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EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Bostock v. Clayton County

1:16-cv-01460 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: May 5, 2016

Case Ongoing

This was the lead case before the Supreme Court in 2020 when it held that "[a]n employer who fires an individual merely for being gay or transgender violates Title VII [of the Civil Rights Act of 1964]." District Court On May 5, 2016, a male county employee filed this lawsuit, pro se, in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, against his employer, the Clayton County Board of Commissioners. He sued for damages under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, claim…
EDUCATION
Students and Parents for Privacy v. United States Department of Education

1:16-cv-04945 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: May 4, 2016

Closed Date: April 15, 2019

This is a case about whether cisgender students' privacy rights were violated by a public school district's policy of allowing transgender students to use the locker rooms and restrooms that align with their gender identities. Prior to this litigation, in 2013, a complaint was filed with the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights (OCR) alleging that Township High School District 211 was discriminating against a transgender student (Student A) on the basis of her sex by refusing u…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Reynoldson v. City of Seattle

2:15-cv-01608 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: Oct. 8, 2015

Case Ongoing

On October 8, 2015, Plaintiffs, a group of individuals with mobility disabilities filed this lawsuit, on behalf of themselves and a class, in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington. Represented by Disability Rights Washington, Plaintiffs alleged that the City of Seattle unlawfully discriminated against those with mobility disabilities by failing to comply with state and federal regulations addressing accessibility for people with disabilities in its construction, and mai…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Democracy North Carolina v. North Carolina Board of Elections

1:20-cv-00457 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina

Filed Date: May 22, 2020

Closed Date: March 28, 2023

NOTE: This case is being tracked in close to real time by the Stanford/MIT Healthy Elections Project. So for more current information, see their tracker. COVID-19 Summary: This suit was filed on May 22, 2020, by two non-profit organizations and six individual plaintiffs against the state of North Carolina to challenge various election laws in light of COVID-19. The plaintiffs sought declaratory and injunctive relief. No outcome yet. On May 22, 2020, Democracy North Carolina, the League of Wom…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
City of Providence v. Sessions

1:18-cv-00437 | U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island

Filed Date: Aug. 9, 2018

Case Ongoing

On August 9, 2018, two Rhode Island cities filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island, challenging the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) policy of conditioning federal funding on compliance with immigration-related conditions. The cities argued that the new conditions forced them to make an impossible choice: accept unlawful conditions that undermined their ability to protect their communities or forfeit funding crucial to protecting their communities. Accor…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Priorities USA v. Nessel

4:19-cv-13341 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: Nov. 12, 2019

Case Ongoing

This lawsuit was filed on November 12, 2019 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. The plaintiff, a left-wing advocacy group called Priorities USA, sued Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel in her official capacity. They were represented by private counsel. The group claimed that two Michigan laws, the "Voter Transportation Ban" and the "Absentee Ballot Organizing Ban," violated the U.S. Constitution. The Voter Transportation Ban prohibited the hiring of vehicles to b…
POLICING
Hernandez v. City of New York

1:21-cv-07406 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Sept. 2, 2021

Case Ongoing

On September 2, 2021, twelve volunteer legal observers for the New York City Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild (NLG) filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York against the City of New York, the New York Police Department (NYPD), City officials, and individual police officers in their official capacities. The plaintiffs, represented by private counsel, brought this action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, the New York State Constitution, and New York state law, allegin…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Coalition on Homelessness v. City and County of San Francisco

4:22-cv-05502 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Sept. 27, 2022

Case Ongoing

This case is a challenge to San Francisco’s policies regarding homelessness. The plaintiffs, several homeless individuals and an advocacy organization allege that San Francisco has enacted anti-homelessness ordinances and statutes that criminalize the unhoused population of the city, despite lack of access to shelter beds. The plaintiffs claim that in its efforts to “solve” the homelessness crisis, the City did not invest in adequate shelter to meet the needs of its unhoused population. Instead…
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Local 8027, AFT-New Hampshire, AFL-CIO v. NH Department of Education, Commissioner

1:21-cv-01077 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire

Filed Date: Dec. 20, 2021

Case Ongoing

This is a case about enforcement of the “Banned Concepts Act” (also known as the “Divisive Concepts Act”) in New Hampshire schools. The plaintiffs in this case were New Hampshire teachers and diversity, equity, and inclusion school administrators as well as the National Education Association’s New Hampshire branch. They filed suit on December 20, 2021 in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire against the New Hampshire Department of Education, the New Hampshire Commission for …
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Democratic Party of Georgia, Inc. v. Raffensperger

1:19-cv-05028 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: Nov. 6, 2019

Closed Date: March 23, 2020

This is a case about voting rights in Georgia. This lawsuit was filed on November 6, 2019, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. The plaintiffs were the Democratic Party of Georgia, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, all represented by private law firms. They sued Georgia under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, alleging that the procedures by which the state evaluated and rejected mail-in ballots infringed on the constit…