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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. …
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Indiana Disability Rights v. NeuroPsychiatric Hospitals

1:18-cv-02106 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana

Filed Date: July 11, 2018

Closed Date: Jan. 23, 2019

This case is about a Protection and Advocacy agency’s (P&A) ability to monitor psychiatric facilities. On July 11, 2018, Indiana Disability Rights- Indiana’s P&A- filed this lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana. Indiana Disability Rights filed this lawsuit against Neuropsychiatric Hospitals under the Protection and Advocacy for Individuals with Mental Illness Act (PAIMI Act). Represented by itself, Indiana Disability Rights sought declaratory and injunctive relief…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Torres v. Milusnic

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

Filed Date: May 16, 2020

Closed Date: Oct. 14, 2022

COVID-19 Summary: This is a class action 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 release. On…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Mental Health & Wellness Coalition v. Stanford University

5:18-cv-02895 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: May 17, 2018

Closed Date: Oct. 29, 2019

On May 17, 2018, three Stanford University students and the Mental Health & Wellness Coalition, an organization focused on advocating for administrative changes related to student mental health, filed this putative class action lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. The plaintiffs sued Stanford University and its Board of Trustees under 42 U.S.C. § 12182 (Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act), 28 U.S.C. § 794 (Section 504 of the Rehabili…
POLICING
United States v. City of Cleveland

1:15-cv-01046 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio

Filed Date: May 25, 2015

Case Ongoing

In March 2013, following a series of highly-publicized use-of-force incidents involving the Cleveland Division of Police (CDP), the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) opened an investigation pursuant to the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, 42 U.S.C. § 14141, that focused on the CDP's use of force, including deadly force. This was the second investigation conducted by the DOJ into the CDP's practices in a little over ten years, as the DOJ had prev…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Arizona v. Biden

3:21-cv-00314 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio

Filed Date: Nov. 18, 2021

Case Ongoing

The states of Arizona, Montana, and Ohio sued the Biden administration on November 18, 2021, in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio to challenge the administration's immigration policies. The plaintiffs sued the United States, the Department of Homeland Security and its secretary, the Acting Commissioner of Customs and Border Protection, the Acting Director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and the Director of United States Citizenship and Immigration Services. The l…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
United States of America and the Vulcan Society v. City of New York

1:07-cv-02067 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: May 21, 2007

Case Ongoing

On May 21, 2007, the U.S. Department of Justice ("DOJ") sued the City of New York under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, seeking to enforce the right of Black and Hispanic candidates to be treated fairly in the application process for positions in the New York City Fire Department ("FDNY"). Specifically, the DOJ challenged the City's reliance on two written examinations that were used to appoint entry-level firefighters t…
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.
EDUCATION
Eccleston v. Pine Bush Central School District

7:12-cv-02303 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: March 28, 2012

Closed Date: Oct. 31, 2018

On March 28th, 2012, five former and current Jewish students filed a lawsuit in the District Court for the Southern District of New York under the Civil Rights Act of 1964 against the Pine Bush School District. The plaintiffs, represented by public interest counsel, asked the court for declarative judgment, injunctive relief and damages, claiming that the school district had responded with deliberate indifference to the rampant anti-Semitic discrimination and harassment directed at the plaintif…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Jacksonville Branch of the NAACP v. City of Jacksonville

3:22-cv-00493 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida

Filed Date: May 3, 2022

Case Ongoing

This case is about racial gerrymandering. Ten Black residents of Jacksonville, Florida, with four nonprofit organizations whose missions include advocating for social and economic justice for marginalized communities—the Jacksonville Branch of the NAACP, the Northside Coalition of Jacksonville, the Northeast Chapter of the ACLU of Florida, and Florida Rising Together—filed a complaint against the city of Jacksonville, Florida, on May 3, 2022, for racially motivated gerrymandering. Represented b…