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SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
True the Vote, Inc. v. Internal Revenue Service

1:13-cv-00734 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: May 21, 2013

Case Ongoing

The case arose from the IRS’s years-long delay in processing a non-profit’s application for recognition as a tax-exempt organization. On May 21, 2013, True the Vote—a Texas-based nonprofit organization focused on elections—filed suit against the Internal Revenue Service, the United States, and a number of IRS officials. Represented by the ActRight Legal Foundation, the Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence at Chapman University School of Law, and private counsel, the plaintiffs sued in the U.…
CHILD WELFARE
Katie A. v. Bonta

2:02-cv-05662 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: July 18, 2002

Case Ongoing

This lawsuit was filed in the Central District of California on July 18, 2002, by the class of children and young adults who (a) are in the custody of Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services; (b) have a behavioral, emotional, or psychiatric impairment; and (c) need individualized mental health services. The suit is against County and State agencies for neglecting their responsibilities to provide mental health care services to foster children in California. Plaintiffs soug…
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Otto v. City of Boca Raton, Florida

9:18-cv-80771 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida

Filed Date: June 13, 2018

Case Ongoing

Two licensed marriage and family therapists brought this lawsuit individually and on behalf of their patients against the City of Boca Raton and the County of Palm Beach, Florida in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida on June 13, 2018. The plaintiffs challenged City Ordinance 5407 and Palm Beach County Ordinance 2017-046 (“the ordinances”), both of which prohibited conversion therapy on minors, on federal constitutional grounds and state constitutional and statutory gro…
POLICING
Pettibone v. Trump

3:20-cv-01464 | U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon

Filed Date: Aug. 26, 2020

Closed Date: Jan. 20, 2025

This case is about the federal law enforcement mission, “Operation Diligent Valor,” directed by the Department of Homeland Security against protestors during the widespread racial justice protests in Portland, Oregon in the summer of 2020. Individual Oregon residents along with Black Millennial Movement and Rose City Justice, Inc. brought this lawsuit on August 26, 2020 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon against President Donald Trump, Acting DHS Secretary Chad Wolf, the Depa…
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
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. There were three other cases addressing SB4 (in addition to this one). This case was before Judge Orlando L. Garcia, as was El Paso County v. Texas, No. 17-cv-004…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Council v. Ivey

2:23-cv-00712 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama

Filed Date: Dec. 12, 2023

Case Ongoing

This case is about alleged systematic over-detention of people incarcerated by the Alabama Department of Corrections for the purpose of profiting from the practice of “convict leasing.”   On December 12, 2024, ten former and current incarcerated persons, along with three service-worker unions, brought this putative class action lawsuit against a number of Alabama officials and private businesses in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama. Named defendants in the laws…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Black v. Franklin County, KY

3:05-cv-00018 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky

Filed Date: March 28, 2005

Closed Date: Aug. 20, 2007

On March 28, 2005, three female plaintiffs, who had been arrested for minor offenses and were strip searched, filed a class action lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky against Franklin County, Kentucky and Franklin County Correctional Complex. The plaintiffs challenged the strip search policy of the Franklin County Correctional Complex, alleging that they were strip searched pursuant to a blanket policy which required all female pretrial detainees ent…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Patino v. City of Pasadena

4:14-cv-03241 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas

Filed Date: Nov. 12, 2014

Closed Date: June 30, 2023

This is a case about voter dilution and preclearance of voting rights changes.  On November 12, 2014, registered Hispanic voters of the City of Pasadena, Texas filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas. Plaintiffs sued the City of Pasadena, the Mayor, and members of the Pasadena City Council under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, 52 U.S.C. § 10301 (formerly 42 U.SC. § 1973). Specifically, Plaintiffs claimed that the City altered its gove…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Hunter v. Beshear

2:16-cv-00798 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama

Filed Date: Sept. 30, 2016

Case Ongoing

On September 30, 2016, three individuals with severe mental illness deemed incompetent to stand trial in criminal proceedings against them filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama. The plaintiffs sued the Alabama Department of Mental Health under the Fourteenth Amendment and Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act. The plaintiffs, represented by the Alabama Disability Advocacy Program, the ACLU of Alabama Foundation, and private counsel, sought de…