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Carpenter v. Vilsack

2:21-cv-00103 | U.S. District Court for the District of Wyoming

Filed Date: May 24, 2021

Closed Date: May 13, 2024

This case is one of several lawsuits challenging the American Rescue Plan’s (ARP) classification of “socially disadvantaged groups.” Section 1005 of the ARP allows the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Farms Services Agency (FSA) to forgive previously given loans to farmers of “socially disadvantaged groups.” That category is defined elsewhere to mean people who have been "subjected to racial or ethnic prejudice because of their identity as members of a group without regard to their…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
State Of Texas v. United States Department of Homeland Security

6:24-cv-00306 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas

Filed Date: Aug. 23, 2024

Case Ongoing

In this case, a federal court permanently vacated the Biden Administration's policy that made it easier for some undocumented people to receive parole and green cards if they were the spouse or step-child of a U.S. citizen. This lawsuit was filed by 16 states on August 23, 2024 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas. The states sued the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB), as well as the DHS Secretary, the Director …
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…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Beatty v. Lamont

3:22-cv-00380 | U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

Filed Date: March 14, 2022

Closed Date: Oct. 16, 2024

Connecticut General Statute §§18-85a-c required current and formerly incarcerated people to pay $249 per day incarcerated as a so-called “pay-to-stay” law. This law resulted in debt that the state frequently collected against formerly incarcerated people's property. On March 14, 2022, two plaintiffs, represented by the ACLU, filed suit against Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont, responsible for overseeing the Department of Corrections, and Attorney General William Tong, vested with authority to fi…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Bird v. Barr

1:19-cv-01581 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: May 29, 2019

Case Ongoing

On May 29, 2019, a group of female Intelligence Analyst and Agent Trainees at the FBI’s Training Academy in Quantico, Virginia filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia on behalf of themselves and a class of more than 125 female Agent and Analyst Trainees who had been subjected to similar gender-based harassment, discrimination, and retaliation. The plaintiffs sued the Attorney General of the United States in his official capacity under Title VII of the…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Diffenderfer v. Gomez-Colon

3:08-cv-01918 | U.S. District Court for the District of Puerto Rico

Filed Date: Aug. 19, 2008

Closed Date: Dec. 23, 2009

Longtime residents of Puerto Rico, who only spoke, read, and understood English, filed this class action suit on behalf of similarly situated individuals against members of the electoral commission for its decision to issue ballots in the November 2008 Puerto Rican elections only in Spanish. On August 19, 2008, the plaintiffs filed a putative class action suit against members of the Puerto Rico electoral commission in the U.S. District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, arguing that the com…
CHILD WELFARE
G. K. v. Sununu

1:21-cv-00004 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire

Filed Date: Jan. 5, 2021

Case Ongoing

On January 5, 2021, four teenagers with mental impairments in foster care in New Hampshire filed this putative class-action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire. They sought to represent a class of all minors between the ages of 14 and 17, with mental impairments, under the legal custody of the Division for Children, Youth and Families (DCYF) in New Hampshire who were at risk of placement in congregate care. The plaintiffs were represented by the ACLU of New Hamp…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Lee v. Virginia State Board of Elections

3:15-cv-00357 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

Filed Date: June 11, 2015

Closed Date: Dec. 13, 2016

This case challenged the legality of Virginia's voter identification law. On June 11, 2015, an African American Democrat voter who resided in Virginia, a Latino Democrat voter who resided in Virginia, and the Democratic Party of Virginia filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, Richmond Division. Plaintiffs sued the Virginia State Board of Elections and the Virginia Department of Elections under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, the First Am…
HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Doe v. Ladapo

4:23-cv-00114 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida

Filed Date: March 23, 2023

Case Ongoing

This is a lawsuit brought by transgender adolescents and their parents challenging Florida's ban on medical care for transgender minors (Board of Medicine, Rule 64B8-9.019, Fla. Admin. Code; and Board of Osteopathic Medicine, Rule 64B15-14.014, Fla. Admin. Code). The challenged bans prohibited the use of puberty blockers to stop or delay normal puberty as well as the use of hormones or hormone antagonists in order to affirm a person's perception of his or her sex if that perception was inconsis…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Adams & Knights v. Kentucky

3:14-cv-00001 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky

Filed Date: Jan. 1, 2014

Closed Date: Dec. 24, 2020

On January 1, 2014, represented by private counsel and the Washington Lawyers' Committee Prisoners Rights Project, deaf and hard of hearing prisoners in the Kentucky prison system filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky on behalf of themselves and those similarly situated against the Commonwealth of Kentucky, the Kentucky Justice and Public Safety Cabinet (JPSC), the Department of Corrections (KDOC), and eight individuals serving in leadership roles at JP…