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A.C. v. Metropolitan School District of Martinsville

1:21-cv-02965 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana

Filed Date: Dec. 3, 2021

Case Ongoing

A transgender middle school boy in Indiana filed this lawsuit on December 3, 2021, in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana. The student's school denied him access to the boy's restroom and soccer team. Several of the school's staff likewise refused to use his preferred pronouns. According to the complaint, the school's actions discriminated against the student in violation of Title IX and the Equal Protection Clause. Represented by the ACLU of Indiana and Indiana Legal S…
POLICING
Hall v. Warren

6:21-cv-06296 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York

Filed Date: April 5, 2021

Case Ongoing

This is a case about the systemic problematic treatment of protestors and Black and brown communities by the Rochester Police Department (RPD). On April 5, 2021, a Black resident of the City of Rochester and community organizer who was subjected to excessive force during the protests in September 2020, filed this putative class-action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York. The plaintiff class consists of Black and White residents of the City of Rochester and th…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Bergamaschi v. Cuomo

1:20-cv-02817 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: April 3, 2020

Case Ongoing

COVID-19 Summary: This is a putative class action challenging a New York law that requires mandatory detention of all alleged parole violators. The plaintiffs sought to enjoin application of the law and argued the lawsuit took on "particular urgency" due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The court denied the motion for preliminary injunction on April 20. Both parties filed for summary judgment in late 2020. The court granted summary judgment for the defendants on March 10, 2021 and ordered the case clo…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Eilenberg v. City of Colton

8:20-cv-00767 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: April 20, 2020

Closed Date: April 8, 2021

This is a case about a constitutional right to gather signatures to qualify a city ballot initiative during COVID-19 pandemic state of emergency. On April 20, 2020, the manager of a ballot initiative to allow food trucks to operate in the City of Colton, CA (which was to have appeared on the November 2020 city general election ballots) sued the city in the Central District of Californdia under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The manager proceeded pro se. At the time, California was under a stay-at-home order…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Whole Woman's Health v. Paxton

1:17-cv-00690 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

Filed Date: July 20, 2017

Closed Date: Aug. 18, 2021

This is a case about a 2017 Texas law that effectively banned the most commonly-performed second-trimester abortion procedure, standard dilation & evacuation (D&E), by requiring "fetal demise" before the evacuation portion of the procedure (the law, 2017 SB8, is not to be confused with 2021 SB8 which authorized private monetary penalties on providers of nearly all abortions performed after 6 weeks). On July 20, 2017, Whole Women's Health, Planned Parenthood, and other individual Texas healthcar…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Planned Parenthood of Kansas And Mid-Missouri Inc. v. Donnelly

2:07-cv-04164 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri

Filed Date: Aug. 20, 2007

Closed Date: July 1, 2010

This is a case about Missouri’s Ambulatory Surgical Center Licensing Law, which restricted access to abortion in the state of Missouri. On August 20, 2007, Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri and a physician providing abortions for Planned Parenthood filed this lawsuit in the Western District of Missouri. Planned Parenthood sued the state of Missouri, Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services, Boone County, and Jackson County, MO under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Represented by private …
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Feenstra v. Sigler

19-cv-00234 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma

Filed Date: March 21, 2019

Case Ongoing

This case alleged that the Oklahoma court system unconstitutionally imposed fines at sentencing without consideration for an individual's ability to pay the fines assessed. The plaintiffs in this case further alleged that the courts violated their due process and equal protection rights, as well as their right to counsel, based on the "cost docket" procedures and the possible penalty of incarceration for failure to pay outstanding fines. The plaintiffs were three indigent individuals who were f…
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
South Bay United Pentecostal Church v. Newsom

3:20-cv-00865 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California

Filed Date: May 8, 2020

Case Ongoing

COVID-19 Summary: This is a suit brought by a church against the State of California’s enforcement of stay-at-home orders and prohibition of in-person religious policies. The plaintiffs alleged that California’s four-stage “Reopening Plan,” had relaxed the stay-at-home order for certain retail organizations as part of Stage 2 of the reopening, however, churches were to be opened months later. On May 15, the court denied the TRO and the plaintiffs appealed. The Ninth Circuit denied the injunctio…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Casey v. Gardner

1:19-cv-00149 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire

Filed Date: Feb. 13, 2019

Closed Date: May 22, 2020

This is a case about voting rights—particularly those of college students—in New Hampshire. On February 13, 2019, two college students filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire. The plaintiffs sued the state’s Secretary of State and Attorney General, alleging violations of the First, Fourteenth, Twenty-Fourth, and Twenty-Sixth Amendments. Represented by the ACLU of New Hampshire, the plaintiffs sought an injunction prohibiting New Hampshire from implementin…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Wagafe v. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services

2:17-cv-00094 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: Jan. 23, 2017

Case Ongoing

This lawsuit challenges President Trump's January 27, 2017 Executive Order (EO) suspending entry into the United States of citizens or nationals of Syria, Iraq, Iran, Yemen, Somalia, Sudan, and Libya. This case also challenges the government's Controlled Application Review and Resolution Program (CARRP), alleging it was a precursor to the EO's "extreme vetting" of Muslims, and chronicled the government's attempts to resist disclosure of documents about this program. The original complaint was f…