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ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Wright v. State of North Carolina

5:13-cv-00607 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina

Filed Date: Aug. 23, 2013

Closed Date: Sept. 29, 2017

This is a case alleging racial gerrymandering in North Carolina.  On August 22, 2013 Wake County Board of Elections in Wake County, North Carolina mapped a new plan for their voting districts, called the Session Law 2013-110. This redistricting plan was intended to change the voting districts composition for the Wake County Board of Education.  On August 23, 2013, Plaintiffs, Wake County registered voters, submitted a complaint to the court regarding this redistricting plan. Plaintiffs challeng…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
United States v. Alabama

2:12-cv-00179 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama

Filed Date: Feb. 24, 2012

Closed Date: Feb. 21, 2017

The main issue in this case is the State of Alabama’s compliance with the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act.    The Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act ("UOCAVA") of 1986 permits uniformed service voters and overseas voters to use absentee registration procedures and to vote by absentee ballot in general, special, primary, and runoff elections. UOCAVA also requires that states transmit ballots validly requested by voters no later than 45 days before an election…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Jones v. Deininger

2:12-cv-00185 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin

Filed Date: Feb. 23, 2012

Closed Date: May 1, 2014

This case challenged a Wisconsin voter ID law, Act 23, which required voters to present specific forms of identification in order to vote. The plaintiffs argued that the law disproportionately burdened African American and Latino Voters, in violation of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (“VRA”). On February 23, 2021, four community organizations dedicated to serving the African American and Latin American communities in Wisconsin, and one individual who could not register to vote due t…
NATIONAL SECURITY
Page v. Comey

1:20-cv-03460 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Nov. 27, 2020

Case Ongoing

This case is related to the Civil Rights Litigation Clearinghouse's coverage of the Carter Page Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrants. For more information on litigation to disclose the warrants that inspired this case, please see this link. For a summary of the warrants and information on ongoing efforts by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) to protect the confidential information in them, see this link. The FISA requires the government to obtain a warrant from…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Kelly v. Johnson

2:08-cv-00025 | U.S. District Court for the District of Montana

Filed Date: April 8, 2008

Closed Date: May 25, 2012

This is a case about Montana’s ballot-access scheme for independent and minor-party candidates who were seeking to run for non-presidential offices in the November 2008 general election. On April 8, 2008, a prospective independent candidate wanting to run for the U.S. Senate, along with a Gallatin County registered voter who wanted to have the opportunity to vote for that candidate in the general election, filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Montana.  Plai…
PRISON CONDITIONS
U.S. v. Alabama

2:15-cv-00368 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama

Filed Date: May 28, 2015

Case Ongoing

On February 26, 2013, the Department of Justice Civil Rights Division sent notice to the Alabama Department of Corrections that it would be conducting an investigation of the Julia Tutwiler Prison. The investigation sought to address allegations that prisoners were subjected to sexual abuse by prison staff in violation of their constitutional rights; allegations that the prison failed to report and prevent sexual abuse; and allegations that the prison failed to provide adequate mental health an…
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…
EDUCATION
B. P. J. v. West Virginia State Board of Education

2:21-cv-00316 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia

Filed Date: May 26, 2021

Case Ongoing

On May 26, 2021, the plaintiff, an 11-year-old transgender girl and student in Harrison County, West Virginia filed this lawsuit through her mother in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia.  Represented by the ACLU of West Virginia, with attorneys from the ACLU, Lambda Legal and Cooley LLP, the plaintiff challenged an April 2021 state statute, H.B. 3293, that banned girls who are transgender from participating in school sports consistent with their gender identity. …
JAIL CONDITIONS
Malam v. Adducci

5:20-cv-10829 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: March 30, 2020

COVID-19 Summary: A medically vulnerable immigration detainee filed this case on March 30, 2020. The detainee alleged that ongoing detention violated her due process rights because it was unlawfully punitive given the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Additional detainees intervened. The court granted several releases in the form of preliminary injunctions. The court also certified a class, instituted procedures for bail applications from detainees within the class, and continued to grant temporary re…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Scott v. Clarke

3:12-cv-00036 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia

Filed Date: July 24, 2012

Case Ongoing

Prisoners detained at the Fluvanna Correctional Center for Women filed this class-action lawsuit against Armor Correctional Health Services and the Virginia Department of Corrections on July 24, 2012. Brought under 42 U.S.C. §1983 and 28 U.S.C. §2201, the suit was filed in the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia and assigned to Judge Norman Moon. The plaintiffs, represented by the Legal Aid Justice Center, the Washington Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights and Urban…