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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…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Sinner v. Jaeger

3:20-cv-00076 | U.S. District Court for the District of North Dakota

Filed Date: May 6, 2020

Closed Date: June 24, 2020

This is a case about whether the U.S. Constitution was violated by the combined pressures of the COVID-19 pandemic and North Dakota's in-person signature gathering requirements for ballot initiative petitions. On May 6, 2020, the North Dakota Secretary of State was sued in the U.S. District Court for the District of North Dakota by four individual voters and North Dakota Voters First (NDVF), the sponsoring committee for a proposed state constitutional amendment related to election procedures an…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Noel v. New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission

1:11-cv-00237 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Jan. 13, 2011

Closed Date: Dec. 31, 2020

On January 13, 2011, New York wheelchair users and several disability rights organizations filed this putative class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. The plaintiffs sued the New York Taxi and Limousine Commission (TLC) under Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), and the New York City Human Rights Law alleging that TLC discriminated against persons with disabilities by maintaining a fleet unsu…
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…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
American Civil Liberties Union of Kansas and Western Missouri v. Praeger

2:11-cv-02462 | U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas

Filed Date: Aug. 16, 2011

Closed Date: Jan. 23, 2013

This is a case challenging a Kansas law that prohibited insurance companies from including coverage for abortion in their comprehensive plans. On August 16, 2011, the ACLU of Kansas and Western Missouri filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the Kansas Insurance Commissioner. Represented by attorneys from the ACLU of Kansas and Western Missouri as well as the national ACLU's Reproductive Freedom Project, the ACLU sought declarator…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Georgia Muslim Voter Project v. Kemp

1:18-cv-04789 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: Oct. 16, 2018

Closed Date: April 15, 2019

As of 2018, Georgia state law allowed absentee ballots to be rejected in instances where ballot signatures did not match signatures on file. In these cases, no notice was provided prior to the rejection and no appeals process was in place. This led two civic organizations to sue then-Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp on October 16, 2018, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia with the ACLU as counsel. The plaintiffs brought the suit in the hopes of an injunction to …
POLICING
Samaha v. City of Minneapolis

0:20-cv-01715 | U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota

Filed Date: Aug. 6, 2020

Case Ongoing

Seven individuals who protested in Minneapolis following the death of George Floyd filed this putative class action lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota on August 6, 2020. The plaintiffs–represented by private counsel–sued the City of Minneapolis, the Minneapolis Police Department (“MPD”), MPD Chief Medaria Arradondo, and individual police officers. They requested declaratory and injunctive relief for violations of their First, Fourth, and Fourteenth Amendme…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Planned Parenthood Great Northwest, Hawaii, Alaska, Indiana and Kentucky, Inc. v. Cameron

3:22-cv-00198 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky

Filed Date: April 14, 2022

Case Ongoing

Planned Parenthood Great Northwest, Hawaii, Alaska, Indiana and Kentucky (Planned Parenthood) filed this suit on April 14, 2022 in the Western District of Kentucky in response to the enactment of the Humanity in Healthcare Act of 2022 (the Act) on April 13. The Act imposed significant restrictions on abortion providers, including imposing vast reporting requirements and banning all abortions after fifteen weeks, with very narrow exceptions. Under the Act, providers risked significant fines and …
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.
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Memphis Center for Reproductive Health v. Slatery

3:20-cv-00501 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee

Filed Date: June 19, 2020

Closed Date: July 28, 2022

This is a case about challenges to several Tennessee abortion restrictions. On June 19, 2020, plaintiffs Memphis Center for Reproductive Health, Planned Parenthood of Tennessee and North Mississippi, Knoxville Center for Reproductive Health, FemHealth USA, and two doctors filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee. The plaintiffs sued the attorney general of Tennessee along with several other state officials for violating their Fourteenth Amendme…