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ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Stringer v. Cascos

5:16-cv-00257 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

Filed Date: March 14, 2016

Closed Date: Aug. 3, 2021

On March 14, 2016, four individual plaintiffs filed a suit against the Texas Secretary of State and the Director of the Texas Department of Public Safety (“DPS”), seeking declaratory and injunctive relief to redress defendants’ alleged systemic and ongoing violations of the “motor voter” provisions of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (“NVRA”). The plaintiffs also alleged that the defendants’ conduct violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment due to alleged dispa…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Stein v. Cortes

2:16-cv-06287 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Dec. 15, 2016

Closed Date: April 29, 2020

On December 5, 2016, plaintiffs, who consisted of the Green Party presidential candidate and a Pennsylvania voter that had voted in the 2016 presidential election (collectively, the “Plaintiffs”), filed a complaint for declaratory and injunctive relief against the Secretary of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the Commissioner of the Bureau of Commissions, Elections and Legislation of Pennsylvania (collectively, the “Defendants”).  Both Defendants worked for the Pennsylvania Department of St…

Case Dismissed (Involuntary)

FAIR HOUSING/LENDING/INSURANCE
Louis v. SafeRent Solutions, LLC

1:22-cv-10800 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: May 25, 2022

This case pertains to a tenant-screening algorithm that allegedly reinforced racial and economic discrimination in rental housing access.  On May 25, 2022, the plaintiffs—two Black women who held federally funded housing vouchers—filed this class action lawsuit against SafeRent Solutions, LLC, a tenant-screening company, and Metropolitan Management Group, LLC, a property manager that used SafeRent’s screening services. The Community Action Agency of Somerville (CAAS), a nonprofit that assists l…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
United States v. Rhode Island Department of Corrections

1:14-cv-00078 | U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island

Filed Date: Feb. 10, 2014

Closed Date: Sept. 14, 2022

On February 10, 2014, the United States filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Rhode Island under 42 U.S.C. § 2000e-6 ("Title VII"). The United States (the Employment Litigation Section of the Department of Justice Civil Rights Division) brought suit against the Rhode Island Department of Corrections seeking an injunction to prevent the defendant from engaging in future discrimination and back-pay damages to “make whole” those who had been harmed by the alleg…
EDUCATION
Doe v. Horne

4:23-cv-00185 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: April 17, 2023

This is a case challenging an Arizona statute (A.R.S. § 15-120.02) that excludes transgender girls from participating in school-based sports teams that align with their gender identity. On April 17, 2023, the plaintiffs — school-aged transgender teens who were denied participation on several girls' school sports teams due to their assigned sex at birth — filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona against the state's Superintendent of Public Instruction, the Arizona Inters…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Hampton v. State of California

3:21-cv-03058 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: April 27, 2021

This is a case about conditions at San Quentin State Prison during the Covid-19 pandemic. On April 27, 2021, the spouse of a person who had died while incarcerated at San Quentin filed this wrongful death suit in the US District Court for the Northern District of California on behalf of herself and as successor in interest for the deceased, against the State of California, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (“CDCR”), San Quentin State Prison, and named and unnamed indiv…
HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
PFLAG, Inc. v. Donald J. Trump

8:25-cv-00337 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: Feb. 4, 2025

This case challenges the legality of two executive orders issued by President Trump, EO 14168 and EO 14187. The EOs aimed to restrict access to gender-affirming medical care for transgender individuals under the age of nineteen. On February 4, 2025, PFLAG Inc., alongside the American Association of Physicians for Human Rights (GLMA) and several individual plaintiffs, filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Maryland. The plaintiffs sued President Trump, the U.S…

Preliminary Injunction Granted

Appeal Pending

PRISON CONDITIONS
X. v. New Jersey Department of Corrections

3:17-cv-00188 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

Filed Date: Jan. 11, 2017

On January 11, 2017, three named individuals with disabilities who were incarcerated by New Jersey Department of Corrections (“NJDOC”) and the ACLU of New Jersey filed a class action complaint against NJDOC, New Jersey Department of Education (“NJDOE”), and the commissioners of each Department in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey. Represented by the ACLU of New Jersey, Disability Rights Advocates, and Proskauer Rose LLP, plaintiffs brought claims under the Individuals with …
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Harris v. Georgia Department of Corrections

5:18-cv-00365 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia

Filed Date: Oct. 3, 2018

This is a case about the alleged denial of effective communication for deaf and hard of hearing individuals incarcerated in Georgia. On October 3, 2018, incarcerated individuals who were deaf and hard of hearing filed a collective class action lawsuit against the Georgia Department of Corrections in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia. Plaintiffs, represented by the ACLU, National Association of the Deaf, and a private law firm, claimed that defendants denied them effecti…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
U.S. v. State of California

2:18-cv-00490 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California

Filed Date: March 6, 2018

Closed Date: April 6, 2021

This case challenged California's "sanctuary city" state laws. The United States federal government filed this suit on March 6, 2018 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California. The case was assigned to Judge John A. Mendez and Magistrate Kendall J. Newman. This lawsuit comes after a series of lawsuits filed by California jurisdictions challenging the federal government's sanctuary city policies, which deny federal funding to jurisdictions that impede the federal governmen…

Case Dismissed (Involuntary)