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ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Flores v. Town of Islip

2:18-cv-03549 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: June 18, 2018

Closed Date: Oct. 14, 2020

This case alleged that the town of Islip, New York's election scheme unconstitutionally diluted the strength of the Latino vote.  On June 18, 2018, Latino voters and a New York-based voting rights group sued the town of Islip, New York; the Islip Town Board; and the Suffolk County Board of Elections in the Eastern District of New York. Plaintiffs claimed that the city's at-large election scheme had the effect of impairing Islip’s minority Latino voters right to an equal opportunity to participa…
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…
EDUCATION
A.B. v. Hawaii State Department of Education

1:18-cv-00477 | U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaii

Filed Date: Dec. 6, 2018

Case Ongoing

Two female student-athletes attending James Campbell High School filed a class action suit on December 6, 2018, against the school, the Hawai'i State Department of Education ("DOE"), and the Oahu Interscholastic Association ("OIA") in the U.S. District for the District of Hawai'i. Two more female student-athletes joined as named plaintiffs through an amended complaint filed on September 26, 2019. Plaintiffs were represented by the ACLU of Hawaii and Legal Aid at Work. The lawsuit was brought un…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Missouri State Conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People v. Ferguson-Florissant School District

4:14-cv-02077 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri

Filed Date: Dec. 18, 2014

Case Ongoing

This is a voter dilution case that challenged an at-large election system utilized by the Ferguson Florissant School District in the State of Missouri to elect members to its School Board.  On December 18, 2014, the Missouri State Conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and certain African American residents and registered voters of the District filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri. Plaintiffs sued Ferguson-Florissa…
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…
POLICING
Tapps v. McClendon

2:22-cv-00013 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana

Filed Date: Jan. 4, 2022

Closed Date: Sept. 15, 2023

On January 4, 2022, an African American, Louisiana resident filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana against the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office (“JPSO”), Hum Management LLC (“Hum”), and a JPSO deputy in his individual capacity. The plaintiff brought this action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 to remedy violations of her Fourth Amendment rights as well as several state law claims, including: (1) unreasonable seizure in violation of Louisiana Constitution Article I, S…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Flores v. Reno

2:85-cv-04544 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: July 11, 1985

Case Ongoing

COVID-19 Summary: This is a very longstanding class action addressing appropriate treatment of noncitizen children in federal immigration custody. On March 26, 2020, plaintiffs filed an emergency motion seeking prompt release due to COVID-19 risks. On March 27, 2020, the court issued an order to the federal agencies detaining immigrant children to “make continuous efforts” to release the children from custody because of the risk posed to them by COVID-19 and to provide an accounting of their ef…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Turner v. Wetzel

4:18-cv-00361 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Jan. 19, 2018

Case Ongoing

Plaintiff, a person serving a life sentence in the custody of the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, was diagnosed with Hepatitis C virus (HCV) in the mid 1990s and, in this lawsuit, sought to compel the Department to provide direct acting antiviral (DAA) treatment.  On January 19, 2018, plaintiff filed this action pro se in the Court of Common Pleas for Schuylkill County against various employees of the Department of Corrections ("DOC defendants") and Correct Care Solutions, the Departmen…
EDUCATION
Coalition for TJ v. Fairfax County School Board

1:21-cv-00296 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

Filed Date: March 3, 2021

Case Ongoing

This is a case about a new admissions policy of the Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology (TJ) that would negatively affect admissions for Asian American students. On March 3, 2021, an organization of primarily Asian American parents named the Coalition for TJ advocating against the new admissions policy filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. The plaintiff sued the Fairfax County School Board (“the School Board”) under 42 U.S.C. §§ …
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
League of Women Voters v. Johnson

2:17-cv-14148 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: Dec. 27, 2017

Closed Date: Nov. 22, 2019

On December 22, 2017, the League of Women Voters of Michigan and eleven individual plaintiffs sued Ruth Johnson in her official capacity as Michigan Secretary of State in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, Southern Division.  Plaintiffs sought declaratory and injunctive relief, claiming that the congressional and legislative districting plan adopted by the Michigan Legislature in 2011 violated Plaintiffs’ rights under the First Amendment and the Equal Protect…