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REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Isaacson v. Brnovich

2:21-cv-01417 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: Aug. 17, 2021

Case Ongoing

On April 27, 2021, the Arizona governor signed S.B. 1457 (the "Act"): legislation that limited access to abortions in the state. Two physicians who provided reproductive health care services in Arizona, the Arizona National Organization for Women, the National Council of Jewish Women, Inc., and the Arizona Medical Association (collectively, "the plaintiffs") filed this lawsuit on August 17, 2021, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona challenging and seeking to enjoin enforcemen…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Comprehensive Health of Planned Parenthood Great Plains v. Lyskowski

2:16-cv-04313 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri

Filed Date: Nov. 30, 2016

Closed Date: Aug. 13, 2019

On November 30, 2016, Planned Parenthood brought this suit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri Central Division against Missouri state officials to challenge several abortion restrictions. In particular, Plaintiffs asserted that Missouri’s Ambulatory Surgical Center Licensing Law and Hospital Relationship Restriction unconstitutionally burdened access to abortion in the state. These statutes would have required health centers that provide abortions to be licensed as …
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

Case Ongoing

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…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Hudson v. Maloney

1:01-cv-12145 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: Dec. 5, 2001

Case Ongoing

This action began with a pro se complaint filed in 2001 by prison inmates in the custody of the Massachusetts Department of Correction (the "DOC"). The plaintiffs brought the action against the Commissioner of DOC and other DOC defendants under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, Boston Division. The plaintiffs were Muslims and members of the Nation of Islam. They alleged that the defendants had interfered with their right to freely exercise their reli…
JAIL CONDITIONS
M.S. v. County of Ventura

2:16-cv-03084 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: May 4, 2016

On May 4, 2016, the plaintiffs filed this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. The plaintiffs sued the County of Ventura, the Ventura County Sheriff's Office, the Ventura County Sheriff, and other county and state medical hospital administrators ("the defendants") under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) as well as the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments of the Constitution. Represented by private counsel, the plaintiffs asked the court for …
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Arizona Democratic Party v. Hobbs

2:20-cv-01143 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: June 10, 2020

COVID-19 Summary: This lawsuit, initially tracked by being tracked by the Stanford/MIT Healthy Elections Project, was filed on June 10, 2020 by the Arizona Democratic Party, the Democratic National Committee, and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee seeking a modification of Arizona's election procedures for unsigned mail-in ballots. On September 20, 2020, the district court granted the plaintiffs a preliminary and permanent injunction and the defendants appealed. However, on October 6…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Reynolds v. Giuliani

1:98-cv-08877 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Dec. 16, 1998

Closed Date: July 22, 2011

New York City implemented an overhaul to its welfare system in order to meet federal and state welfare requirements, which were revised in the mid-1990s. Under the city’s program, “income support centers” (locations where public assistance benefits were applied for and distributed, sometimes during the initial visit by an applicant) were to be converted to “job centers.” These job centers put greater emphasis on making sure those receiving public assistance obtained employment from the private …
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Farrow v. Lipetzky

3:12-cv-06495 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Dec. 12, 2012

Closed Date: Feb. 22, 2021

On December 12, 2012, two individual plaintiffs filed suit against Contra Costa County (California) and its Office of the Public Defender (PD) in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California (in San Francisco). Represented by private counsel, the plaintiffs sought to represent a class of indigent criminal defendants who, they alleged, were inadequately represented by the PD. The case was assigned to Magistrate Judge Joseph Spero.The written policy of the PD provided for indig…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
International Refugee Assistance Project (“IRAP”) v. Trump

8:17-cv-00361 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: Feb. 7, 2017

Closed Date: Aug. 31, 2020

On February 7, 2017, five immigrant advocacy organizations and fifteen individual immigrants filed this class-action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland (in Greenbelt). Represented by the ACLU and the National Immigration Law Center, the plaintiffs challenged President Trump’s January 27, 2017, executive order (EO). The order restricted admission to the U.S. for nationals of seven majority-Muslim countries and suspended the U.S. refugee program. The plaintiffs allege…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Cain v. New Orleans

2:15-cv-04479 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana

Filed Date: Sept. 17, 2015

Case Ongoing

On September 17, 2015, indigent former criminal defendants filed this putative class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana. The plaintiffs sued the City of New Orleans, the Orleans Parish Criminal District Court (OPCDC), the court’s judges, judicial administrators, and the city’s sheriff department, all under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The plaintiffs, represented by the Civil Rights Corps and private counsel, sought declaratory, injunctive, and monetary relief, …