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ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Stringer v. Cascos

5:16-cv-00257 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

Filed Date: March 14, 2016

Closed Date: Aug. 3, 2021

On March 14, 2016, four individual plaintiffs filed a suit against the Texas Secretary of State and the Director of the Texas Department of Public Safety (“DPS”), seeking declaratory and injunctive relief to redress defendants’ alleged systemic and ongoing violations of the “motor voter” provisions of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (“NVRA”). The plaintiffs also alleged that the defendants’ conduct violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment due to alleged dispa…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Fair Fight Action v. Raffensperger

1:18-cv-05391 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: Nov. 27, 2018

Closed Date: Sept. 30, 2022

Two voter-rights advocacy organizations and four religious non-profit organizations brought actions against the Georgia Secretary of State, the State Election Board, and members of the State Election Board alleging constitutional violations and violations of the Voting Rights Act.  The original complaint was filed on November 27, 2018, by the two voter-rights groups.  The complaint was amended twice.  The four religious non-profit organizations joined as plaintiffs as part of the first amendmen…
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

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…
JAIL CONDITIONS
United States v. Hinds County

3:16-cv-00489 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi

Filed Date: June 23, 2016

On May 21, 2015, the Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) completed an investigation into Hinds County, Mississippi, over conditions at the Hinds County Adult Detention Facility and Work Center in Raymond (RDC) and the Jackson Detention Center in Jackson. The DOJ found that the facilities were chronically understaffed, that staff were not adequately trained or supervised, and that the facilities were poorly designed and ill-maintained. Facility staff in turn fa…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Turney v. Atencio

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

Filed Date: Jan. 3, 2018

Closed Date: Nov. 2, 2023

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…
EDUCATION
D.R. ex rel. Richardson v. Michigan Department of Education

5:16-cv-13694 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: Oct. 18, 2016

On October 18, 2016, families in Flint, Michigan filed this putative class-action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. The case was assigned to Judge Arthur J. Tarnow. The plaintiffs sued the Michigan Department of Education (MDE), Flint Community Schools (FCS), and the Genesee Intermediate School District (GISD) under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, 20 U.S.C. § 1400, § 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, and Title II of the Americans with…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Commonwealth of Massachusetts v. E*Trade Access

1:03-cv-11206 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: June 25, 2003

Closed Date: Aug. 21, 2020

This is a class action case about accessibility of bank ATMs for blind people. On June 25, 2003, the state of Massachusetts, the National Federation of the Blind (NFB), and several blind individuals sued E*Trade Access and E*Trade Bank in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, alleging that the defendants' ATMs were not accessible to blind people. The plaintiffs alleged that this violated the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and Massachusetts law, and sought a declarato…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Holloway v. City of Virginia Beach

2:18-cv-00069 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

Filed Date: Aug. 28, 2018

Closed Date: Nov. 27, 2023

On November 20, 2017, Plaintiff Latasha Holloway submitted an application to proceed in forma pauperis ("IFP") and a proposed complaint in the Richmond Division of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.  In the proposed complaint, Plaintiff alleged that the City of Virginia Beach, Virginia's at-large election of its City Council violated the Voting Rights Act, 42 U.S.C. §1983, the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Voting Accessibility for the Elderly and Handi…
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

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…