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SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
North Dakota v. Burwell

3:16-CV-00386 | U.S. District Court for the District of North Dakota

Filed Date: Nov. 7, 2016

Case Ongoing

On November 7, 2016, the State of North Dakota, joined by the Religious Sisters of Mercy, two Sacred Heart Mercy Health Care Center clinics, the SMP Health System, and the University of Mary, filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) challenging a federal regulation that they argued compelled healthcare professionals to cast aside their medical judgment and religious beliefs and perform medical transition procedures on patients who desire to have a sex chang…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Stinnie v. Holcomb

3:16-cv-00044 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia

Filed Date: July 6, 2016

Case Ongoing

On July 6, 2016, indigent Virginia residents brought this class action in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia after suffering indefinite suspension of their driver's licenses pursuant to Virginia Code § 46.2-395 for failure to pay court costs and fines that they could not afford. The plaintiffs sued the Commissioner of the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Represented by private attorneys, the plaintiffs sought declaratory and injunctive reli…
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Honeyfund.com, Inc. v. DeSantis

4:22-cv-00227 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida

Filed Date: June 22, 2022

Case Ongoing

This is a case about legislation impacting private employers' ability to offer diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) trainings. This case was filed on June 22, 2022, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida against Florida Governor Ron DeSantis; the Florida attorney general; the senior chair, the vice chair, nine commissioners of the Florida Commission on Human Relations. The plaintiffs, (1) private employers with DEI programs in Florida and (2) DEI training consultants,…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Pritchard v. County of Erie

1:04-cv-00534 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York

Filed Date: July 21, 2004

Closed Date: Feb. 22, 2018

On October 31, 2003, three plaintiffs represented by private attorneys with law firms in New York and Washington, D.C., filed this class action civil rights lawsuit pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York. They alleged that the Erie County Sheriff's Department had an unconstitutional blanket policy and/or practice of strip searching all individuals who entered either the Erie County Holding Center (ECHC) or the Erie County Correctional Facili…
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…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Mann v. Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections

2:18-cv-01565 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio

Filed Date: Dec. 4, 2018

Closed Date: Feb. 2, 2021

On December 4, 2018, three men with hepatitis C virus (HCV) in the custody of the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections (ODRC), proceeding pro se, filed a motion for class certification in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio.  They sought to certify a class of ODRC prisoners who had undergone unsuccessful Interferon/Ribovirin treatment for Hepatitis C (HCV), at different stages of the disease, and were denied direct acting antiviral drugs.  Plaintiffs …
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Courthouse News Service v. Forman

4:22-cv-00106 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida

Filed Date: March 9, 2022

Case Ongoing

This case is about Florida's "no-access-before-process" policy that delayed public access to new non-confidential circuit court civil complaints while they sat in review queues until clerical processing was completed. On March 9, 2022, Courthouse News Service filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida against the Broward County, Florida Clerk of Courts, the Florida E-Filing Authority, and the chair of the Florida E-Filing Authority. Courthouse News alleged a…
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…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Riggleman v. Clarke

5:17-cv-00063 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia

Filed Date: June 26, 2017

Case Ongoing

On June 27, 2017, an prisoner in the custody of the Virginia Department of Corrections (VDOC) brought this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia, against VDOC's Director and its Chief Medical Director in their official and personal capacities. Plaintiff, who had Hepatitis C, claimed that VDOC knowingly refused him medical care for his disease and this refusal violated the Eighth Amendment's Cruel and Unusual Punishments Clause and the state constitution. Plaint…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Lichtenstein v. Hargett

3:20-cv-00736 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee

Filed Date: Aug. 28, 2020

Case Ongoing

This case challenged Tennessee’s statute that forbids anyone but employees of election commissions to provide absentee ballots to any person. Plaintiffs are organizations (and one individual) who engage in voter outreach. The statute stood in the way of their plan to send absentee ballot applications to both their members and non-members.  On August 28, 2020, the Memphis and West Tennessee AFL-CIO Central Labor Council (along with its Executive Secretary), the Tennessee State Conference of the …