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REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Planned Parenthood of Kansas And Mid-Missouri Inc. v. Donnelly

2:07-cv-04164 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri

Filed Date: Aug. 20, 2007

Closed Date: July 1, 2010

This is a case about Missouri’s Ambulatory Surgical Center Licensing Law, which restricted access to abortion in the state of Missouri. On August 20, 2007, Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri and a physician providing abortions for Planned Parenthood filed this lawsuit in the Western District of Missouri. Planned Parenthood sued the state of Missouri, Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services, Boone County, and Jackson County, MO under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Represented by private …
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Emami v. Nielsen

3:18-cv-01587 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: March 13, 2018

Case Ongoing

This is one of many legal challenges to the series of Trump's executive orders (EOs) known collectively as the "Travel Ban" or "Muslim Ban." This suit in particular challenged the waiver system that accompanied the ban, which was purportedly instated to prevent the EOs from arbitrarily denying people entry into the country. Twenty six individuals who had been denied a travel visa, or whose relatives had been denied a travel visa as a result of the EOs, filed this putative class action lawsuit i…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Ali v. Trump

2:17-cv-00135 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: Jan. 30, 2017

Closed Date: Sept. 21, 2018

This class action lawsuit, filed January 30, 2017, challenged President Trump’s January 27, 2017, Executive Order (EO-1) ban on admission to the U.S. of nationals of Iraq, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen. The complaint was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington (in Seattle). Plaintiffs were represented by the Northwest Immigrants Rights Project, the National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild, and the American Immigration Council. The…
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
CODING IN PROCESS
Dr. A v. Hochul

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…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Combs v. Corrections Corp. of America

1:95-cv-02029 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana

Filed Date: Nov. 13, 1995

On November 13, 1995, seven individual inmates housed in the Winn Correctional Center near Winnfield, Louisiana filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana, pro se, against Louisiana corrections officials for restricting their religious freedoms. The inmates alleged that they were denied the right to participate in Native American religious gatherings and that they were denied the use of items sacred to their religion such as pipes, feathers, drums, and a sweat …
JAIL CONDITIONS
Rogers v. Sheriff of Cook County

1:15-cv-11632 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Dec. 23, 2015

Case Ongoing

On December 23, 2015, the plaintiff, a prisoner in the Cook County jail, filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. The plaintiff later amended the complaint twice, adding two plaintiffs and to seeking class-action certification. The plaintiffs, represented by private counsel, sued both the Sheriff of Cook County in his official capacity and Cook County itself for damages under Section 202 of the Americans with Disabilities Act, 42 U.S.C. § 12132; Secti…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Coreas v. Bounds

8:20-cv-00780 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: March 24, 2020

Case Ongoing

COVID-19 Summary: This is a habeas action filed by immigration detainees in ICE facilities in Maryland, seeking release from detention. The detainees claimed their underlying medical conditions made them particularly vulnerable to serious illness or death from COVID-19. The court granted preliminary injunctions on April 30 and May 7, ordering the release of several detainees. Additionally, on September 18, the court granted the petitioner's motion for class certification. The court denied a mot…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Myatt v. Fries

1:10-cv-00064 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana

Filed Date: Feb. 26, 2010

Closed Date: June 27, 2017

This class action was brought against the Allen County Sheriff, headquartered in Fort Wayne, IN, for failure to bring people arrested on the weekends for their probable cause hearing determination within 48 hours of arrest. The named plaintiff was arrested without a warrant on September 18, 2009, a Friday night, and was not taken for her probable cause hearing until September, 21, 2009, the following Monday morning. The plaintiff filed a class action complaint in the District Court for the Nort…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Maney v. Brown

6:20-cv-00570 | U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon

Filed Date: April 6, 2020

Case Ongoing

On April 6, 2020, prisoners in the Oregon Department of Corrections ("ODOC") filed this lawsuit against the governor of Oregon and several Oregon DOC officials in the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon. Represented by private counsel, the Oregon Innocence Center, and the Oregon Justice Resource Center, the plaintiffs sought injunctive relief under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, alleging violations of their Eighth Amendment rights, as well as violations of the Oregon Constitution. Specifically, t…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Frazier v. Kelley

4:20-cv-00434 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas

Filed Date: April 21, 2020

Case Ongoing

COVID-19 Summary: This is a putative class action brought on April 21, 2020, by eleven individuals held at the Arkansas Department of Corrections, requesting reasonable accommodations for those incarcerated who face health risks from COVID-19. The plaintiffs sought a TRO and preliminary injunction requesting the immediate release and home confinement of those who are at high-risk due to age or medical conditions, and those with disabilities. The plaintiffs' TRO and preliminary injunction were d…