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HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Fain v. Crouch

3:20-cv-00740 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia

Filed Date: Nov. 12, 2020

Case Ongoing

On November 12, 2020, three private plaintiffs (individually, “CF”, “ZM”, and “BM”; collectively, “Plaintiffs”), represented by Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund and private counsel, filed a class action lawsuit against the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Services (“DHHS”), West Virginia Bureau for Medical Services (“BMS”), West Virginia Public Employees Insurance Agency (“PEIA”), and the Health Plan of West Virginia, Inc. (“HPWV”), (collectively, “WVA”), in the United States…
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 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, mecha…
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…
HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
CODING IN PROCESS
West Alabama Women's Center v. Miller

2:15-cv-00497 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama

Filed Date: July 10, 2015

Closed Date: Oct. 26, 2017

(This summary is temporary, while we research the case.) Plaintiffs West Alabama Women’s Center and Dr. William J. Parker brought an as-applied challenge to state abortion regulations. An Alabama Administrative Code regulation required that abortion providers in the State maintain staff admitting privileges at a local hospital. Initially, the plaintiffs moved for a temporary restraining order, on the grounds that the regulation imposed an unconstitutional burden on women seeking abortions, beca…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Shelby Advocates for Valid Elections v. Hargett

2:18-cv-02706 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Tennessee

Filed Date: Oct. 12, 2018

Closed Date: Oct. 5, 2020

This is a case alleging election mismanagement due to voting machine flaws in Memphis.  On October 12, 2018, the Shelby Advocates for Valid Elections (“SAVE”), a Tennessee non-profit corporation, filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Tennessee alleging voting machine flaws. The complaint cited multiple software and hardware security issues resulting in inaccurate ballots, insecure memory cartridge management, and impossible vote audits. Plaintiff brought the c…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Galvan v. Pablos

7:18-cv-00113 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas

Filed Date: April 11, 2018

Closed Date: Dec. 12, 2023

This case involved allegations that Texas’s law surrounding rejection of mail-in ballots violated federal constitutional rights. Two unsuccessful candidates for public office filed suit initially in District Court of Starr County, Texas, on April 11, 2018. Defendants included Texas Secretary of State, presiding judge of the Early Voting Ballot Board (EVBB) for Starr County, and four members of the EVBB for Starr County. Plaintiffs alleged that Texas’s statutory framework for rejection of mail-i…
HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Braidwood Management Inc. v. Becerra

4:20-cv-00283 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas

Filed Date: March 29, 2020

Case Ongoing

On June 11, 2019 — more than nine years after the Affordable Care Act was signed into law—the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommended that health insurance cover preexposure prophylaxis (PrEP) drugs without any cost-sharing arrangements such as co-payments or deductibles. On March 29, 2020, in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas, Plaintiffs filed a complaint, challenging the PrEP mandate as well as a prior contraception mandate. Plaintiffs, individuals an…
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…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Planned Parenthood of Arkansas & Eastern Oklahoma Inc. v. Gillespie

4:15-cv-00566 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas

Filed Date: Sept. 11, 2015

Closed Date: Aug. 1, 2022

On September 11, 2015, two Planned Parenthood clinics and three Arkansas Medicaid patients filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas. The plaintiffs sued the Arkansas Department of Human Services, under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, for violations of the Medicaid Act and the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution. The plaintiffs asked the court for declaratory and injunctive relief, enjoining the Department of Human Services from …
PRISON CONDITIONS
Ashker v. Brown

4:09-cv-05796 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Dec. 9, 2009

Closed Date: March 11, 2024

On December 9, 2009, two prisoners at California's Pelican Bay prison who had been kept in solitary confinement for decades filed this § 1983 action against the State of California in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. The plaintiffs, originally proceeding pro se, asked the court for declaratory, injunctive, and compensatory relief, claiming violations of their First, Fourth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendment rights. Specifically, the plaintiffs claimed that the "in…