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REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Jenkins v. Lynch

2:17-cv-00366 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maine

Filed Date: Sept. 20, 2017

Closed Date: June 12, 2019

Maine law prohibited anyone other than a licensed physician from providing abortion services. Represented by the ACLU and Planned Parenthood, five advanced practice registered nurses (“APRNs”) and two non-profit organizations, including Planned Parenthood, (“the plaintiffs”) brought this suit in the U.S District Court for the District of Maine on September 20, 2017, alleging that this restriction on who can perform abortions violated the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The plaint…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Aziz v. Trump

1:17-cv-00116 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

Filed Date: Jan. 28, 2017

Closed Date: June 1, 2017

On January 28, 2017, lawful permanent residents (LPRs) of the United States, represented by the Legal Aid Justice Center and Mayer Brown, filed this case in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. The plaintiffs brought the action as a petition for writ of habeas corpus and a civil complaint for declaratory and injunctive relief. They simultaneously filed an emergency application for a temporary restraining order (TRO). The plaintiffs were 50 to 60 lawful permanent residen…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
P.K. v. Tillerson

1:17-cv-01533 | U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

Filed Date: Aug. 3, 2017

Case Ongoing

A group of diversity visa lottery winners and their family members filed suit in the US District Court for the District of Columbia on August 3, 2017. The defendants included the US Secretary of State and consular officials. The plaintiffs were represented by the Arab-American Anti-Discrimination Committee, the ACLU, the National Immigration Law Center, and private counsel. The plaintiffs challenged the State Department’s practice of denying immigrant visas to diversity lottery winners from cou…
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
CODING IN PROCESS
Kentucky v. Biden

3:21-cv-00055 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky

Filed Date: Nov. 4, 2021

Case Ongoing

(This summary is temporary, while we research the case.) COVID-19 Summary: In this case, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Ohio sued to block the federal vaccine mandate which required federal contractors and subcontractors to become vaccinated prior to December 6, 2021. The judge granted the preliminary injunction on November 30, 2021, which enjoined the defendants from implementing the vaccination requirements in the states party to the lawsuit. The defendants appealed and the case remains ongoing. T…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Commonwealth v. Trump

2:17-cv-04540 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Oct. 11, 2017

Case Ongoing

On October 11, 2017, the Attorney General of Pennsylvania brought this suit in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. The case is a challenge to administrative rules promulgated by the federal government that interpret the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in a way that gives employers broad discretion to deny women access to contraceptives. As such, the suit was brought against the President of the United States, acting Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Secretary of the U.S…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
CODING IN PROCESS
EMW Women's Surgical Center, P.S.C. v. Meier

3:19-cv-00178 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky

Filed Date: March 14, 2019

Case Ongoing

(This summary is temporary, while we research the case.) In 2019, the American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Kentucky filed a lawsuit to challenge two Kentucky laws: one banned on abortion at 6-weeks of pregnancy, and the other law banned abortion based on the specific reasons for the person’s decision, such as a fetal diagnosis. 
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Planned Parenthood Arizona Incorporated v. Betlach

2:12-cv-01533 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: July 16, 2012

Closed Date: Aug. 22, 2013

This is a case challenging a 2012 Arizona abortion law. In 1980, Congress barred the use of Medicaid funds for elective abortions, but medical providers who offered elective abortions were still eligible to receive Medicaid reimbursement for other healthcare services. However, on May 4, 2012, the Arizona governor signed Arizona Assembly HB 2800 into law, making providers that conducted elective abortion procedures ineligible to receive Medicaid reimbursements for any healthcare services. Arizon…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Planned Parenthood Southwest Ohio Region v. Hodges

1:15-cv-00568 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio

Filed Date: Sept. 1, 2015

Case Ongoing

Two individual healthcare providers, represented by attorneys at the ACLU, Planned Parenthood, and Gerhardstein & Branch, brought this § 1983 suit in September 2015 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio to challenge new state regulations that imposed restrictions on abortion clinics. Plaintiffs in this case were the last two health clinics in southwest Ohio offering abortion procedures: Planned Parenthood of Southwest Ohio (PPSWO) and Women’s Medical Group Professional Co…
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: 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
Whole Woman's Health v. Paxton

1:17-cv-00690 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

Filed Date: July 20, 2017

Closed Date: Aug. 18, 2021

This is a case about a 2017 Texas law that effectively banned the most commonly-performed second-trimester abortion procedure, standard dilation & evacuation (D&E), by requiring "fetal demise" before the evacuation portion of the procedure (the law, 2017 SB8, is not to be confused with 2021 SB8 which authorized private monetary penalties on providers of nearly all abortions performed after 6 weeks). On July 20, 2017, Whole Women's Health, Planned Parenthood, and other individual Texas healthcar…