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ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Johnson v. Ardoin

3:18-cv-00625 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana

Filed Date: June 13, 2018

Closed Date: Oct. 13, 2020

This is a redistricting case challenging a 2011 Congressional Plan (Louisiana Revised Statute § 18:1276.1), arguing that such plan diluted African-American voting strength and denied African American voters in Louisiana the equal opportunity to elect candidates of their choice for U.S. House of Representatives. On June 13, 2018, nine African-American registered voters in the State of Louisiana filed suit in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana. The Plaintiffs su…
PRISON CONDITIONS
West v. Gobeille

2:19-cv-00081 | U.S. District Court for the District of Vermont

Filed Date: May 21, 2019

Closed Date: 2023

On May 21, 2019, incarcerated individuals in Vermont with chronic hepatitis C (HCV) filed a class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Vermont, and Judge William K. Sessions III presided. The plaintiffs alleged that the Vermont Department of Corrections, its leadership, and its medical contractors violated the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution by withholding treatment from incarcerated individuals wit…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
East Bay Sanctuary Covenant v. Barr

4:19-cv-04073 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: July 16, 2019

Case Ongoing

This case is about the ability of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to issue new guidelines on asylum application procedures and whether DHS is allowed to issue a rule that asylum seekers must first apply for asylum in another country before applying in the U.S.. On July 16, 2019, four advocacy organizations — the East Bay Sanctuary Covenant, Al Otro Lado, Innovation Law Lab, and the Central American Resource Center — challenged a new asylum policy of the Trump administration narro…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Scott v. Quay

1:19-cv-01075 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: Feb. 22, 2019

Case Ongoing

This case concerns conditions of confinement at the Metropolitan Detention Center (“MDC”) in Brooklyn, New York. On February 22, 2019, two individuals who were in the custody of the Federal Bureau of Prisons (“BOP”) at MDC brought a class action lawsuit against the warden of the MDC in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York. The case was assigned to District Judge Margo K. Brodie. Suing under Bivens, the plaintiffs alleged that MDC was plunged into darkness and cold from J…
POLICING
Imani v. City of Baton Rouge

3:17-cv-00439 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana

Filed Date: July 9, 2017

Closed Date: April 16, 2023

On July 9, 2017, thirteen protesters and two reporters who were arrested during a protest in Baton Rouge filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana. The plaintiffs sued the City of Baton Rouge, as well as numerous agents of the Baton Rouge Police Department, East Baton Rouge Sheriff’s Department, and other state agencies, under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and Article 306 of the State of Louisiana Children's Code. The plaintiffs, represented by private couns…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Harding v. County of Dallas, Texas

3:15-cv-00131 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas

Filed Date: Jan. 15, 2015

Closed Date: Aug. 23, 2018

A group of four, non-Hispanic white voters (Anglo) in Dallas County, Texas brought suit against the county in 2015, alleging violations of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act (52 USC Section 10301) and the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Specifically, the Anglo voters claimed that the Commissioners Court diluted the Anglo vote by choosing to “pack” an Anglo super-majority into one of Dallas County’s four districts. For reference, of the four districts in Dallas County, one w…
HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
State of Texas v. Becerra

5:22-cv-00185 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas

Filed Date: July 14, 2022

Case Ongoing

Texas state officials filed suit against Secretary of Health and Human Services Xavier Becerra and two Director-level officials the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”; an agency within the Department of Health and Human Services which works with state governments to administer Medicaid and other federally-funded programs) on July 14, 2022 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas. Organizational plaintiffs also included the American Association of Pro-Life Obste…
POLICING
U.S. v. City of Albuquerque

1:14-cv-01025 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico

Filed Date: Nov. 12, 2014

Case Ongoing

On November 12, 2014, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) filed this lawsuit against the city of Albuquerque in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico. The DOJ brought this action under the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, 42 U.S.C. § 14141, alleging that officers of the Albuquerque Police Department (APD) engaged in a pattern or practice of use of excessive force, including deadly force, in violation of the Fourth Amendment and § 14141. The DOJ claimed th…
CHILD WELFARE
M.D. v. Abbott

2:11-cv-00084 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas

Filed Date: March 29, 2011

Case Ongoing

This class action (previously, M.D. v. Perry) involving long-term foster care in Texas was filed on March 29, 2011, in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas. The plaintiff class of children in long-term foster care was represented by private counsel and Children's Rights, Inc.; they sought declaratory and injunctive relief, claiming that the state failed to protect foster children from systemic harm. The complaint alleged that defendants' frequent moves of the foster care c…
FAIR HOUSING/LENDING/INSURANCE
Brown v. City of Barre

5:10-cv-00081 | U.S. District Court for the District of Vermont

Filed Date: April 7, 2010

Closed Date: March 21, 2013

This is a case about a Vermont statute that allegedly violated the plaintiffs' constitutional rights by turning off their water when their landlords failed to make water payments. On April 12, 2011, a resident of the City of Barre, Vermont filed this class action lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Vermont after originally pursuing the case in state court. The sought class identification in the complaint included all tenants in Barre who consume water services provid…