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ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Palast v. Kemp

1:18-cv-04809 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: Oct. 17, 2018

Closed Date: Oct. 13, 2020

This is a case challenging Georgia's voter registration system that allegedly disproportionately flagged people of color. On October 17, 2018, two civil rights activists filed suit against the Georgia Secretary of State, alleging violations of the National Voter Registration Act. The plaintiffs alleged that the Secretary of State violated provisions of the law mandating that records regarding how voter lists are maintained and purged be retained for at least 2 years and be accessible to the pub…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Flores v. Town of Islip

2:18-cv-03549 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: June 18, 2018

Closed Date: Oct. 14, 2020

This case alleged that the town of Islip, New York's election scheme unconstitutionally diluted the strength of the Latino vote.  On June 18, 2018, Latino voters and a New York-based voting rights group sued the town of Islip, New York; the Islip Town Board; and the Suffolk County Board of Elections in the Eastern District of New York. Plaintiffs claimed that the city's at-large election scheme had the effect of impairing Islip’s minority Latino voters right to an equal opportunity to participa…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
The Libertarian Party of Kentucky v. Grimes

3:15-cv-00086 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky

Filed Date: April 12, 2015

Closed Date: May 16, 2017

This case alleged that the Libertarian and Constitution Parties should be classified as political parties, not political groups, for the purposes of elections.  On December 11, 2015, plaintiffs - the Libertarian Party of Kentucky, the Libertarian National Committee, the Constitution Party of Kentucky, and Ken Moellman, Jr., an individual voter and former Libertarian Party candidate for Kentucky state office – brought an action against Kentucky's Secretary of State, state's attorney general, and…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Briggs v. Slatton-Hodges

4:23-cv-00081 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma

Filed Date: March 1, 2023

Case Ongoing

This is a case about whether Oklahoma denied competency restoration treatments to criminal defendants awaiting trial in excess of constitutionally permissible time limits. Competency restoration is defined as the process by which persons who have been declared incompetent to stand trial in criminal proceedings are provided treatment to attempt to restore their mental competency. On March 1, 2023, three individuals currently held in jails across Oklahoma and declared incompetent to stand trial b…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Blake v. City of Grants Pass

1:18-cv-01823 | U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon

Filed Date: Oct. 15, 2018

Closed Date: Oct. 7, 2024

On October 15, 2018, individuals without secure housing filed this class-action lawsuit suing the city of Grants Pass, Oregon (the “City”) in the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Represented by the Oregon Law Center, the plaintiffs challenged the City’s enforcement of Grants Pass’s anti-sleeping ordinance, anti-camping ordinance, park exclusion ordinance, and criminal trespass laws stemming from violations of these ordinances as unconstitutional under the E…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Does, 1-104 v. Wasden

1:16-cv-00429 | U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho

Filed Date: Sept. 22, 2016

Case Ongoing

On September 22, 2016, this complaint was filed under 42 U.S.C. §1983 on behalf of 104 unnamed sexual offenders, identified as John or Jane Does, in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Idaho against the Idaho Attorney General, the Idaho Department of Corrections, and the Idaho State Police Force. The plaintiffs alleged that Idaho’s Sexual Offender Registration Notification and Community Right-to-Know Act (“SORA”) was unconstitutionally vague in violation of the Due Process and …
POLICING
Abay v. Denver

1:20-cv-01616 | U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado

Filed Date: June 4, 2020

Closed Date: Sept. 25, 2023

This class-action suit was brought in Colorado state court on June 4, 2020. That same day, the case was removed by the defendants to the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado. The complaint was filed in response to police tactics used against protesters in Denver following the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, MN. Plaintiffs were individuals who participated in, observed, or wanted to participate in or observe the protests; they were represented by private counsel. The c…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Nightingale v. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services

3:19-cv-03512 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: June 16, 2019

Case Ongoing

On June 16, 2019, plaintiffs – three immigration attorneys and two noncitizens who filed FOIA (FOIA) requests for individual immigration case files (known as A-Files) – filed this class-action suit in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. The plaintiffs sued U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), alleging that the defendants had a nationwide pattern or p…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Augustine v. Avoyelles Parish

1:06-cv-01662 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana

Filed Date: Sept. 26, 2006

Closed Date: Oct. 18, 2010

On September 26, 2006, three plaintiffs, who are all African American and registered voters of Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana, filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana. Defendants include the Avoyelles Parish Police Jury and the nine members of the Policy Jury in their official capacities. The case was assigned to the Honorable Dee D. Drell, United District Judge. Plaintiffs alleged that Defendants violated the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments of the Constitut…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Georgia State Conference of the NAACP v. Hancock County Board of Elections and Registration

5:15-cv-00414 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia

Filed Date: Nov. 3, 2015

Closed Date: March 30, 2023

This is a case about the unlawful removal of Black registered voters from voter rolls in Sparta, a city in Hancock County, Georgia. On November 3, 2015, Georgia State Conference of the NAACP, Georgia Coalition for the People’s Agenda and certain registered voters impacted by the removals filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Georgia Macon Division. Plaintiffs sought declaratory and injunctive relief against the Hancock County Board of Elections and Re…