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ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Rivera Madera v. Detzner

1:18-cv-00152 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida

Filed Date: Aug. 16, 2018

Closed Date: Feb. 1, 2021

This case centers around allegations that the Secretary of State of Florida failed to uphold the requirements of Section 4(e) of the Voting Rights Act (52 U.S.C. 10301 et seq.), which prohibits conditioning the right to vote on a person's ability to understand English if they were educated in a school where the predominant language was not English, such as in Puerto Rico. On August 16, 2018, ahead of the 2018 midterm elections in November, the plaintiffs—which included voting rights organizatio…
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…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
United States v. One Boyertown Properties LP

5:20-cv-06249 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Dec. 11, 2020

Case Ongoing

Background This is a case about accessibility for people with disabilities in senior living communities. On December 11, 2020, the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) filed this lawsuit against fourteen companies who had designed, built, and/or owned fifteen buildings that housed independent living, assisted living, and memory care communities. The suit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. The DOJ sued the defendants under the …
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Petteway v. Galveston County

3:22-cv-00057 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas

Filed Date: Feb. 15, 2022

Case Ongoing

This case centers around the 2021 Galveston County, Texas redistricting process and is part of a series of cases challenging the redistricting practices in Galveston County over a number of years. This was the first Voting Rights Act (VRA) case decided since the Supreme Court’s decision in Allen v. Milligan, 599 U. S. 1 (2023). Following the 2010 Census, county leaders adopted a redistricting plan for the county commissioners’ districts that would have effectively removed the single minority op…
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…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Missouri State Conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People v. Ferguson-Florissant School District

4:14-cv-02077 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri

Filed Date: Dec. 18, 2014

Case Ongoing

This is a voter dilution case that challenged an at-large election system utilized by the Ferguson Florissant School District in the State of Missouri to elect members to its School Board.  On December 18, 2014, the Missouri State Conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and certain African American residents and registered voters of the District filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri. Plaintiffs sued Ferguson-Florissa…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Howard v. Williams

2:20-cv-01389 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Sept. 15, 2020

Case Ongoing

This case is about jail conditions in the Allegheny County Jail (ACJ), particularly access to mental health care for incarcerated people with psychiatric disabilities. On September 15, 2020, five individuals then incarcerated at ACJ, represented by the Abolitionist Law Center, the Pennsylvania Institutional Law Project, and a private firm, brought this putative class-action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania on behalf of themselves and other persons with…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Gomez v. Trump

1:20-cv-01419 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: May 28, 2020

Case Ongoing

This case involves a dispute about visa processing. Following a March 20, 2020 decision by the State Department to cease most visa services, President Trump issued Presidential Proclamation 10014 on April 20, suspending the entry of all immigrants into the U.S. for two months, unless they qualified for an exception. Two months later, the entry suspension was extended to December 31, 2020 and expanded to include temporary nonimmigrant visas in Proclamation 10052. As a result, the State Departmen…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Little v. Frederick

6:17-cv-00724 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana

Filed Date: June 5, 2017

Closed Date: July 19, 2023

On June 5, 2017, a Louisiana detainee filed this putative class-action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana. He had been arrested and detained after being charged with felony theft and was unable to post the $375 bond to a for-profit bonding agent to clear his $3000 bail. The plaintiff sued the Sheriff, District Commissioner, and Chief Judge for the 15th Judicial District of Louisiana under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and 28 U.S.C. § 2201. Represented by Civil Rights Co…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Stockman v. Trump

5:17-cv-01799 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: Sept. 5, 2017

Closed Date: Aug. 23, 2021

On September 5, 2017, three named and two anonymous transgender service members and a transgender rights nonprofit filed this lawsuit against the President of the United States, the Secretary of Defense, and other federal officials in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. The case was transferred to the Eastern District that same day. The plaintiffs, represented by the National Center for Lesbian Rights and GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders, sought declaratory and inju…