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REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky v. Commissioner

1:13-cv-01335 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana

Filed Date: Aug. 22, 2013

In 2013, Indiana made two changes to its state laws regulating abortion clinics. These amendments changed the definition of “abortion clinic” to include not only clinics which provide surgical abortions, but also clinics which provided abortion-inducing medicine. They also imposed new regulations on any clinic which fell under the new definition of “abortion clinic,” requiring that all abortion clinics meet standards only necessary for facilities which conducted surgical abortions. The new defi…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Wood v. Raffensperger

1:20-cv-04651 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: Nov. 13, 2020

Closed Date: Feb. 24, 2021

This is a case about an alleged mishandling of absentee ballots in Georgia during the November 3, 2020 general election. On November 13, 2020, a private individual filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. The plaintiff sued the Secretary of State of Georgia and members of the State Election Board under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Represented by private counsel, the plaintiff sought declaratory and injunctive relief. Specifically, the plaintiff sought de…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
L.E. v. Ragsdale

1:21-cv-04076 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: Oct. 1, 2021

Case Ongoing

This is a case about COVID-19 policies for schools in Cobb County, Georgia. On October 1, 2021, four students, whose disabilities made them particularly vulnerable to COVID-19 and put them at an increased risk for severe symptoms or death from an infection, filed this lawsuit in the District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. The plaintiffs sued the Cobb County School District, members of the Cobb County School Board and the Board’s superintendent under Title 2 of the Americans with Di…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Harvard v. Inch

4:19-cv-00212 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida

Filed Date: May 8, 2019

Case Ongoing

Six incarcerated persons with mental or physical disabilities from the Florida Department of Corrections (FDC) filed a class action complaint against the Secretary of the FDC and FDC in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida on May 8, 2019. Plaintiffs alleged that defendants frequently, unnecessarily, and harmfully used solitary confinement against people with physical and mental disabilities. They also alleged that defendants were aware of the heightened risk that solitar…
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: May 8, 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…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Planned Parenthood Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota v. Daugaard

4:11-cv-04071 | U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota

Filed Date: May 27, 2011

Closed Date: Oct. 21, 2022

This is a case challenging an abortion restriction in the state of South Dakota. According to the plaintiffs, South Dakota H.B. 1217 sought to restrict women's access to abortion services in South Dakota by (1) imposing what was at the time the longest mandatory delay in the country; (2) forcing every woman who sought an abortion to disclose and discuss private personal and medical information with an unlicensed, non-medical organization opposed to her decision; (3) requiring physicians to enga…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Thomas v. Merrill

2:21-cv-01531 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama

Filed Date: Nov. 16, 2021

Case Ongoing

The Southern Poverty Law Center, ACLU and NAACP Legal Defense Fund filed suit on behalf of four named plaintiffs and two organizational plaintiffs on November 15, 2021, in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama alleging that new state legislative districts drawn in 2021 deliberately diminished the power of Black voters. Plaintiffs allege that the Alabama districts signed into law on November 4, 2021 violated the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment as wel…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Doe v. Trump

2:17-cv-00178 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: Feb. 7, 2017

Closed Date: Feb. 3, 2022

This class action challenged President Trump's January 27, 2017, Executive Order (EO-1) which prohibited admission to the US for nationals of Iraq, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen. The plaintiffs commenced this lawsuit on February 7, 2017, in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington. The plaintiffs were represented by the ACLU of Washington and private counsel. On November 29, 2017, this case was consolidated with Jewish Family Service of Seattle v. Trump, No…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Hamama v. Adducci

2:17-cv-11910 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: June 15, 2017

Case Ongoing

Petitioners in this class action/habeas petition are Iraqi nationals—many, perhaps most, Chaldean Christian—who have resided in the United States for many years. They have been subject to final orders of removal for years, but the U.S. government permitted them to reside in the community under orders of supervision. In early 2017, political negotiation by the Trump administration with Iraq (related to Iraq's desire to be taken off the Trump Executive Order travel-ban list) led to Iraq’s agreeme…
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

Case Ongoing

This is a putative class action suit brought by and on behalf of children with disabilities who allege 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, 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, Ann Arbor Public Schools, and Washtenaw Intermediate Schoo…