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POLICING
United States v. City of Ferguson

4:16-cv-00180 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri

Filed Date: Feb. 10, 2016

Case Ongoing

On August 9, 2014, Michael Brown, an 18-year-old black man, was fatally shot by Darren Wilson, a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, a majority-Black city in the St. Louis metro area. The shooting sparked nationwide protests and attention to police use of force and police relations Black residents. The Prosecuting Attorney for St. Louis County, Missouri, brought the case in front of a grand jury to determine whether there was probable cause to indict Wilson for his actions. But on Novem…
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 United States, represented by the Department of Justice (DOJ), filed suit against the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and its police department pursuant to the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, 42 U.S.C. § 14141. 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 a joint m…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
NAACP v. Lee

3:20-cv-01039 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee

Filed Date: Dec. 3, 2020

Case Ongoing

The following was a case that challenged Tennessee’s voting rights restoration process for those convicted of felonies. On December 3, 2020, this class action suit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee. It challenged the state's statutory scheme for restoring the voting rights of people with felony convictions. The plaintiffs included the NAACP and several individuals who had been convicted of felonies. Defendants included Tennessee’s governor, the Commission…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Family Equality v. Azar

1:20-cv-02403 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: March 19, 2020

Case Ongoing

On March 19, 2020, Family Equality, True Colors United, and Services & Advocacy for LGBT Elders (SAGE) filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. Plaintiffs sued the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) under the Administrative Procedure Act, challenging the Notice of Nonenforcement of Health and Human Services Grants Regulation. The Notice, issued by HHS in November 2019, announced that HHS would not enforce 45 C.F.R. § 75.300, which pro…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Reynoldson v. City of Seattle

2:15-cv-01608 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: Oct. 8, 2015

Case Ongoing

On October 8, 2015, Plaintiffs, a group of individuals with mobility disabilities filed this lawsuit, on behalf of themselves and a class, in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington. Represented by Disability Rights Washington, Plaintiffs alleged that the City of Seattle unlawfully discriminated against those with mobility disabilities by failing to comply with state and federal regulations addressing accessibility for people with disabilities in its construction, and mai…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Priorities USA v. Nessel

4:19-cv-13341 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: Nov. 12, 2019

Case Ongoing

This lawsuit was filed on November 12, 2019 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. The plaintiff, a left-wing advocacy group called Priorities USA, sued Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel in her official capacity. They were represented by private counsel. The group claimed that two Michigan laws, the "Voter Transportation Ban" and the "Absentee Ballot Organizing Ban," violated the U.S. Constitution. The Voter Transportation Ban prohibited the hiring of vehicles to b…
PRISON CONDITIONS
West v. Gobeille

2:19-cv-00081 | U.S. District Court for the District of Vermont

Filed Date: May 21, 2019

Case Ongoing

On May 21, 2019, incarcerated individuals in Vermont with chronic hepatitis C (HCV) filed a class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Vermont, and Judge William K. Sessions III presided. The plaintiffs alleged that the Vermont Department of Corrections, its leadership, and its medical contractors violated the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution by withholding treatment from incarcerated individuals wit…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Bernbeck v. Gale

8:13-cv-00228 | U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska

Filed Date: July 30, 2013

Closed Date: Sept. 15, 2016

This is a case about Nebraska's signature requirements for citizen-initiated ballot measure petitions.  On July 30, 2013, an Omaha businessman sued the Nebraska Secretary of State and the clerk of the village of Denton under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska. Represented by private counsel, the plaintiff challenged two aspects of Nebraska's requirements for signatures on petitions for statewide ballot measures. He sought declaratory and injunctive relief and a…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Segal v. Metropolitan Council

0:18-cv-02333 | U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota

Filed Date: Sept. 9, 2018

Closed Date: Oct. 6, 2022

On August 9, 2018, a DeafBlind individual, filed a lawsuit against the Metropolitan Council, which operates Metro Transit buses in the Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area. The suit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota and assigned to District Judge David S. Doty and Magistrate Judge Hildy Bowbeer. The plaintiff alleged that the defendant's bus drivers often failed to stop for him while he waited at designated bus stops. He claimed that this violated the American…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Miller v. Vilsack

4:21-cv-00595 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas

Filed Date: April 26, 2021

Closed Date: Aug. 29, 2022

This case is one of several challenging the American Rescue Plan’s (ARP) and U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) classification of “socially disadvantaged groups.” A white rancher from Texas filed a putative class action complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas (Fort Worth) on April 26, 2021. The sole defendant was the secretary of the USDA. The plaintiff challenged Sections 1005 and 1006 of the ARP. These sections provided loan forgiveness to farmers and ranc…