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POLICING
Taylor v. Nocco

8:21-cv-00555 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida

Filed Date: March 10, 2021

Case Ongoing

This is a case challenging the Pasco County Sheriff's Office's "Intelligence-Led Policing Program," or ILP Practices. The plaintiffs sued Sheriff Nocco in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida, alleging that the program created a list of individuals believed likely to commit future crimes and then subjected those individuals and their families to “relentless pursuit, arrest, and prosecution” in violation of the First Amendment freedom of assembly and the Fourteenth Amendmen…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
American Council of the Blind of Indiana v. Indiana Election Commission

1:20-cv-03118 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana

Filed Date: Dec. 31, 2020

Case Ongoing

In a lawsuit filed December 3, 2020 in the U.S. District court for the Southern District of Indiana, several individual plaintiffs, joined by Indiana Disability Rights and the American Council of the Blind of Indiana, asserted that the Indiana Election Commission and the Secretary of State discriminated against voters who are blind or have low vision by not offering the necessary accommodations that these voters need to vote privately and independently when using the absentee vote-by-mail progr…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Georgia State Conference of the NAACP v. Fayette County Board of Commissioners

3:11-cv-00123 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: Aug. 9, 2011

Closed Date: Sept. 20, 2016

This is a case about the whether at-large election methods violated the Voting Rights Act. In an at-large voting system, members of a governing body are elected by majority vote to represent an entire population, rather than a subset of that population as in a district voting system. In Fayette County, Georgia, members of the Board of Commissioners and Board of Education were elected using an at-large method, with the effect of diluting the strength of a subset of the county: Black voters who l…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
United States of America v. Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc.

2:21-CV-00022 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas

Filed Date: Feb. 5, 2021

Case Ongoing

On February 5, 2021 an anonymous Plaintiff, “Relator Alex Doe,” brought this civil fraud action on behalf of the United States, Texas, and Louisiana against Defendants Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc., and other Planned Parenthood affiliates. Plaintiff sought to recover damages and civil penalties they alleged were owed to the United States, Texas, and Louisiana as a result of Planned Parenthood having presented “false or fraudulent claims for payment of approval under the Medicai…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Disability Rights Mississippi v. Hinds County

3:11-cv-00327 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi

Filed Date: June 1, 2011

Case Ongoing

This is a case about whether a Protection and Advocacy (P&A) agency can communicate with all individuals in a juvenile detention facility where some individuals with disabilities reside, as well as the substantive conditions in a juvenile detention facility. On June 1, 2011, Disability Rights Mississippi, Mississippi’s P&A, and a putative class of juvenile detention facility residents filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi. They filed this lawsuit…
EDUCATION
Cohen v. Brown University

1:92-cv-00197 | U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island

Filed Date: April 9, 1992

Case Ongoing

The Initial Title IX Settlement (1992 – 1998) In 1991, Brown University announced that it was going to eliminate four sports: women’s volleyball, women’s gymnastics, men’s golf, and men’s water polo. Brown explained that the teams could still compete as club sports, but it was no longer able to provide university funding for financial reasons. At that time, Brown’s student body was 52 percent male and 48 percent female, but 63 percent of its athletes were male. On April 9, 1992, affected women …
PRISON CONDITIONS
Turney v. Atencio

1:18-cv-00001 | U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho

Filed Date: Jan. 3, 2018

Case Ongoing

Plaintiffs, who have Hepatitis C, were incarcerated by the Idaho Department of Corrections (IDOC). On January 3, 2018, they filed a putative class action lawsuit in forma pauperis in the United States District Court for the District of Idaho alleging that IDOC refused to provide treatment required by medical standards of care. Plaintiffs sued IDOC in its official capacity as well as administrators and medical personnel at IDOC. Plaintiffs also sued Corizon, Inc., a for profit company that contr…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective v. Kemp

1:19-cv-02973 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: June 28, 2019

Case Ongoing

The ACLU, the ACLU of Georgia, the Center for Reproductive Rights, and Planned Parenthood filed this suit on June 28, 2019, challenging an imminent Georgia law banning abortions as early as six weeks into pregnancy. The plaintiffs, which also included health care providers and their patients, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, Atlanta Division, against the Georgia state governor, attorney general, health officials, and district attorneys. On due process groun…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
People First of Alabama v. Merrill

2:20-cv-00619 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama

Filed Date: May 1, 2020

Closed Date: Nov. 16, 2020

COVID-19 Summary: This lawsuit was filed by Alabama voters to temporarily enjoin Alabama’s voting law provisions during the COVID-19 pandemic. The plaintiffs challenged the witness and photo ID requirement, requiring absentee voters to obtain witness or notary signatures, and submit a photocopy of their ID with their ballot. The plaintiffs sought declaratory and injunctive relief to enjoin enforcement of the Witness and ID requirement and to allow curbside voting during the primary, municipal, …
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Darweesh v. Trump

1:17-cv-00480 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: Jan. 28, 2017

Closed Date: Sept. 21, 2017

This lawsuit challenged President Trump’s January 27, 2017 Executive Order (EO-1) barring admission to the U.S. of nationals of Iraq, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen. The plaintiffs–visa holders who were detained at JFK airport and threatened with deportation pursuant to EO-1–filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus and a civil complaint in District Court for the Eastern District of New York on January 28, 2017. Simultaneously, the plaintiffs filed a motion to certify…