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ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Georgia State Conference of the NAACP v. State of Georgia

1:17-cv-01397 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: April 20, 2017

Closed Date: April 11, 2018

The specific factual background of the case involves a 2017 special election in Georgia for its sixth congressional district. Representative Tom Price resigned in February 2017, and a special election was held in April 2017 to determine his replacement. None of the candidates garnered a majority of the votes, so Georgia state law O.C.G.A. § 21-2-501(a) required a runoff election between the two candidates receiving the most votes. It was determined that this election would take place on June 20…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Human Rights Defense Center v. Inch

9:21-cv-81391 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida

Filed Date: Aug. 10, 2021

Closed Date: March 31, 2023

The Human Rights Defense Center, a non-profit organization dedicated to protecting human rights in U.S. detention facilities, filed this lawsuit on August 10, 2021. The plaintiff filed suit in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida against the Florida Department of Corrections (Department of Corrections) and the warden of the Everglades Correctional Institution (Everglades). The presiding judge was Judge Donald M. Middlebrooks. The plaintiff alleged that Departmen…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Unified School Dist 259 v. Kansas Advocacy & Protective Services

6:04-cv-01279 | U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas

Filed Date: Aug. 24, 2004

Closed Date: Jan. 11, 2006

This is a case about a protection and advocacy agency’s (P&A) records access authority. On August 24, 2004, Unified School District No. 259 (District) filed this lawsuit against Disability Rights Center of Kansas (DRC), Kansas’s P&A in the U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas. The District sought declaratory relief that the Protection and Advocacy for Individuals with Mental Illness Act (PAIMI Act), Developmental Disabilities Assistance and Bill of Rights Act (DD Act), and Protection …
POLICING
Rulli v. Pittsburgh

2:20-cv-00965 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: June 29, 2020

Closed Date: March 24, 2023

On June 29, 2020, six named plaintiffs filed this class-action lawsuit against the city of Pittsburgh and various elected and police officials in the Western District of Pennsylvania. The case was assigned to Judge Cathy Bissoon. The plaintiffs were non-violent protesters who gathered to protest police brutality in the wake of George Floyd's murder. Then the Pittsburgh Bureau of Police attacked them during these protests with flash-bang grenades, rubber bullets and tear gas. The plaintiffs argu…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Lombardi v. Raimondo

1:19-cv-00364 | U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island

Filed Date: July 3, 2019

Closed Date: March 16, 2022

This is a case about the civil rights of people who have been sentenced to a life term of incarceration.  On July 3, 2019, two men serving life sentences in the custody of the Rhode Island Department of Corrections filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island, challenging the constitutionality of the state's "Civil Death Act," R.I. Gen. Laws § 13-6-1 et seq. Under that statute, people sentenced to an adult correctional facility for life were declared "civilly d…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Priorities USA v. Nessel

4:19-cv-13341 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: Nov. 12, 2019

Case Ongoing

This lawsuit was filed on November 12, 2019 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. The plaintiff, a left-wing advocacy group called Priorities USA, sued Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel in her official capacity. They were represented by private counsel. The group claimed that two Michigan laws, the "Voter Transportation Ban" and the "Absentee Ballot Organizing Ban," violated the U.S. Constitution. The Voter Transportation Ban prohibited the hiring of vehicles to b…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Libertarian Party of Illinois v. Pritzker

1:20-cv-02112 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: April 2, 2020

Closed Date: July 8, 2021

This case was about Illinois election law (candidate nomination and signature gathering procedures) during the COVID-19 pandemic and 2020 election. The Libertarian Party of Illinois, the Green Party of Illinois, and several independent candidates filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois on April 2, 2020. Defendants were various members of the Illinois State Board of Elections. Plaintiffs challenged signature-gathering requirements for ballot qualification duri…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Coalition on Homelessness v. City and County of San Francisco

4:22-cv-05502 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Sept. 27, 2022

Case Ongoing

This case is a challenge to San Francisco’s policies regarding homelessness. The plaintiffs, several homeless individuals and an advocacy organization allege that San Francisco has enacted anti-homelessness ordinances and statutes that criminalize the unhoused population of the city, despite lack of access to shelter beds. The plaintiffs claim that in its efforts to “solve” the homelessness crisis, the City did not invest in adequate shelter to meet the needs of its unhoused population. Instead…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Coronel v. Decker

1:20-cv-02472 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: March 20, 2020

Closed Date: Jan. 17, 2023

COVID-19 Summary: In this case, federal district judge Allison Nathan (SDNY) granted emergency relief on March 27, 2020, requiring ICE to release seven at-risk detainees from immigration detention in light of the grave threat posed by congregate detention during the COVID-19 pandemic. On March 20, 2020, seven persons held in civil immigration detention centers in the New York City area -- who because of serious and chronic medical conditions face a significant risk of severe illness or death i…
NATIONAL SECURITY
Baby Doe v. Piehota

1:16-cv-00373 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

Filed Date: April 5, 2016

Closed Date: Sept. 14, 2017

On April 5, 2016, nineteen American Muslim individuals listed in the Federal Bureau of Investigation's ("FBI") Terrorist Screening Database filed this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia against the Department of Homeland Security ("DHS"), the FBI, the Transportation Security Administration ("TSA"), and the Terrorist Screening Center ("TSC"). Represented by the Council on American-Islamic Relations and private counsel, the plaintiffs brought this…