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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 …
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…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Goodman v. Davis

2:12-cv-00166 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas

Filed Date: May 21, 2012

Case Ongoing

On May 21, 2012, a Native American prisoner incarcerated at the McConnell Unit of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) filed this lawsuit, pro se, in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas. The plaintiff sued five TDCJ employees under 42 U.S.C. § 1983: the Director of TDCJ, the Director of Chaplaincy Department, two chaplains, and the Deputy Director of Prison and Jail Operations. He claimed that TDCJ policies violated his rights under RLUIPA and the First Amendme…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
BELUE v. WAYNE FARMS, LLC

2:07-cv-01004 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi

Filed Date: Nov. 20, 2007

Closed Date: Sept. 1, 2010

This case was transferred from the Northern District of Alabama and is a later development of the case EE-AL-0119.On October 18, 2006, several current and former employees of the defendant's Albertville, Alabama facility filed a lawsuit against the company under the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (FLSA), 29 U.S.C. §§ 201 et seq., in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama, Middle Division. The plaintiffs, represented by private counsel, brought this class action seeking …
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Kramer v. New Orleans Saints

2:01-cv-02451 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana

Filed Date: Aug. 13, 2001

Closed Date: 2004

On August 13, 2001, two female employees of the New Orleans Saints Organization filed a lawsuit against the New Orleans Saints, its owner, and two of its partner corporations. Represented by private counsel, the plaintiffs alleged various violations of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Civil Rights Act of 1991, the Equal Pay Act of 1963, and the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). One of the two plaintiffs also alleged violations of the Family & Medical Leave Act of 1993 (FMLA). The p…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Belton, Jr. v. East Baton Rouge Parish Prison

3:20-cv-00278 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana

Filed Date: May 4, 2020

Case Ongoing

COVID-19 Summary: This is a class action filed by inmates in the East Baton Rouge Parish Prison, seeking the release of medically vulnerable people and appropriate hygiene and social distancing measures for those still in the facility. The court denied to enter a temporary restraining order on July 3, and on February 4, 2021 the court granted the defendants' motions to dismiss. On May 5, 2020, an incarcerated person in the East Baton Rouge Parish Prison filed this pro se action in the U.S. Dist…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Bush v. Biden

7:21-cv-00272 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas

Filed Date: July 13, 2021

Case Ongoing

The Commissioner of the Texas General Land Office, George P. Bush, sued President Biden, the Department of Homeland Security, and the Department's Secretary on July 13, 2021, in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas. The plaintiff challenged President Biden's proclamation ordering the Department to stop construction of the wall on the southern border for which Congress had appropriated money. The plaintiff alleged that the proclamation and DHS's observance of it vi…
EDUCATION
Cook v. Florida High School Athletic Ass'n

3:09-cv-00547 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida

Filed Date: June 16, 2009

Closed Date: 2015

Parents of female student-athletes at Florida High School Athletic Association (FHSAA) member schools filed suit on June 16, 2009 in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida against the Athletic Association, alleging that the Association's "Policy 6" violated the students' rights under Title IX of the Education Amendment, the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment and State law. Policy 6 reduced the athletic schedules of all high school sports except boys…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
CODING IN PROCESS
Donald J. Trump for President v. Cegavske

2:20-cv-01445 | U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada

Filed Date: Aug. 4, 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 23, 2020, Plaintiffs filed their action to enjoin the enforcement of Nevada bill AB4, which expanded the use of mail-in and absentee voting in elections that are impacted by a pandemic or other disaster. The bill would expand absentee voting in the November election. Plaintiffs argue that this will result in frau…
MENTAL HEALTH (FACILITY)
M.G. v. Cuomo

7:19-cv-00639 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Jan. 23, 2019

Case Ongoing

On January 23, 2019, six indigent prisoners with mental illness whom the defendants held in secure prisons past their release dates filed this class-action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, on behalf of other prisoners in similar situations. The plaintiffs sued the Governor of New York, the New York State Office of Mental Health, Commissioner, Associate Commissioner, and the New York Department of Corrections and Community Supervision ("DOCCS"), alleging …