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ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Bambenek v. White

3:20-cv-03107 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of Illinois

Filed Date: April 27, 2020

Closed Date: Nov. 9, 2020

This is a challenge to Illinois’ signature collection requirement for initiative referendums to appear on the ballot in light of COVID-19 which made it difficult to safely collect signatures. On April 27, 2020, named plaintiffs, the organizers of two unincorporated political associations, filed a complaint in the District Court for the Central District of Illinois. The plaintiffs were represented by private counsel and the case was assigned to District Judge Sue Myerscough. The defendants inclu…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Gallagher v. N.Y. State Board of Elections

1:20-cv-05504 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: July 17, 2020

Closed Date: Sept. 9, 2021

This is a case about mail-in voting in the 2020 primary and general elections in New York. On May 1, 2020, then-Governor Andrew Cuomo issued an executive order that meant to expand access to mail-in voting by eliminating the need for voters to pay postage for mailed ballots. Instead, the addressee (the voter’s local board of elections) would pay for postage on receipt. The order, however, created a legal “snafu” — New York election law requires absentee ballots to be received or postmarked by e…
POLICING
United States of America v. County of Los Angeles

2:15-cv-03174 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: April 28, 2015

Case Ongoing

The U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division initiated a civil investigation of the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department on August 19, 2011. The investigation focused on allegations of unconstitutional conduct by deputies at two stations located in the Antelope Valley cities of Lancaster and Palmdale, California. The DOJ proceeded under the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994,42 U.S.C. § 14141 (Section 14141), and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964,42 U.S.C. § 2000d…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Tiegs v. Vilsack

3:21-cv-00147 | U.S. District Court for the District of North Dakota

Filed Date: July 6, 2021

Case Ongoing

On July 6, 2021, the plaintiffs filed this complaint in the U.S. District Court for the District of North Dakota against the Secretary of Agriculture and the Administrator of the Farm Service Agency ("the defendants"). The plaintiffs, white farmers and/or borrowers on a farm loan, claimed that the defendants violated the Fifth Amendment and the Administrative Procedure Act. Specifically, the plaintiffs argued that under Section 1005 of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 ("Section 1005"), they…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Gloria v. Hughs

5:20-cv-00527 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

Filed Date: April 29, 2020

Closed Date: Sept. 25, 2020

Texas law permitted voters over sixty-five years old to vote by mail in State elections. On April 29, 2020, six Texans between the ages of eighteen and twenty-eight years ("the plaintiffs") filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas alleging that this Texas law violated their Twenty-Sixth Amendment rights under the U.S. Constitution. The plaintiffs, represented by private counsel, sued the Texas Secretary of State ("the defendant") and claimed that the absen…
JAIL CONDITIONS
McDonald v. Franklin County

2:13-cv-00503 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio

Filed Date: May 3, 2013

Case Ongoing

This is a case challenging Franklin County’s policy of strip-searching individuals charged with low-level misdemeanor offenses and photographing their tattoos. The plaintiff, a resident of Franklin County, was arrested for disorderly conduct in 2012 and transported to the Franklin County Correction Center II (“Jackson Pike” facility). She was required to strip in the presence of other detained people and a male correctional officer who then photographed tattoos near her genitals. She was releas…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Louhghalam v. Trump

1:17-cv-10154 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: Jan. 28, 2017

Closed Date: March 20, 2017

On January 28, 2017, two lawful permanent residents (LPRs) of the U.S. who were detained at Boston Logan Airport (Logan) as they were trying to return home to Massachusetts filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts (in Boston). Represented by the ACLU of Massachusetts and private counsel, the plaintiffs sued the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), the Secretary of DHS, the Commissioner of CBP, the Director of the…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
"People of the U.S. and State of California" v. Trump

3:17-cv-00451 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Jan. 28, 2017

Closed Date: Dec. 7, 2017

On January 28, 2017, a lawyer filed this action in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. Proceeding under California "Private Attorney General" statutes, the action purported to be by the "People of the United States of America and the State of California" "for the protection of all persons in the United States in their civil rights and for their vindication pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1988." The lawsuit challenged President Trump’s January 27, 2017 Executive Order (EO-1)…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Aziz v. Trump

1:17-cv-00116 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

Filed Date: Jan. 28, 2017

Closed Date: June 1, 2017

On January 28, 2017, lawful permanent residents (LPRs) of the United States, represented by the Legal Aid Justice Center and Mayer Brown, filed this case in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. The plaintiffs brought the action as a petition for writ of habeas corpus and a civil complaint for declaratory and injunctive relief. They simultaneously filed an emergency application for a temporary restraining order (TRO). The plaintiffs were 50 to 60 lawful permanent residen…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
CODING IN PROCESS
Robinson v. District of Columbia Board of Elections

1:20-cv-01364 | U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

Filed Date: May 21, 2020

Closed Date: June 20, 2020

NOTE: This case is being tracked in close to real time by the Stanford/MIT Healthy Elections Project. So for information, see their tracker. According to their summary as of 09/06/2020, Washington DC's Board of Elections closed 14 of 17 polling stations in Ward 8, an area that is over 92% African-American, in response to COVID-19. Plaintiffs claim that since at least 2019, an unknown number of Ward 8 residents have not received mail-in ballots. The voters who do not receive mail-in ballots in …