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POLICING
United States v. City of Seattle

2:12-cv-01282 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: July 27, 2012

On March 31, 2011, the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Civil Rights Division opened an investigation of the Seattle Police Department (SPD) pursuant to the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 (then codified at 42 U.S.C. § 14141; then recodified to 34 U.S.C. § 12601), the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968, and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Following a comprehensive investigation, on December 16, 2011, the DOJ announced its findings that SPD engag…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Georgia State Conference v. State of Georgia

1:21-cv-05338 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: Dec. 30, 2021

This is a case about redistricting in Georgia.   On December 30, 2021, the Georgia State Conference of the NAACP (NAACP), Georgia Coalition for the People’s Agenda (GCPA), and Galeo Latino Community Development Fund, Inc (GALEO) (collectively, “Plaintiffs”) filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia.  Plaintiffs sued the State of Georgia, the Governor of the State of Georgia, and the Secretary of State of Georgia (collectively, “Defendants”) for …

Administrative Stay Granted

ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Nelson v. Warner

3:19-00898 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia

Filed Date: Dec. 17, 2019

Closed Date: Oct. 15, 2021

This case is about a West Virginia statute, West Virginia Code § 3-6-2(c)(3), that requires ballots for all statewide partisan offices to list first the party whose presidential candidate received the most votes in the last presidential election. On December 17, 2019, registered voters affiliated with the Democratic Party, the West Virginia Democratic Party, and the West Virginia Democratic House Legislative Committee filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of We…

Case Dismissed (Involuntary)

Reversed

ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Democratic Executive Committee of Florida v. Detzner

4:18-cv-00520 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida

Filed Date: Nov. 8, 2018

Closed Date: July 29, 2019

This case, which arose in the context of Florida’s closely contested 2018 U.S. Senate election, challenged Florida’s signature-matching requirements for vote-by-mail and provisional ballots as disenfranchising Florida voters, including a disproportionate number of young and first-time voters and racial and ethnic minorities.  On November 8, 2018, Plaintiffs, the Democratic Executive Committee of Florida (DECF) (a statewide organization representing Democratic candidates and voters) and the poli…

Case Dismissed (Involuntary)

Appeal Dismissed

ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Stein v. Cortes

2:16-cv-06287 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Dec. 15, 2016

Closed Date: April 29, 2020

On December 5, 2016, plaintiffs, who consisted of the Green Party presidential candidate and a Pennsylvania voter that had voted in the 2016 presidential election (collectively, the “Plaintiffs”), filed a complaint for declaratory and injunctive relief against the Secretary of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the Commissioner of the Bureau of Commissions, Elections and Legislation of Pennsylvania (collectively, the “Defendants”).  Both Defendants worked for the Pennsylvania Department of St…

Case Dismissed (Involuntary)

LABOR RIGHTS
Eichmann v. Delta Air Lines, Inc.

3:15-cv-00131 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Jan. 9, 2015

Closed Date: Jan. 6, 2017

This class action lawsuit challenges the compensation scheme that Delta Air Lines used for its flight attendants. On January 9, 2015, a private plaintiff brought a class action suit against Delta Air Lines, Inc., in U.S. District Court in the Northern District of California. Plaintiff observed that defendant laid out its compensation structures in its Work Rules, which outlined different payment structures from “Flight Pay”, “Duty Period Credit Pay”, “Duty Period Average”, and “Trip Pay Credit”…

Case Dismissed (Involuntary)

Reversed

PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
King County v. Turner

2:25-cv-00814 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: May 2, 2025

On May 2, 2025, eight cities and counties across five states—Washington, California, Massachusetts, Ohio, and New York—filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington against the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, the U.S. Department of Transportation, the Federal Transit Administration, and their agency heads as Defendants. They challenged defendants' conditioning of Congressionally-appropriated grants—including funds meant to serve unhoused …

Preliminary Injunction Granted

Appeal Pending

ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Thompson v. Trump

1:21-cv-00400 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Feb. 16, 2021

This is a case about the violent insurrection and disruption of Congress on January 6, 2021, while Congress approved the results of the Electoral College in order to elect the next President and Vice President of the United States. On February 16, 2021, a member of the United States House of Representatives, in his personal capacity, filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. Represented by private counsel and the NAACP, the plaintiff sued the President…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Pars Equality Center v. Pompeo

18-cv-07818 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: July 31, 2018

On July 31, 2018, two nonprofit organizations and fifteen individuals filed this class-action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington, challenging the Trump Administration's implementation of the waiver provision of the Travel Ban (Presidential Proclamation No. 9645). The Travel Ban indefinitely banned millions of nationals of five Muslim-majority countries from entering the United States. Pars Equality Center and OneAmerica are immigrant and refugee advocacy o…
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Warren v. DeSantis

4:22-cv-00302 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida

Filed Date: Aug. 17, 2022

Closed Date: Feb. 10, 2025

This case is about the First Amendment rights of public officials. On August 4, 2022, the Governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis, promulgated Executive Order 22-176, suspending a State Attorney after he signed on to statements in support of transgender rights and abortion rights. The Executive Order (EO) claimed the State Attorney was "incompetent" to hold his office and had demonstrated a "neglect of duty" while in office. However, Governor DeSantis stated to the press that the suspension was due t…