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REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Family Planning Association of Maine v. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

1:19-cv-00100 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maine

Filed Date: March 6, 2019

Closed Date: Oct. 15, 2021

This is a case about the Trump Administration's Compliance with Statutory Program Integrity Requirements, 84 Fed. Reg. 7,714 (the “Rule”), published by the United States Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) on March 4, 2019, and its deleterious effect on Maine reproductive health care organizations. Maine Family Planning was the largest reproductive health care organization in the state and its sole Title X family planning program grantee. Since the middle of the twenty-first century…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Common Cause Indiana v. Lawson

1:20-cv-01825 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana

Filed Date: July 8, 2020

Closed Date: Oct. 23, 2020

This is a case challenging two amendments to the Indiana election code as unconstitutionally burdening the right to vote. The "standing amendment" deprived voters of standing to petition state courts for extending voting hours at eligible polling places. The "remedies amendment" placed restrictions on state courts' ability to extend hours at polling places facing conditions which burdened the right to vote. Together, the challenged amendments were alleged to burden the fundamental right to vote…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Elmajzoub v. Davis

3:19-cv-00196 | U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada

Filed Date: March 27, 2020

Case Ongoing

On March 27, 2020, an incarcerated individual in the custody of the Nevada Department of Corrections (NDOC) filed suit against the Lovelock Correctional Center (LCC) and various LCC officials in their individual and official capacities. The plaintiff, a practicing Muslim, brought the suit pro se in the U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and 42 U.S.C. § 2000cca, alleging violations of the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA), the First …
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Wood v. Raffensperger

1:20-cv-04651 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: Nov. 13, 2020

Closed Date: Feb. 24, 2021

This is a case about an alleged mishandling of absentee ballots in Georgia during the November 3, 2020 general election. On November 13, 2020, a private individual filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. The plaintiff sued the Secretary of State of Georgia and members of the State Election Board under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Represented by private counsel, the plaintiff sought declaratory and injunctive relief. Specifically, the plaintiff sought de…
EDUCATION
Cohen v. Brown University

1:92-cv-00197 | U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island

Filed Date: April 9, 1992

Case Ongoing

The Initial Title IX Settlement (1992 – 1998) In 1991, Brown University announced that it was going to eliminate four sports: women’s volleyball, women’s gymnastics, men’s golf, and men’s water polo. Brown explained that the teams could still compete as club sports, but it was no longer able to provide university funding for financial reasons. At that time, Brown’s student body was 52 percent male and 48 percent female, but 63 percent of its athletes were male. On April 9, 1992, affected women …
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
League of United Latin American Citizens - Richmond Region Council 4614 v. Public Interest Legal Foundation

1:18-cv-00423 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

Filed Date: April 12, 2018

Case Ongoing

This is a case about the allegedly false claims made in reports published by the Public Interest Legal Foundation accusing the named plaintiffs of committing voter fraud.  On April 12, 2018, the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) and four private individuals filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. The plaintiffs sued the Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF) and its president under 42 U.S.C. § 1985(3), Section 11(b) of the Vot…
POLICING
United States v. City of Cleveland

1:15-cv-01046 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio

Filed Date: May 25, 2015

Case Ongoing

In March 2013, following a series of highly-publicized use-of-force incidents involving the Cleveland Division of Police (CDP), the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) opened an investigation pursuant to the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, 42 U.S.C. § 14141, that focused on the CDP's use of force, including deadly force. This was the second investigation conducted by the DOJ into the CDP's practices in a little over ten years, as the DOJ had prev…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
State of Texas v. Becerra

5:22-cv-00185 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas

Filed Date: July 14, 2022

Case Ongoing

Texas state officials filed suit against Secretary of Health and Human Services Xavier Becerra and two Director-level officials the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”; an agency within the Department of Health and Human Services which works with state governments to administer Medicaid and other federally-funded programs) on July 14, 2022 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas. Organizational plaintiffs also included the American Association of Pro-Life Obste…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Innovation Law Lab v. Nielsen

3:19-cv-00807 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Feb. 14, 2019

Case Ongoing

On February 14, 2019, a group of asylum seekers from Central America and several legal organizations filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. The plaintiffs sued the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP). The plaintiffs, represented by the ACLU, the Southern Poverty Law Center, and the Center for Gender & Refugee Studies, sought declaratory and injunctiv…
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…