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ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Nelson v. Warner

3:19-00898 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia

Filed Date: Dec. 17, 2019

Closed Date: Oct. 15, 2021

This case is about a West Virginia statute, West Virginia Code § 3-6-2(c)(3), that requires ballots for all statewide partisan offices to list first the party whose presidential candidate received the most votes in the last presidential election. On December 17, 2019, registered voters affiliated with the Democratic Party, the West Virginia Democratic Party, and the West Virginia Democratic House Legislative Committee filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of We…

Case Dismissed (Involuntary)

Reversed

ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians v. Jaeger

3:22-cv-00022 | U.S. District Court for the District of North Dakota

Filed Date: Feb. 7, 2022

In this case, the Eighth Circuit held that the Voting Rights Act is not individually enforceable.  Supreme Court Justice Kavanaugh has granted an administrative stay, while the Supreme Court considers a longer-lived stay pending review.  The case began as a claim of vote dilution by two Native American tribes through the "packing and cracking" of districts in North Dakota. On February 7, 2022, the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians and the Spirit Lake Tribe, along with individual Native A…

Injunction Granted

Reversed

DISABILITY RIGHTS
LoGerfo v. City of New York

2:17-cv-00010 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: Jan. 3, 2017

This is a case about access to 911 services for individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing. On Jan. 3, 2017, Dupree and LoGerfo, two individuals with disabilities, filed suit in United States District Court, Eastern District of New York. They filed pursuant to Title II of the ADA, 42 U.S.C. § 12131 et seq., and Section 504, 29 U.S.C. § 794 et seq., seeking declaratory and injunctive relief. They sought relief that would facilitate the ability for deaf and hard of hearing individuals to communi…
EDUCATION
McKinney v. National Collegiate Athletic Association

1:23-cv-01372 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana

Filed Date: Aug. 4, 2023

This putative class-action lawsuit was filed on August 4, 2023 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana, on behalf of Black student-athletes at HBCUs. The plaintiff, a current student-athlete at an HBCU, alleged that the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) engaged in discriminatory practices through the use of its Academic Performance Program in violation of 42 U.S.C. § 1981 and 42 U.S.C. § 1985. Represented by private counsel, the plaintiff sought an injuncti…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Decker v. Federal Bureau of Prisons

3:19-cv-00233 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Feb. 22, 2019

Closed Date: Dec. 16, 2024

This is a case about access to the Federal Register in prison. The plaintiff, who was incarcerated in federal prison, filed this lawsuit on February 22, 2019, against the Federal Bureau of Prisons (“BOP”) in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois. Though the plaintiff's initial complaint was about an unrelated issue, in a subsequent amended complaint (filed January 10, 2020) the plaintiff brought a claim under the Administrative Procedure Act against the US Attorney Gener…
HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
M.H. v. Jeppesen

1:22-cv-00409 | U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho

Filed Date: Sept. 29, 2022

In 2022, plaintiffs, transgender and nonbinary Idahoans on Medicaid, sued the state, alleging Idaho Medicaid had an unwritten policy of denying or delaying gender-affirming care.  On September 29, 2022, two private transgender Medicaid plaintiffs (collectively, “Plaintiffs”), represented by Idaho Legal Aid Services, sued the Director of the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare (“DDHW”), the Medical Director of the Idaho Division of Medicaid (“MDI”), and the Idaho Department of Health and Welf…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Doe v. State of Ohio

2:91-cv-00464 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio

Filed Date: June 10, 1991

This is a case about special education in Ohio's public schools. This lawsuit was brought on May 9, 1991, by a student (through his parent), a teacher, a local Board of Education, and a district superintendent. The plaintiffs, represented by private counsel and later by the Ohio Legal Rights Service, sued the state of Ohio, the State Board of Education, the state superintendent, and the state Department of Education. The plaintiffs sued under state constitutional and statutory law, 42 U.S.C. § …
HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
United States v. State of Idaho

1:22-cv-00329 | U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho

Filed Date: Aug. 2, 2022

Closed Date: March 5, 2025

On August 2, 2022, the U.S. Department of Justice filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho to protect what it alleged were rights of patients to access emergency abortion care guaranteed by federal law. The suit challenged Idaho Code § 18-622, which was set to go into effect on Aug. 25 and to impose a near-total ban on abortion. The complaint sought a declaratory judgment that § 18-622 conflicted with, and was preempted by, the federal Emergency Medical Treatment …

Preliminary Injunction Granted

PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Burgess v. United States

4:17-cv-11218 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: April 18, 2017

This group of 1,704 plaintiffs, led by a Flint homeowner, sued the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA) in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan in connection with the Flint water crisis on April 18, 2017. This lawsuit is distinct from the Flint water cases in front of Judge Judith Levy, which were filed against various state actors. The plaintiffs were represented by a variety of Michigan-based small private law firms. They sough…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Texas & Missouri v. United States

2:21-cv-00067 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas

Filed Date: April 13, 2021

This is a case about the Biden Administration's termination of the Trump-era "Remain in Mexico" policy, Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP), which required individuals at the U.S.-Mexico border to wait in Mexico pending adjudication of their immigration claims. On President Biden's first day in office, January 20, 2021, the federal government suspended new enrollments in the program, functionally suspending MPP. A few months later, on April 13, 2021, the states of Texas and Missouri filed this l…