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Arriaga Reyes v. Decker

2:20-cv-03600 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

Filed Date: April 2, 2020

Case Ongoing

This is a case about five men, aged 33 to 59 with underlying medical conditions, detained in United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody who petitioned for immediate release based on their vulnerability to serious COVID-19 infection. On April 2, 2020, the plaintiffs filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, but the case was transferred to the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey after the court conclu…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Chimenti v. Pennsylvania Department of Corrections

2:15-cv-03333 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: June 12, 2015

Case Ongoing

On June 12, 2015, three individuals incarcerated and suffering from complications due to Hepatitis C viral infections filed this class action suit in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. The plaintiffs sued the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, claiming violations of the Eighth Amendment, and of Article I § 13 of the Pennsylvania Constitution. Represented by private counsel and the PA Institutional Law Project, the plaintiffs alleged that th…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Criswell v. Boudreaux

1:20-cv-01048 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California

Filed Date: July 29, 2020

Case Ongoing

COVID-19 Summary: This constitutional action was filed on July 29, 2020 by inmates in Tulare County in California seeking improved safety and health conditions in light of COVID-19. The court granted part of the plaintiffs' temporary restraining order and provisional class certification on September 2, 2020. However, on December 23, 2020 the court denied to certify the class and enter a preliminary injunction. On July 29, 2020, plaintiffs, four incarcerated individuals in custody of the Tulare …
EDUCATION
Pedersen v. South Dakota High Sch.

4:00-cv-04113 | U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota

Filed Date: June 9, 2000

Closed Date: 2005

On June 9, 2000, three parents, as guardians ad litem of their minor daughters, filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota against the South Dakota High School Activities Association. The students represented in the suit were all members of volleyball teams at high schools within the Association. The plaintiffs alleged that the Association violated Title IX of the Education Amendments and the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment by requiring girls voll…
EDUCATION
Dyer v. Osage Sch. Dist. 38

4:99-cv-00816 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma

Filed Date: Sept. 29, 1999

Closed Date: Jan. 29, 2001

Parents, as next of friends of their minor daughters, and on behalf of similarly situated female students of Independent School District No. 38 of Osage County, also known as Hominy Public Schools, filed suit against the school district in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma, alleging that the district had violated Title IX of the Education Amendment of 1972, 20 U.S.C §1681 and the Equal Protect Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. The plaintiffs alleged that t…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
VAYLA New Orleans v. Schedler

3:16-cv-00305 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana

Filed Date: May 4, 2016

Closed Date: June 13, 2016

(This summary is temporary while we research the case) On May 4, 2016, the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Fair Elections Legal Network filed suit on behalf of three naturalized citizens challenging an 1874 Louisiana requirement that naturalized citizens provide citizenship documents when registering to vote. The suit was filed against the Louisiana Secretary of State and Louisiana Commissioner of Elections in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana. 
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 …
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
CODING IN PROCESS
Fight Back Fund v. State Board of Elections

1:20-cv-02791 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: May 8, 2020

Case Ongoing

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 September 5, 2020, The Collective Bargaining Freedom Act became law in Illinois in April 2019. That Act provides that the authority to enact laws / rules restricting the use of union security agreements vests exclusively with the Illinois General Assembly. Plaintiffs support Illinois House Joint Resolution Constitutional A…
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
CODING IN PROCESS
Louisiana v. Becerra

3:21-cv-03970 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana

Filed Date: Nov. 15, 2021

(This summary is temporary, while we research the case.)COVID-19 Summary: In this case, several states sued to block the federal vaccine mandate which required Medicare- and Medicaid-certified providers and suppliers to become vaccinated prior to December 6, 2021 (the CMS mandate). The judge granted the preliminary injunction on November 30,2021, and issued a nationwide injunction prohibiting the CMS mandate. 2021 WL 5609846. The defendants appealed and requested the lower court issue a stay pe…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
CODING IN PROCESS
Feldman v. Arizona Secretary of State

2:16-cv-01065 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: April 15, 2016

Case Ongoing

NOTE: This case is being tracked in close to real time by the Stanford/MIT Healthy Elections Project. So for information, see their tracker. This case is about the legality and constitutionality of voting procedures in Arizona. The plaintiffs, which included several individual voters, Kirkpatrick for U.S. Senate, the national and senatorial Democratic Party committees, and the former chairman of the Navajo Nation filed this action in the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona on Apri…