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ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Raleigh Wake Citizens Association v. Barefoot

5:15-cv-00156 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina

Filed Date: April 9, 2015

Closed Date: Dec. 28, 2017

This case involved allegations that the North Carolina General Assembly’s Session Law 2015-4 violated voters’ rights to an equal vote and their right to not be subjected to racial classifications in redistricting. Voters and an association on voters (Raleigh Wake Citizens Association) who lived in election districts that under Session Law 2015-4 were overpopulated to a significant degree, filed suit on April 09, 2015 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina. Plainti…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Faculty, Alumni, and Students Opposed to Racial Preferences (FASORP) v. Northwestern University

1:24-cv-05558 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: July 2, 2024

Case Ongoing

This lawsuit alleges that Northwestern University's law school discriminated against white, heterosexual, cisgender men in hiring practices and in law review publication decisions. On July 2, 2024, Faculty, Alumni, and Students Opposed to Racial Preferences (FASORP), a non-profit organization represented by the America First Legal Foundation and private counsel, filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. Plaintiff sued Northwestern University, the dean …
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Citizens For Fair Representation v. Padilla

2:17-cv-00973 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California

Filed Date: May 8, 2017

Closed Date: Dec. 14, 2020

This is a case alleging that California's limit on the number of state legislators violated California citizens' right to self-governance.  On May 8, 2017, Citizens for Fair Representation, a nonprofit voting rights organization, along with several local government entities, political parties, an unrecognized Native American tribe, and several individual California voters, filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California (Sacramento) against the California Se…
HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
State of Tennessee v. Becerra

1:24-cv-00161 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi

Filed Date: May 30, 2024

Case Ongoing

This lawsuit challenges the enforcement of a rule adopted by the US Department of Health & Human Services on May 6, 2024 (the “2024 Rule”) interpreting Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), which prohibits sex discrimination in healthcare programs. The 2024 Rule interpreted Section 1557 of ACA—which borrows Title IX's definition of sex discrimination—to encompass protections against discrimination based on gender identity and other sex characteristics. The rule was set to go into effec…
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Floridians Protecting Freedom v. Ladapo

4:24-cv-00419 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida

Filed Date: Oct. 16, 2024

Case Ongoing

This lawsuit challenges Florida’s threat to prosecute media organizations that disseminated their advertisements in support of the pro-choice ballot measure in Florida. On October 16, 2024, Plaintiff, Floridians Protecting Freedom, Inc., represented by private counsel, filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida, Tallahassee Division, against the State Surgeon General and Head of the Florida Department of Health, and former General Counsel to the …
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Johnson v. Callanen

5:22-cv-00409 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

Filed Date: April 27, 2022

Case Ongoing

Three blind Texas voters and two organizational plaintiffs, National Federation of the Blind of Texas and the Coalition of Texans with Disabilities, filed suit to assert their rights to accessible absentee ballots in order for people who cannot mark or sign a paper ballot to be able to vote privately and independently. The plaintiffs were represented by Disability Rights Texas (the Texas protection and advocacy system) and private counsel. The case was filed on April 27, 2022 in federal court i…
POLICING
Index Newspapers LLC v. City of Portland

3:20-cv-01035 | U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon

Filed Date: June 28, 2020

Case Ongoing

This case involved allegations that the Portland police assaulted news reporters, photographers, legal observers, and other neutrals who were documenting the police’s violent response to protests over the murder of George Floyd. On June 28, 2020, the plaintiffs, who are members of the media and legal observers, filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Oregon on behalf of themselves and as a class of similarly situated people. The plaintiffs sued the City of Por…
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…
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…