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ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Texas State Conference of The NAACP v. Abbott

1:21-cv-01006 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

Filed Date: Nov. 5, 2021

Closed Date: May 23, 2022

The Texas State Conference of the NAACP (“NAACP”) sued Texas Governor Abbott and Texas Secretary of State John Scott on November 5, 2021 in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas. NAACP alleged that Texas’s newly enacted redistricting maps for the state house, the state senate, and U.S. Congress violated the Constitution and the Voting Rights Act. First, NAACP asserted that race was the controlling factor the Texas legislature considered when drawing the voting maps, and that…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Fair Maps Texas Action v. Abbott

1:21-cv-01038 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

Filed Date: Nov. 16, 2021

Closed Date: March 24, 2025

This case is about Texas’s redistricting plans for the Texas House (House Plan 2316), Texas Senate (Senate Plan 2168), and for the U.S. House of Representatives (Congressional Plan 2193) following the 2020 census. On November 16, 2021, Fair Maps Texas Action Committee, a committee of seven nonprofits supporting equitable redistricting, as well as several other civil rights organizations and individual Texas voters, filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas.…

Case Dismissed (Voluntary)

PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Sweet v. Cardona

3:19-cv-03674 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: June 25, 2019

This is a case about the government’s inaction in the process of “borrower defenses,” in which the borrowers of federal student loans can request to cancel their loans based on the school’s misconduct. At the time of filing, more than 160,000 former college students are awaiting a decision on their borrower defenses.  On June 25, 2019, seven students filed this class action lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. The plaintiffs sued the United States…

Appeal Pending

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
Holloway v. City of Virginia Beach

2:18-cv-00069 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

Filed Date: Aug. 28, 2018

Closed Date: Nov. 27, 2023

On November 20, 2017, Plaintiff Latasha Holloway submitted an application to proceed in forma pauperis ("IFP") and a proposed complaint in the Richmond Division of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.  In the proposed complaint, Plaintiff alleged that the City of Virginia Beach, Virginia's at-large election of its City Council violated the Voting Rights Act, 42 U.S.C. §1983, the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Voting Accessibility for the Elderly and Handi…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Voto Latino v. Scott

1:21-cv-00965 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

Filed Date: Oct. 25, 2021

This case is about Texas Senate Bill 6, which established Texas’s new congressional districts after the 2020 census. The Governor of Texas signed Senate Bill 6 into law on October 25, 2021. The same day, Voto Latino, a non-profit Latino voting rights organization, along with individual Latino and African-American registered voters filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas (Austin). Plaintiffs named the Governor of Texas and the Texas Secretary of State as d…
EDUCATION
Biediger v. Quinnipiac University

3:09-cv-00621 | U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

Filed Date: April 16, 2009

In March 2009, Quinnipiac University announced plans to cut its women's volleyball team, men's golf team, and men's outdoor track team. At the same time, the University pledged to create a new varsity sport, competitive cheerleading, for the 2009-10 season. In response, five current Quinnipiac women's varsity volleyball players and their coach filed this putative class action lawsuit against Quinnipiac in the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut on April 16, 2009. They were repre…
PRISON CONDITIONS
United States v. Florida

1:12-cv-22958 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida

Filed Date: Aug. 14, 2012

On August 14, 2012, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida on behalf of Jewish prisoners under 42 U.S.C. § 2000cc-2(f) and 28 U.S.C. §§ 2201 and 2202 against the Florida Department of Corrections. The DOJ asked the court for declaratory and injunctive relief, claiming that defendant violated religious freedoms granted by the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000 (RLUIPA). Specifically, plaint…
POLICING
Handschu v. Special Services Division

1:71-cv-02203 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: May 18, 1971

On May 18, 1971, residents of New York City filed this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. The plaintiffs sued an intelligence division within the New York Police Department (NYPD), the Special Services Division (SSD), under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for violations of the First, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Ninth, Thirteenth, and Fourteenth Amendments. The plaintiffs, represented by the Center for Constitutional Rights and private counsel, sought class certifi…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Benjamin v. Horn

1:75-cv-03073 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: June 24, 1975

This case was consolidated for enforcement purposes with Ambrose v. Malcolm; Detainees of Queens House of Detention v. Malcolm; Detainees of Brooklyn House of Detention for Men v. Malcolm; Maldonado v. Ciuros; Forts v. Malcolm; and Rosenthal v. Malcolm. The summary below includes all of these in the consolidated form, but more information about each individual case is included in the "Related Cases" section. On June 24, 1975, a group of pretrial detainees at Rikers Island Detention Center for M…