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DISABILITY RIGHTS
Commonwealth of Massachusetts v. E*Trade Access

1:03-cv-11206 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: June 25, 2003

Closed Date: Aug. 21, 2020

This is a class action case about accessibility of bank ATMs for blind people. On June 25, 2003, the state of Massachusetts, the National Federation of the Blind (NFB), and several blind individuals sued E*Trade Access and E*Trade Bank in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, alleging that the defendants' ATMs were not accessible to blind people. The plaintiffs alleged that this violated the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and Massachusetts law, and sought a declarato…
EDUCATION
Simpson-Vlach v. Michigan Department of Education

5:21-cv-11532 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: June 30, 2021

Closed Date: Feb. 20, 2024

This is a putative class action suit brought by and on behalf of children with disabilities who alleged that they did not get their educational needs met by their schools due to online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. On June 30, 2021, the plaintiffs—children with disabilities and their parents—filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. The plaintiffs sued the Michigan Department of Education (MDE), Ann Arbor Public Schools (AAPS), and Washtenaw In…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Schmitt v. Husted

2:18-cv-00966 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio

Filed Date: Aug. 28, 2018

Closed Date: Nov. 8, 2021

This case alleged that Portage County and Ohio state officials acted as "gatekeepers" by having near-total discretion in determining which initiatives were included on Ohio's ballots. On August 28, 2018, three individuals sued the Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted in his official capacity and the Portage County Board of Elections and each of its four members in their official capacities in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio, seeking a declaratory judgment, a pre…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Flores v. Town of Islip

2:18-cv-03549 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: June 18, 2018

Closed Date: Oct. 14, 2020

This case alleged that the town of Islip, New York's election scheme unconstitutionally diluted the strength of the Latino vote.  On June 18, 2018, Latino voters and a New York-based voting rights group sued the town of Islip, New York; the Islip Town Board; and the Suffolk County Board of Elections in the Eastern District of New York. Plaintiffs claimed that the city's at-large election scheme had the effect of impairing Islip’s minority Latino voters right to an equal opportunity to participa…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Brown v. Schedler

2:17-cv-09627 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana

Filed Date: Sept. 26, 2017

Closed Date: May 3, 2018

This is a case alleging election mismanagement after two candidates were disqualified from a New Orleans election on the grounds that the falsified their personal tax history.  On September 26, 2017, two Louisiana citizens who had sought candidacies in New Orleans local filed a Complaint (pro se) against the Secretary of State of Louisiana, the Attorney General of Louisiana (together, the “State Official Defendants”), several Louisiana state court judges (altogether the “Judge Defendants” and c…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Arizona Democratic Party v. Reagan

2:16-cv-03618 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: Oct. 19, 2016

Closed Date: Nov. 3, 2016

This is a case about Arizona's voter registration deadline. On October 19, 2016, plaintiffs, the Arizona Democratic Party and Democratic National Committee, filed the lawsuit suing the Arizona Secretary of State in the District of Arizona. The plaintiffs claimed that the defendant's decision not to extend the October 10, 2016 voter registration deadline, and to preclude certain voters whose registration applications were received on October 11, 2016 from voting in the November 8, 2016 general e…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Baten v. Mcmaster

2:18-cv-00510 | U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina

Filed Date: Feb. 21, 2018

Closed Date: Sept. 9, 2020

This is a case challenging the state of South Carolina's process of awarding electoral votes. On February 21, 2018, six voters who had previously supported Democratic candidates brought a lawsuit challenging South Carolina's winner-take-all system ("WTA"), where the state allocated all its electoral votes in the Electoral College to whichever candidate received the most votes. Plaintiffs sued the Governor of the State of South Carolina, Secretary of State of the State of South Carolina, the Sou…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
The Libertarian Party of Kentucky v. Grimes

3:15-cv-00086 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky

Filed Date: April 12, 2015

Closed Date: May 16, 2017

This case alleged that the Libertarian and Constitution Parties should be classified as political parties, not political groups, for the purposes of elections.  On December 11, 2015, plaintiffs - the Libertarian Party of Kentucky, the Libertarian National Committee, the Constitution Party of Kentucky, and Ken Moellman, Jr., an individual voter and former Libertarian Party candidate for Kentucky state office – brought an action against Kentucky's Secretary of State, state's attorney general, and…
POLICING
Bryant v. Taylor, City of

2:22-cv-12066 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: Sept. 1, 2022

Closed Date: March 11, 2024

This case concerns the constitutionality of the Taylor Police Department (TPD)’s seizure of a disabled person’s dog. On September 1, 2022, a Black individual with a physical disability sued the City of Taylor, two individual TPD officers, and an animal control officer under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. The motivation for this lawsuit arose when the plaintiff’s dog pulled a lead line into his crate and entangled his leg. After the pla…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
S.P.S., Ex Rel. v. Raffensperger

1:19-cv-04960 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: Nov. 1, 2019

Closed Date: Sept. 10, 2020

This is a case about challenging the constitutionality of Georgia’s ballot order statute, O.C.G.A. § 21-2-285(c). On November 1, 2019, individual voters, and the organizations, namely, the Democratic National Committee, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, and the Democratic Party of Georgia, Inc. filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court Northern District of Georgia Atlanta Division. The case was assigned to the United Stat…