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ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Emery v. Hunt

3:00-cv-03008 | U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota

Filed Date: Feb. 14, 2000

Closed Date: Feb. 10, 2003

On February 14, 2000, Native American registered voters and residents of Dewey County, in District 28 of the South Dakota legislature, filed a lawsuit against South Dakota in the U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota, Central Division. The plaintiffs, represented by the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation and private counsel, sought declaratory and injunctive relief, alleging that the dissolution of two special legislative districts in 1996 violated 42 U.S.C. §1973. Specifi…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Georgia State Conference of the NAACP v. State of Georgia

1:17-cv-01397 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: April 20, 2017

Closed Date: April 11, 2018

The specific factual background of the case involves a 2017 special election in Georgia for its sixth congressional district. Representative Tom Price resigned in February 2017, and a special election was held in April 2017 to determine his replacement. None of the candidates garnered a majority of the votes, so Georgia state law O.C.G.A. § 21-2-501(a) required a runoff election between the two candidates receiving the most votes. It was determined that this election would take place on June 20…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Jane Jones v. Annucci

1:16-cv-01473 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Feb. 25, 2016

Case Ongoing

On February 25, 2016, six women prisoners in the custody of the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (DOCCS) filed this class-action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. The plaintiffs, anonymous by request, sued various DOCCS officials in their official capacity under 42 U.S.C. 1983, claiming violations of their Eighth Amendment rights. The plaintiffs were represented by The Legal Aid Society Prisoners' Rights Project and by pr…
EDUCATION
Peltier v. Charter Day School, Inc.

7:16-cv-00030 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina

Filed Date: Feb. 29, 2016

Case Ongoing

This lawsuit concerns a public charter school dress code that required female students to wear skirts. On February 29, 2016, three mothers of minor girls filed this lawsuit on their behalf in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina. Represented by private counsel and the ACLU, they sued Charter Day School, Inc.; members of its Board of Trustees; and The Roger Bacon Academy, Inc., seeking declaratory relief, injunctive relief prohibiting the defendants from enforcing t…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Amador v. Baca

2:10-cv-01649 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: March 5, 2010

Case Ongoing

On March 5, 2010, two female former inmates who were imprisoned in the Century Regional Detention Facility ("CRDF"), a Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department ("LASD") facility, filed this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. Represented by a civil rights law firm, the plaintiffs sued the LASD under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The plaintiffs alleged violations of their Fourth, Eight, and Fourteenth Amendment rights, as well as their equivalents under the…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Reproductive Health Services of Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region, Inc. v. Parson

2:19-cv-04155 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri

Filed Date: July 30, 2019

Closed Date: July 13, 2022

On July 30, 2019, Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region and a licensed obstetrician-gynecologist brought this suit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri, challenging Missouri laws that would ban abortion in the state at nearly every stage of pregnancy. The plaintiffs, represented by the ACLU, sued the Governor of Missouri, the state Attorney General, the Circuit Attorney for the City of St. Louis, the President of the State Medical Board, and the Director of the D…
POLICING
Guardian News v. Chicago Police Department

2015-CH-06157 | Illinois state trial court

Filed Date: April 13, 2015

Closed Date: Jan. 4, 2017

In February 2015, journalists at The Guardian lead by Spencer Ackerman began publishing a series of articles about Homan Square, a secretive facility operated by the Chicago Police Department. The Guardian alleged that the Department abused people detained there and held detainees incommunicado and without record of their detainment. On March 2, 2015, the Guardian submitted a Freedom of Information Act request to the Department for records related to interrogations, detentions, and arrests at H…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Wright v. Corrections Corporation of America

1:00-cv-00293 | U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

Filed Date: Feb. 16, 2000

Case Ongoing

On February 16, 2000, private attorneys, a public defender, and counsel from the D.C. Prisoners' Legal Services Project filed this 42 U.S.C § 1983 putative class action in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on behalf of incarcerated persons, their family members, legal counsel, and other recipients of telephone calls from prisoners housed in prison facilities operated by the defendant private corporation, Corrections Corporation of America (CCA—the largest operator of private …
PRISON CONDITIONS
Steele-Warrick v. Microgenics

1:19-cv-06558 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: Nov. 20, 2019

Case Ongoing

On November 20, 2019, formerly incarcerated individuals filed a putative class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York. Plaintiffs alleged negligence by Microgenics Corporation and its parent company Thermo Fischer Scientific Corporation and deliberate indifference towards incarcerated individuals’ constitutional rights by current and former employees of the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (DOCCS). Represented by Prisoner…
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Louisiana v. Becerra

3:21-cv-03970 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana

Filed Date: Nov. 15, 2021

Closed Date: Dec. 2, 2022

COVID-19 Summary: In this case, several states sued to block the federal vaccine mandate which required Medicare- and Medicaid-certified providers and suppliers to become vaccinated prior to December 6, 2021 (the CMS mandate). The judge granted the preliminary injunction on November 30,2021, and issued a nationwide injunction prohibiting the CMS mandate. 571 F.Supp.3d 516. The defendants appealed and requested the lower court issue a stay pending appeal, which the court denied the same day. The…