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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. At the time of this writing, there were three other cases addressing SB4 (in addition to this one). This case was before Judge Orlando L. Garcia, as was El Paso C…
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…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Thompson v. Alabama

2:16-cv-00783 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama

Filed Date: Sept. 26, 2016

Closed Date: May 26, 2023

This case challenges section 177(b) of the Alabama Constitution, which disenfranchises individuals with convictions of felonies "involving moral turpitude." In 1985, the Supreme Court held that the 1901 drafters of the Alabama disenfranchisement provision specifically selected the vague and arbitrary "moral turpitude" standard in order to disenfranchise black people. Hunter v. Underwood, 471 U.S. 222 (1985). The provision was therefore unconstitutional and inoperative. But in 1996, Alabama put …
PRISON CONDITIONS
Flynn v. Doyle

2:06-cv-00537 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin

Filed Date: May 1, 2006

Closed Date: Feb. 11, 2016

On May 1, 2006, attorneys for the National Prison Project of the ACLU Foundation and the ACLU of Wisconsin Foundation Inc. filed a civil rights class action in the U.S. District Court Eastern District of Wisconsin pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 on behalf of female inmates incarcerated at Taycheedah Correctional Institution (“TCI”) in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. The plaintiffs alleged that their conditions of confinement violated their rights under the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United St…
EDUCATION
Soule v. Connecticut Association of Schools, Inc.

3:20-cv-00201 | U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

Filed Date: Feb. 12, 2020

Case Ongoing

The four plaintiffs in this case are high school track athletes who alleged that having to compete against transgender girls (consistently referred to as "biological males" in their briefs) in girls' track events has caused the plaintiffs to lose out on significant opportunities to win competitions and further advance in their track careers. They filed suit on February 12, 2020 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut against their school districts and the Connecticut Intersch…
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…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Patino v. City of Pasadena

4:14-cv-03241 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas

Filed Date: Nov. 12, 2014

Closed Date: June 30, 2023

This is a case about voter dilution and preclearance of voting rights changes.  On November 12, 2014, registered Hispanic voters of the City of Pasadena, Texas filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas. Plaintiffs sued the City of Pasadena, the Mayor, and members of the Pasadena City Council under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, 52 U.S.C. § 10301 (formerly 42 U.SC. § 1973). Specifically, Plaintiffs claimed that the City altered its gove…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Karnoski v. Trump

2:17-cv-01297 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: Aug. 28, 2017

Closed Date: Sept. 22, 2021

On August 25, 2017, then-President Donald Trump issued a formal memorandum directing the United States military to prohibit transgender people from serving in the military and authorizing the military to discharge any transgender people currently serving. In response, on August 28, 2017, three transgender individuals, either currently serving or hoping to serve in the military, along with the Human Rights Campaign and the Gender Justice League, filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for …
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Raymond [later O'Toole as Trustee of Estate of Serrano] v. The City of New York

1:15-cv-06885 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Aug. 31, 2015

Case Ongoing

On August 31, 2015, a group of minority New York City police officers who had been disciplined or fired filed a class action suit against the New York City Police Department (“NYPD”) in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York for violations of the First, Fifth, and Fourteenth Amendments, as well as violations of the Civil Rights Act of 1866, and of 42 USC §§ 1981, 1983, 1985. The plaintiffs sought declaratory and injunctive relief and compensatory damages. Specifically, th…
POLICING
Epps v. City and County of Denver

1:20-cv-01878 | U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado

Filed Date: June 25, 2020

Case Ongoing

This lawsuit was filed on June 25, 2020, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado. The suit responded to police tactics used on protesters in May and June of 2020, after police killed George Floyd. Represented by private counsel (Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer, LLP) and ACLU attorneys, plaintiffs in this case were Black Lives Matter 5280, a Denver-based chapter of Black Lives Matter, and nine individual plaintiffs. They brought this suit against the city and county of Denver, offic…