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PUBLIC HOUSING
Gautreaux v. Chicago Housing Authority

1:66-cv-01459 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Aug. 9, 1966

Case Ongoing

Background This longstanding chase chronicles efforts to stop racial discrimination by the Chicago Housing Authority (“CHA”). On August 9, 1966, a group of African American public housing residents brought suit against the CHA in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. The plaintiffs, represented by the ACLU, alleged that the CHA had segregated its public housing complexes through discriminatory site selection procedures. They brought suit on behalf of all the approximate…
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…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Wagafe v. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services

2:17-cv-00094 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: Jan. 23, 2017

Case Ongoing

This lawsuit challenges President Trump's January 27, 2017 Executive Order (EO) suspending entry into the United States of citizens or nationals of Syria, Iraq, Iran, Yemen, Somalia, Sudan, and Libya. This case also challenges the government's Controlled Application Review and Resolution Program (CARRP), alleging it was a precursor to the EO's "extreme vetting" of Muslims, and chronicled the government's attempts to resist disclosure of documents about this program. The original complaint was f…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Garland v. Gonzalez (Aleman Gonzalez v. Sessions)

3:18-cv-01869 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: May 27, 2018

Case Ongoing

On March 27, 2018, immigrant detainees who had been held for more than six months without a bond hearing during the pendency of their removal proceedings petitioned the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California for a writ of habeas corpus; they also sought declaratory and injunctive relief. Represented by Centro Legal de la Raza, the American Civil Liberties Union of California, and private counsel, the plaintiffs brought this class action pursuant to 28 U.S.C. §§ 1331, 2241, …
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Commonwealth v. Trump

2:17-cv-04540 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Oct. 11, 2017

Case Ongoing

On October 11, 2017, the Attorney General of Pennsylvania brought this suit in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. The case is a challenge to administrative rules promulgated by the federal government that interpret the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in a way that gives employers broad discretion to deny women access to contraceptives. As such, the suit was brought against the President of the United States, acting Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Secretary of the U.S…
SCHOOL DESEGREGATION
Keyes v. School District No. 1

1:69-cv-01499 | U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado

Filed Date: Nov. 30, 1969

Closed Date: 1997

Keyes--the Denver school desegregation case--was the first northern school desegregation case to reach the Supreme Court, and one of the only cases where the Supreme Court identified segregation in northern schools. The Supreme Court’s 1973 opinion was influential in defining “intent” in de facto segregation. The case lasted for decades, so this summary is necessarily partial. Prior to the filing of this lawsuit on November 30, 1969, the Denver School Board adopted three resolutions between Jan…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
CODING IN PROCESS
Mi Familia Vota v. Abbott

5:20-cv-00830 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

Filed Date: Oct. 16, 2020

Case Ongoing

NOTE: This case is being tracked in close to real time by the Stanford/MIT Healthy Elections Project. So for information, see their tracker. According to their summary as of 10/22/2020, Plaintiffs Mi Familia Vota, Texas State Conference of NAACP, and individual registered voters sued Governor and Secretary of State of Texas for violating the First Amendment, the Equal Protection and Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, the Fifteenth Amendment, section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, al…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Harding v. Edwards

3:20-cv-00495 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana

Filed Date: Aug. 3, 2020

Closed Date: May 17, 2021

This is a case about Louisiana voters who wished to avoid potential exposure to COVID-19 while casting their ballots in the November 2020 general election and December 2020 second-round runoff election. Some of the plaintiffs here had previously challenged Louisiana voting laws (with respect to the 2020 primary elections) in a case consolidated with Clark v. Edwards in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana. Chief District Judge Shelly D. Dick dismissed that case for lack …
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Libertarian Party of Pennsylvania v. Wolf

5:20-cv-02299 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: May 14, 2020

Closed Date: Aug. 14, 2020

The Libertarian Party of Pennsylvania, the Constitution Party of Pennsylvania, the Green Party of Pennsylvania, and six members of these parties ("the plaintiffs") brought this lawsuit challenging Pennsylvania's ballot qualification law and the state's emergency orders in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. On May 14, 2020, the plaintiffs sued the Pennsylvania Governor, the Secretary of the Commonwealth, and the Deputy Secretary for Elections and Commissions ("the defendants") in the U.S. Distri…
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
T.S. v. Twentieth Century Fox Television, Inc.

1:16-cv-08303 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Aug. 24, 2016

Case Ongoing

This case involved claims arising from a juvenile detention center being used for a television show. Two children previously detained in the Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center (JTDC) filed this class action lawsuit on August 24, 2016. Defendants included numerous Fox entertainment companies (collectively “Fox”); Cook County, Illinois; the Chief Judge of the District Court of Cook County; and various officials connected to JTDC. The complaint was brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and f…