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JAIL CONDITIONS
U.S. v. Columbus Consolidated City/County Government (Muscogee County)

4:99-cv-00132 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia

Filed Date: Sept. 23, 1999

Closed Date: July 8, 2019

In 1994, the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice notified Muscogee County, Georgia that it intended to investigate conditions in the county jail. In 1995, following the investigation, the DOJ notified the Chairman of the Muscogee County Commission of its findings and made recommendations regarding staffing and supervision, grievance system, exercise, access to reading materials, medical and mental healthcare, dental care, suicide prevention, general sanitation, fire safety, …
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Holloway v. City of Virginia Beach

2:18-cv-00069 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

Filed Date: Aug. 28, 2018

Closed Date: Nov. 27, 2023

On November 20, 2017, Plaintiff Latasha Holloway submitted an application to proceed in forma pauperis ("IFP") and a proposed complaint in the Richmond Division of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.  In the proposed complaint, Plaintiff alleged that the City of Virginia Beach, Virginia's at-large election of its City Council violated the Voting Rights Act, 42 U.S.C. §1983, the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Voting Accessibility for the Elderly and Handi…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Libertarian Party of Ohio v. Brunner

2:08-cv-00555 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio

Filed Date: June 6, 2008

Closed Date: Jan. 25, 2010

This is a case about a third-party candidate's access to the ballot in Ohio.  On June 6, 2008, the Libertarian Party of Ohio (LPO), an alternative political party, its chairman, its candidates for President and Vice President of the United States, one of its candidates for the United States Congress, and one of its candidates for the Ohio legislature filed suit in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio alleging that they had been improperly denied access to the Novem…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Keyes v. Gunn

3:16-cv-00228 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi

Filed Date: March 30, 2016

Closed Date: Oct. 30, 2018

This case involved an election dispute in Mississippi concerning a tie in the vote for a seat in the House of Representatives for the State of Mississippi. Both candidates received 4,589 votes and the final result was determined by straw draw. The loser of the election filed a petition with the House contesting the election. A special committee was appointed and voted along party lines, discarding 5 of the 9 affidavit votes originally counted by Smith County election commissioners and the Secre…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Palast v. Kemp

1:18-cv-04809 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: Oct. 17, 2018

Closed Date: Oct. 13, 2020

This is a case challenging Georgia's voter registration system that allegedly disproportionately flagged people of color. On October 17, 2018, two civil rights activists filed suit against the Georgia Secretary of State, alleging violations of the National Voter Registration Act. The plaintiffs alleged that the Secretary of State violated provisions of the law mandating that records regarding how voter lists are maintained and purged be retained for at least 2 years and be accessible to the pub…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Latinos For Trump v. Sessions

6:21-cv-00043 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

Filed Date: Nov. 8, 2021

Closed Date: Sept. 21, 2021

This case is about various members of state or federal government, named as defendants, who allegedly negligently or purposefully failed to comply with the Help America Vote Act, 42 U.S.C. 15301 et seq., as amended, (“HAVA”) and as a result, had American citizens cast illegal votes. As claimed in the Complaint, these unlawful votes caused all the members of the 117th United States Congress, as well as the President of the United States to be rendered illegitimate.  On January 18, 2021, Latinos …
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Buck v. Barbour

3:11-cv-00717 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi

Filed Date: Nov. 21, 2011

Closed Date: Dec. 30, 2011

This case alleged malapportioned districting in Mississippi in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment. On November 21, 2011, seven African-American adults, representing each of Mississippi’s four congressional districts, filed a class-action complaint against the governor of Mississippi, the state Attorney General, the state Secretary of State, the Mississippi Republican Party Executive Committee, the Mississippi Democratic Party Executive Committee, and the Chairman of the Tunica County, Missis…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Bird v. Barr

1:19-cv-01581 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: May 29, 2019

Case Ongoing

On May 29, 2019, a group of female Intelligence Analyst and Agent Trainees at the FBI’s Training Academy in Quantico, Virginia filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia on behalf of themselves and a class of more than 125 female Agent and Analyst Trainees who had been subjected to similar gender-based harassment, discrimination, and retaliation. The plaintiffs sued the Attorney General of the United States in his official capacity under Title VII of the…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Lutz v. Wilson

2:18-cv-09631 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana

Filed Date: Oct. 16, 2018

Closed Date: Dec. 16, 2016

This is a case about alleged improper felony disenfranchisement in New Orleans.  On October 16, 2018, an individual living in New Orleans who was determined to be ineligible to vote due to a felony conviction despite not being a convicted felon, filed this suit pro se in the Eastern District of Louisiana against the Registrar of Voters of New Orleans Parish. Plaintiff alleged that the 21 day window given to her by the Registrar’s Office to provide proof of no felony convictions was an unreasona…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Idaho State Democratic Party v. Rich

1:16-cv-00491 | U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho

Filed Date: Nov. 8, 2016

Closed Date: March 31, 2017

This case argued that due to a change in polling locations in Ada County, Idaho, polling hours should be extended to give time for voters to find their new polling location.  On November 8, 2016, the day of the 2016 general election, the Idaho State Democratic Party sought emergency relief to extend the operating hours of five polling locations in Ada County, Idaho, for an additional two hours. On October 14, 2016, the Ada County Clerk’s Office had sent notices to all qualified voters in five p…