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REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
CODING IN PROCESS
EMW Women's Surgical Center, P.S.C. v. Meier

3:19-cv-00178 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky

Filed Date: March 14, 2019

Case Ongoing

(This summary is temporary, while we research the case.) In 2019, the American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Kentucky filed a lawsuit to challenge two Kentucky laws: one banned on abortion at 6-weeks of pregnancy, and the other law banned abortion based on the specific reasons for the person’s decision, such as a fetal diagnosis. 
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Jacksonville Branch of the NAACP v. City of Jacksonville

3:22-cv-00493 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida

Filed Date: May 3, 2022

Case Ongoing

(This summary is temporary while we research the case) The Southern Poverty Law Center filed suit on May 3, 2022 in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida after the city of Jacksonville, Florida adopted racially gerrymandered voting maps diluting the voting power of Black residents in city council and school board elections.
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 …
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Karlo v. Pittsburgh Glass Works LLC.

2:10-cv-01283 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Sept. 29, 2010

Closed Date: 2017

On September 29, 2010, a class of male employees 50 years of age or older filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act ("ADEA"), 29 U.S.C. § 621, against Pittsburgh Glass Works, LLC. The plaintiffs, represented by private counsel, asked the court for lost compensation in front pay and back pay, attorneys' fees and costs, declaratory and injunctive relief, lost pension benefits, and liquidated damages, claimin…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
United States of America and the Vulcan Society v. City of New York

1:07-cv-02067 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: May 21, 2007

Case Ongoing

On May 21, 2007, the U.S. Department of Justice ("DOJ") filed a lawsuit on behalf of United States of America against the City of New York under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, Brooklyn Division. On July 17, 2007, the Vulcan Society--an organization of Black firefighters, and three individuals, filed an Intervenor's Complaint. Plaintiffs sued to enforce the right of Black and Hispanic candidates to be treated fairly in t…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Ashker v. Brown

4:09-cv-05796 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Dec. 9, 2009

Case Ongoing

On December 9, 2009, two prisoners at California's Pelican Bay prison who had been kept in solitary confinement for decades filed this § 1983 action against the State of California in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. The plaintiffs, originally proceeding pro se, asked the court for declaratory, injunctive, and compensatory relief, claiming violations of their First, Fourth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendment rights. Specifically, the plaintiffs claimed that the "in…
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…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
CODING IN PROCESS
Equip for Equality v. Ingalls Memorial Hosp

1:03-cv-00797 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

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SCHOOL DESEGREGATION
United States of America v. Avoyelles Parish School Board

1:65-cv-12721 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana

Filed Date: March 2, 1967

Case Ongoing

The United States, as plaintiff, filed this school desegregation case in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana in 1967, with Judge Edwin Hunter presiding. The United States sued the Avoyelles Parish School Board to enjoin the operation of a segregated school system. Initially, the Board pursued a freedom-of-choice approach to desegregation. The Fifth Circuit at first approved the use of freedom of choice plans in United States v. Jefferson. 372 F.2d 836 (5th Cir. Dec. 29…
NATIONAL SECURITY
Shubert v. Obama

4:07-cv-00693 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: May 17, 2006

Case Ongoing

On May 17, 2006, American citizens who use the telephone and internet filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of themselves and others similarly situated in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York. The plaintiffs sued the President of the United States of America, the National Security Agency and the Attorney General under the Declaratory Judgment Act and bivens. Represented by private counsel, they sought declaratory, injunctive, and monetary relief, claiming that…