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Nooner v. Norris

5:06-cv-00110 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas

Filed Date: May 1, 2006

Closed Date: Aug. 5, 2008

On May 1, 2006, an inmate awaiting execution at the Supermax Unit of the Arkansas Department of Correction filed this action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas. Represented by the Federal Public Defender, the inmate claimed that the procedures used to carry out lethal injections in Arkansas—specifically the use of potassium chloride in the lethal cocktail of drugs—risked unnecessary conscious suffering in violation of the Eighth Amendment. The…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
South Wind Women's Center LLC v. Stitt

5:20-cv-00277 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma

Filed Date: March 30, 2020

Closed Date: Oct. 8, 2020

This is a case challenging an Oklahoma executive order banning abortions during the COVID-19 pandemic. On March 30, 2020, South Wind Women's Center LLC, a health care facility providing reproductive care including abortions, a physician operating an abortion clinic in the state, and Comprehensive Health of Planned Parenthood Great Plains, Inc., filed this lawsuit, on behalf of themselves, their staff, and their patients, in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma.  The plai…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Geissler v. Stirling

4:17-cv-01746 | U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina

Filed Date: June 30, 2017

Case Ongoing

An individual with Hepatitis C who was incarcerated at the South Carolina Department of Corrections brought this pro se lawsuit on June 30, 2017. The plaintiff challenged the Department's testing and treatment protocols for Hepatitis C, alleging that the Department’s policies and practices fell below the constitutional standard of care. The Department’s conduct allegedly violated the Eighth Amendment and the Equal Protection and Due Process clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment. The plaintiff sou…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Heyer v. United States Bureau of Prisons

5:11-ct-03118 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina

Filed Date: June 20, 2011

Case Ongoing

On June 20, 2011, two deaf prisoners filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Western District of North Carolina against the federal Bureau of Prisons. Represented by private counsel and the Washington Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights, the plaintiffs filed their lawsuit under Bivens and claimed violations of the Rehabilitation Act and the Religious Freedom Restoration Act. In addition, the plaintiffs alleged violations of their Fifth Amendment due process rights, First …
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Texas Democratic Party v. Abbott

5:20-cv-00438 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

Filed Date: April 7, 2020

Case Ongoing

NOTE: This case is being tracked in close to real time by the Stanford/MIT Healthy Elections Project. So for more current information, see their tracker.  On April 7, 2020, the Chair of the Texas Democratic Party, the Texas Democratic Party, and individual voters filed this lawsuit in the Western District of Texas. The plaintiffs sued the Governor of Texas, the Texas Secretary of State, the Travis County Clerk, and the Bexar County Elections Administrator under Section 2 of the Voting Rights …
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
National Urban League v. Ross

5:20-cv-05799 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Aug. 18, 2020

Closed Date: April 22, 2021

On August 18, 2020, a coalition of cities, counties, Indian tribes, advocacy organizations, and individuals represented by the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights, the Brennan Center for Justice, and the law firm Latham & Watkins LLP sued the U.S. Department of Commerce (“Department”), the Department Secretary, the U.S. Census Bureau (“Bureau”), and the Bureau Director in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. The plaintiffs alleged that the defendants violated the U.S…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
City of El Cenizo v. State of Texas

5:17-cv-00404 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

Filed Date: May 8, 2017

Case Ongoing

This suit challenged Texas's "Sanctuary City" legislation, Senate Bill 4 (SB4), which required local Texas law enforcement to cooperate with federal immigration officials and punished them if they did not. Unlike the other suits in this special collection, this suit did not challenge President Trump's "Sanctuary City" Executive Order. At the time of this writing, there were three other cases addressing SB4 (in addition to this one). This case was before Judge Orlando L. Garcia, as was El Paso C…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
AFL-CIO v. Chertoff

3:07-cv-04472 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Aug. 29, 2007

Closed Date: Nov. 18, 2009

On August 29, 2007, the AFL-CIO and local San Francisco labor organizations, represented by the ACLU of Northern California, the ACLU Immigrants' Rights Project, the National Immigration Law Center and private attorneys, filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California to challenge a new Department of Homeland Security rule entitled "Safe Harbor Procedures for Employers that Receive a No Match Letter." In the past, the Social Security Administratio…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Steward v. Perry

5:10-cv-01025 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

Filed Date: Dec. 20, 2010

Case Ongoing

Adults with developmental disabilities who were institutionalized filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas alleging that they, along with the class of similarly situated individuals, were institutionalized unnecessarily as a result of the policies of the State of Texas. There are also two organizational Plaintiffs: the Arc of Texas and the Coalition of Texans with Disabilities. The Plaintiffs alleged that Texas failed to provide adequate habilitation and…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Campos v. INS

1:98-cv-02231 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida

Filed Date: Sept. 22, 1998

Closed Date: 2001

On September 22, 1998, seven legal permanent residents who were unable to pass English and Civics portions of the naturalization exam due to mental and physical disabilities filed a class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, challenging the denial of their requests for medical waivers by the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS). Plaintiffs contended that the INS engaged in a systematic practice of denying medical waivers (N-648 Requests for Med…