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DISABILITY RIGHTS
Disability Rights Washington v. Penrith Farms

2:09-cv-00024 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Washington

Filed Date: Jan. 29, 2009

Closed Date: Oct. 6, 2009

This is a case about whether a Protection and Advocacy (P&A) agency can use its access authority in an unlicensed group home. On January 29, 2009, Disability Rights Washington, Washington’s P&A, filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Washington. Disability Rights Washington filed this lawsuit against Penrith Farms (Penrith), an unlicensed group home provider, under the Developmental Disabilities Assistance and Bill of Rights Act (DD Act) and Protection and Adv…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
E.T. v. Governor Greg Abbott

1:21-cv-00717 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

Filed Date: Aug. 17, 2021

Closed Date: Aug. 22, 2022

On August 17, 2021, Disability Rights Texas filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas challenging Governor Abbott's issuing of Executive Order GA-38 ("GA-38"), which prohibited school districts from instituting mask mandates in response to COVID-19. In addition to Governor Abbott, defendants included the Commissioner of the Texas Education Agency ("TEA") and the TEA. Disability Rights filed the suit on behalf of students with disabilities with compromised immu…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Planned Parenthood Arizona Incorporated v. Brnovich

2:15-cv-01022 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: June 4, 2015

Closed Date: May 8, 2020

This is a case about abortion providers and physicians challenging the constitutionality of a provision within Arizona's S.B. 1318 (the “Act”). On June 4, 2015, Planned Parenthood of Arizona, alongside a private physician practice and two board-certified obstetricians and gynecologists, filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Arizona, seeking a declaratory judgment and preliminary injunctive relief on behalf of themselves and their patients. The plaintiffs sue…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Common Cause v. Rucho

1:16-cv-01026 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina

Filed Date: Aug. 5, 2016

Closed Date: Oct. 18, 2019

The following case alleged that North Carolina’s 2016 redistricting plan was an unconstitutional partisan gerrymander. Ultimately, the U.S. Supreme Court determined that partisan gerrymandering was a non-justiciable political question.  The case was filed on August 5, 2016, in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina. Plaintiffs included an organization advocating for redistricting reform, the North Carolina Democratic Party, and fifteen registered Democrats. Defendants…
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Toor v. Berger

1:22-cv-01004 | U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

Filed Date: April 11, 2022

Case Ongoing

This is a case about individuals who were denied religious accommodations to practice their faith while in recruit training for, or serving in, the U.S. Marine Corps. On April 11, 2022, four Sikh Americans filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. The plaintiffs sued the Department of Defense (DOD), the Department of the Navy, officials in both departments, and officials in the U.S. Marine Corps under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, the Religious Freedom and Restoration Act (RFRA), …
PRISON CONDITIONS
Torres v. Milusnic

2:20-cv-04450 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: May 16, 2020

Closed Date: Oct. 14, 2022

COVID-19 Summary: This is a class action originally brought by five individuals held at Lompoc, a low-security prison facing one of the largest outbreaks of COVID-19 among U.S. federal prisons. The plaintiffs alleged that the defendants failed to undertake reasonable preventative measures, which allowed the virus to spread to 60% of those in custody. The plaintiffs sought declaratory and injunctive relief for improved conditions of confinement, as well as a writ of habeas corpus for release. On…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Brown v. U.S. Department of Education

4:22-cv-00908 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas

Filed Date: Oct. 10, 2022

Case Ongoing

This case concerns one of many challenges to President Biden's executive action to cancel up to $20,000 of federal student loans per borrower. On October 10, 2022, two private plaintiffs represented by private attorneys filed suit against the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas, challenging President Biden's student loan forgiveness plan. The debtor-plaintiffs alleged that the Department of Education (DoE) violated the Administrative …
POLICING
NAACP v. San Jose

4:21-cv-01705 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: March 11, 2021

Case Ongoing

On March 11, 2021, the NAACP and several individuals filed this class-action lawsuit against the city of San Jose and public officials. The plaintiffs stated that they were peacefully protesting police brutality and institutionalized racism when San Jose police fired impact munitions and attacked them with flash-bang grenades, chemical weapons, and batons. The plaintiffs contended that the defendants had exhibited a long history of targeting Black, Brown, and Muslim communities and that the use…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Mi Familia Vota v. Hobbs

2:20-cv-01903 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: Sept. 30, 2020

Closed Date: Oct. 5, 2020

The Plaintiff organizations filed a Complaint seeking a declarator y judgment and Emergency Motion for a TRO against AZ Secretary of State seeking to extend the voter registration deadline to October 27, 2020. Without the extension tens of thousands of voters would not be able to register. The Plaintiffs' were successful in extending the voting registration deadline to October 2023, 2020.
PRISON CONDITIONS
Mann v. Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections

2:18-cv-01565 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio

Filed Date: Dec. 4, 2018

Closed Date: Feb. 2, 2021

On December 4, 2018, three men with hepatitis C virus (HCV) in the custody of the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections (ODRC), proceeding pro se, filed a motion for class certification in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio.  They sought to certify a class of ODRC prisoners who had undergone unsuccessful Interferon/Ribovirin treatment for Hepatitis C (HCV), at different stages of the disease, and were denied direct acting antiviral drugs.  Plaintiffs …