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PRISON CONDITIONS
Torres v. Milusnic

2:20-cv-04450 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: May 16, 2020

Case Ongoing

COVID-19 Summary: This is a putative class action by originally brought by five individuals held at Lompoc, a low-security prison facing one of the largest outbreaks of COVID-19 among U.S. federal prisons. The plaintiffs alleged that the defendants failed to undertake reasonable preventative measures, which allowed the virus to spread to 60% of those in custody. The plaintiffs sought declaratory and injunctive relief for improved conditions of confinement, as well as a writ of habeas corpus for…
POLICING
Fraternal Order of Police v. District of Columbia

1:20-cv-02130 | U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

Filed Date: Aug. 5, 2020

Case Ongoing

In this case, the union representing the Distict of Columbia's Metropolitian Police Department sued teh Mayor of the District Columbia and the city itself, challenging a local law that prohibited the union from negotiating police disciplinary rules during its collective bargaining process. D.C. police brought this suit under 42 U.S.C § 1983 on August 5, 2020 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. The union alleged that the Comprehensive Policing and Justice Reform Second Emerg…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Planned Parenthood Southwest Ohio Region v. Hodges

1:15-cv-00568 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio

Filed Date: Sept. 1, 2015

Case Ongoing

Two individual healthcare providers, represented by attorneys at the ACLU, Planned Parenthood, and Gerhardstein & Branch, brought this § 1983 suit in September 2015 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio to challenge new state regulations that imposed restrictions on abortion clinics. Plaintiffs in this case were the last two health clinics in southwest Ohio offering abortion procedures: Planned Parenthood of Southwest Ohio (PPSWO) and Women’s Medical Group Professional Co…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Kishore v. Whitmer

2:20-cv-11605 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: June 18, 2020

Closed Date: Sept. 9, 2020

This is a case about the constitutionality of Michigan’s ballot-access requirements during the November 2020 election. On June 18, 2020, the Socialist Equality Party’s candidates for President and Vice President filed this lawsuit in the Eastern District of Michigan. They sued the Governor, Secretary of State and Director of the Michigan Bureau of Elections for declaratory and injunctive relief under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The plaintiffs alleged Michigan’s ballot access laws, which required independ…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Caliste v. Cantrell

2:17-cv-06197 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana

Filed Date: June 27, 2017

Case Ongoing

On June 27, 2017, pre-trial detainees at the Orleans Parish Sheriff’s office filed this putative class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana under 42 U.S.C. §1983 against the magistrate judge of the Criminal District Court alleging unlawful bail setting practices. Plaintiffs claimed that defendant violated the Fourteenth Amendment Equal Protection Clause by keeping them in jail post-arrest when they could not afford the bail set by defendant. Plaintiffs…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
MKB Management Corp v. Burdick

1:13-cv-00071 | U.S. District Court for the District of North Dakota

Filed Date: June 25, 2013

Closed Date: April 15, 2016

This is a case about North Dakota’s 2013 ban on abortions as early as the sixth week of pregnancy. On June 25, 2013, the plaintiffs—including the last women’s health clinic in the state that provided abortions and a physician who performed family planning services, including abortions, for the clinic’s clients—filed this lawsuit in the District of North Dakota. The plaintiffs sued the state attorney for the county in which the clinic was located, the state attorney general, and the North Dakota…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Common Cause Rhode Island v. Gorbea

1:20-cv-00318 | U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island

Filed Date: July 23, 2020

Closed Date: Aug. 24, 2021

Rhode Island state law required mail voters to have either two lay witnesses or one notary sign their mail-in ballot envelopes. On July 23, 2020, the League of Women Voters, Common Cause Rhode Island, and three Rhode Island residents concerned about their heightened risk of contracting COVID-19 ("the plaintiffs") filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island challenging this state law as applied to 2020 elections in Rhode Island. The plaintiffs, represented by c…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Taylor v. Milwaukee Elections Commission

2:20-cv-00545 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin

Filed Date: April 2, 2020

Closed Date: May 12, 2020

On March 22, 2020, the Milwaukee Election Commission suspended early voting for the April 7, 2020, Wisconsin general election in response to safety concerns regarding election workers exposure to COVID-19. In response, Black city and state official candidates in Milwaukee, WI, along with Justice Wisconsin, Inc. ("the plaintiffs"), brought this lawsuit against the Milwaukee and Wisconsin Election Commissions ("the defendants") in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin. The…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Cities of Chelsea and Lawrence v. Trump

1:17-cv-10214 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: Feb. 8, 2017

Case Ongoing

This federal lawsuit, filed by the cities of Chelsea and Lawrence, Massachusetts, on Feb. 8, 2017, challenged President Trump’s Jan. 25, 2017 Executive Order 13768, dealing with immigration enforcement, which threatened to withhold federal funds from "sanctuary jurisdictions" and take enforcement action against any locality that impedes the federal government's immigration law. The plaintiffs, represented by private counsel and the Boston Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and Economic Justice…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
League of Women Voters of Ohio v. LaRose

2:20-cv-03843 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio

Filed Date: July 31, 2020

Closed Date: May 20, 2021

This case challenged Ohio’s signature matching policy when processing election ballots. On July 31, 2020, the League of Women Voters of Ohio, the Ohio A. Phillip Randolph Institute, and two adversely affected individuals filed a complaint against Ohio’s Secretary of State in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio. The plaintiffs alleged (1) that the state’s signature matching practices for absentee ballot applications constituted an impermissible burden on the right to vote, (2) …