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POLICING
Index Newspapers LLC v. City of Portland

3:20-cv-01035 | U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon

Filed Date: June 28, 2020

Case Ongoing

This case involved allegations that the Portland police assaulted news reporters, photographers, legal observers, and other neutrals who were documenting the police’s violent response to protests over the murder of George Floyd. On June 28, 2020, the plaintiffs, who are members of the media and legal observers, filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Oregon on behalf of themselves and as a class of similarly situated people. The plaintiffs sued the City of Por…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Flores v. Town of Islip

2:18-cv-03549 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: June 18, 2018

Closed Date: Oct. 14, 2020

This case alleged that the town of Islip, New York's election scheme unconstitutionally diluted the strength of the Latino vote.  On June 18, 2018, Latino voters and a New York-based voting rights group sued the town of Islip, New York; the Islip Town Board; and the Suffolk County Board of Elections in the Eastern District of New York. Plaintiffs claimed that the city's at-large election scheme had the effect of impairing Islip’s minority Latino voters right to an equal opportunity to participa…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Rivera Madera v. Detzner

1:18-cv-00152 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida

Filed Date: Aug. 16, 2018

Closed Date: Feb. 1, 2021

This case centers around allegations that the Secretary of State of Florida failed to uphold the requirements of Section 4(e) of the Voting Rights Act (52 U.S.C. 10301 et seq.), which prohibits conditioning the right to vote on a person's ability to understand English if they were educated in a school where the predominant language was not English, such as in Puerto Rico. On August 16, 2018, ahead of the 2018 midterm elections in November, the plaintiffs—which included voting rights organizatio…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Chen-Oster v. Goldman, Sachs

1:10-cv-06950 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Sept. 16, 2010

Case Ongoing

On September 16, 2010, three women who were previously employed at Goldman Sachs filed a lawsuit against the company in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. Represented by private counsel, the plaintiffs alleged that Goldman Sachs engaged in a pattern of gender discrimination in violation of state law and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. §§ 2000e et seq. Specifically, they alleged that the company discriminated against them through its evaluation, c…
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
Common Cause/New York v. Brehm

1:17-cv-06770 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Sept. 6, 2017

Closed Date: Jan. 13, 2020

This is a case about a New York state law that removed inactive, but still registered, voters from voter lists at polling stations when those voters changed residences. On September 6, 2017, Common Cause/New York filed a complaint in the Southern District of New York against officials of the New York State Board of Elections alleging that their practice of labeling voters as inactive based on a change of residence and their removal of those voters from poll books at voting sites violated Sectio…
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…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Committee For A Fair And Balanced Map v. Illinois State Board of Elections

1:11-cv-05065 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: July 27, 2011

Closed Date: Dec. 15, 2011

This was a challenge to the congressional redistricting plan adopted by the State of Illinois after the 2010 census (the “Adopted Map”). Plaintiffs were an organization called the Committee for a Fair and Balanced Map (a not for profit organization created by Illinois citizens concerned about the congressional redistricting process in Illinois), ten incumbent Republican members, ten incumbent Republican members of Congress, and six registered voters (including some who identify themselves as La…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Braggs v. Dunn

2:14-cv-00601 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama

Filed Date: June 17, 2014

Case Ongoing

This case concerns alleged systemic failures to provide mental and physical healthcare in Alabama prisons. On June 17, 2014, prisoners and the Alabama Disabilities Advocacy Program (“ADAP”) filed this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama. The plaintiffs sued the Alabama Department of Corrections (“ADOC”) under the Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”), § 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, and 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Represented by the Southern Poverty Law C…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Ramirez Medina v. Asher [later U.S. Department of Homeland Security]

2:17-cv-00218 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: Feb. 13, 2017

Closed Date: Jan. 23, 2023

On February 13, 2017, a recipient of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) -- and believed to be the first DACA recipient detained under the Trump administration -- filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington. The plaintiff sued the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Represented by the organization Public Counsel, and by private attorneys including constitutional scholars Laurence Tribe and Erwin Chemerinsky, he sought a writ of habeas c…