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SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
GLBT Youth in Iowa Schools Task Force v. Reynolds

4:23-cv-00474 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa

Filed Date: Nov. 28, 2023

The Iowa governor signed SF 496 into law on May 26, 2023. SF 496 includes an Age-Appropriate Standard, an Identity and Orientation Prohibition, a Library Restriction provision (together, the Book Restriction provisions), and a Parental Notice provision. The Age-Appropriate Standard dictates that school libraries must contain “only age-appropriate materials” which cannot include “any material with descriptions or visual depictions of a sex act.” SF 496 defines sex act broadly and does not accoun…
POLICING
United States v. City of Seattle

2:12-cv-01282 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: July 27, 2012

On March 31, 2011, the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Civil Rights Division opened an investigation of the Seattle Police Department (SPD) pursuant to the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 (then codified at 42 U.S.C. § 14141; then recodified to 34 U.S.C. § 12601), the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968, and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Following a comprehensive investigation, on December 16, 2011, the DOJ announced its findings that SPD engag…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Chestnut v. Merrill

2:18-cv-00907 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama

Filed Date: June 13, 2018

Closed Date: Feb. 17, 2020

This is a case about dilution of African American voting strength by congressional districting in Alabama. On 13 June 2018, eight African American voters residing in Alabama filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama Southern Division. The plaintiffs were represented by private counsel. The case was initially assigned to Magistrate Judge John E Ott, and reassigned to Chief Judge Karon O Bowdre. The plaintiffs sued the Alabama Secretary of State. The plain…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Wood v. Florida Department of Education

4:23-cv-00526 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida

Filed Date: Dec. 13, 2023

This lawsuit challenged the constitutionality of a Florida statute that prohibits public school teachers from sharing their personal pronouns or titles with students if those identifiers do not match the sex assigned to them at birth.  On December 13, 2023, three Florida public school teachers filed suit against the Florida Department of Education, the State Board of Education, multiple Florida state officials in their official capacities, and the teachers’ respective employers: Hillsborough Co…
LABOR RIGHTS
Rittmann v. Amazon.com Inc

2:16-cv-01554 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: Oct. 4, 2016

This case concerns Amazon Flex drivers: whether Amazon properly classifies them as independent contractors and whether their disputes with Amazon are subject to mandatory arbitration. Background Amazon classifies Flex drivers as independent contractors—not as Amazon employees. Amazon Flex drivers use their personal vehicles to deliver products from Amazon facilities to end customers. Flex drivers use an app to claim delivery “blocks” (essentially, shifts). Amazon pays drivers a flat fee for del…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Decker v. Federal Bureau of Prisons

3:19-cv-00233 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Feb. 22, 2019

Closed Date: Dec. 16, 2024

This is a case about access to the Federal Register in prison. The plaintiff, who was incarcerated in federal prison, filed this lawsuit on February 22, 2019, against the Federal Bureau of Prisons (“BOP”) in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois. Though the plaintiff's initial complaint was about an unrelated issue, in a subsequent amended complaint (filed January 10, 2020) the plaintiff brought a claim under the Administrative Procedure Act against the US Attorney Gener…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Disability Rights South Carolina v. Richland County

8:22-cv-01358 | U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina

Filed Date: April 28, 2022

This case challenges conditions for pretrial detainees who have serious mental illness. This case was filed by Disability Rights South Carolina (DRSC) against Richland County, South Carolina, in the U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina on April 28, 2022. Filing on behalf of incarcerated individuals, DRSC alleged that the dangerous and inhumane pre-trial detention practices at the Alvin S. Glenn Detention Center violated Due Process, Eighth Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment of…
HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
PFLAG, Inc. v. Donald J. Trump

8:25-cv-00337 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: Feb. 4, 2025

This case challenges the legality of two executive orders issued by President Trump, EO 14168 and EO 14187. The EOs aimed to restrict access to gender-affirming medical care for transgender individuals under the age of nineteen. On February 4, 2025, PFLAG Inc., alongside the American Association of Physicians for Human Rights (GLMA) and several individual plaintiffs, filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Maryland. The plaintiffs sued President Trump, the U.S…

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HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
West Alabama Women's Center v. Miller

2:15-cv-00497 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama

Filed Date: July 10, 2015

Closed Date: Sept. 20, 2019

On July 10, 2015, the West Alabama Women’s Center, its Medical Director, and a physician it employed (collectively, the “Clinic”), sued Alabama's State Health Officer (“SHO”) in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama. Represented by the ACLU, the Clinic challenged an Alabama statute that required every physician who performed an abortion at a licensed abortion clinic to have staff privileges at a local hospital or, alternatively, that the clinic have a written agree…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
American Council of the Blind of Metropolitan Chicago v. Chicago

1:19-cv-06322 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Sept. 23, 2019

This class action lawsuit, filed in 2019, alleged that the City of Chicago’s failure to equip signalized street intersections with accessible pedestrian signals (ASPs) constituted illegal discrimination against Chicago’s blind residents and visitors. ASPs are used by blind pedestrians to travel safely at intersections. In municipalities which have installed ASPs, blind pedestrians can receive information and warnings about oncoming traffic by listening to the sounds played by the signal (e.g. “…

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