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HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Welty v. Dunaway

3:24-cv-00768 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee

Filed Date: June 24, 2024

Case Ongoing

In this case, two private plaintiffs challenged a state law that prohibited the "recruitment" of a minor to obtain an abortion. Plaintiffs argued that the law criminalized speech, discriminated against content- and viewpoint-based speech, and was unconstitutionally overbroad under the First and Fourteenth Amendments. The plaintiffs, an attorney and abortion access advocate and a state representative, sued the district attorneys general of several Middle Tennessee judicial districts. On June 24,…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Carpenter v. Vilsack

2:21-cv-00103 | U.S. District Court for the District of Wyoming

Filed Date: May 24, 2021

Closed Date: May 13, 2024

This case is one of several lawsuits challenging the American Rescue Plan’s (ARP) classification of “socially disadvantaged groups.” Section 1005 of the ARP allows the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Farms Services Agency (FSA) to forgive previously given loans to farmers of “socially disadvantaged groups.” That category is defined elsewhere to mean people who have been "subjected to racial or ethnic prejudice because of their identity as members of a group without regard to their…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
State Of Texas v. Becerra

6:24-cv-00211 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas

Filed Date: June 10, 2024

Case Ongoing

This lawsuit, filed on June 10, 2024, by the State of Texas and State of Montana, against the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), is one of several lawsuits challenging HHS's interpretation of the ACA as prohibiting discrimination based on gender identity. On May 6, 2024, HHS issued a final rule interpreting the Section 1557 nondiscrimination provision of the Affordable Care Act. It would require healthcare providers and States to perform and pay for gender-transition procedures o…
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…
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
Peterson v. North Carolina State Board of Elections

1:20-cv-00260 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina

Filed Date: March 18, 2020

Closed Date: July 23, 2021

  This case involves allegations regarding a 2019 Durham City Council member’s qualifications to run for election. On March 18, 2020, a concerned voter living in Durham County filed this suit pro se in the Middle District of North Carolina against the North Carolina Board of Elections, Durham County Board of Elections, and a Councilmember of the Durham County Board of Elections. Plaintiff sued under N.C. Gen. Stat. § 163-182.10, which she alleged allowed her to raise concerns regarding election…
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…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Vargas v. Quest Diagnostics Clinical Laboratories, Inc.

2:19-cv-08108 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: Sept. 18, 2019

Case Ongoing

This is a case about whether touchscreen kiosk check-in procedures are discriminatory against blind and visually impaired persons. On September 18, 2019, two visually impaired individuals that relied on auxiliary aids and services brought a class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. The plaintiffs sued Quest Diagnostics Clinical Laboratories ("Quest") and ten unknown Quest employees for discrimination under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) a…
HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Planned Parenthood Great Northwest, Hawaii, Alaska, Indiana, Kentucky v. Labrador

1:23-cv-00142 | U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho

Filed Date: April 5, 2023

Case Ongoing

This is a case about abortion access in Idaho. On March 27, 2023, Idaho Attorney General Raúl Labrador publicized a legal opinion saying that the state's near-total abortion ban, enacted in August 2022, "prohibits an Idaho medical provider from . . . referring a woman across state lines to access abortion services." In response, Planned Parenthood Federation of America, the ACLU, the ACLU of Idaho, and private counsel filed this lawsuit on behalf of Planned Parenthood Great Northwest, Hawaii, A…
HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
State of Florida v. Department of Health and Human Services

8:24-cv-01080 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida

Filed Date: May 6, 2024

Case Ongoing

This lawsuit is one of several challenging a US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) rule interpreting the Affordable Care Act (ACA) as prohibiting discrimination based on gender identity. This lawsuit was filed on May 6, 2024, by the state of Florida, several state agencies, and the Catholic Medical Association. The plaintiffs sued HHS and various sub-departments under the Administrative Procedure Act (APA), alleging that the rule exceeded HHS's statutory authority and was arbitrary a…