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HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
L. W. v. Skrmetti

3:23-cv-00376 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee

Filed Date: April 20, 2023

Case Ongoing

On March 2, 2023, Tennessee Governor Bill Lee signed into law a bill banning gender-affirming care for transgender patients under the age of 18. Specifically, Tennessee Senate Bill 1 (SB1) prohibited any “medical procedure” from being performed “for the purpose of . . .[e]nabling a minor to identify with” a gender identity different from the sex they were designated at birth or “[t]reating purported discomfort or distress from a discordance between the minor’s sex and asserted identity.” SB1 ad…
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…
NATIONAL SECURITY
Shubert v. Obama

4:07-cv-00693 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: May 17, 2006

Case Ongoing

On May 17, 2006, American citizens who use the telephone and internet filed a putative class action lawsuit on behalf of themselves and others similarly situated in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York. The plaintiffs sued the President of the United States of America, the National Security Agency and the Attorney General under the Declaratory Judgment Act and Bivens. Represented by private counsel, they sought declaratory, injunctive, and monetary relief, claim…
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…
POLICING
Sow v. City of New York

1:21-cv-00533 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Jan. 21, 2021

Case Ongoing

Ten New York residents, on behalf of themselves and others similarly situated, brought this class action against the City of New York and the New York City Police Department (“NYPD”) on January 21, 2021 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. The plaintiffs sued under 42 U.S.C § 1983, alleging excessive force and unlawful seizure in violation of the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments; First Amendment violations, including retaliation for the exercise of First Amendment r…
PRISON CONDITIONS
West v. Gobeille

2:19-cv-00081 | U.S. District Court for the District of Vermont

Filed Date: May 21, 2019

Closed Date: 2023

On May 21, 2019, incarcerated individuals in Vermont with chronic hepatitis C (HCV) filed a class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Vermont, and Judge William K. Sessions III presided. The plaintiffs alleged that the Vermont Department of Corrections, its leadership, and its medical contractors violated the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution by withholding treatment from incarcerated individuals wit…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Briggs v. Montgomery

2:18-cv-02684 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: Aug. 23, 2018

Case Ongoing

This case concerns alleged wealth-based discrimination in a deferred prosecution program for marijuana possession. On August 23, 2018, three Maricopa County, Arizona residents who were referred to Maricopa County's marijuana diversion program filed this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona. The plaintiffs sued Maricopa County and Treatment Assessment Screening Center, Incorporated (“TASC”), a private company, under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The plaintiffs, represe…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Hamama v. Adducci

2:17-cv-11910 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: June 15, 2017

Case Ongoing

This case concerns a habeas petition and the due process rights of detained Iraqi Americans facing deportation to Iraq. Petitioners in this class action/habeas petition were Iraqi nationals, including many Chaldean Christians, who had resided in the United States for many years. They had been subject to final orders of removal for years, but the U.S. government permitted them to reside in the community under orders of supervision. After the Trump Administration negotiated with Iraq in early 201…
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…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Medina v. Fischer

1:11-cv-00176 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Jan. 4, 2011

Closed Date: July 22, 2016

On January 4, 2011, visually impaired and blind inmates at Sullivan and Wende Correctional Facilities filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. The plaintiffs— who initially represented themselves but later were represented by Legal Aid and private attorneys—asked the court for declaratory and injunctive relief. The plaintiffs sued the State of New York for violations of Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act and Title II of the American with D…