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EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Tribue v. Maryland Department of State Police

8:22-cv-02732 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: Oct. 24, 2022

Case Ongoing

This is a case about alleged racial discrimination in employment conditions at the Maryland Department of State Police. The corresponding DOJ investigation, filed three months prior, can be found here. The plaintiffs, three officers of color employed by the Maryland Department of State Police, filed this putative class action in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland on October 24, 2022, on behalf of themselves and similarly situated officers. Represented by private counsel, the p…
EDUCATION
Simpson-Vlach v. Michigan Department of Education

5:21-cv-11532 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: June 30, 2021

Closed Date: Feb. 20, 2024

This is a putative class action suit brought by and on behalf of children with disabilities who alleged that they did not get their educational needs met by their schools due to online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. On June 30, 2021, the plaintiffs—children with disabilities and their parents—filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. The plaintiffs sued the Michigan Department of Education (MDE), Ann Arbor Public Schools (AAPS), and Washtenaw In…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Prison Legal News v. County of Ventura

2:14-cv-00773 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: Jan. 31, 2014

Closed Date: April 5, 2018

This case was brought by the Prison Legal News (PLN) on behalf of prisoners and pre-trial detainees held in custody at Ventura County jails. PLN provides a monthly journal, informational brochures, and paperback books that all discuss issues involving the criminal justice system. PLN alleged that the Ventura County jails' mail policies and practices unconstitutionally restrict PLN's correspondence with inmates. More specifically, PLN argued that the Ventura County jails' mail policies lacked cl…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Doe v. Pennsylvania Department of Corrections

1:20-cv-00023 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Jan. 28, 2020

Case Ongoing

This is a case challenging the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections' (DOC) alleged failure to provide an incarcerated person with gender-affirming care. On January 28, 2020, the plaintiff, a non-binary person incarcerated in a DOC prison, brought suit against the DOC and several of its employees under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the Rehabilitation Act, 42 U.S.C. § 1983, and state tort law. The plaintiff, represented by the Pennsylvania Institutional Law Project, alleged that th…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Common Cause/New York v. Brehm

1:17-cv-06770 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Sept. 6, 2017

Closed Date: Jan. 13, 2020

This is a case about a New York state law that removed inactive, but still registered, voters from voter lists at polling stations when those voters changed residences. On September 6, 2017, Common Cause/New York filed a complaint in the Southern District of New York against officials of the New York State Board of Elections alleging that their practice of labeling voters as inactive based on a change of residence and their removal of those voters from poll books at voting sites violated Sectio…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Nashville Student Organizing Committee v. Hargett

3:15-cv-00210 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee

Filed Date: March 4, 2015

Closed Date: Dec. 21, 2015

This is a case challenging, in part, the constitutionality of Tennessee's voter identification law, which excludes, among other things, student ID cards issued by higher education institutions as a form of acceptable identification for in-person voting.  On March 4, 2015, a group comprised of several individual Tennessee students, together with the Nashville Student Organizing Committee, a social justice and civil rights non-profit organization, filed this lawsuit in the United States District …
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Allen v. Waller County, Texas

4:18-cv-03985 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas

Filed Date: Oct. 12, 2018

Closed Date: April 14, 2022

This case involved allegations that county officials failed to allocate sufficient time for early voting during the 2018 general election cycle to Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU) (a historically Black university) in the State of Texas as compared to the other surrounding areas. Individual students and a student and alumni organization PVAMU, represented by NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund attorneys, filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas Houston Div…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Twelfth Congressional District Republican Committee v. Raffensperger

1:20-cv-00180 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Georgia

Filed Date: Dec. 9, 2020

Closed Date: March 31, 2021

This case is about certain voting rules and procedures regarding absentee ballots in the state of Georgia. On December 9, 2020, The Twelfth Congressional District Republican Committee, along with registered voters from Richmond County and Coffee County, Georgia, respectively, and a third Georgia resident, filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Georgia. The plaintiffs sued three members of the Georgia State Election Board (“SEB”) and five members of t…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Toth v. Chapman

1:22-cv-00208 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Feb. 10, 2022

Closed Date: Feb. 11, 2022

This is a fast-paced case about redistricting and the drawing of congressional maps in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania following the results of the decennial census in which Pennsylvania lost one congressional seat. The case was filed in the Middle District of Pennsylvania on February 10, 2022, one day after the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania announced that it was suspending the General Primary Election calendar codified in 25 Pa. Stat. §§ 2868 and 2873.  Bringing the case were four registered …
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Pennsylvania Democratic Party v. Republican Party of Pennsylvania

2:16-cv-05664 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Oct. 30, 2016

Closed Date: Nov. 9, 2016

This is a voter intimidation case in which the Pennsylvania Democratic Party filed a lawsuit to enjoin the Pennsylvania Republican Party, Donald J. Trump for President, Inc., Roger J. Stone, and Stop the Steal, Inc. from conspiring to suppress minority voting during the November 8, 2016 general election. On October 30, 2016, the Pennsylvania Democratic Party filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. The Plaintiff sued the Pennsylvania Repub…