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Mid-America Milling Company v. U.S. Department of Transportation

3:23-cv-00072 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky

Filed Date: Oct. 26, 2023

This case challenged the U.S. Department of Transportation’s (DOT) Disadvantaged Business Enterprise Program (DBE). DBE was a legislatively mandated program, established in 1982, that ensured that federally-assisted contracts for highway, transit, and aviation projects were made available to small businesses owned and controlled by socially and economically disadvantaged individuals, including women and certain racial and ethnic minority groups. While any small business owner may qualify as soc…

Preliminary Injunction Granted

SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Widakuswara v. Lake

1:25-cv-01015 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: March 21, 2025

This case challenges the grant terminations and the placing of journalists on administrative leave from the United States Agency for Global Media. On March 14, 2025, President Trump issued Executive Order 14238 entitled “Continuing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy,” 90 Fed. Reg. 13043, which directed that the "non-statutory components and functions" of the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM) "shall be eliminated to the maximum extent consistent with applicable law.”  USAGM is an indepe…

Preliminary Injunction Granted

Appeal Pending

POLICING
United States v. City of Seattle

2:12-cv-01282 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: July 27, 2012

On March 31, 2011, the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Civil Rights Division opened an investigation of the Seattle Police Department (SPD) pursuant to the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 (then codified at 42 U.S.C. § 14141; then recodified to 34 U.S.C. § 12601), the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968, and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Following a comprehensive investigation, on December 16, 2011, the DOJ announced its findings that SPD engag…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Stein v. Cortes

2:16-cv-06287 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Dec. 15, 2016

Closed Date: April 29, 2020

On December 5, 2016, plaintiffs, who consisted of the Green Party presidential candidate and a Pennsylvania voter that had voted in the 2016 presidential election (collectively, the “Plaintiffs”), filed a complaint for declaratory and injunctive relief against the Secretary of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the Commissioner of the Bureau of Commissions, Elections and Legislation of Pennsylvania (collectively, the “Defendants”).  Both Defendants worked for the Pennsylvania Department of St…

Case Dismissed (Involuntary)

PRISON CONDITIONS
Spurlock v. Wexford Health Sources, Incorporated

3:23-cv-00476 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia

Filed Date: July 7, 2023

This case concerns allegations of denial of medical treatment for Opioid Use Disorder (“OUD”) experienced by three incarcerated individuals. On July 7, 2023, the three individuals filed a putative class action lawsuit against Wexford Health Sources (“Wexford”), a for-profit healthcare provider for prisons and jails, in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia. The plaintiffs, who were from West Virginia and New Mexico, were formerly incarcerated at jails and prisons wh…

Case Is Ongoing

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Wilkins v. Austin III

1:22-cv-01272 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

Filed Date: Nov. 10, 2022

This lawsuit is about a challenge to U.S. military policy screening out applicants with HIV. Three private plaintiffs and Minority Veterans of America brought suit on November 10, 2022, in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, Alexandria Division, against the U.S. Secretary of Defense and Secretary of the Army. Plaintiffs held that, longstanding Department of Defense policies created an accessions bar for people living with HIV, which prevent appointment, enlistment, or …

Case Is Ongoing

Appeal Pending

ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
United Spinal Association v. Board of Elections in the City of New York

1:10-cv-05653 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: July 26, 2010

Closed Date: Jan. 10, 2020

On July 26, 2010, the United Spinal Association and Disabled in Action represented by Disabled Rights Advocates filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York against the Board of Elections in the City of New York under the Americans with Disabilities Act (42 U.S.C. §§ 12111 et seq.) and the Rehabilitation Act (29 U.S.C. § 794). They sought declaratory and injunctive relief, alleging that the defendants knowingly failed to fix deficiencies in accessibility at pollin…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Doe A v. Whitmer

2:22-cv-10209 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: Feb. 2, 2022

On January 13, 2023, a class action lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan challenging the constitutionality of Michigan's Sex Offender Registration Act (SORA). The plaintiffs, representing a class of all individuals who are or will be subject to registration under Michigan's Sex Offenders Registration Act, alleged that the enforcement of the Act violated their constitutional rights, including under the Ex Post Facto Clause, Due Process Clause, Equal P…

Case Is Ongoing

IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Huisha-Huisha v. Mayorkas

1:21-cv-00100 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Jan. 12, 2021

Closed Date: Nov. 8, 2023

This is a case about immigration policy that restricted refugee and asylum entry into the United States on account of health concerns around the coronavirus pandemic. On January 12, 2021, families of asylum- and refugee-seekers, who were detained by the Department of Homeland Security, sued the U.S. federal government for humanitarian protection in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. With the spread of coronavirus, on March 20, 2020, the Department of Health and Human Services…

Case Dismissed (Involuntary)

Supreme Court Stay of Trial Court Relief Granted

SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Pickup v. Brown

2:12-cv-02497 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California

Filed Date: Oct. 4, 2012

Closed Date: Aug. 9, 2016

This case is a constitutional challenge to Senate Bill 1172, a bill that banned the practice of conversion therapy on minors in California, amending California Business and Professions Code §§ 865, 865.1, 865.2 (“SB 1172”).  On October 4, 2012, parents residing in the State of California, licensed marriage and family therapists, clinical psychologists, the National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality, and American Association of Christian Counselors brought this suit against t…

Case Dismissed (Involuntary)

Affirmed