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HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND 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

Case Ongoing

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…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
League of Women Voters v. Ashcroft

2:18-cv-04073 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri

Filed Date: April 17, 2018

Case Ongoing

On April 17, 2017, League of Women Voters of Missouri, St. Louis A. Philip Randolph Institute, and Greater Kansas City A. Philip Institute filed a suit against the Missouri Secretary of State and the Director of the Missouri Department of Revenue. The plaintiffs alleged that the defendants continuously failed to comply with portions of the “Motor Vehicle” provisions of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993, 52 U.S.S. § 20501, et seq. (“NVRA”). Plaintiff alleged that the defendants failed …
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
Trivette v. Tennessee Department of Correction

3:20-cv-00276 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee

Filed Date: March 31, 2020

Case Ongoing

On March 31, 2020, a deaf man in the custody of the Tennessee Department of Correction (TDOC) and Disability Rights Tennessee (DRT), the state protection and advocacy entity, filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee. The plaintiffs sued TDOC alleging violations of Title II of the ADA and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act for failure to provide effective communication accommodations. Specifically, the plaintiffs alleged inmates incarcerated at TDOC f…
EDUCATION
Doe v. Madison Metropolitan School District

2020CV000454 | Wisconsin state trial court

Filed Date: Feb. 18, 2020

Closed Date: June 30, 2023

On February 18, 2020, a group of parents whose children were attending schools in the Madison Metropolitan School District filed this lawsuit in the Dane County Circuit Court under Wis. Stat. §§ 806.04 and 813.01 against the Madison Metropolitan School District. Plaintiffs claimed that the defendant adopted and implemented policies that violated the rights of district parents by enabling children, of any age, to change their gender identity at school without parental notice or consent, and inst…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Malam v. Adducci

5:20-cv-10829 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: March 30, 2020

COVID-19 Summary: A medically vulnerable immigration detainee filed this case on March 30, 2020. The detainee alleged that ongoing detention violated her due process rights because it was unlawfully punitive given the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Additional detainees intervened. The court granted several releases in the form of preliminary injunctions. The court also certified a class, instituted procedures for bail applications from detainees within the class, and continued to grant temporary re…
POLICING
Mills v. Connelly

3:22-cv-00193 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana

Filed Date: March 22, 2022

Case Ongoing

This is a case about prolonged detention and invasive searches during traffic stops. On March 22, 2022, a Black woman from Mississippi filed this lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana. The plaintiff sued the West Baton Rouge Sheriff’s Office (WBRSO) and the West Baton Rouge Parish Department of Homeland Security, Emergency Preparedness, and 911 (DOHS) under 14 U.S.C. § 1983 and the U.S. Constitution and Louisiana state law. Represented by the ACLU of Louisiana and …
EDUCATION
Biediger v. Quinnipiac University

3:09-cv-00621 | U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

Filed Date: April 16, 2009

Case Ongoing

In March 2009, Quinnipiac University announced plans to cut its women's volleyball team, men's golf team, and men's outdoor track team. At the same time, the University pledged to create a new varsity sport, competitive cheerleading, for the 2009-10 season. In response, five current Quinnipiac women's varsity volleyball players and their coach filed this putative class action lawsuit against Quinnipiac in the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut on April 16, 2009. They were repre…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Ramirez v. County of Orange

8:18-cv-00220 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: Feb. 7, 2018

Closed Date: Oct. 28, 2020

Disability Rights California, the state’s protection and agency system, filed a lawsuit on February 7, 2018 in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California on behalf of one non-profit organization and 7 individuals with disabilities who were unhoused/homeless.  The lawsuit against Orange County, California alleged civil rights violations under the American With Disabilities Act (42 U.S.C. § 12132); Section 504 Of The Rehabilitation Act (29 U.S.C. § 794); and California state l…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
State of Washington v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security

4:19-cv-05210 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Washington

Filed Date: Aug. 14, 2019

Closed Date: March 1, 2023

This case is one of several brought nationwide by states, counties, and non-profit organizations challenging the Trump administration's revised, final public charge rule, which expands the types of programs that the federal government will consider in public charge determinations to now also include previously excluded health, nutrition, and housing programs. In the fall of 2019, district court judges from across the country granted preliminary injunctions enjoining the government from implemen…