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JAIL CONDITIONS
Mays v. County of Sacramento

2:18-cv-02081 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California

Filed Date: July 31, 2018

Case Ongoing

On July 31, 2018, prisoners in the County of Sacramento jail system, with the assistance of counsel from Disability Rights California, Prison Law Office, and Cooley LLP, filed this suit against the County of Sacramento. The plaintiffs alleged a series of problems with the County of Sacramento Jail system, including understaffing, prolonged and harmful isolation, lack of minimally adequate mental health care, lack of minimally adequate medical care, and discrimination on the basis of disability.…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Raleigh Wake Citizens Association v. Barefoot

5:15-cv-00156 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina

Filed Date: April 9, 2015

Closed Date: Dec. 28, 2017

This case involved allegations that the North Carolina General Assembly’s Session Law 2015-4 violated voters’ rights to an equal vote and their right to not be subjected to racial classifications in redistricting. Voters and an association on voters (Raleigh Wake Citizens Association) who lived in election districts that under Session Law 2015-4 were overpopulated to a significant degree, filed suit on April 09, 2015 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina. Plainti…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Florida State Conference of Branches and Youth Units of the NAACP v. Byrd

4:23-cv-00215 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida

Filed Date: May 24, 2023

Case Ongoing

On May 24, 2023, Plaintiffs Florida State Conference of Branches and Youth Units of the NAACP, Voters of Tomorrow Action, Inc., Disability Rights Florida (the Florida protection and advocacy system), Alianza for Progress, Alianza Center, and UnidosUS, filed a lawsuit challenging provisions of a recently-passed state law, Senate Bill 7050, that imposed restrictions and penalties on third-party voter registration organizations that sought to register eligible Floridians to vote and put limitation…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
The Arc of Iowa v. Reynolds

4:21-cv-00264 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa

Filed Date: Sept. 3, 2021

Closed Date: March 19, 2024

On September 3, 2021, individual student plaintiffs, the Iowa ARC (a nonprofit dedicated to advocating for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities), and Iowa's Protection and Advocacy (P&A) system challenged the state of Iowa's k-12 school mask ban by filing a lawsuit against the state governor and certain school districts alleging the legislature's action to prohibit the wearing of masks during the covid-19 pandemic violated the Americans with Disabilities Act and Section 504 w…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Contreras v. Illinois State Board of Elections

1:21-cv-03139 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: June 10, 2021

Closed Date: Dec. 30, 2021

This lawsuit was filed on June 10, 2021, by Latino and Latina voters against the state of Illinois, the Illinois State Board of Elections, the State Senate, and the State House of Representatives alleging that the new legislative districts under a redistricting plan adopted in June 2021 resulted in equal protection violations in the form of malapportionment. A similar lawsuit was also brought around the same time by an Illinois State Senator, McConchie v. Illinois State Board of Elections, and …
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Grayeyes v. Cox

4:18-cv-00041 | U.S. District Court for the District of Utah

Filed Date: June 20, 2018

Closed Date: Nov. 7, 2018

This case involved allegations that Defendants in their capacity as state officials had wrongfully denied Plaintiff access to the ballot as a candidate in a county election. Plaintiff sought an injunction to be included on the ballot for County Commissioner. Plaintiff was a member of Navajo Nation in San Juan County, Utah where he lived and operated a business. Plaintiff was a registered voter and voted in San Juan County elections for at least 18 years. Defendants claimed that Plaintiff was no…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Lee v. Virginia State Board of Elections

3:15-cv-00357 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

Filed Date: June 11, 2015

Closed Date: Dec. 13, 2016

This case challenged the legality of Virginia's voter identification law. On June 11, 2015, an African American Democrat voter who resided in Virginia, a Latino Democrat voter who resided in Virginia, and the Democratic Party of Virginia filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, Richmond Division. Plaintiffs sued the Virginia State Board of Elections and the Virginia Department of Elections under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, the First Am…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Petteway v. Galveston County

3:22-cv-00057 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas

Filed Date: Feb. 15, 2022

Case Ongoing

This case centers around the 2021 Galveston County, Texas redistricting process and is part of a series of cases challenging the redistricting practices in Galveston County over a number of years. This was the first Voting Rights Act (VRA) case decided since the Supreme Court’s decision in Allen v. Milligan, 599 U. S. 1 (2023). Following the 2010 Census, county leaders adopted a redistricting plan for the county commissioners’ districts that would have effectively removed the single minority op…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Allen v. Waller County, Texas

4:18-cv-03985 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas

Filed Date: Oct. 12, 2018

Closed Date: April 14, 2022

This case involved allegations that county officials failed to allocate sufficient time for early voting during the 2018 general election cycle to Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU) (a historically Black university) in the State of Texas as compared to the other surrounding areas. Individual students and a student and alumni organization PVAMU, represented by NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund attorneys, filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas Houston Div…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
United States v. Alabama

2:12-cv-00179 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama

Filed Date: Feb. 24, 2012

Closed Date: Feb. 21, 2017

The main issue in this case is the State of Alabama’s compliance with the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act.    The Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act ("UOCAVA") of 1986 permits uniformed service voters and overseas voters to use absentee registration procedures and to vote by absentee ballot in general, special, primary, and runoff elections. UOCAVA also requires that states transmit ballots validly requested by voters no later than 45 days before an election…