Search for:
clear search

Docket Number

Key Dates

Filing Date

Settlement / Judgment Date

Terminating Date

Plaintiffs

Defendants

Case Details

Outcome

Issues

MORE▾

Document Details

Document Filing Date

MORE▾

Document Citation (Choose One)

Use this for most court reporters

S.Ct. reporter and WL only

LEXIS and L.Ed. only

Search for:
231 cases, 222 documents
Ordered by
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
CODING IN PROCESS
EMW Women's Surgical Center, P.S.C. v. Meier

3:19-cv-00178 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky

Filed Date: March 14, 2019

Case Ongoing

(This summary is temporary, while we research the case.) In 2019, the American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Kentucky filed a lawsuit to challenge two Kentucky laws: one banned on abortion at 6-weeks of pregnancy, and the other law banned abortion based on the specific reasons for the person’s decision, such as a fetal diagnosis. 
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts v. Leavitt

1:09-cv-10038 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: Jan. 12, 2009

Closed Date: Jan. 16, 2013

The ACLU of Massachusetts brought this suit against the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on January 12, 2009 in the District of Massachusetts; Judge Richard G. Stearns heard the case. Represented by its national and Massachusetts in-house legal teams, the ACLU alleged that the Department violated the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment by allocating grant funding to a religious organization that imposed religiously-based restrictions on sub-grants. The ACLU specifically chal…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Council of Parents Attorneys and Advocates (COPAA) v. DeVos

1:18-cv-01636 | U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

Filed Date: July 12, 2018

Closed Date: May 4, 2021

On July 12, 2018, the Council of Parent Attorneys and Advocates (COPAA) filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. COPAA sued the U.S. Department of Education under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) and the Administrative Procedure Act (APA). Represented by the National Center for Youth Law and private attorneys, COPAA sought declaratory and injunctive relief, as well as attorneys' fees and costs to stop the Dept. of Education from delaying …
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Hindel v. Husted

2:15-cv-03061 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio

Filed Date: Dec. 7, 2015

Closed Date: June 11, 2018

On December 12, 2015 Disability Rights Ohio and the law firm of Brown, Goldstein, & Levy, LLP, brought this case against the office of Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted on behalf of three blind Ohio voters and the National Federation of the Blind. It was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio, where it was assigned to District Judge George C. Smith. The case raised claims under the Americans with Disabilities Act. The suit alleged that the plaintiffs faced discrimin…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
June Medical Services LLC v. Caldwell

3:14-cv-00525 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana

Filed Date: Aug. 22, 2014

Case Ongoing

This is a case challenging an abortion restriction in the state of Louisiana. Act 620 prevented doctors from providing abortion services in the state unless they secured admitting privileges at a hospital within 30 miles of where they provide abortion care. On August 22, 2014, three women's reproductive health clinics and two individual doctors who perform abortions filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana. The plaintiffs sued the Attorney General of Lo…
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
State of Nebraska v. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

4:12-cv-03035 | U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska

Filed Date: Feb. 23, 2012

Closed Date: Aug. 21, 2013

Seven states (Nebraska, South Carolina, Michigan, Texas, Florida, Ohio, and Oklahoma) and Catholic organizations filed this lawsuit on February 23, 2012 in the United States District Court for the District of Nebraska. It is one of a number of cases across the country seeking injunctive and declaratory relief against the federal government on a similar theory. Plaintiffs claimed their free exercise of religion and freedom of speech rights were violated by the portion of the interim final regula…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
City of El Cenizo v. State of Texas

5:17-cv-00404 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

Filed Date: May 8, 2017

Case Ongoing

This suit challenged Texas's "Sanctuary City" legislation, Senate Bill 4 (SB4), which required local Texas law enforcement to cooperate with federal immigration officials and punished them if they did not. Unlike the other suits in this special collection, this suit did not challenge President Trump's "Sanctuary City" Executive Order. At the time of this writing, there were three other cases addressing SB4 (in addition to this one). This case was before Judge Orlando L. Garcia, as was El Paso C…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
State of Washington v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security

4:19-cv-05210 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Washington

Filed Date: Aug. 14, 2019

Case Ongoing

This case is one of several brought nationwide by states, counties, and non-profit organizations challenging the Trump administration's revised, final public charge rule, which expands the types of programs that the federal government will consider in public charge determinations to now also include previously excluded health, nutrition, and housing programs. In the fall of 2019, district court judges from across the country granted preliminary injunctions enjoining the government from implemen…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Drenth v. Boockvar

1:20-cv-00829 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: May 21, 2020

Closed Date: Aug. 18, 2020

This is a case about accessible ballots for blind individuals in Pennsylvania. On May 21, 2020, a blind individual who was registered to vote in Pennsylvania and the National Federation of the Blind of Pennsylvania filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania. The plaintiffs sued the Secretary of the Commonwealth and the Department of State of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania under the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Rehabilitation Act. …
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
CODING IN PROCESS
Garbett v. Herbert

2:20-cv-00245 | U.S. District Court for the District of Utah

Filed Date: April 13, 2020

Case Ongoing

NOTE: This case is being tracked in close to real time by the Stanford/MIT Healthy Elections Project. So for information, see their tracker. According to their summary as of 11/19/2020, After a request to modify the signature gathering requirements to permit electronic signatures, a candidate seeking the Republican party nomination for gubernatorial election brought action for declaratory and injunctive relief against Utah's Governor and Lieutenant Governor, asserting that state's voter signat…