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EDUCATION
Foote v. Ludlow School Committee

3:22-cv-30041 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: April 12, 2022

Case Ongoing

This case involved four parents who believed local public school officials overreached when they chose not to disclose their childrens’ decision to establish a new gender identity at school. On April 12, 2022, two sets of parents filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts. The parents sued the school district and various officials, administrators, and teachers in their official capacity under 42 U.S.C. 1983. Represented by public interest attorneys for the Massachus…
PUBLIC ACCOMMODATIONS/CONTRACTING
United States v. Retsel Corporation

5:22-cv-05086 | U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota

Filed Date: Oct. 19, 2022

Case Ongoing

This is a case about a hotel and sports bar's policy of excluding Native American customers. The Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) filed suit against the Retsel Corporation and its owners on October 19, 2022, in the U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota. The lawsuit alleged that the defendants discriminated against Native American customers through policies and practices denying Native Americans full and equal access to the Grand Gateway Hotel and the …
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Mooneyhan v. Husted

3:12-cv-00379 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio

Filed Date: Nov. 6, 2012

Closed Date: June 11, 2013

  NDRN: On November 6, 2012, Disability Rights Ohio filed a complaint and a motion for a temporary restraining order (TRO) on behalf of plaintiff in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio.  The complaint alleged that the Director of the Darke County Board of Elections and the Ohio Secretary of State had unlawfully discriminated against the plaintiff by refusing to grant reasonable accommodations to policies and procedures that would allow her to vote in the General Election. …
LABOR RIGHTS
Associated Builders and Contractors of Southest Texas v. Rung

1:16-cv-00425 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas

Filed Date: Oct. 7, 2016

Closed Date: Dec. 21, 2017

This case addressed President Obama's Executive Order 13673, “Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces,” under which the Department of Labor and the Federal Acquisition Council required government contractors and subcontractors to report regularly on workplace law violations found by administrative agencies, the courts, and arbitrators. The Order explained that the federal government would take an employer’s record of violations into account when deciding whether to award future contracts, cancel existing …
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Hope v. Doll

1:20-cv-00562 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: April 3, 2020

Case Ongoing

COVID-19 Summary: This is a hybrid putative class action and habeas action filed by a group of medically vulnerable individuals being held in civil detention by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) at York County Prison and Pike County Correctional Facility. The plaintiffs sought safety remedies and release from detention in light of COVID-19. The court granted the plaintiffs’ temporary restraining order on April 7, 2020, a decision the defendants appealed. The Third Circuit vacated the lo…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Greater Birmingham Ministries v. State of Alabama

2:15-cv-02193 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama

Filed Date: Dec. 2, 2015

Closed Date: Jan. 10, 2018

This case is about Alabama House Bill 19 ("HB 19"). HB 19 required voters to present photographic identification in order to vote, with exceptions that include if an election worker could "positively identify" a potential voter. While the bill passed in 2011, the law did not take effect until 2014. On December 2nd, 2015, the Alabama chapter of the NAACP and Greater Birmingham Ministries filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama against the State of Alaba…
POLICING
Schiller v. City of New York

1:04-cv-07922 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Oct. 7, 2004

Closed Date: April 8, 2014

On October 7, 2004, this action was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York by individuals who participated in demonstrations in New York City during the Republican National Convention (RNC). The plaintiffs’ complaint sought compensatory damages, attorney’s fees, and to have the actions of the NYPD, in particular the arrest procedure and conditions of detention, declared unlawful. The case was assigned to Judge Kenneth M. Karas. During the convention, the police c…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Mi Familia Vota v. Hobbs

2:20-cv-01903 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: Sept. 30, 2020

Closed Date: Oct. 5, 2020

The Plaintiff organizations filed a Complaint seeking a declarator y judgment and Emergency Motion for a TRO against AZ Secretary of State seeking to extend the voter registration deadline to October 27, 2020. Without the extension tens of thousands of voters would not be able to register. The Plaintiffs' were successful in extending the voting registration deadline to October 2023, 2020.
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Reed-Pratt v. Winfrey

3:20-cv-12129 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: Aug. 9, 2020

Closed Date: Oct. 5, 2021

On August 9, 2020, a Detroit resident and registered voter sued the Detroit city clerk, Detroit Department of Elections, and Detroit Election Commission, in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan challenging Detroit's absentee ballot processes. The plaintiff alleged that, during the June 2020 primary elections, Detroit sent absentee ballots to all registered voters regardless of whether the voters requested them. The plaintiff asserted that sending unsolicited absentee bal…
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Kentucky v. Biden

3:21-cv-00055 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky

Filed Date: Nov. 4, 2021

Case Ongoing

COVID-19 Summary: In this case, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Ohio sued to block the federal vaccine mandate which required federal contractors and subcontractors to become vaccinated prior to December 6, 2021. The judge granted the preliminary injunction on November 30, 2021, which enjoined the defendants from implementing the vaccination requirements in the states party to the lawsuit. The defendants appealed and the case remains ongoing. This case is about whether the federal government can requ…