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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
Lee v. Virginia State Board of Elections

3:15-cv-00357 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

Filed Date: June 11, 2015

Closed Date: Dec. 13, 2016

This case challenged the legality of Virginia's voter identification law. On June 11, 2015, an African American Democrat voter who resided in Virginia, a Latino Democrat voter who resided in Virginia, and the Democratic Party of Virginia filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, Richmond Division. Plaintiffs sued the Virginia State Board of Elections and the Virginia Department of Elections under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, the First Am…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Petteway v. Galveston County

3:22-cv-00057 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas

Filed Date: Feb. 15, 2022

Case Ongoing

This case centers around the 2021 Galveston County, Texas redistricting process and is part of a series of cases challenging the redistricting practices in Galveston County over a number of years. This was the first Voting Rights Act (VRA) case decided since the Supreme Court’s decision in Allen v. Milligan, 599 U. S. 1 (2023). Following the 2010 Census, county leaders adopted a redistricting plan for the county commissioners’ districts that would have effectively removed the single minority op…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
One Wisconsin Institute v. Nichol

3:15-cv-00324 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin

Filed Date: May 29, 2015

Closed Date: Jan. 13, 2023

This is a lawsuit regarding a set of changes in Wisconsin's voter registration and election laws. On May 29, 2015, the advocacy groups of One Wisconsin Institute and Citizen Action of Wisconsin Education Fund, as well as individual voters, filed suit in the United States Western District Court of Wisconsin, represented by Perkins Coie. The defendants in this case are members of the Wisconsin’s Government Accountability Board (“GAB”), a state governmental entity that oversees Wisconsin’s campaig…
HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. U.S. Food and Drug Administration

2:22-cv-00223 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas

Filed Date: Nov. 18, 2022

Case Ongoing

On November 18, 2022, four national medical associations and four doctors with alleged experience in caring for pregnant and post-abortive patients sued the United States Food & Drug Administration (FDA), seeking to overturn the agency’s decades-old authorization of mifepristone, a pill that induces abortions. Represented by Alliance Defending Freedom and a private law firm, Plaintiffs brought suit in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas. Plaintiffs brought suit u…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
League of Women Voters of Florida Inc. v. Lee

4:18-cv-00251 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida

Filed Date: May 22, 2018

Closed Date: April 9, 2020

This case is about a directive issued by the Florida Secretary of State (the “2014 Directive”), which prohibited the use of Florida public university and college campuses as early voting polling locations. In 2013, the Florida state legislature revised its early voting law to give supervisors of elections the power to designate “any . . . fairground, civic center, courthouse, county commission building, stadium, convention center, government-owned senior center, or government-owned community ce…
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…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
L.R. (Lucas R.) v. Azar

2:18-cv-05741 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: June 29, 2018

Case Ongoing

COVID-19 Summary: This was a pre-existing class action about non-citizen children in HHS Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) custody. During the COVID-19 pandemic, plaintiffs sought emergency releases of nearly all such children, in light of the grave risk of infection in congregate settings. The court denied the plaintiffs' application for TRO on April 2, 2020. Those proceedings, and all other litigation in this case, are described in full below. This class action suit, filed on June 29, 201…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Little Rock Family Planning Services v. Rutledge

4:19-cv-00449 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas

Filed Date: June 26, 2019

Closed Date: Sept. 19, 2022

Consolidated federal lawsuits were prompted by Arkansas state laws that limited the circumstances under which a woman could seek an abortion. The plaintiffs in both cases, abortion-providing facilities in Arkansas and the doctors that worked at them, claimed that Arkansas already regulated abortions to make it safe and that these laws unnecessarily restricted access. Specifically, they alleged that the 18-week ban prevented abortions before viability, the Reason Ban was unconstitutionally vague…
JAIL CONDITIONS
United States v. County of Los Angeles and Los Angeles County Sheriff [USDOJ CRIPA Case]

2:15-cv-05903 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: Aug. 5, 2015

Case Ongoing

On June 6, 1996, the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) notified Los Angeles County that it intended to investigate conditions in the Los Angeles County Jail system (the Jails) pursuant to the Civil Rights of the Institutionalized Persons Act (CRIPA). In August of 1996, the DOJ toured the Jails with correctional mental health experts. The investigation found that the Jails were failing to provide care meeting constitutional standards to mentally ill inmates. On September 5, 1997, the DOJ…