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ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Luciani v. Virginia State Board of Elections

7:20-cv-00401 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia

Filed Date: July 13, 2020

Closed Date: Oct. 16, 2020

On July 13, 2020, an independent candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives (“the plaintiff”) sued the Virginia Department of Elections, the Virginia State Board of Elections, and its officers (“the defendants”) in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia to enjoin the defendants from enforcing the state’s signature requirement for the 2020 election. The plaintiff, filing this case pro se, alleged that in light of Virginia’s state of emergency during the COVID-19 pandem…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
CODING IN PROCESS
EEOC, Hodgson, and U.S. v. AT&T

2:73-00149 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: 1973

Closed Date: 1979

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IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
"People of the U.S. and State of California" v. Trump

3:17-cv-00451 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Jan. 28, 2017

Closed Date: Dec. 7, 2017

On January 28, 2017, a lawyer filed this action in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. Proceeding under California "Private Attorney General" statutes, the action purported to be by the "People of the United States of America and the State of California" "for the protection of all persons in the United States in their civil rights and for their vindication pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1988." The lawsuit challenged President Trump’s January 27, 2017 Executive Order (EO-1)…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Garcia v. Griswold

1:20-cv-01268 | U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado

Filed Date: May 6, 2020

Closed Date: Aug. 28, 2020

This is a case about a U.S. Senate candidate seeking to be placed on the 2020 Democratic primary ballot after the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted the usual signature gathering process. On May 6, 2020, the candidate and her campaign organization filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Colorado. The campaign sued the Colorado Secretary of State alleging that she wrongfully kept the candidate off of the ballot. Represented by private counsel, the campaign sought a de…
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
CODING IN PROCESS
Kentucky v. Biden

3:21-cv-00055 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky

Filed Date: Nov. 4, 2021

Case Ongoing

(This summary is temporary, while we research the case.) COVID-19 Summary: In this case, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Ohio sued to block the federal vaccine mandate which required federal contractors and subcontractors to become vaccinated prior to December 6, 2021. The judge granted the preliminary injunction on November 30, 2021, which enjoined the defendants from implementing the vaccination requirements in the states party to the lawsuit. The defendants appealed and the case remains ongoing. T…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Raidoo v. Camacho

1:21-cv-00009 | District Court of Guam

Filed Date: Jan. 28, 2021

Case Ongoing

This is a case determining whether a Guam statute’s restriction on abortion procedures is unconstitutional. On January 28, 2021, two Guam-licensed OB-GYNs on behalf of themselves and their patients filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Guam. The plaintiffs sued the Guamanian government under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 to redress the deprivation, under color of law, of rights secured by the U.S. Constitution and expressly extended to Guam under U.S.C. § 1421b(u). Represented by…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Gayle v. Napolitano

3:12-cv-02806 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

Filed Date: May 10, 2012

Case Ongoing

On May 10, 2012, a group of non-citizens detained in New Jersey immigrant detention facilities filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and its component, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Represented by the the ACLU’s Immigrant Rights Project, plaintiffs petitioned for a writ of habeas corpus, claiming that their continued detention despite strong claims against deportability was a violation of their Fifth Ame…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Eason v. Whitmer

3:20-cv-12252 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: Aug. 19, 2020

Closed Date: Sept. 9, 2020

This is a case about the constitutionality of Michigan’s ballot-access requirements for independent candidates for the U.S. House of Representatives during the November 2020 election. On August 19, 2020, an independent candidate for Michigan's 13th congressional district filed this lawsuit in the Eastern District of Michigan. He sued the Governor, Secretary of State and Director of the Michigan Bureau of Elections for declaratory and injunctive relief under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The plaintiff alleg…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
CODING IN PROCESS
Davis v. Benson

1:20-cv-00768 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan

Filed Date: Aug. 14, 2020

Case Ongoing

NOTE: This case is being tracked in close to real time by the Stanford/MIT Healthy Elections Project. So for information, see their tracker. According to their summary as of 09/01/2020, Plaintiff sued the Secretary of State for the State of Michigan for violating his constitutional and statutory rights by mailing of an unsolicited absentee voter application. Defendant mass mailed unsolicited absentee voter applications to plaintiff and other registered voters in the State of Michigan. Plaintif…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Caliste v. Cantrell

2:17-cv-06197 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana

Filed Date: June 27, 2017

Case Ongoing

On June 27, 2017, pre-trial detainees at the Orleans Parish Sheriff’s office filed this putative class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana under 42 U.S.C. §1983 against the magistrate judge of the Criminal District Court alleging unlawful bail setting practices. Plaintiffs claimed that defendant violated the Fourteenth Amendment Equal Protection Clause by keeping them in jail post-arrest when they could not afford the bail set by defendant. Plaintiffs…