Support Article

How To Search Guide
Search for:
clear search

Docket Number

Key Dates

Filing Date

Settlement / Judgment Date

Terminating Date

Plaintiffs

Defendants

Case Details

Outcome

Issues

MORE▾

Document Details

Document Filing Date

MORE▾

Document Citation (Choose One)

Use this for most court reporters

S.Ct. reporter and WL only

LEXIS and L.Ed. only

Search for:

Support Article

How To Search Guide
45 cases, 48 documents
Ordered by
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Rogers v. United States Department of Health and Human Services

6:19-cv-01567 | U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina

Filed Date: May 5, 2019

Closed Date: Sept. 29, 2023

This case involves a Fourteenth Amendment challenge based on religious and sexual orientation discrimination.  On May 5, 2019, two prospective foster parents in South Carolina brought suit against the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Secretary of HHS; the Administration for Children and Families (ACF), the Assistant Secretary of ACF, and the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of ACF; the Governor of South Carolina; and the State Director of the South Carolina Departm…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Batalla Vidal v. Nielsen

1:16-cv-04756 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: Aug. 25, 2016

On August 25, 2016, a Mexican-born Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipient living in New York filed this suit against U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York. The plaintiff, represented by Make the Road New York, the National Immigration Law Center, and the Jerome N. Frank Legal Services Organization, sued under the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) and 5 U.S.C. § 551, alleging that the revocation of his …
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Florida State Conference of Branches and Youth Units of the NAACP v. Byrd

4:23-cv-00215 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida

Filed Date: May 24, 2023

Case Ongoing

On May 24, 2023, Plaintiffs Florida State Conference of Branches and Youth Units of the NAACP, Voters of Tomorrow Action, Inc., Disability Rights Florida (the Florida protection and advocacy system), Alianza for Progress, Alianza Center, and UnidosUS, filed a lawsuit challenging provisions of a recently-passed state law, Senate Bill 7050, that imposed restrictions and penalties on third-party voter registration organizations that sought to register eligible Floridians to vote and put limitation…
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)
Wood v. Ryan

2:14-cv-01447 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: June 26, 2014

Case Ongoing

On June 26, 2014, multiple residents and citizens of Arizona subject to the death penalty filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona. The plaintiffs sued the Arizona Department of Corrections (ADC) and multiple state officials associated with the organization under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. With the representation of private counsel and the Federal Public Defenders Office, the plaintiffs claimed violations of the First Amendment, the Fourteenth Amendment Due Process Clause, …
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…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Scott v. Clarke

3:12-cv-00036 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia

Filed Date: July 24, 2012

Case Ongoing

Prisoners detained at the Fluvanna Correctional Center for Women filed this class-action lawsuit against Armor Correctional Health Services and the Virginia Department of Corrections on July 24, 2012. Brought under 42 U.S.C. §1983 and 28 U.S.C. §2201, the suit was filed in the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia and assigned to Judge Norman Moon. The plaintiffs, represented by the Legal Aid Justice Center, the Washington Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights and Urban…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Rodriguez v. Hayes

2:07-cv-03239 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: May 16, 2007

Case Ongoing

On May 16, 2007, an immigration detainee who had been held for more than six months without a bond hearing while in removal proceedings petitioned the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California for a writ of habeas corpus. Plaintiff claimed that, without a bond hearing, detention over six months violated the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment and the statutory requirements of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA). Represented by private counsel, the ACLU of Southern C…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau v. Nexus Services, Inc.

5:21-cv-00016 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia

Filed Date: Feb. 22, 2021

Case Ongoing

This case relates to Nexus Services, Inc.'s predatory consumer practices towards detainees in United States custody through one of its subsidiaries, Libre by Nexus (collectively "Nexus"). On February 22, 2021, The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau ("CFPB"), along with Virginia, Massachusetts, and New York (collectively "the States," and together with the CFPB, "the Plaintiffs"), filed this lawsuit in United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia. It was assigned to Distri…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Jones v. Gusman

2:12-cv-00859 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana

Filed Date: April 2, 2012

Case Ongoing

On April 2, 2012, ten prisoners at the Orleans Parish Prison -- the New Orleans jail (NOJ) -- brought this class action suit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana against the Orleans Parish Sheriff, under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The plaintiffs, represented by the Southern Poverty Law Center, asked for both declaratory and injunctive relief, alleging that they suffered from abusive and unconstitutional treatment while confined at the NOJ. The case was assigned to Judge Lance…