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IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Washington & Minnesota v. Trump

2:17-cv-00141 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: Jan. 30, 2017

Closed Date: Nov. 9, 2018

Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson filed this federal lawsuit on January 30, 2017 against President Trump’s January 27, 2017, Executive Order (EO-1) barring legal immigrants and refugees from seven majority-Muslim countries from entering the U.S. and barring Syrian refugees indefinitely. The State filed a complaint and an emergency motion for a temporary restraining order in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington. The State of Minnesota also signed on as a plaintif…
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…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Reproductive Health Services of Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region, Inc. v. Parson

2:19-cv-04155 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri

Filed Date: July 30, 2019

Case Ongoing

On July 30, 2019, the ACLU filed this litigation in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri to challenge Missouri laws that would ban abortion in the state at nearly every stage of pregnancy. The plaintiffs, a non-profit reproductive care provider and a licensed obstetrician-gynecologist, sued the Governor of Missouri, the state Attorney General, the Circuit Attorney for the City of St. Louis, the President of the State Medical Board, and the Director of the Department of H…
EDUCATION
CODING IN PROCESS
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 summary is temporary, while we research the case.)Parents of special needs children covered by the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act brought this class action against the State of Michigan and local education agencies alleging that the defendants failed to provide adequate services to their children during the COVID-19 pandemic.
JAIL CONDITIONS
Ahlman v. Barnes

8:20-cv-00835 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: April 30, 2020

Case Ongoing

COVID-19 Summary: This class-action lawsuit, brought by people incarcerated in the Orange County Jail, argued that the county and the sheriff violated the U.S. Constitution, the Americans with Disabilities Act, and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act by failing to provide adequate care amidst the 2020 coronavirus pandemic. The court granted the motion for provisional class-certification and partially granted a temporary restraining order, but the defendants appealed and the Supreme Court stay…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Brown v. Precythe

2:17-cv-04082 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri

Filed Date: May 18, 2017

Case Ongoing

This class-action litigation was filed on May 18, 2017, in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri. An amended complaint was filed on June 8, 2017. In the lawsuit, four named plaintiffs challenged the Missouri Department of Corrections’ (MDOC) parole procedures for juveniles sentenced to life without parole before the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Miller v. Alabama, 567 U.S. 460 (2012), which held that mandatory life sentences for juvenile offenders without the possibility…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Bergamaschi v. Cuomo

1:20-cv-02817 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: April 3, 2020

Case Ongoing

COVID-19 Summary: This is a putative class action challenging a New York law that requires mandatory detention of all alleged parole violators. The plaintiffs sought to enjoin application of the law and argued the lawsuit took on "particular urgency" due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The court denied the motion for preliminary injunction on April 20. Both parties filed for summary judgment in late 2020. The court granted summary judgment for the defendants on March 10, 2021 and ordered the case clo…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Richardson v. Trump

1:20-cv-02262 | U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

Filed Date: Aug. 17, 2020

Closed Date: Feb. 8, 2021

This is a case about vote-by-mail in the 2020 general election. In July 2020, a longtime campaign donor to then-President Donald Trump was confirmed as Postmaster General of the United States Postal Service (USPS). The new Postmaster General immediately instituted a series of policy changes as the USPS aimed to reduce operating costs. The plaintiffs here were four individuals registered to vote in Texas, Pennsylvania, New York, and Wisconsin; they had each applied for absentee vote-by-mail ball…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Kneisser v. McInerney

1:15-cv-07043 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

Filed Date: Sept. 23, 2015

(This summary is temporary, while we research the case.)This is a case about a college student who was jailed for failing to pay a littering fine. In 2014, the plaintiff was fined $239 for throwing a cigarette butt from the window of his car. Unable to pay the fine by the due date, the plaintiff appeared before Burlington County Municipal Court Judge McInerney to plead guilty and request a payment plan or community service. Judge McInerney told the plaintiff to call someone who could help him p…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Tucson Women's Center v. Arizona Medical Board

2:09-cv-01909 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: Sept. 14, 2009

Closed Date: March 5, 2010

This case challenged Arizona abortion restrictions enacted 2009 requiring patients to wait 24 hours after an initial appointment to receive an abortion, and prohibiting physicians from billing patients until after the 24-hour waiting period ended. On September 14, 2009, a coalition of medical clinics and physicians filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona. The plaintiffs sued the attorney general of Arizona and the executive director of the Arizona Medical Board…