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ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Kaimowitz v. Supervisor of Elections

1:16-cv-00257 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida

Filed Date: July 15, 2016

Closed Date: Jan. 4, 2018

This is a case about Florida’s judicial election system and whether excluding unopposed judicial candidates from ballots violates voting rights. On July 15, 2016, the plaintiff, a disbarred attorney proceeding pro se, filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida, Gainesville Division. The plaintiff sued the Supervisor of Elections for Alachua County, John Harkness (Florida Bar executive director), Eighth Judicial Circuit Bar Association, Inc. (“EJC…

Case Dismissed (Involuntary)

Appeal Dismissed

PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Woonasquatucket River Watershed Council v. Department of Agriculture

1:25-cv-00097 | U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island

Filed Date: March 13, 2025

On March 13, 2025, four environmental-justice nonprofits including Woonasquatucket River Watershed Council commenced this Administrative Procedure Act (APA) action in the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island. The complaint was filed against the United States Departments of Agriculture, Department of Energy, and other federal agencies and their respective leadership.  Plaintiffs alleged that Executive Order No. 14154, “Unleashing American Energy,” and Office of Management and Bud…

Preliminary Injunction Granted

Appeal Pending

PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Nuziard v. Minority Business Development Agency

4:23-cv-00278 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas

Filed Date: March 20, 2023

Closed Date: July 22, 2024

On March 20, 2023, three individual white business owners filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas, Fort Worth Division under the Equal Protection clause of the U.S. Constitution and the Administrative Procedure Act (5 U.S.C. § 706). Named defendants included President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. (“President Biden”), Secretary of Commerce Gina M. Raimondo (“Secretary Raimondo”), and the Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA). They claimed that the defendant…
POLICING
United States v. City of Seattle

2:12-cv-01282 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: July 27, 2012

On March 31, 2011, the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Civil Rights Division opened an investigation of the Seattle Police Department (SPD) pursuant to the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 (then codified at 42 U.S.C. § 14141; then recodified to 34 U.S.C. § 12601), the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968, and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Following a comprehensive investigation, on December 16, 2011, the DOJ announced its findings that SPD engag…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Thompson v. State of Alabama

2:16-cv-00783 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama

Filed Date: Sept. 26, 2016

Closed Date: May 25, 2023

A voting rights organization and several convicted felons filed putative class action against the Alabama Secretary of State, chair of county board of registrars, and chair of Board of Pardons and Paroles, alleging that the amendment to state constitution disenfranchising persons convicted of felonies involving moral turpitude violated Equal Protection and Ex Post Facto Clauses, and that Alabama's mail voting registration form violated National Voting Registration Act (NVRA).  The Supreme Court…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Libertarian Party of Connecticut v. Merrill

3:20-cv-00467 | U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

Filed Date: April 4, 2020

Closed Date: April 29, 2021

This is a case about the constitutionality of Connecticut’s petitioning process for unaffiliated and minor party candidates who did not have automatic ballot access during the COVID-19 pandemic. On April 4, 2020, the Libertarian Party of Connecticut (“LPCT”) and LPCT-nominated candidates for State Senate and United States Congress jointly filed suit against the Secretary of State and Governor of Connecticut in the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut. The case was assigned to Dis…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Democratic Executive Committee of Florida v. Detzner

4:18-cv-00520 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida

Filed Date: Nov. 8, 2018

Closed Date: July 29, 2019

This case, which arose in the context of Florida’s closely contested 2018 U.S. Senate election, challenged Florida’s signature-matching requirements for vote-by-mail and provisional ballots as disenfranchising Florida voters, including a disproportionate number of young and first-time voters and racial and ethnic minorities.  On November 8, 2018, Plaintiffs, the Democratic Executive Committee of Florida (DECF) (a statewide organization representing Democratic candidates and voters) and the poli…

Case Dismissed (Involuntary)

Appeal Dismissed

ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Stein v. Cortes

2:16-cv-06287 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Dec. 15, 2016

Closed Date: April 29, 2020

On December 5, 2016, plaintiffs, who consisted of the Green Party presidential candidate and a Pennsylvania voter that had voted in the 2016 presidential election (collectively, the “Plaintiffs”), filed a complaint for declaratory and injunctive relief against the Secretary of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the Commissioner of the Bureau of Commissions, Elections and Legislation of Pennsylvania (collectively, the “Defendants”).  Both Defendants worked for the Pennsylvania Department of St…

Case Dismissed (Involuntary)

DISABILITY RIGHTS
Fair Housing Council of Central Indiana, McGuffin v. Smitley

1:16-cv-00880 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana

Filed Date: April 19, 2016

Closed Date: Aug. 25, 2020

Plaintiffs filed suit in federal court on April 19, 2016, requesting compensatory and punitive damages, attorney fees and costs, injunctive relief to end a landlord's disability discrimination and a declaration that the landlord violated the housing discrimination and related state laws. Hon. William T. Lawrence of the U.S. District Court, Southern District of Indiana, Indianapolis Division, presided over the case. The Plaintiffs in this case were the Fair Housing Center of Central Indiana, Inc…
EDUCATION
State of Texas v. The United States of America

2:24-cv-00086 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas

Filed Date: April 29, 2024

This case involves an attempt to block new Title IX rules from going into effect. On April 19, 2024, the Biden administration introduced its "Final Rule," which clarifies the interpretation of Title IX to broaden protections against sex discrimination in education. Texas filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas on April 29, 2024, against the United States of America, the U.S. Secretary of Education, the U.S. Department of Education, the Assistant Secretary f…