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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

Case Ongoing

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…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Disability Rights NC v. North Carolina Board of Elections

5:21-cv-00361 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina

Filed Date: Sept. 9, 2021

Closed Date: Nov. 4, 2022

On September 9, 2021, Disability Rights North Carolina (DRNC) (the North Carolina protection and advocacy system) brought suit, as organizational plaintiff, against the North Carolina State Board of Elections to challenge state laws that 1) prohibited voters with disabilities living in congregate settings such as clinics, hospitals, and nursing homes from relying on persons associated with those facilities for assistance with any of the steps required to vote absentee, including requesting, com…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Palast v. Kemp

1:18-cv-04809 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: Oct. 17, 2018

Closed Date: Oct. 13, 2020

This is a case challenging Georgia's voter registration system that allegedly disproportionately flagged people of color. On October 17, 2018, two civil rights activists filed suit against the Georgia Secretary of State, alleging violations of the National Voter Registration Act. The plaintiffs alleged that the Secretary of State violated provisions of the law mandating that records regarding how voter lists are maintained and purged be retained for at least 2 years and be accessible to the pub…
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
DeSena v. State of Maine

1:11-cv-00117 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maine

Filed Date: March 28, 2011

Closed Date: March 21, 2012

This is a case alleging malapportioned districts in Maine. Plaintiffs, two individual residents of Congressional District 1 in Maine, filed this action in the United States District Court for the District of Maine on March 28, 2011 alleging that their right to vote was unlawfully diluted in violation of Article II, section 2 of the United States Constitution and the Equal Protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution.  Defendants included Maine, its Governor, t…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Doe v. Wasden

1:20-cv-00452 | U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho

Filed Date: Sept. 23, 2020

Closed Date: Nov. 10, 2022

This case was about whether the state of Idaho could force people who had oral or anal sex to register in its sex offender registry, despite the fact that laws criminalizing such acts were declared unconstitutional in the 2003 Supreme Court decision Lawrence v. Texas.  On September 23, 2020, an anonymous private plaintiff—who was criminally convicted in another state of engaging in oral sex before Lawrence v. Texas made the criminalization of such acts unconstitutional—brought this lawsuit in t…
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…
HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Stuart v. Huff

1:11-cv-00804 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina

Filed Date: Sept. 29, 2011

Case Ongoing

This case has to do with the “Woman’s Right to Know Act” (the Act), which was enacted on July 28, 2011 after the legislature overrode a veto by the Governor of North Carolina. This case was brought by the ACLU, Planned Parenthood, Center for Reproductive Rights, and A Woman’s Choice of Raleigh, Inc., on behalf of various physicians, licensed to practice medicine in the State of North Carolina and other various clinics providing reproductive health care services in North Carolina. The case was b…
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…