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Soos v. Cuomo

1:20-cv-00651 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York

Filed Date: June 10, 2020

Closed Date: Aug. 16, 2021

As part of New York’s ban on gatherings during the COVID-19 pandemic, attendance at houses of worship and outdoor religious gatherings was strictly limited. In June 2020, state and city officials allowed mass gatherings protesting the death of George Floyd, but continued to actively enforce prohibitions against congregational worship. On June 10, 2020, two Catholic priests and three Orthodox Jews filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York. They alleged that Gove…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Bush v. Biden

7:21-cv-00272 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas

Filed Date: July 13, 2021

Case Ongoing

The General Land Office of the State of Texas and its then-commissioner, George P. Bush (collectively, “GLO”) sued President Biden, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and the Secretary of DHS on July 13, 2021, in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas. GLO challenged Proclamation 10142 (“the Proclamation”), which ordered DHS to stop construction of the southern U.S. border wall for which Congress had appropriated money. GLO alleged that the Proclamation and DHS’s obs…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
State of Texas v. Brooks-LaSure

6:21-cv-00191 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas

Filed Date: May 14, 2021

Closed Date: May 10, 2022

This is a case about the Biden administration's attempt to rescind a Medicaid waiver granted to the State of Texas. On May 14, 2021, Texas and its Health and Human Services Commission filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas against the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), the Acting Administrator for CMS, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the Secretary of HHS, and the federal government. Texas brought suit under…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Hinton v. District of Columbia

1:21-cv-01295 | U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

Filed Date: May 11, 2021

Closed Date: June 23, 2022

This is a class action lawsuit about transgender individuals in District of Columbia Department of Corrections (DOC) custody being assigned housing based solely on anatomy, instead of based on vulnerability and safety needs. On May 11, 2021, the plaintiff filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on behalf of herself and a class of similarly situated transgender individuals who currently reside in a DOC housing unit that does not accord with their gender identit…
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 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…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Corbitt v. Taylor

2:18-cv-00091 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama

Filed Date: Feb. 6, 2018

Case Ongoing

On February 6, 2018, three transgender individuals brought an action against the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency, the Alabama Department of Public Safety, the Alabama Driver License Division, and administrative officials in their official and individual capacities in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama. The plaintiffs, represented by the ACLU of Alabama and the ACLU LGBT & HIV Project, sued under 42 U.S.C § 1983, alleging violations of their First and Fourteenth A…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Coalition on Homelessness v. City and County of San Francisco

4:22-cv-05502 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Sept. 27, 2022

Case Ongoing

This case is a challenge to San Francisco’s policies regarding homelessness. The plaintiffs, several homeless individuals and an advocacy organization allege that San Francisco has enacted anti-homelessness ordinances and statutes that criminalize the unhoused population of the city, despite lack of access to shelter beds. The plaintiffs claim that in its efforts to “solve” the homelessness crisis, the City did not invest in adequate shelter to meet the needs of its unhoused population. Instead…
EDUCATION
Doe v. Vermilion Parish School Board

6:09-cv-01565 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana

Filed Date: Sept. 8, 2009

Closed Date: Dec. 31, 2019

On September 8, 2009, two middle school students by and through their mother filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana challenging the Vermilion Parish School District’s sex segregation policies. The complaint alleged that Rene A. Rost Middle School (RRMS) was involuntarily and unlawfully segregating boys and girls during the 2009-2010 school year in violation of Title IX, the Title IX implementing regulations of the United States Department of Agricult…
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…