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DISABILITY RIGHTS
Commonwealth of Massachusetts v. E*Trade Access

1:03-cv-11206 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: June 25, 2003

Closed Date: Aug. 21, 2020

This is a class action case about accessibility of bank ATMs for blind people. On June 25, 2003, the state of Massachusetts, the National Federation of the Blind (NFB), and several blind individuals sued E*Trade Access and E*Trade Bank in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, alleging that the defendants' ATMs were not accessible to blind people. The plaintiffs alleged that this violated the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and Massachusetts law, and sought a declarato…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Holloway v. City of Virginia Beach

2:18-cv-00069 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

Filed Date: Aug. 28, 2018

Closed Date: Nov. 27, 2023

On November 20, 2017, Plaintiff Latasha Holloway submitted an application to proceed in forma pauperis ("IFP") and a proposed complaint in the Richmond Division of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.  In the proposed complaint, Plaintiff alleged that the City of Virginia Beach, Virginia's at-large election of its City Council violated the Voting Rights Act, 42 U.S.C. §1983, the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Voting Accessibility for the Elderly and Handi…
NATIONAL SECURITY
Page v. Comey

1:20-cv-03460 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Nov. 27, 2020

Case Ongoing

This case is related to the Civil Rights Litigation Clearinghouse's coverage of the Carter Page Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrants. For more information on litigation to disclose the warrants that inspired this case, please see this link. For a summary of the warrants and information on ongoing efforts by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) to protect the confidential information in them, see this link. The FISA requires the government to obtain a warrant from…
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
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…
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…
PRISON CONDITIONS
West v. Gobeille

2:19-cv-00081 | U.S. District Court for the District of Vermont

Filed Date: May 21, 2019

Closed Date: 2023

On May 21, 2019, incarcerated individuals in Vermont with chronic hepatitis C (HCV) filed a class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Vermont, and Judge William K. Sessions III presided. The plaintiffs alleged that the Vermont Department of Corrections, its leadership, and its medical contractors violated the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution by withholding treatment from incarcerated individuals wit…
EDUCATION
Biediger v. Quinnipiac University

3:09-cv-00621 | U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

Filed Date: April 16, 2009

Case Ongoing

In March 2009, Quinnipiac University announced plans to cut its women's volleyball team, men's golf team, and men's outdoor track team. At the same time, the University pledged to create a new varsity sport, competitive cheerleading, for the 2009-10 season. In response, five current Quinnipiac women's varsity volleyball players and their coach filed this putative class action lawsuit against Quinnipiac in the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut on April 16, 2009. They were repre…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Jimmo v. Sebelius

5:11-cv-00017 | U.S. District Court for the District of Vermont

Filed Date: Jan. 18, 2011

This case concerns the "Improvement Standard," a rule of thumb that required many beneficiaries to show a likelihood of medical or functional improvement before Medicare would pay for skilled nursing and therapy services. As a result, some people were forced into nursing homes or suffered other adverse medical outcomes. This lawsuit was brought against the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) by five individual plaintiffs who were Medicare beneficiaries and five national organization p…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Moore v. Martin

4:14-cv-00065 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas

Filed Date: Feb. 6, 2014

Closed Date: Aug. 2, 2019

This case challenged the constitutionality of Arkansas’ statutory ballot access requirements for independent candidates.  On February 6, 2014, three registered voters and potential independent candidates for the 2014 Arkansas general election filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas. Plaintiffs sued the Secretary of State of Arkansas in his official capacity under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Represented by private counsel, Plaintiffs sought a declaratory judgment…