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DISABILITY RIGHTS
Access Center for Independent Living v. WP Glimcher, Inc.

3:15-cv-00444 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio

Filed Date: Dec. 15, 2015

Closed Date: Oct. 11, 2018

In this case, individuals with disabilities alleged the move of a fixed bus route stop and the limiting of the bus routes that can utilize the bus stop denied plaintiffs and similarly situated individuals with disabilities the full and equal enjoyment of a local mall in Dayton, Ohio. On December 15, 2015, several individuals with disabilities, the Access Center for Independent Living, and National Federation of the Blind of Ohio filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of…
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…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Petteway v. Galveston County

3:22-cv-00057 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas

Filed Date: Feb. 15, 2022

Case Ongoing

This case centers around the 2021 Galveston County, Texas redistricting process and is part of a series of cases challenging the redistricting practices in Galveston County over a number of years. This was the first Voting Rights Act (VRA) case decided since the Supreme Court’s decision in Allen v. Milligan, 599 U. S. 1 (2023). Following the 2010 Census, county leaders adopted a redistricting plan for the county commissioners’ districts that would have effectively removed the single minority op…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Cannavan v. County of Ventura

2:20-cv-10012 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: Oct. 30, 2020

Closed Date: Sept. 3, 2022

This is a case about inmates held at a county jail in Ventura County, California who were denied their right to vote via absentee ballots during the November 2020 presidential election. On October 30, 2020, an individual inmate, on behalf of himself and all other similarly situated inmates held in the county jail, filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Central District of California. The plaintiffs sued Ventura County and the Ventura County Sheriff's Department under sta…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
American Civil Liberties Union of Maine Foundation v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security

2:18-cv-00182 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maine

Filed Date: May 8, 2018

Closed Date: Dec. 9, 2020

This is one of a pair of lawsuits filed by state affiliates of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), each relating to two separate Freedom of Information Act requests seeking agency records on immigration enforcement practices in Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont. (The other case is American Civil Liberties Union of Maine Foundation v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security.) Both cases were brought in U.S. District Court for the District of Maine; the ACLU sought declaratory and injunctive …
POLICING
United States v. Puerto Rico

3:12-cv-02039 | U.S. District Court for the District of Puerto Rico

Filed Date: Dec. 21, 2012

Case Ongoing

On December 21, 2012, after a thorough investigation, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Puerto Rico against the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and its police department pursuant to the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994. The Government alleged that the Puerto Rico Police Bureau (PRPB) violated the First, Fourth, and Fourteenth Amendments by engaging in unlawful patterns and practices. Filed along with the complaint was…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Daunt v. Benson

1:20-cv-00522 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan

Filed Date: June 9, 2020

Closed Date: Feb. 16, 2021

This case alleged that the State of Michigan failed to maintain accurate voter registration records in violation of the National Voter Registration Act.  On June 9, 2020, Plaintiff, a registered Michigan voter, filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan against the Michigan Secretary of State and the Director of Michigan Bureau of Elections for a single claim for violation of the National Voter Registration Act.  Plaintiff alleged that Defendants failed t…
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
North Carolina State Conference of the NAACP v. North Carolina State Board of Electors

1:16-cv-01274 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina

Filed Date: Oct. 31, 2016

Closed Date: Dec. 20, 2019

This is a case about the en mass cancelation of voter registrations by local boards of elections in North Carolina prior to the November 8, 2016 election. Shortly before the federal general election in 2016, boards of elections (BOEs) in at least three North Carolina counties, including Beaufort, Moore, and Cumberland counties, canceled thousands of voters’ registrations based on challenges by private individuals. The private individuals claimed that because a piece of mail was returned as unde…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Georgia State Conference of the NAACP v. Hancock County Board of Elections and Registration

5:15-cv-00414 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia

Filed Date: Nov. 3, 2015

Closed Date: March 30, 2023

This is a case about the unlawful removal of Black registered voters from voter rolls in Sparta, a city in Hancock County, Georgia. On November 3, 2015, Georgia State Conference of the NAACP, Georgia Coalition for the People’s Agenda and certain registered voters impacted by the removals filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Georgia Macon Division. Plaintiffs sought declaratory and injunctive relief against the Hancock County Board of Elections and Re…