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REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt

1:14-cv-00284 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

Filed Date: April 2, 2014

Case Ongoing

This is a case challenging a 2013 Texas law requiring (1) a physician providing abortion services to obtain admitting privileges at a local hospital no farther than 30 miles from the clinic and (2) abortion clinics to meet the building specifications of ambulatory surgical centers. On April 2, 2014, a group of Texas abortion clinics and physicians filed this lawsuit on behalf of themselves and their patients in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas. The plaintiffs sued the c…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Wagafe v. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services

2:17-cv-00094 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: Jan. 23, 2017

Case Ongoing

This lawsuit challenges President Trump's January 27, 2017 Executive Order (EO) suspending entry into the United States of citizens or nationals of Syria, Iraq, Iran, Yemen, Somalia, Sudan, and Libya. This case also challenges the government's Controlled Application Review and Resolution Program (CARRP), alleging it was a precursor to the EO's "extreme vetting" of Muslims, and chronicled the government's attempts to resist disclosure of documents about this program. The original complaint was f…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Washington & Minnesota v. Trump

2:17-cv-00141 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: Jan. 30, 2017

Closed Date: Nov. 9, 2018

Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson filed this federal lawsuit on January 30, 2017 against President Trump’s January 27, 2017, Executive Order (EO-1) barring legal immigrants and refugees from seven majority-Muslim countries from entering the U.S. and barring Syrian refugees indefinitely. The State filed a complaint and an emergency motion for a temporary restraining order in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington. The State of Minnesota also signed on as a plaintif…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Planned Parenthood Southwest Ohio Region v. Hodges

1:15-cv-00568 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio

Filed Date: Sept. 1, 2015

Case Ongoing

Two individual healthcare providers, represented by attorneys at the ACLU, Planned Parenthood, and Gerhardstein & Branch, brought this § 1983 suit in September 2015 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio to challenge new state regulations that imposed restrictions on abortion clinics. Plaintiffs in this case were the last two health clinics in southwest Ohio offering abortion procedures: Planned Parenthood of Southwest Ohio (PPSWO) and Women’s Medical Group Professional Co…
ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE
Californians for Renewable Energy v. United States Environmental Protection Agency

4:15-cv-03292 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: July 15, 2015

Case Ongoing

On July 15, 2015, five non-profit organizations concerned with environmental justice filed this lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency ("EPA") in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. Represented by Earthjustice, the plaintiffs sued under the Administrative Procedure Act (APA). The plaintiffs claimed that the EPA violated the APA by failing to enforce Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. § 2000d et seq. (“Title VI”). (The plaintiff…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Alvarez v. LaRose

3:20-cv-00782 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California

Filed Date: April 25, 2020

Case Ongoing

COVID-19 Summary: This is a habeas action brought by detainees in the Otay Mesa Detention Center, seeking release due to COVID-19. The plaintiffs' request for a preliminary injunction was denied on June 7, 2020. The plaintiffs appealed, but withdrew the appeal several months later. In the meantime, the court denied the defendant's motion to dismiss and the parties began the discovery process, prior to a stay in July 2021. On April 25, 2020 detainees held in the Otay Mesa Detention Center (OMDC)…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
International Refugee Assistance Project (“IRAP”) v. Trump

8:17-cv-00361 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: Feb. 7, 2017

Closed Date: Aug. 31, 2020

On February 7, 2017, five immigrant advocacy organizations and fifteen individual immigrants filed this class-action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland (in Greenbelt). Represented by the ACLU and the National Immigration Law Center, the plaintiffs challenged President Trump’s January 27, 2017, executive order (EO). The order restricted admission to the U.S. for nationals of seven majority-Muslim countries and suspended the U.S. refugee program. The plaintiffs allege…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Stafford v. Carter

1:17-cv-00289 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana

Filed Date: Jan. 27, 2017

Case Ongoing

This class action suit challenged the medical care provided to Indiana prisoners with the Hepatitis C Virus (HCV). On January 27, 2017, three prisoners with HCV at Pendleton Correctional Facility filed this class-action suit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana. Judge Jane Magnus-Stinson was assigned. Plaintiffs were represented by private counsel and a professor from the Indiana University School of Law. Defendants included the Indiana Department of Corrections (IDOC…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Huerta v. Ewing

2:16-cv-00397 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana

Filed Date: Oct. 13, 2016

Case Ongoing

On October 13, 2016, pretrial detainees in the Vigo County jail filed this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana. The plaintiffs, represented by the ACLU of Indiana and private counsel, sued the sheriff and other officials of Vigo County under 42 U.S.C. §1983. They sought a declaratory judgment, preliminary and permanent injunction, and damages, claiming violations of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment Due Process clause and Fourteenth Amendment Eq…
EDUCATION
G.G. [Gavin Grimm] v. Gloucester County School Board

4:15-cv-00054 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

Filed Date: June 11, 2015

Case Ongoing

On June 11, 2015, Gavin Grimm, a sixteen-year-old transgender boy filed this lawsuit against the Gloucester County School Board in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. The plaintiff, represented by the national and Virginia ACLU, proceeded under Title IX and 42 U.S.C. § 1983. He sought a preliminary and permanent injunction allowing him to use the boys' restroom at school, claiming that the school board's policy of requiring transgender students to use a private restroo…