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Neese v. Becerra

2:21-cv-00163 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas

Filed Date: Aug. 25, 2021

Closed Date: Nov. 22, 2022

Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) prohibits sex discrimination in health programs or activities that receive federal financial assistance. On May 10, 2021, Secretary Becerra announced that HHS would interpret and enforce this provision to include gender identity and sexual orientation discrimination. On August 25, 2021 two doctors sued Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), Xavier Becerra, and the United States in the U.S.District Court for the Northern District of Texas to e…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Bryant v. Woodall

1:16-cv-01368 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina

Filed Date: Nov. 30, 2016

Closed Date: Aug. 17, 2022

On November 30, 2016, the ACLU, Planned Parenthood, and the Center for Reproductive Rights filed a federal lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina to overturn a North Carolina law that prevented doctors from providing pre-viability abortions after the twentieth week of pregnancy except in narrowly defined medical emergencies. Plaintiffs based their argument on established United States Supreme Court precedent, now overruled, prohibiting a ban on abortion pri…
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…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Comprehensive Health of Planned Parenthood Great Plains v. Lyskowski

2:16-cv-04313 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri

Filed Date: Nov. 30, 2016

Closed Date: Aug. 13, 2019

On November 30, 2016, Planned Parenthood brought this suit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri Central Division against Missouri state officials to challenge several abortion restrictions. In particular, Plaintiffs asserted that Missouri’s Ambulatory Surgical Center Licensing Law and Hospital Relationship Restriction unconstitutionally burdened access to abortion in the state. These statutes would have required health centers that provide abortions to be licensed as …
DISABILITY RIGHTS
UC Hastings v. City of San Francisco

4:20-cv-03033 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: May 4, 2020

On May 4, 2020, four individuals, a business, and the University of California Hastings School of Law filed a class action lawsuit against the City and County of San Francisco in the Northern Federal District of California to challenge living conditions related to accessibility, criminality, and health and safety in a neighborhood called the Tenderloin. The plaintiffs alleged that city/county’s inaction allowed conditions to exist and grow, especially during the Covid-19 pandemic, in violation …
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Foster v. City of Pittsburgh

2:12-cv-01207 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Aug. 3, 2012

Closed Date: June 8, 2018

Two Black men filed this class action lawsuit on August 23, 2012 in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania; the case was then assigned to Judge David S. Cercone. The plaintiffs, on behalf of themselves and others similarly situated,  sued the City of Pittsburgh under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act 1964; 42 U.S.C. § 2000; 42 U.S.C. § 1981, as applied by 42 U.S.C. § 1983; and the Pennsylvania Human Relations Act, 43 Pa. Cons. Stat. § 951. The plaintiffs, represented b…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Doe v. Trump

2:17-cv-00178 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: Feb. 7, 2017

Closed Date: Feb. 3, 2022

This class action challenged President Trump's January 27, 2017, Executive Order (EO-1) which prohibited admission to the US for nationals of Iraq, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen. The plaintiffs commenced this lawsuit on February 7, 2017, in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington. The plaintiffs were represented by the ACLU of Washington and private counsel. On November 29, 2017, this case was consolidated with Jewish Family Service of Seattle v. Trump, No…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Benjamin v. Horn

1:75-cv-03073 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: June 24, 1975

Case Ongoing

This case was consolidated for enforcement purposes with Ambrose v. Malcolm; Detainees of Queens House of Detention v. Malcolm; Detainees of Brooklyn House of Detention for Men v. Malcolm; Maldonado v. Ciuros; Forts v. Malcolm; and Rosenthal v. Malcolm. The summary below includes all of these in the consolidated form, but more information about each individual case is included in the "Related Cases" section. On June 24, 1975, a group of pretrial detainees at Rikers Island Detention Center for M…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Aid for Women v. Foulston

6:03-cv-01353 | U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas

Filed Date: Oct. 3, 2003

Closed Date: Oct. 16, 2008

Individual licensed professionals, including healthcare providers and social workers, joined Aid for Women, a gynecological medical practice in Kansas City, to bring this putative class action lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas, against district attorneys in Kansas and (in an amended complaint) the state attorney general. They filed the case on October 3, 2003, after the attorney general of Kansas issued a 2003 advisory opinion, interpreting the state’s child abuse report…
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…