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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…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Hugo Martin Recinos-Recinos v. Express Forestry Inc.

2:05-cv-01355 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana

Filed Date: April 7, 2005

Closed Date: June 22, 2009

On April 7, 2005, attorneys with the Immigrant Justice Project of the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Juvenile Justice Project of Louisiana filed a class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana on behalf of over 300 predominantly Guatemalan and Mexican migrant workers, admitted to work in the U.S. pursuant to H-2B temporary foreign worker visa program, who planted trees and performed other forestry-related activities for Express Forestry Inc. Plaintif…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Colon-Marrero v. Conty-Perez

3:12-cv-01749 | U.S. District Court for the District of Puerto Rico

Filed Date: Sept. 12, 2012

Closed Date: Jan. 30, 2015

This case concerned the Puerto Rico State Election Commission's alleged illegal removal of electors from the electoral register.   On September 12, 2012, a citizen of the United States of America residing in Puerto Rico filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Puerto Rico against the President and the Commissioners of Puerto Rico’s State Elections Commission (“SEC”). The case was presided by District Judge Carmen Consuelo Cerezo. On September 21, 2012, another resident …
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Little Rock Family Planning Services v. Rutledge

4:19-cv-00449 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas

Filed Date: June 26, 2019

Closed Date: Sept. 19, 2022

Consolidated federal lawsuits were prompted by Arkansas state laws that limited the circumstances under which a woman could seek an abortion. The plaintiffs in both cases, abortion-providing facilities in Arkansas and the doctors that worked at them, claimed that Arkansas already regulated abortions to make it safe and that these laws unnecessarily restricted access. Specifically, they alleged that the 18-week ban prevented abortions before viability, the Reason Ban was unconstitutionally vague…
POLICING
Sow v. City of New York

1:21-cv-00533 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Jan. 21, 2021

Case Ongoing

Ten New York residents, on behalf of themselves and others similarly situated, brought this class action against the City of New York and the New York City Police Department (“NYPD”) on January 21, 2021 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. The plaintiffs sued under 42 U.S.C § 1983, alleging excessive force and unlawful seizure in violation of the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments; First Amendment violations, including retaliation for the exercise of First Amendment r…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Concerned Pastors for Social Action v. Khouri

2:16-cv-10277 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: Jan. 27, 2016

Case Ongoing

On January 27, 2016, Concerned Pastors for Social Action filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. The plaintiffs sued the state of Michigan and the city of Flint under the federal Safe Drinking Water Act, 42 U.S.C. §300j-8(a). The plaintiffs, represented by counsel from the ACLU, the Natural Resources Defense Council, and private counsel, sought declaratory and injunctive relief. Specifically, the plaintiffs requested that the court: (1) declare the de…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Allison v. Allen

1:19-cv-01126 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina

Filed Date: Nov. 12, 2019

Case Ongoing

This is a class-action lawsuit challenging the detention of indigent individuals awaiting trial who are unable to post bail in exchange for their freedom. On November 12, 2019, three confined individuals in the Alamance County Detention Center, North Carolina, filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina. The plaintiffs sued the Chief Alamance County District Court Judge, District Court Magistrates, the Senior Resident Superior Court Judge, and the She…
POLICING
Melendres v. Arpaio

2:07-cv-02513 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: Dec. 12, 2007

Case Ongoing

This case concerns racial profiling by the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office (“MCSO”) in Arizona. On December 12, 2007, Latino motorists filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Arizona against the County of Maricopa, MCSO, and Sheriff Joe Arpaio. The plaintiffs sued under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and 28 U.S.C. § 2201. They sought to represent a class of Latino persons who have been or will be stopped, detained, interrogated, or searched by the Sheriff or his agents in …
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
P.J.E.S v. Wolf

1:20-cv-02245 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Aug. 24, 2020

Closed Date: Nov. 6, 2023

COVID-19 Summary: This putative class action case challenges the government’s use of an emergency public health order issued under 42 U.S.C. § 265 to restrict immigration of unaccompanied minors. Pursuant to the emergency public order, the government has expelled unaccompanied children without following usual immigration laws, saying the children could spread COVID-19 if the children were processed and detained under regular immigration laws. The plaintiff sought declaratory and injunctive reli…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Miller v. Aranas

3:17-cv-00068 | U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada

Filed Date: Feb. 2, 2017

Closed Date: Jan. 18, 2023

This is a case about inadequate medical care in prisons. On February 2, 2017, a prisoner within the Nevada Department of Corrections (“NDOC”) filed a complaint pro se in the United States District Court for the District of Nevada against the NDOC and the correctional facility doctor in charge of his care. The case was assigned to Judge Miranda M. Du, who screened and dismissed the original complaint. 2018 WL 11395017. Plaintiff then filed a first amended complaint under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 on Febr…