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REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Planned Parenthood Association of Utah v. Miner

2:19-cv-00238 | U.S. District Court for the District of Utah

Filed Date: April 10, 2019

Closed Date: June 27, 2022

On April 10th, 2019, Planned Parenthood of Utah sued the State of Utah in the United States District Court for the District of Utah, alleging that the state's 18-week abortion ban was unconstitutional. In the complaint, Planned Parenthood specifically alleged that Utah House Bill 136 violated the Fourteenth Amendment by banning virtually all abortions at 18 weeks of pregnancy, in contravention of the constitutional right to abortion established by the Supreme Court in Roe v. Wade. Planned Paren…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Texas LULAC v. Abbott

1:20-cv-01006 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

Filed Date: Oct. 1, 2020

Closed Date: March 24, 2021

This is a case about access to absentee ballot drop-off locations in Texas during the 2020 election, which took place during the COVID-19 pandemic. On October 1, 2020, the Texas League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), the League of Women Voters of Texas, and two individuals who vote in Texas filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas. The defendants included Texas Governor Greg Abbott, Secretary of State Ruth Hughs, and the elections officials of fo…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
League of United Latin American Citizens - Richmond Region Council 4614 v. Public Interest Legal Foundation

1:18-cv-00423 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

Filed Date: April 12, 2018

Case Ongoing

This is a case about the allegedly false claims made in reports published by the Public Interest Legal Foundation accusing the named plaintiffs of committing voter fraud.  On April 12, 2018, the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) and four private individuals filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. The plaintiffs sued the Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF) and its president under 42 U.S.C. § 1985(3), Section 11(b) of the Vot…
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Carr v. District of Columbia

1:06-cv-00098 | U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

Filed Date: Jan. 19, 2006

Closed Date: Oct. 27, 2011

On January 19, 2006, the named plaintiffs filed this suit on behalf of themselves and similarly situated individuals in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. The plaintiffs alleged that the District of Columbia’s (“the District”) Metropolitan Police Department (“MPD”) falsely arrested and imprisoned persons who had been participating in or observing a demonstration in Washington, D.C., in response to the second inauguration of President George W. Bush. The MPD arrested the plain…
POLICING
Levy Armstrong v. City of Minneapolis

0:20-cv-01645 | U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota

Filed Date: July 28, 2020

Case Ongoing

This civil rights suit arose out of protests in Minneapolis following the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis Police Department (MPD) officer Derek Chauvin in May 2020. On July 28, 2020, four protesters brought suit on behalf of themselves and other similarly situated protesters under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota. They sued the City of Minneapolis, the Minneapolis Chief of Police, the president of the Police Officers Federation of Minneapolis (“Pre…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Planned Parenthood Southeast, Inc. v. Bentley

2:13-cv-00405 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama

Filed Date: June 11, 2013

Closed Date: Aug. 5, 2016

This is a case challenging an abortion restriction in the state of Alabama. According to the plaintiffs, § 4(c) of Alabama HB 57, the “Women’s Health and Safety Act,” sought to restrict women’s access to abortion services in Alabama by imposing a medically unnecessary requirement that all physicians who perform abortions have staff privileges at a local hospital. Alabama had five licensed abortion clinics. Were it to go into effect, this law would effectively shut down three clinics in Montgome…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
A.R. v. Connecticut State Board of Education

3:16-cv-01197 | U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

Filed Date: July 15, 2016

Case Ongoing

Under state law, Conn. Gen. Stat. § 10-76d(b), Connecticut was required to provide education to individuals with disabilities only until they attained a high school diploma or turned 21, whichever occurred first. No comparable Connecticut law or regulation imposed a maximum age limit for entitlement to public education for non-special education students. In this case, the named plaintiff – a 22-year-old with a developmental disability, acting through his mother – filed a class action suit on be…
EDUCATION
Simpson-Vlach v. Michigan Department of Education

5:21-cv-11532 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: June 30, 2021

Case Ongoing

This is a putative class action suit brought by and on behalf of children with disabilities who allege that they did not get their educational needs met by their schools due to online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. On June 30, 2021, plaintiffs, children with disabilities and their parents, filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. The plaintiffs sued the Michigan Department of Education, Ann Arbor Public Schools, and Washtenaw Intermediate Schoo…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Alma v. Noah's Ark Processors, LLC

4:20-cv-03141 | U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska

Filed Date: Nov. 23, 2020

Closed Date: March 1, 2021

This is a case about a meat processing plant that refused to implement basic COVID-19 precautions such as physical distancing, face masks, sick leave, and onsite testing, despite it being a uniquely susceptible environment for COVID-19. On November 23, 2020, three former employees at Noah’s Ark meat processing plant and a doctor filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Alaska. The plaintiffs sued Noah’s Ark Processors under the Declaratory Judgment Act, 28 U.S.C. § 2201…
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…