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ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
City of College Park v. City of Atlanta

1:08-cv-01464 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: April 18, 2008

Case Ongoing

This case concerns the City of Atlanta’s acquisition of property near Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport and its impact on the voting population of the City of College Park, a municipality separate of Atlanta near the airport and with a majority African-American population.  On April 18, 2008, the plaintiffs, the City of College Park and a councilperson in College Park’s fourth ward, represented by private counsel, filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Northe…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Missouri State Conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People v. Ferguson-Florissant School District

4:14-cv-02077 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri

Filed Date: Dec. 18, 2014

Case Ongoing

This is a voter dilution case that challenged an at-large election system utilized by the Ferguson Florissant School District in the State of Missouri to elect members to its School Board.  On December 18, 2014, the Missouri State Conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and certain African American residents and registered voters of the District filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri. Plaintiffs sued Ferguson-Florissa…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Steele-Warrick v. Microgenics

1:19-cv-06558 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: Nov. 20, 2019

Case Ongoing

On November 20, 2019, a formerly incarcerated individual filed a putative class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York. The plaintiff alleged negligence by Microgenics Corporation and its parent company, Thermo Fischer Scientific Corporation. The plaintiff sought to represent “all persons who obtained positive testing results for Suboxone/buprenorphine generated by Indiko Plus urinalysis analyzers while in the New York State Department of Corrections and …
EDUCATION
B. P. J. v. West Virginia State Board of Education

2:21-cv-00316 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia

Filed Date: May 26, 2021

Case Ongoing

On May 26, 2021, the plaintiff, an 11-year-old transgender girl and student in Harrison County, West Virginia filed this lawsuit through her mother in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia.  Represented by the ACLU of West Virginia, with attorneys from the ACLU, Lambda Legal and Cooley LLP, the plaintiff challenged an April 2021 state statute, H.B. 3293, that banned girls who are transgender from participating in school sports consistent with their gender identity. …
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Ramirez Medina v. Asher [later U.S. Department of Homeland Security]

2:17-cv-00218 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: Feb. 13, 2017

Closed Date: Jan. 23, 2023

On February 13, 2017, a recipient of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) -- and believed to be the first DACA recipient detained under the Trump administration -- filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington. The plaintiff sued the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Represented by the organization Public Counsel, and by private attorneys including constitutional scholars Laurence Tribe and Erwin Chemerinsky, he sought a writ of habeas c…
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Agudath Israel of America v. Cuomo

1:20-cv-04834 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: Oct. 8, 2020

Closed Date: April 28, 2023

COVID-19 Summary: A group of Orthodox Jewish synagogues brought this lawsuit against the Governor of New York on October 8, 2020, alleging that the governor's restrictions on gatherings in light of surges in COVID-19 cases violated the First Amendment’s Free Exercise Clause. After the district court denied the plaintiffs' motion for a preliminary injunction, they appealed to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and the United States Supreme Court. The Supreme Court granted …
JAIL CONDITIONS
Federal Defenders of New York, Inc. v. Federal Bureau of Prisons

1:19-cv-00660 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: Feb. 4, 2019

Case Ongoing

This case concerns public defenders’ ability to access their clients at a pretrial detention facility in Brooklyn, New York. On February 4, 2019, Federal Defenders of New York, Inc. (“Federal Defenders”), a nonprofit legal aid organization providing public defense services for indigent clients in the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, filed this suit in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York. Federal Defenders sued the Federal Bureau of Prisons (“BOP”) af…
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Abbott v. Biden

6:22-cv-00003 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas

Filed Date: Jan. 4, 2022

Closed Date: Jan. 3, 2024

This is a case about whether the Biden administration's COVID-19 vaccine requirement for non-federalized National Guardsmen violated the U.S. Constitution and federal law. On August 24, 2021, U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin issued a memorandum adding the COVID-19 vaccine to the list of required vaccines for U.S. military service members. The directive applied to members of the Armed Forces in the Ready Reserve, including members of the National Guard. National Guardsmen can serve in one …
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Hamama v. Adducci

2:17-cv-11910 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: June 15, 2017

Case Ongoing

This case concerns a habeas petition and the due process rights of detained Iraqi Americans facing deportation to Iraq. Petitioners in this class action/habeas petition were Iraqi nationals, including many Chaldean Christians, who had resided in the United States for many years. They had been subject to final orders of removal for years, but the U.S. government permitted them to reside in the community under orders of supervision. After the Trump Administration negotiated with Iraq in early 201…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Jimmo v. Sebelius

5:11-cv-00017 | U.S. District Court for the District of Vermont

Filed Date: Jan. 18, 2011

This case concerns the "Improvement Standard," a rule of thumb that required many beneficiaries to show a likelihood of medical or functional improvement before Medicare would pay for skilled nursing and therapy services. As a result, some people were forced into nursing homes or suffered other adverse medical outcomes. This lawsuit was brought against the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) by five individual plaintiffs who were Medicare beneficiaries and five national organization p…