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PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Fund for Empowerment v. City of Phoenix

2:22-cv-02041 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: Nov. 30, 2022

Case Ongoing

This is a challenge to Phoenix’s policies policing homelessness and the City’s treatment of unsheltered individuals concerning unreasonable seizure and destruction of property during “homeless sweeps.” On November 30, 2023, the Fund for Empowerment (FFE) and two individual plaintiffs filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District court for the District of Arizona. Defendants included the City of Phoenix and police officials in their official capacities. Represented by the ACLU of Arizona, plaintiffs s…
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…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Little Rock Family Planning Services v. Rutledge

4:19-cv-00449 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas

Filed Date: June 26, 2019

Closed Date: Sept. 19, 2022

Consolidated federal lawsuits were prompted by Arkansas state laws that limited the circumstances under which a woman could seek an abortion. The plaintiffs in both cases, abortion-providing facilities in Arkansas and the doctors that worked at them, claimed that Arkansas already regulated abortions to make it safe and that these laws unnecessarily restricted access. Specifically, they alleged that the 18-week ban prevented abortions before viability, the Reason Ban was unconstitutionally vague…
POLICING
Tapps v. McClendon

2:22-cv-00013 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana

Filed Date: Jan. 4, 2022

Closed Date: Sept. 15, 2023

On January 4, 2022, an African American, Louisiana resident filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana against the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office (“JPSO”), Hum Management LLC (“Hum”), and a JPSO deputy in his individual capacity. The plaintiff brought this action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 to remedy violations of her Fourth Amendment rights as well as several state law claims, including: (1) unreasonable seizure in violation of Louisiana Constitution Article I, S…
PRISON CONDITIONS
In Re HCV Prison Litigation

3:19-cv-00577 | U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada

Filed Date: Dec. 9, 2019

Case Ongoing

This consolidated, class action lawsuit brought by people in the custody of the Nevada Department of Corrections (NDOC) challenged the Department's Hepatitis C treatment policies and protocols. Eight named plaintiffs, represented by private counsel, sued the NDOC alleging violations of their Eighth and Fourteenth Amendment rights and the Americans with Disabilities Act. The lawsuit sought a court order requiring NDOC to identify and monitor inmates with Hepatitis C, provide medical care that me…
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…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Does v. Michigan Department of Corrections

2:13-cv-14356 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: Oct. 15, 2013

Closed Date: March 20, 2020

On October 15, 2013, seven Michigan prisoners under the age of 18 but confined in adult correctional institutions filed this putative class action in the U.S. District Court of the Eastern District of Michigan. The plaintiffs brought claims under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and 18 U.S.C. § 1591 against the Michigan Department of Corrections, the Governor of Michigan, and a number of named correctional officers and administrators. Represented by private counsel, the plaintiffs alleged that they were sexual…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
League of Women Voters v. Johnson

2:17-cv-14148 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: Dec. 27, 2017

Closed Date: Nov. 22, 2019

On December 22, 2017, the League of Women Voters of Michigan and eleven individual plaintiffs sued Ruth Johnson in her official capacity as Michigan Secretary of State in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, Southern Division.  Plaintiffs sought declaratory and injunctive relief, claiming that the congressional and legislative districting plan adopted by the Michigan Legislature in 2011 violated Plaintiffs’ rights under the First Amendment and the Equal Protect…
POLICING
Lou v. Lopinto

2:21-cv-00080 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana

Filed Date: Jan. 14, 2021

Closed Date: Sept. 29, 2023

This case involved the death of a 16-year-old autistic child who died while being restrained by police. On January 14, 2021, the parents of the child sued several law enforcement individuals of the Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office, the ABC Insurance Company, an unidentified insurance company, and the shopping center where the incident took place. The plaintiffs alleged that the law enforcement officers engaged in excessive and unreasonable force in the seizure and restraint of the child, which…