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CHILD WELFARE
M.B. v. Colyer

2:18-cv-02617 | U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas

Filed Date: Nov. 16, 2018

Case Ongoing

In 2018, children in the Kansas foster care system filed a class-action suit against the Governor of Kansas, the Kansas Department for Children and Families (DCF), the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, and the Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services. The named plaintiffs allegedly experienced great hardship while involved in the Kansas foster care system, including dozens or even hundreds of moves, night-to-night changes, and starkly inadequate mental and behavioral diagn…
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Messina v. City of Fort Lauderdale

0:21-cv-60168 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida

Filed Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Case Ongoing

This is a case about a challenge to Sections 16-82 and 25-267 of the Fort Lauderdale. Code of Ordinances, which prohibited panhandling in a variety of public places. On January 25, 2021, two men, one living in a public shelter and one without a permanent home, filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida. The plaintiffs sued the City of Fort Lauderdale under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Represented by both the Florida Justice Institute and private counsel, th…
EDUCATION
G.G. [Gavin Grimm] v. Gloucester County School Board

4:15-cv-00054 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

Filed Date: June 11, 2015

Closed Date: Aug. 27, 2021

On June 11, 2015, Gavin Grimm, a sixteen-year-old transgender boy filed this lawsuit against the Gloucester County School Board in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. The plaintiff, represented by the national and Virginia ACLU, proceeded under Title IX and 42 U.S.C. § 1983. He sought a preliminary and permanent injunction allowing him to use the boys' restroom at school, claiming that the school board's policy of requiring transgender students to use a private restroo…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Sixth District of the African Methodist Episcopal Church v. Kemp

1:21-cv-01284 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: March 29, 2021

Case Ongoing

This case was part of a challenge to Georgia Senate Bill 202 (“SB 202”) which was signed into law in March 2021. SB 202 implemented numerous new voting restrictions including a ban on aiding voters in line and restrictions on absentee voting. The case was ultimately consolidated within In Re Georgia Senate Bill 202 (1:21-mi-55555-JPB) alongside seven other cases challenging the same law. In particular these cases focus on SB 202’s effect on people of color and voters with disabilities. On March…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Disability Rights Mississippi v. Hinds County

3:11-cv-00327 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi

Filed Date: June 1, 2011

Case Ongoing

This is a case about whether a Protection and Advocacy (P&A) agency can communicate with all individuals in a juvenile detention facility where some individuals with disabilities reside, as well as the substantive conditions in a juvenile detention facility. On June 1, 2011, Disability Rights Mississippi, Mississippi’s P&A, and a putative class of juvenile detention facility residents filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi. They filed this lawsuit…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Kerrigan v. Philadelphia Board of Elections

2:07-cv-00687 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Feb. 21, 2007

Closed Date: Oct. 2, 2015

On February 21, 2007, Disability Rights Pennsylvania (the Pennsylvania protection and advocacy agency) and private co-counsel filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of registered voters with mobility disabilities to challenge inaccessibility of polling locations throughout the City of Philadelphia. The case was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and assigned to Judge John R. Pavoda. Defendants included officials and entities responsible for elections in th…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Common Cause v. Rucho

1:16-cv-01026 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina

Filed Date: Aug. 5, 2016

Closed Date: Oct. 18, 2019

The following case alleged that North Carolina’s 2016 redistricting plan was an unconstitutional partisan gerrymander. Ultimately, the U.S. Supreme Court determined that partisan gerrymandering was a non-justiciable political question.  The case was filed on August 5, 2016, in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina. Plaintiffs included an organization advocating for redistricting reform, the North Carolina Democratic Party, and fifteen registered Democrats. Defendants…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Vargas v. Quest Diagnostics Clinical Laboratories, Inc.

2:19-cv-08108 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: Sept. 18, 2019

Case Ongoing

This is a case about whether touchscreen kiosk check-in procedures are discriminatory against blind and visually impaired persons. On September 18, 2019, two visually impaired individuals that relied on auxiliary aids and services brought a class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. The plaintiffs sued Quest Diagnostics Clinical Laboratories ("Quest") and ten unknown Quest employees for discrimination under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) a…
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…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Jackson Women's Health Organization v. Dobbs

3:18-cv-00171 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi

Filed Date: March 19, 2018

Closed Date: Sept. 21, 2022

In this case challenging Mississippi House Bill 1510 (HB 1510), a state law that banned abortions after 15 weeks (months before viability), the Supreme Court on June 24, 2022, overruled Roe v. Wade, and held there is no constitutional protection for abortion rights.   On March 19, 2018, the Jackson Women's Health Organization, the last remaining abortion clinic in Mississippi, and Jackson Women's Health Organization's Medical Director filed the case, represented by the Center for Reproductive R…