationwide set of discriminatory mortgage loan origination and …
PRISON CONDITIONS
Brash v. Wexford Health Source, Inc.

2:02-cv-14331 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida

Filed Date: Dec. 6, 2002

On December 6, 2002, a prisoner in Florida's Okeechobee Correctional Institution (OCI), represented by counsel from the Florida Justice Institute, sued in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 1983, alleging that his Eighth Amendment right to be free from cruel and unusual punishment was being violated by the defendants' failure to provide him appropriate medical care. The lead defendant was Florida's contract medical service provider for OCI; als…
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
J.J. v. Litscher

3:17-cv-00047 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin

Filed Date: Jan. 23, 2017

Case Ongoing

On January 23, 2017, four minor children confined to the state juvenile facilities Copper Lake School for Girls and the Lincoln Hills School for Boys filed this class action in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin. The plaintiffs sued various state officials responsible for the facility under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The plaintiffs alleged that the defendants had violated their Eighth and Fourteenth Amendment rights by wrongfully and unlawfully imposing solitary confinement, m…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Ramirez Medina v. Asher [later U.S. Department of Homeland Security]

2:17-cv-00218 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: Feb. 13, 2017

Closed Date: Jan. 23, 2023

On February 13, 2017, a recipient of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) -- and believed to be the first DACA recipient detained under the Trump administration -- filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington. The plaintiff sued the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Represented by the organization Public Counsel, and by private attorneys including constitutional scholars Laurence Tribe and Erwin Chemerinsky, he sought a writ of habeas c…