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DISABILITY RIGHTS
Advocacy Center v. Stalder

3:98-cv-00646 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana

Filed Date: July 20, 1998

Closed Date: Oct. 15, 1999

This is a case about records access authority for a Protection and Advocacy agency (P&A). On July 20, 1998, Louisiana Advocacy Center, Louisiana’s P&A, filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana. Louisiana Advocacy Center sued the Secretary of the Louisiana Department of Public Safety Corrections and the Warden of the David Wade Correctional Center in their official capacities under the Protection and Advocacy for Individuals with Mental Illness Act (PAIM…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
LightHouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired of San Francisco v. Automatic Data Processing, Inc.

4:20-cv-09020 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Dec. 16, 2020

Case Ongoing

On September 17, 2020, the Disability Rights Advocates filed this lawsuit in the San Francisco County Superior Court on behalf of LightHouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired—a non-profit organization that advocates on behalf of persons who are blind or have low vision—and two of its employees. The plaintiffs filed this lawsuit against Automatic Data Processing (“ADP”), a payroll processing and human resources corporation. The complaint alleged that ADP failed to make their products and servi…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Connecticut State Conference of NAACP Branches v. Merrill

3:20-cv-00909 | U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

Filed Date: July 2, 2020

Closed Date: Sept. 25, 2020

This is a case about how Connecticut's restrictions on eligibility for mail-in ballot voting during the COVID-19 pandemic threatened voters' constitutional and statutory rights. On July 2, 2020, a complaint was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut by the Connecticut State Conference of NAACP Branches, the League of Women Voters of Connecticut ("the League"), and an individual member of the League whose age made her susceptible to serious complications of COVID-19. Th…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Neese v. Becerra

2:21-cv-00163 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas

Filed Date: Aug. 25, 2021

Closed Date: Nov. 22, 2022

Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) prohibits sex discrimination in health programs or activities that receive federal financial assistance. On May 10, 2021, Secretary Becerra announced that HHS would interpret and enforce this provision to include gender identity and sexual orientation discrimination. On August 25, 2021 two doctors sued Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), Xavier Becerra, and the United States in the U.S.District Court for the Northern District of Texas to e…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians v. Jaeger

3:22-cv-00022 | U.S. District Court for the District of North Dakota

Filed Date: Feb. 7, 2022

Case Ongoing

This is a case about the vote dilution of two Native American tribes through the packing and cracking of districts in North Dakota. On February 7, 2022, the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians and the Spirit Lake Tribe, along with individual Native American voters, filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of North Dakota. Represented by the Native American Rights Fund, the Campaign Legal Center, and private counsel, the plaintiffs sued North Dakota's Secretary of Stat…
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Gruber v. Tennessee Tech Board of Trustees

2:21-cv-00039 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee

Filed Date: Oct. 5, 2021

Case Ongoing

Facts Turning Point USA (TPUSA) is a conservative organization that publishes profiles of progressive college professors, potentially to harass them. Outsiders, including the two professors, characterize TPUSA as a hate group with ties to white supremacy. Tennessee Tech University (TTU) has a chapter of TPUSA. On February 4, 2021, after witnessing the TTU TPUSA faculty advisor, also a professor, celebrate a local school's decision to maintain "the Redskins" as their mascot, the two professors p…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Yang v. Kellner

1:20-cv-03325 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: April 28, 2020

Closed Date: May 5, 2020

In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, on April 27, 2020, the New York State Board of Elections (BOE) by unanimous vote and in spite of executive orders from the New York governor, adopted a resolution to cancel the New York presidential primary election that was slated for June 23, 2020, while still allowing down-ballot federal congressional and state elections to continue. BOE's rationale was that this was in line with larger goals of avoiding unnecessary social contact, and that there was no…
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…
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.
PRISON CONDITIONS
Johnson v. Peterson

3:18-cv-00331 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio

Filed Date: Feb. 12, 2018

Case Ongoing

Plaintiff, a state prisoner, brought suit on February 12, 2018, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio against the Allen Oakwood Correctional Institution (AOCI) and several of its employees claiming deliberate indifference in violation of the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments. Plaintiff sued AOCI, two of its lead doctors, and a registered nurse for allegedly refusing to provide necessary treatment for his worsening Hepatitis C (HCV). The case was assigned to Judge Jeffrey J…