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INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY (FACILITY)
U.S. v. Texas (DOJ CRIPA lawsuit involving many State Schools)

1:09-cv-00490 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

Filed Date: June 26, 2009

Case Ongoing

On December 11, 2006, the U.S. Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division sent a "findings letter" to the governor of Texas, advising him of the results of its investigation into conditions and practices at the Lubbock State School ("LSS"), which housed people with developmental disabilities. The DOJ advised that its investigation found that conditions and services at LSS substantially departed from generally accepted standards of care. The DOJ issued additional "findings letters" on Decembe…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Donald J. Trump for President v. Cegavske

2:20-cv-01445 | U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada

Filed Date: Aug. 4, 2020

Closed Date: Sept. 21, 2020

This is a 2020 case about voting by mail during pandemics and other disasters in Nevada. Nevada passed Assembly Bill 4 (AB4) on August 2, 2020. AB4 allowed areas impacted by a pandemic or other disaster to expand their use of mail-in and absentee voting, effective in time for the November 2020 election. AB4 Sections 11 and 12 also authorized particular numbers of polling places depending on county populations. On August 4, 2020, plaintiffs Donald J. Trump for President, the Republican National …
DISABILITY RIGHTS
J.R. v. Austin Independent School District

1:21-cv-00279 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

Filed Date: March 29, 2021

Case Ongoing

On March 29, 2021, Disability Rights Texas and several individual plaintiffs filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas challenging the Austin School District’s failure to timely evaluate students for eligibility under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). The plaintiffs alleged that an estimated 800 students were on a waiting list for initial evaluations and twice as many students were late for their triennial reevaluations, in large part …
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Sixth District of the African Methodist Episcopal Church v. Kemp

1:21-cv-01284 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: March 29, 2021

Case Ongoing

This case was part of a challenge to Georgia Senate Bill 202 (“SB 202”) which was signed into law in March 2021. SB 202 implemented numerous new voting restrictions including a ban on aiding voters in line and restrictions on absentee voting. The case was ultimately consolidated within In Re Georgia Senate Bill 202 (1:21-mi-55555-JPB) alongside seven other cases challenging the same law. In particular these cases focus on SB 202’s effect on people of color and voters with disabilities. On March…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Common Cause v. Rucho

1:16-cv-01026 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina

Filed Date: Aug. 5, 2016

Closed Date: Oct. 18, 2019

The following case alleged that North Carolina’s 2016 redistricting plan was an unconstitutional partisan gerrymander. Ultimately, the U.S. Supreme Court determined that partisan gerrymandering was a non-justiciable political question.  The case was filed on August 5, 2016, in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina. Plaintiffs included an organization advocating for redistricting reform, the North Carolina Democratic Party, and fifteen registered Democrats. Defendants…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Agee, Jr. v. Benson

1:22-cv-00272 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan

Filed Date: March 23, 2022

Case Ongoing

This case challenges the legality of Michigan House of Representatives and Senate districts.  In November 2018, Michigan voters approved a state constitutional amendment that gave the Michigan Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission the power to draw state legislative districts, instead of the legislature. Mich. Const. Art. IV, § 6. The amendment also directed the Michigan Secretary of State to serve as the Commission’s non-voting secretary.  On March 23, 2022, twelve Black Michigan voter…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky v. Commissioner, Indiana State Department of Health

1:18-cv-01219 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana

Filed Date: April 23, 2018

Closed Date: Aug. 29, 2022

This is a case about challenges to abortion restrictions in Indiana. On March 25, 2018, the Indiana governor signed Indiana Senate Enrolled Act No. 340 into law, which required physicians to report “all abortion complications.” The act defined abortion complications as “any adverse physical or psychological condition arising from the induction or performance of an abortion” and imposed licensing consequences on providers who failed to report after July 1, 2018, and criminal consequences beginni…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Lo v. County of Siskiyou

2:21-cv-00999 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California

Filed Date: June 4, 2021

Case Ongoing

On June 4, 2021, six Hmong residents of Siskiyou County, California, represented by private counsel, filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California. The case was assigned to Chief District Judge Kimberly J. Mueller and Magistrate Judge Dennis M. Cota. The plaintiffs sued Siskiyou County, its sheriff, its county counsel, and its board members under 42 USC §1983 for violations of the Fourth Amendment's seizure clause and Fourteenth Amendment's equal …
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.
POLICING
North Baton Rouge Matters v. City of Baton Rouge

3:16-cv-00463 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana

Filed Date: July 13, 2016

Case Ongoing

On July 13, 2016, organizations whose members participated in and witnessed protests in Baton Rouge, Louisiana in response to the death of Alton Sterling, filed this civil rights lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana. Represented by the ACLU of Louisiana, the New Orleans Workers’ Center for Racial Justice, and private counsel, the plaintiffs sued the City of Baton Rouge and local government officials in their official capacities under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for viola…