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ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Fair Fight Action v. Raffensperger

1:18-cv-05391 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: Nov. 27, 2018

Closed Date: Sept. 30, 2022

Two voter-rights advocacy organizations and four religious non-profit organizations brought actions against the Georgia Secretary of State, the State Election Board, and members of the State Election Board alleging constitutional violations and violations of the Voting Rights Act.  The original complaint was filed on November 27, 2018, by the two voter-rights groups.  The complaint was amended twice.  The four religious non-profit organizations joined as plaintiffs as part of the first amendmen…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Flores v. Reno

2:85-cv-04544 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: July 11, 1985

Note: We've tagged this case as one challenging President Trump's immigration executive orders because those executive orders and their implementing memoranda, included as "resources," below, touch on many of the matters subject to longstanding court oversight in this case. On July 11, 1985, attorneys from the National Center for Immigrants' Rights, the National Center for Youth Law, and the ACLU Foundation of Southern California represented four minors who filed this class action complaint aga…

Settled: Implementation Ongoing

Appeal Pending

SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Missouri v. Biden

3:22-cv-01213 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana

Filed Date: May 5, 2022

This case concerns communication between U.S. officials and technology companies and allegations that numerous federal officials coerced social-media platforms into censoring certain social media content in violation of the First Amendment. Plaintiffs Missouri, Louisiana, and five private persons claimed that Defendants suppressed conservative-leaning free speech. On May 5, 2022, Plaintiffs, represented by Attorney Generals of Missouri and Louisiana, New Civil Liberties Alliance and private cou…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Hamama v. Adducci

2:17-cv-11910 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: June 15, 2017

This case concerns a habeas petition and the due process rights of detained Iraqi Americans facing deportation to Iraq. Petitioners in this class action/habeas petition were Iraqi nationals, including many Chaldean Christians, who had resided in the United States for many years. They had been subject to final orders of removal for years, but the U.S. government permitted them to reside in the community under orders of supervision. After the Trump Administration negotiated with Iraq in early 201…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
One Wisconsin Institute v. Nichol

3:15-cv-00324 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin

Filed Date: May 29, 2015

Closed Date: Jan. 13, 2023

This is a lawsuit regarding a set of changes in Wisconsin's voter registration and election laws. On May 29, 2015, the advocacy groups of One Wisconsin Institute and Citizen Action of Wisconsin Education Fund, as well as individual voters, filed suit in the United States Western District Court of Wisconsin, represented by Perkins Coie. The defendants in this case are members of the Wisconsin’s Government Accountability Board (“GAB”), a state governmental entity that oversees Wisconsin’s campaig…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Gomes v. US Department of Homeland Security

1:20-cv-00453 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire

Filed Date: April 15, 2020

Three immigration detainees filed this petition for habeas corpus and putative class-action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire on April 15, 2020. The putative class consisted of all civil immigration detainees held by the Strafford County Department of Corrections (SCDOC). Represented by private counsel, the Federal Defender's Office, and the American Civil Liberties Union of New Hampshire, the plaintiffs sued the Acting Secretary of the U.S. Department of Home…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Iglesias v. Federal Bureau of Prisons

3:19-CV-00415 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois

Filed Date: April 12, 2019

In this case, a transgender person incarcerated in the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) sought gender-affirming health care and placement in a women's prison. The plaintiff, who was assigned male at birth, filed a pro se complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois on April 12, 2019. The case was assigned to District Judge J. Phil Gilbert. In her complaint, she brought numerous legal claims against BOP officials centered around the agency's failure to provide her wi…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Barrera v. Boughton

3:07-cv-01436 | U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

Filed Date: Sept. 26, 2007

Closed Date: April 11, 2011

On September 26, 2007, ten individuals who had been arrested by the Danbury, Connecticut police for alleged civil immigration violations, represented by attorneys and law student interns with the Jerome N. Frank Legal Services Organization of the Yale Law School, filed a civil rights lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut alleging discriminatory and unauthorized enforcement of federal immigration laws against Latino residents of Danbury, in vio…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Carter v. City of Montgomery

2:15-cv-00555 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama

Filed Date: Aug. 3, 2015

The plaintiff, individually and on behalf of indigent individuals who have been sentenced by the Montgomery Municipal Court to probation with Judicial Correction Services, Inc. (“JCS”) for failure to pay fines, filed this class-action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama on August 3, 2015. Represented by private counsel, the plaintiff sued the City of Montgomery (“the City”) under 42 U.S.C. §§ 1983 and 1988. The plaintiff alleged that the City exceeded its autho…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
O'Toole v. Cuomo & U.S. v. New York (formerly Disability Advocates Inc. (DAI) v. Pataki)

1:13-cv-04166 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: June 30, 2003

This Clearinghouse entry describes two closely entwined lawsuits: O'Toole v. Cuomo, U.S. v. New York, and Disability Advocates Inc. v. Pataki. On June 30, 2003, Disability Advocates, Inc. (DAI) filed a lawsuit on behalf of New York residents in large "adult homes," privately owned but state-funded facilities for individuals with mental illness or other disabilities, and on behalf of all individuals at risk of being institutionalized in adult homes. Plaintiffs filed their case in the U.S. Distr…