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REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Sisters of Life v. Bassett

1:22-cv-07529 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Sept. 2, 2022

Case Ongoing

This matter has to do with Assembly Bill A5499/Senate Bill S470 (the “Act”) in New York State, which passed in June 2022. The Act was one of six statutes billed as the “nation-leading legislative package to protect abortion and reproductive rights” by New York Governor Kathy Hochul. It authorized the state Commissioner of Health to conduct a study and issue a report examining the unmet health and resource needs facing pregnant women in New York. The Sisters of Life, a Roman Catholic order of re…
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…
FAIR HOUSING/LENDING/INSURANCE
United States v. Housing Authority of Ashland Alabama

1:20-cv-01905 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama

Filed Date: Dec. 1, 2020

Case Ongoing

On December 1, 2020, the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama against the Ashland, Alabama Housing Authority, alleging that it had engaged in a pattern or practice of discrimination on the basis of race at multiple low-income public housing communities in violation of the Fair Housing Act. The complaint alleged that the Ashland Housing Authority, and three property development companies who were the private own…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
National Federation of the Blind v. Lamone

1:14-cv-01631 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: May 19, 2014

Closed Date: Sept. 12, 2016

The State of Maryland developed an online ballot marking tool, which was used in the 2012 election, and modified to be more accessible for people with disabilities with the input of the National Federation of the Blind (NFB). By 2014, however, in response to concerns about the security of this method, the legislature passed a requirement that such tools must be certified by the Board of Elections, which the Board failed to do. This left Maryland voters with disabilities without an accessible me…
EDUCATION
Cole v. Montana University System

9:21-cv-00088 | U.S. District Court for the District of Montana

Filed Date: Aug. 4, 2021

Case Ongoing

This is an ongoing Title IX case about the unequal treatment of women employed within the Montana University System (MUS) and specifically at the University of Montana-Missoula (UM). Since Title IX passed in 1972, MUS and UM, despite adopting facially non-discriminatory policies, allegedly fostered a “good ol’ boys club” culture favoring male athletes and employees while excluding women from the same opportunities. In 2013, the U.S. Department of Justice found that UM violated Title IX and fail…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Straty v. Abbott

1:20-cv-01015 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

Filed Date: Oct. 2, 2020

Closed Date: March 24, 2021

This was a case about access to ballot drop boxes in Texas during the COVID-19 pandemic. On October 1, 2020, after voting had begun in the state, Governor Abbott issued a proclamation prohibiting Texas counties from providing absentee voters with more than one location to return absentee ballots. On October 2, 2020, a 65-year old Texas citizen and voter, the Texas Alliance for Retired Americans and Bigtent Creative filed a complaint for declaratory and injunctive relief in the U.S. District Cou…
EDUCATION
Rapuano v. Trustees of Dartmouth College

1:18-cv-01070 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire

Filed Date: Nov. 15, 2018

Case Ongoing

On November 15, 2018, seven female students in Dartmouth's Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences filed this putative class action suit against the Trustees of Dartmouth College under Title IX and New Hampshire common law in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire. The plaintiffs claimed a hostile educational environment, gender discrimination, quid pro quo sexual harassment, and retaliation in violation of Title IX. Additionally, the plaintiff class claimed that the T…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Georgia Muslim Voter Project v. Kemp

1:18-cv-04789 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: Oct. 16, 2018

Closed Date: April 15, 2019

As of 2018, Georgia state law allowed absentee ballots to be rejected in instances where ballot signatures did not match signatures on file. In these cases, no notice was provided prior to the rejection and no appeals process was in place. This led two civic organizations to sue then-Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp on October 16, 2018, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia with the ACLU as counsel. The plaintiffs brought the suit in the hopes of an injunction to …
PRISON CONDITIONS
Fontano v. Godinez

3:12-cv-03042 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of Illinois

Filed Date: Feb. 9, 2012

Closed Date: Sept. 8, 2016

A formerly incarcerated person filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of Illinois on February 9, 2012. The plaintiff brought this action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and state law against the Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC), claiming violations of the First, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments. Represented by the MacArthur Justice Center and Uptown People's Law Center, the plaintiff sought monetary damages. Judge Sue E. Myercough was assigned to the case. The c…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Progeny v. City of Wichita

6:21-cv-01100 | U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas

Filed Date: April 15, 2021

Case Ongoing

This is a case challenging the Wichita Police Department’s (WPD) usage of gang lists, alleging that they imposed a disparate impact on Black and Latinx residents and that they were unconstitutional in their implementation. The plaintiffs, Progeny (a community based organization seeking to prevent the incarceration of young people) and Wichita residents who had been impacted by these policies, were represented by Kansas Appleseed Center for Law & Justice and the ACLU of Kansas. The plaintiffs fi…