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POLICING
Index Newspapers LLC v. City of Portland

3:20-cv-01035 | U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon

Filed Date: June 28, 2020

Case Ongoing

This case involved allegations that the Portland police assaulted news reporters, photographers, legal observers, and other neutrals who were documenting the police’s violent response to protests over the murder of George Floyd. On June 28, 2020, the plaintiffs, who are members of the media and legal observers, filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Oregon on behalf of themselves and as a class of similarly situated people. The plaintiffs sued the City of Por…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Commonwealth of Massachusetts v. E*Trade Access

1:03-cv-11206 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: June 25, 2003

Closed Date: Aug. 21, 2020

This is a class action case about accessibility of bank ATMs for blind people. On June 25, 2003, the state of Massachusetts, the National Federation of the Blind (NFB), and several blind individuals sued E*Trade Access and E*Trade Bank in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, alleging that the defendants' ATMs were not accessible to blind people. The plaintiffs alleged that this violated the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and Massachusetts law, and sought a declarato…
HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Stuart v. Huff

1:11-cv-00804 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina

Filed Date: Sept. 29, 2011

Case Ongoing

This case has to do with the “Woman’s Right to Know Act” (the Act), which was enacted on July 28, 2011 after the legislature overrode a veto by the Governor of North Carolina. This case was brought by the ACLU, Planned Parenthood, Center for Reproductive Rights, and A Woman’s Choice of Raleigh, Inc., on behalf of various physicians, licensed to practice medicine in the State of North Carolina and other various clinics providing reproductive health care services in North Carolina. The case was b…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Does, 1-104 v. Wasden

1:16-cv-00429 | U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho

Filed Date: Sept. 22, 2016

Case Ongoing

On September 22, 2016, this complaint was filed under 42 U.S.C. §1983 on behalf of 104 unnamed sexual offenders, identified as John or Jane Does, in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Idaho against the Idaho Attorney General, the Idaho Department of Corrections, and the Idaho State Police Force. The plaintiffs alleged that Idaho’s Sexual Offender Registration Notification and Community Right-to-Know Act (“SORA”) was unconstitutionally vague in violation of the Due Process and …
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
United States of America v. State of New York

1:10-cv-01214 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York

Filed Date: Oct. 12, 2010

Case Ongoing

This is a case about US citizens' right to vote while overseas. This action was brought on October 12, 2010 by the Attorney General of the United States (“Attorney General”) on behalf of the United States pursuant to the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act (“UOCAVA”) against the State of New York. UOCAVA requires states to transmit validly requested ballots to UOCAVA voters not later than 45 days before any federal election. The Attorney General alleged that at least nine New Yo…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Augustine v. Avoyelles Parish

1:06-cv-01662 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana

Filed Date: Sept. 26, 2006

Closed Date: Oct. 18, 2010

On September 26, 2006, three plaintiffs, who are all African American and registered voters of Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana, filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana. Defendants include the Avoyelles Parish Police Jury and the nine members of the Policy Jury in their official capacities. The case was assigned to the Honorable Dee D. Drell, United District Judge. Plaintiffs alleged that Defendants violated the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments of the Constitut…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
American Civil Liberties Union of Maine Foundation v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security

2:18-cv-00182 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maine

Filed Date: May 8, 2018

Closed Date: Dec. 9, 2020

This is one of a pair of lawsuits filed by state affiliates of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), each relating to two separate Freedom of Information Act requests seeking agency records on immigration enforcement practices in Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont. (The other case is American Civil Liberties Union of Maine Foundation v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security.) Both cases were brought in U.S. District Court for the District of Maine; the ACLU sought declaratory and injunctive …
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Common Cause/New York v. Brehm

1:17-cv-06770 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Sept. 6, 2017

Closed Date: Jan. 13, 2020

This is a case about a New York state law that removed inactive, but still registered, voters from voter lists at polling stations when those voters changed residences. On September 6, 2017, Common Cause/New York filed a complaint in the Southern District of New York against officials of the New York State Board of Elections alleging that their practice of labeling voters as inactive based on a change of residence and their removal of those voters from poll books at voting sites violated Sectio…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Farrell v. United States Department of Defense

3:23-cv-04013 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Aug. 8, 2023

Case Ongoing

This is a case about veteran discharge status following the repeal of the “don’t ask, don’t tell” (DADT) policy. DADT was a military policy repealed in 2010 that permitted members of the LGBTQ+ community to serve in the military as long as they kept their sexual orientation a secret. On August 8, 2023, a group of LGBTQ+ veterans who were discharged because of their sexual orientation filed this putative class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. Pla…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Georgia State Conference of the NAACP v. Hancock County Board of Elections and Registration

5:15-cv-00414 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia

Filed Date: Nov. 3, 2015

Closed Date: March 30, 2023

This is a case about the unlawful removal of Black registered voters from voter rolls in Sparta, a city in Hancock County, Georgia. On November 3, 2015, Georgia State Conference of the NAACP, Georgia Coalition for the People’s Agenda and certain registered voters impacted by the removals filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Georgia Macon Division. Plaintiffs sought declaratory and injunctive relief against the Hancock County Board of Elections and Re…