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DISABILITY RIGHTS
Disability Rights Iowa v. White

4:14-cv-00092 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa

Filed Date: March 12, 2014

Closed Date: July 1, 2014

This is a case about a Protection and Advocacy agency’s (P&A) records and residents access authority during an investigation. On March 12, 2014, Disability Rights Iowa (DRI), Iowa’s P&A, filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa against Muscatine County Sheriff’s Office and the Sheriff in his personal capacity. DRI asserted the defendants violated the PAIMI Act when they refused to provide DRI records and let DRI interview staff surrounding an incident wher…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Disability Law Center v. Discovery Academy

2:07-cv-00511 | U.S. District Court for the District of Utah

Filed Date: July 12, 2007

Closed Date: Jan. 6, 2010

This is a case about the scope of a Protection and Advocacy agency’s (P&A) facilities access and investigations authority. On July 12, 2007, Disability Law Center (DLC), Utah’s P&A, filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah. DLC filed this lawsuit against Discovery Academy, a therapeutic boarding school under the Protection and Advocacy for Individuals with Mental Illness Act (PAIMI Act). Represented by itself and private counsel, Disability Law Center sought declar…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Baxley v. Jividen

3:18-cv-01526 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia

Filed Date: Dec. 18, 2018

Case Ongoing

COVID-19 Summary: The plaintiffs in this West Virginia jail conditions class-action case filed an emergency motion for relief on March 25, 2020, seeking an order to require the defendants to develop, disclose, and implement a plan to take appropriate actions to protect the plaintiff class from COVID-19. The court denied the motion because it found that the plaintiffs were unlikely to succeed on the merits of their claim. On December 18, 2018, the plaintiff, a pretrial detainee at West Virginia…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Brown County Taxpayers Association v. President Joseph R Biden Jr

1:22-cv-01171 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin

Filed Date: Oct. 4, 2022

Case Ongoing

On October 4, 2022, the Brown County Taxpayers Association (BCTA), a local tax policy organization, filed suit against the Biden administration in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, alleging that the administration's announced one-time student loan debt relief plan was unconstitutional. The plan was designed to forgive $10,000 to $20,000 in student loans for qualified borrowers. BCTA asserted that the [lan violated the separation of powers doctrine by making a new la…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Yang v. Kellner

1:20-cv-03325 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: April 28, 2020

Closed Date: May 5, 2020

In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, on April 27, 2020, the New York State Board of Elections (BOE) by unanimous vote and in spite of executive orders from the New York governor, adopted a resolution to cancel the New York presidential primary election that was slated for June 23, 2020, while still allowing down-ballot federal congressional and state elections to continue. BOE's rationale was that this was in line with larger goals of avoiding unnecessary social contact, and that there was no…
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Carr v. District of Columbia

1:06-cv-00098 | U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

Filed Date: Jan. 19, 2006

Closed Date: Oct. 27, 2011

On January 19, 2006, the named plaintiffs filed this suit on behalf of themselves and similarly situated individuals in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. The plaintiffs alleged that the District of Columbia’s (“the District”) Metropolitan Police Department (“MPD”) falsely arrested and imprisoned persons who had been participating in or observing a demonstration in Washington, D.C., in response to the second inauguration of President George W. Bush. The MPD arrested the plain…
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Honeyfund.com, Inc. v. DeSantis

4:22-cv-00227 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida

Filed Date: June 22, 2022

Case Ongoing

This is a case about legislation impacting private employers' ability to offer diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) trainings. This case was filed on June 22, 2022, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida against Florida Governor Ron DeSantis; the Florida attorney general; the senior chair, the vice chair, nine commissioners of the Florida Commission on Human Relations. The plaintiffs, (1) private employers with DEI programs in Florida and (2) DEI training consultants,…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Gibbs v. City of Jackson, Mississippi

3:22-cv-00099 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi

Filed Date: Feb. 23, 2022

Case Ongoing

This is a case about the Jackson Police Department’s policy known as “ticket, arrest, and tow” (TAT), under which the police department installed a disproportionate number of vehicular roadblock checks in majority Black and low-income neighborhoods, justifying them as necessary for crime control.  On February 23, 2022, individuals who had encountered or were likely to encounter roadblocks established by the Jackson Police Department for purposes of general crime control filed this lawsuit in th…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Indiana v. Biden

1:22-cv-00192 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana

Filed Date: June 6, 2022

Case Ongoing

On June 6, 2022, the State of Indiana filed suit against President Joseph R. Biden, the United States, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the Secretary of Homeland Security, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigrations Services, the Director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Acting Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, and the Commissioner for U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Indiana…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Saravia v. Sessions

3:17-cv-03615 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: June 22, 2017

Case Ongoing

This case, filed on June 22, 2017, was brought by a parent on behalf of her minor child for wrongful incarceration by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The complaint alleged that the child, A.H., was released into the plaintiff's custody but that a few years later, ICE arrested and detained him without cause. Represented by the ACLU of Northern California, the ACLU Immigrants' Rights Project, and the private law firm Cooley LLP, the plaintiff argued that the government violated th…