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ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Davis v. Wayne County Board of Canvassers

2:20-cv-12127 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: Aug. 7, 2020

Closed Date: Aug. 29, 2021

This is a case about voters challenging an incumbent's inclusion on the primary election for the office of Wayne County Prosecutor.   On August 7, 2020, registered voters from Wayne County filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. The case was overseen by Judge Nancy G. Edmunds. The plaintiffs' sued Wayne County's Board of Canvassers under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and the Declaratory Judgment Act, 28 U.S.C. § 2201. Represented by private counsel, plaintiffs sou…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Lane v. Kitzhaber (later, Brown)

3:12-cv-00138 | U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon

Filed Date: Jan. 25, 2012

Closed Date: Aug. 12, 2022

On January 25, 2012, this class action was brought by individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD) and the United Cerebral Palsy Association of Oregon and Southwest Washington, Inc. in the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon. The plaintiffs claimed that the State of Oregon and its Offices of Developmental Disability Services and Vocational Rehabilitation Services, along with other state agencies, violated the Americans With Disabilities Act ("ADA") and the Reha…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
East Bay Sanctuary Covenant v. Barr

4:19-cv-04073 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: July 16, 2019

Case Ongoing

This case is about the ability of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to issue new guidelines on asylum application procedures and whether DHS is allowed to issue a rule that asylum seekers must first apply for asylum in another country before applying in the U.S.. On July 16, 2019, four advocacy organizations — the East Bay Sanctuary Covenant, Al Otro Lado, Innovation Law Lab, and the Central American Resource Center — challenged a new asylum policy of the Trump administration narro…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Graff v. County of Salem

1:07-cv-02259 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

Filed Date: May 14, 2007

Closed Date: May 7, 2009

On May 14, 2007, two individuals who had been arrested on minor charges filed a 42 U.S.C. §1983 class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey, challenging the Salem County Correctional Department's policy and practice of strip searching all detainees regardless of the nature of their charged crime and regardless of the absence of reasonable suspicion to believe the detainees were concealing weapons or contraband. Plaintiffs, represented by private counsel, alleg…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Betances v. Fischer

1:11-cv-03200 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: May 11, 2011

Case Ongoing

On May 11, 2011, three individuals given extrajudicial sentences of post-release supervision filed this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The named defendants were the New York State Department of Correctional Services (DOCS) and the New York State Division of Parole (DOP). They claimed that the defendants administratively assigned sentences of post-release supervision (PRS) and that only a judge could impose an additio…
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Comite de Jornaleros de Redondo Beach v. City of Redondo Beach

2:04-cv-09396 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: Nov. 16, 2004

Closed Date: April 25, 2012

On November 16, 2004, two day laborers organizations filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Central District of California under 28 U.S.C. §§ 1331, 1343(a), and 2201, as well as 42 U.S.C. § 1983, against the City of Redondo Beach, California. Plaintiffs claimed that the City violated the First Amendment rights of day laborers by enforcing an ordinance making it unlawful to stand on the sidewalk and solicit “employment, business, or contributions from an occupant of any m…
EDUCATION
B. P. J. v. West Virginia State Board of Education

2:21-cv-00316 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia

Filed Date: May 26, 2021

Case Ongoing

On May 26, 2021, the plaintiff, an 11-year-old transgender girl and student in Harrison County, West Virginia filed this lawsuit through her mother in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia.  Represented by the ACLU of West Virginia, with attorneys from the ACLU, Lambda Legal and Cooley LLP, the plaintiff challenged an April 2021 state statute, H.B. 3293, that banned girls who are transgender from participating in school sports consistent with their gender identity. …
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. Siouxland Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Associate

4:04-cv-04215 | U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota

Filed Date: Dec. 28, 2004

Closed Date: Feb. 18, 2011

The Denver and New Mexico Offices of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) filed this action in the U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota on December 28, 2004. The Defendant was Siouxland Oral Maxillofacial Surgery Associates, LLP, an outpatient surgical center for oral and maxillofacial surgery. The controversy involved the alleged termination of one complainant because of her pregnancy, and the alleged failure to hire another complainant because she told her interv…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Moore v. Martin

4:14-cv-00065 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas

Filed Date: Feb. 6, 2014

Closed Date: Aug. 2, 2019

This case challenged the constitutionality of Arkansas’ statutory ballot access requirements for independent candidates.  On February 6, 2014, three registered voters and potential independent candidates for the 2014 Arkansas general election filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas. Plaintiffs sued the Secretary of State of Arkansas in his official capacity under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Represented by private counsel, Plaintiffs sought a declaratory judgment…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Black Voter'S Matter Fu v. Raffensperger

1:20-cv-04869 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: Dec. 2, 2020

Closed Date: April 1, 2021

This case involved allegations that the State of Georgia failed to abide by federal law by cancelling hundreds of thousands of voter registrations for Georgia residents with a runoff election for 2 Georgia Senate seats approaching, The State of Georgia, as alleged, cancelled thousands of registration due to voter inactivity, among other factors. Georgia's policy involved removing voters from voter lists if the voters failed to participate in the voting process for the last two general elections…