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DISABILITY RIGHTS
Disabiltiy Rights North Carolina v. Frye

5:13-cv-00102 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina

Filed Date: July 22, 2013

Closed Date: Dec. 14, 2014

This is a case about whether a Protection and Advocacy (P&A) agency can use its records access authority to receive peer review and internal investigation records regarding a deceased psychiatric facility resident. On July 22, 2013, Disability Rights North Carolina (Disability Rights NC) filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina. Disability Rights NC filed this lawsuit against Frye Regional Medical Center (Frye), a medical center with an inpatient …
DISABILITY RIGHTS
E.T. v. Governor Greg Abbott

1:21-cv-00717 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

Filed Date: Aug. 17, 2021

Closed Date: Aug. 22, 2022

On August 17, 2021, Disability Rights Texas filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas challenging Governor Abbott's issuing of Executive Order GA-38 ("GA-38"), which prohibited school districts from instituting mask mandates in response to COVID-19. In addition to Governor Abbott, defendants included the Commissioner of the Texas Education Agency ("TEA") and the TEA. Disability Rights filed the suit on behalf of students with disabilities with compromised immu…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Rose v. Jividen

5:22-cv-00405 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia

Filed Date: Sept. 21, 2022

Case Ongoing

On September 21, 2022, two men, one currently and one formerly incarcerated in Southern Regional Jail (SRJ), filed this putative class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia. They sought to represent a class of individuals imprisoned in SRJ facilities, which house both pre-trial individuals and those who have received their sentences. They sued the former commissioner of the West Virginia Division of Corrections and Rehabilitations (WVDOC), the form…
FAIR HOUSING/LENDING/INSURANCE
CODING IN PROCESS
United States v. Meta Platforms, Inc.

1:22-cv-05187 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: June 21, 2022

Case Ongoing

On June 21, 2022, the United States filed this suit against Meta (formerly known as Facebook, Inc.) in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York to enforce the Fair Housing Act (“FHA”). The FHA prohibits discrimination in housing, including housing-related advertising, on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, disability, familial status, and national origin (“FHA-protected characteristics”). The United States alleged that Meta’s housing advertising system discriminated ag…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Guzzo v. Mead

2:14-cv-00200 | U.S. District Court for the District of Wyoming

Filed Date: Oct. 7, 2014

Case Ongoing

This is a 2014-2015 lawsuit about the right of same-sex couples in Wyoming to marry in Wyoming and have their out-of-state same-sex marriages recognized in Wyoming. On October 7, 2014, four same-sex couples and Wyoming Equality filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Wyoming under 42 U.S.C § 1983 against Wyoming. The four couples lived in Wyoming: two sought to get married in Wyoming and the others sought to have their marriages, performed in other jurisdictions,…
NATIONAL SECURITY
In Re Application of Zayn Al-Abidin Muhammad Husayn (Abu Zubaydah)

02:17-cv-00171 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Washington

Filed Date: May 22, 2017

Closed Date: May 3, 2022

This case is focused on Zayn Al-Abidin Muhammad Husayn (aka Abu Zubaydah; “petitioner”) and the international legal effort to hold accountable those believed to have interrogated and tortured him at a CIA “black site” in Poland. Mr. Husayn was also one of many petitioners who filed for a writ of habeas corpus in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia while detained at the United States military prison at Guantanamo Bay. For more information on the Guantanamo Bay detainees’ habeas …
PRISON CONDITIONS
Ashker v. Brown

4:09-cv-05796 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Dec. 9, 2009

Case Ongoing

On December 9, 2009, two prisoners at California's Pelican Bay prison who had been kept in solitary confinement for decades filed this § 1983 action against the State of California in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. The plaintiffs, originally proceeding pro se, asked the court for declaratory, injunctive, and compensatory relief, claiming violations of their First, Fourth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendment rights. Specifically, the plaintiffs claimed that the "in…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
McCarter v. Brown

6:20-cv-01048 | U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon

Filed Date: June 30, 2020

Closed Date: Sept. 17, 2020

This case was about the constitutionality of the Governor of Oregon’s COVID-19 executive orders and the signature requirements for ballot initiatives for the 2020 general election. The plaintiff, an Oregon registered voter and president of an Oregon nonprofit organization, “Move Oregon’s Border,” filed this complaint pro se in the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon on June 30, 2020, against the Governor and Secretary of State of Oregon, in addition to seventeen county clerks in the …
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…
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Dr. A v. Hochul

1:21-cv-01009 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York

Filed Date: Sept. 13, 2021

Case Ongoing

Several healthcare workers in New York brought this suit to enjoin the state of New York from enforcing its vaccine mandate for healthcare workers. The healthcare workers filed their suit on September 13, 2021 in the Northern District of the U.S. District Court. They were represented by the Thomas More Society. Because the vaccine mandate did not allow religious exemptions, the health care workers alleged violations of the Free Exercise Clause, the Supremacy Clause, and the Equal Protection Cla…