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ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
One Wisconsin Institute v. Nichol

3:15-cv-00324 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin

Filed Date: May 29, 2015

Closed Date: Jan. 13, 2023

This is a lawsuit regarding a set of changes in Wisconsin's voter registration and election laws. On May 29, 2015, the advocacy groups of One Wisconsin Institute and Citizen Action of Wisconsin Education Fund, as well as individual voters, filed suit in the United States Western District Court of Wisconsin, represented by Perkins Coie. The defendants in this case are members of the Wisconsin’s Government Accountability Board (“GAB”), a state governmental entity that oversees Wisconsin’s campaig…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
North Carolina State Conference of the NAACP v. North Carolina State Board of Electors

1:16-cv-01274 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina

Filed Date: Oct. 31, 2016

Closed Date: Dec. 20, 2019

This is a case about the en mass cancelation of voter registrations by local boards of elections in North Carolina prior to the November 8, 2016 election. Shortly before the federal general election in 2016, boards of elections (BOEs) in at least three North Carolina counties, including Beaufort, Moore, and Cumberland counties, canceled thousands of voters’ registrations based on challenges by private individuals. The private individuals claimed that because a piece of mail was returned as unde…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Crumley v. Forestal

1:19-cv-04110 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana

Filed Date: Oct. 4, 2019

Closed Date: Sept. 16, 2022

This is a case about an individual with an intellectual disability and mental health diagnoses who was detained against medical advice and, while in custody, was denied basic medical care, supervision, reasonable accommodations and support necessary to protect him from harm and injury. On October 4, 2019, plaintiff, through his guardian and with counsel by Indiana Disability Rights, filed an action in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana. Plaintiff sued the Marion County…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Georgia State Conference of the NAACP v. Hancock County Board of Elections and Registration

5:15-cv-00414 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia

Filed Date: Nov. 3, 2015

Closed Date: March 30, 2023

This is a case about the unlawful removal of Black registered voters from voter rolls in Sparta, a city in Hancock County, Georgia. On November 3, 2015, Georgia State Conference of the NAACP, Georgia Coalition for the People’s Agenda and certain registered voters impacted by the removals filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Georgia Macon Division. Plaintiffs sought declaratory and injunctive relief against the Hancock County Board of Elections and Re…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Allen v. Waller County, Texas

4:18-cv-03985 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas

Filed Date: Oct. 12, 2018

Closed Date: April 14, 2022

This case involved allegations that county officials failed to allocate sufficient time for early voting during the 2018 general election cycle to Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU) (a historically Black university) in the State of Texas as compared to the other surrounding areas. Individual students and a student and alumni organization PVAMU, represented by NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund attorneys, filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas Houston Div…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Jones v. Deininger

2:12-cv-00185 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin

Filed Date: Feb. 23, 2012

Closed Date: May 1, 2014

This case challenged a Wisconsin voter ID law, Act 23, which required voters to present specific forms of identification in order to vote. The plaintiffs argued that the law disproportionately burdened African American and Latino Voters, in violation of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (“VRA”). On February 23, 2021, four community organizations dedicated to serving the African American and Latin American communities in Wisconsin, and one individual who could not register to vote due t…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Segovia v. Board of Election Commissioners

1:15-cv-10196 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Nov. 10, 2015

Closed Date: March 28, 2018

This case challenged the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act, Pub. L. No. 99-410, codified as amended at 52 U.S.C. §§ 20301 to 20311 (“UOCAVA”), and the Illinois statute implementing its requirements, known as the Illinois Military and Overseas Voter Empowerment (“MOVE”) law. UOCAVA imposed a range of responsibilities on the states, including Illinois, relating to absentee voting in federal elections by uniformed service members or overseas voters. MOVE likewise addressed absent…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Isabel v. Reagan

2:18-cv-03217 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: Oct. 9, 2018

Closed Date: Feb. 11, 2021

This case is about Arizona’s failure to count certain provisional ballots in the 2016 general election when the voter registration deadline fell on a federal and state holiday. The deadline for registering to vote in Arizona for the 2016 election was before midnight on Monday, October 10, 2016, Indigenous Peoples’ Day. However, because of the weekend and the holiday, some methods of registration were unavailable to Arizona residents due to office closures. Some residents then registered to vote…
HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
GenBioPro, Inc. v. Sorsaia

3:23-cv-00058 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia

Filed Date: Jan. 25, 2023

Case Ongoing

In the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s 2022 Dobbs decision, the West Virginia legislature enacted the Unborn Child Protection Act (UCPA), which banned nearly all abortions regardless of the stage of pregnancy with only limited exceptions for nonviable fetuses and embryos, ectopic pregnancies, and medical emergencies. On January 25, 2023, GenBioPro, a company that manufacturers and sells a generic version of the abortion medication mifepristone, brought suit in the U.S. District Court for the S…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
City of El Cenizo v. State of Texas

5:17-cv-00404 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

Filed Date: May 8, 2017

Case Ongoing

This suit challenged Texas's "Sanctuary City" legislation, Senate Bill 4 (SB4), which required local Texas law enforcement to cooperate with federal immigration officials and punished them if they did not. Unlike the other suits in this special collection, this suit did not challenge President Trump's "Sanctuary City" Executive Order. There were three other cases addressing SB4 (in addition to this one). This case was before Judge Orlando L. Garcia, as was El Paso County v. Texas, No. 17-cv-004…