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PRISON CONDITIONS
Center for Legal Advocacy v. Colorado Department of Corrections

1:21-cv-00792 | U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado

Filed Date: March 18, 2021

Case Ongoing

On March 18, 2021, the Center for Legal Advocacy, d/b/a Disability Law Colorado (“DLC”), a federally mandated protection and advocacy (“P&A”) organization for the State of Colorado, filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado. DLC sued the Colorado Department of Corrections (“CDOC”) under the Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”) and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, seeking declaratory relief, injunctive relief, and attorneys' fees. DLC brought suit in its…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Holloway v. City of Virginia Beach

2:18-cv-00069 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

Filed Date: Aug. 28, 2018

Closed Date: Nov. 27, 2023

On November 20, 2017, Plaintiff Latasha Holloway submitted an application to proceed in forma pauperis ("IFP") and a proposed complaint in the Richmond Division of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.  In the proposed complaint, Plaintiff alleged that the City of Virginia Beach, Virginia's at-large election of its City Council violated the Voting Rights Act, 42 U.S.C. §1983, the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Voting Accessibility for the Elderly and Handi…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Bird v. Barr

1:19-cv-01581 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: May 29, 2019

Case Ongoing

On May 29, 2019, a group of female Intelligence Analyst and Agent Trainees at the FBI’s Training Academy in Quantico, Virginia filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia on behalf of themselves and a class of more than 125 female Agent and Analyst Trainees who had been subjected to similar gender-based harassment, discrimination, and retaliation. The plaintiffs sued the Attorney General of the United States in his official capacity under Title VII of the…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Judicial Watch, Inc. v. Grimes

3:17-cv-00094 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky

Filed Date: Nov. 14, 2017

Case Ongoing

This case involved the Commonwealth of Kentucky's failure to comply with its voter list maintenance and record production obligations under Section 8 of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (NVRA), 52 U.S.C. §§ 2057, and its subsequent failure to adhere to the requirements of a consent judgment resolving the NVRA violations.                     On November 14, 2017, Judicial Watch, Inc., a non-partisan educational organization whose mission is to promote transparency, integrity, and acco…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Mays v. Husted

2:18-cv-01376 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio

Filed Date: Nov. 6, 2018

Closed Date: March 3, 2020

This case involved allegations that state election law in Ohio deprived pre-trial detainees, who were eligible voters, of their constitutional right to vote.  On November 6, 2018, two named plaintiffs and members of a certified class sued the Ohio Secretary of State under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the United States District Court for the District of Ohio, Eastern Division, for violating their First and Fourteenth Amendment rights by denying their access to vote by mail from jail. The certified class …
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Petteway v. Galveston County

3:22-cv-00057 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas

Filed Date: Feb. 15, 2022

Case Ongoing

This case centers around the 2021 Galveston County, Texas redistricting process and is part of a series of cases challenging the redistricting practices in Galveston County over a number of years. This was the first Voting Rights Act (VRA) case decided since the Supreme Court’s decision in Allen v. Milligan, 599 U. S. 1 (2023). Following the 2010 Census, county leaders adopted a redistricting plan for the county commissioners’ districts that would have effectively removed the single minority op…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Harness v. Hosemann

3:17-cv-00791 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi

Filed Date: Sept. 28, 2017

Closed Date: June 30, 2023

This is a case about the felony disenfranchisement provision of Mississippi’s Constitution, which was enacted in 1890 and strips the right to vote for life from anyone convicted of certain crimes. On 28 September 2017, Black citizens of Mississippi with past felony convictions brought an action against Mississippi's Secretary of State. The claim was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi. The complaint argued that the disqualifying crimes in the felony disenfr…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Public Interest Legal Foundation v. Benson

1:21-cv-00929 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan

Filed Date: Nov. 3, 2021

Case Ongoing

This case is about the Public Interest Legal Foundation (the “Foundation”) expending its resources to “clean-up” the list of voting registrants in Michigan by requesting an injunction to have Michigan’s Secretary of State (the “Secretary”) implement a plan to investigate and remove deceased registrants from Michigan’s voting list.  On November 3, 2021, the Foundation brought this action against the Secretary in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan under the National Vote…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
United States v. Alabama

2:12-cv-00179 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama

Filed Date: Feb. 24, 2012

Closed Date: Feb. 21, 2017

The main issue in this case is the State of Alabama’s compliance with the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act.    The Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act ("UOCAVA") of 1986 permits uniformed service voters and overseas voters to use absentee registration procedures and to vote by absentee ballot in general, special, primary, and runoff elections. UOCAVA also requires that states transmit ballots validly requested by voters no later than 45 days before an election…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Toth v. Chapman

1:22-cv-00208 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Feb. 10, 2022

Closed Date: Feb. 11, 2022

This is a fast-paced case about redistricting and the drawing of congressional maps in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania following the results of the decennial census in which Pennsylvania lost one congressional seat. The case was filed in the Middle District of Pennsylvania on February 10, 2022, one day after the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania announced that it was suspending the General Primary Election calendar codified in 25 Pa. Stat. §§ 2868 and 2873.  Bringing the case were four registered …