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SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Falls v. DeSantis

4:22-cv-00166 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida

Filed Date: April 22, 2022

Case Ongoing

(This summary is temporary while we research the case.) This case is about a Florida state law that, among other things, prevented DEI discussions in schools.
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Council of Parents Attorneys and Advocates (COPAA) v. DeVos

1:18-cv-01636 | U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

Filed Date: July 12, 2018

Closed Date: May 4, 2021

On July 12, 2018, the Council of Parent Attorneys and Advocates (COPAA) filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. COPAA sued the U.S. Department of Education under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) and the Administrative Procedure Act (APA). Represented by the National Center for Youth Law and private attorneys, COPAA sought declaratory and injunctive relief, as well as attorneys' fees and costs to stop the Dept. of Education from delaying …
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Hindel v. Husted

2:15-cv-03061 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio

Filed Date: Dec. 7, 2015

Closed Date: June 11, 2018

On December 12, 2015 Disability Rights Ohio and the law firm of Brown, Goldstein, & Levy, LLP, brought this case against the office of Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted on behalf of three blind Ohio voters and the National Federation of the Blind. It was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio, where it was assigned to District Judge George C. Smith. The case raised claims under the Americans with Disabilities Act. The suit alleged that the plaintiffs faced discrimin…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
CODING IN PROCESS
Carr v. Becerra

3:22-cv-00988 | U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

Filed Date: Aug. 3, 2022

Case Ongoing

(This summary is temporary, while we research the case.)  On August 3, 2022, Disability Rights Connecticut and several other non-profits filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut, on behalf of several individual plaintiffs with disabilities.  The case challenged the Trump Administration interim rule, issued November 2020, that channeled individuals with disabilities into low-benefit programs that did not pay for many of their needs, rather than leaving them i…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Schaffer v. Alameda County

3:06-cv-00310 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Jan. 17, 2006

Case Ongoing

On January 17, 2006, Plaintiff, represented by private counsel, filed a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California challenging Alameda County's policies and practices concerning strip searches in Alameda County jails. Specifically, Plaintiff alleged that he was subjected to a group strip search prior to arraignment and in the absence of any reasonable suspicion of contraband or weapons. Plaintiff alleged that such a practice violat…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
CODING IN PROCESS
Fair Maps Nevada v. Cegavske

3:20-cv-00271 | U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada

Filed Date: May 6, 2020

Case Ongoing

NOTE: This case is being tracked in close to real time by the Stanford/MIT Healthy Elections Project. So for information, see their tracker. According to their summary as of September 1, 2020, Plaintiff political action committee, along with individual plaintiffs, sought to place an initiative on the Nevada November 2020 ballot that would amend Nevada’s State Constitution to create an independent redistricting commission in an effort to combat partisan gerrymandering. In light of COVID-19 and …
JAIL CONDITIONS
Garcia v. Ocean County

3:07-cv-05665 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

Filed Date: Nov. 28, 2007

Case Ongoing

On November 28, 2007, five arrestees, proceeding through private counsel, filed a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey in order to challenge the blanket strip search policy of the Ocean County Correctional Facility. The named plaintiffs alleged that they were all arrested for misdemeanor or petty crimes and, upon their admission to the jail, were strip searched pursuant to the unconstitutional blanket policy of strip searching every pr…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Criswell v. Boudreaux

1:20-cv-01048 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California

Filed Date: July 29, 2020

Case Ongoing

COVID-19 Summary: This constitutional action was filed on July 29, 2020 by inmates in Tulare County in California seeking improved safety and health conditions in light of COVID-19. The court granted part of the plaintiffs' temporary restraining order and provisional class certification on September 2, 2020. However, on December 23, 2020 the court denied to certify the class and enter a preliminary injunction. On July 29, 2020, plaintiffs, four incarcerated individuals in custody of the Tulare …
POLICING
Bailey v. City of Philadelphia

2:10-cv-05952 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Nov. 4, 2010

Case Ongoing

On November 4, 2010, eight African-American male residents of Philadelphia filled this class action lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia division ("PPD"). The plaintiffs sued the City of Philadelphia and individual police officers under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and Pennsylvania state law. The putative class, represented by the ACLU of Pennsylvania and private attorneys, sought injunctive and compens…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Guzzo v. Mead

2:14-cv-00200 | U.S. District Court for the District of Wyoming

Filed Date: Oct. 7, 2014

Case Ongoing

On October 7, 2014, four same-sex couples and Wyoming Equality filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Wyoming under 42 U.S.C § 1983 against the State of Wyoming. The four couples live in Wyoming, two seek to get married in the state and the others seek to have their marriages, performed in other jurisdictions, legally recognized in the state. Wyoming Equality is a non-profit organization that works on behalf of LGBT causes in the state. The plaintiffs asked the …