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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…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Stuart v. Huff

1:11-cv-00804 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina

Filed Date: Sept. 29, 2011

This case has to do with the “Woman’s Right to Know Act” (the Act), which was enacted on July 28, 2011 after the legislature overrode a veto by the Governor of North Carolina. This case was brought by the ACLU, Planned Parenthood, Center for Reproductive Rights, and A Woman’s Choice of Raleigh, Inc., on behalf of various physicians, licensed to practice medicine in the State of North Carolina and other various clinics providing reproductive health care services in North Carolina. The case was b…
PUBLIC HOUSING
Cabrini-Green Local v. CHA

1:96-cv-06949 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Oct. 23, 1996

Case Ongoing

On October 23, 1996, Cabrini-Green Local Advisory Council (LAC), a tenant organization that represents the tenants of Cabrini-Green, a family public housing development in Chicago, filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. Plaintiff sued the Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) and its Executive Director under the Fair Housing Act, Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. § 1983, HOPE VI, the U.S. Housing Act of 1937, and the the Uniform Relocati…
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…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Texas Democratic Party v. Abbott

5:20-cv-00438 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

Filed Date: April 7, 2020

Case Ongoing

NOTE: This case is being tracked in close to real time by the Stanford/MIT Healthy Elections Project. So for more current information, see their tracker.  On April 7, 2020, the Chair of the Texas Democratic Party, the Texas Democratic Party, and individual voters filed this lawsuit in the Western District of Texas. The plaintiffs sued the Governor of Texas, the Texas Secretary of State, the Travis County Clerk, and the Bexar County Elections Administrator under Section 2 of the Voting Rights …
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Toomey v. State of Arizona

4:19-cv-00035 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: Jan. 23, 2019

Case Ongoing

On January 23, 2019, a transgender man employed as an associate professor at the University of Arizona filed this lawsuit against the State, the Arizona Board of Regents, and the Arizona Department of Administration in United States District Court for the District of Arizona. The State provides healthcare coverage to state employees through a plan run by the Arizona Department of Administration. Although the plan generally covers medically necessary care, it categorically denies coverage for ge…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Washington v. The GEO Group Inc.

3:17-cv-05806 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: Sept. 20, 2017

Case Ongoing

This case addressed whether a Washington State minimum wage law applied to immigration detainees. The state of Washington filed suit in the Pierce County Superior Court on September 20, 2017. The defendant was the GEO Group, Inc., a for-profit corporation that operated the Northwest Detention Center (NWDC). Washington had two causes of action. First, they claimed defendant’s policy of paying immigrant detainees only $1 per day violated the Washington Minimum Wage Act (MWA), which set the minimu…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Postawko v. Missouri Department of Corrections

2:16-cv-04219 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri

Filed Date: July 14, 2016

Case Ongoing

On July 14, 2016, an inmate at the Missouri Department of Corrections (MDOC) filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri, alleging that he had received inadequate medical care from the MDOC for a chronic Hepatitis C (HCV) viral infection. The inmate originally filed on his own, but the ACLU of Missouri and MacArthur Justice Center began representing this inmate and on December 15, 2016, the plaintiff filed an amended complaint seeking to proceed as a…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Woodcock v. Correct Care Solutions

3:16-cv-00096 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky

Filed Date: Feb. 27, 2015

This class action, brought on behalf of approximately 1,200 prisoners in the custody of the Kentucky Department of Corrections diagnosed with Hepatitis C, and those who might be diagnosed in the future, was filed in Kentucky state court in 2015, and removed to the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky on December 7, 2016. Represented by the civil rights firm Belzley, Bathurst & Bentley, plaintiffs sued the Kentucky Department of Corrections, several individual employees of …
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…