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EDUCATION
Students for Fair Admissions v. United States Military Academy at West Point

7:23-cv-08262 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Sept. 19, 2023

Case Ongoing

On September 19, 2023, Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA), a nonprofit group founded on the premise that race-based college admissions are unconstitutional, filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. This case was assigned to District Judge Philip M. Halpern and Magistrate Judge Judith C. McCarthy. SFFA sued the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and the U.S. Department of Defense and alleged that their use of racial benchmarks in admissions decisions…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Committee For A Fair And Balanced Map v. Illinois State Board of Elections

1:11-cv-05065 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: July 27, 2011

Closed Date: Dec. 15, 2011

This was a challenge to the congressional redistricting plan adopted by the State of Illinois after the 2010 census (the “Adopted Map”). Plaintiffs were an organization called the Committee for a Fair and Balanced Map (a not for profit organization created by Illinois citizens concerned about the congressional redistricting process in Illinois), ten incumbent Republican members, ten incumbent Republican members of Congress, and six registered voters (including some who identify themselves as La…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Lane v. Kitzhaber (later, Brown)

3:12-cv-00138 | U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon

Filed Date: Jan. 25, 2012

Closed Date: Aug. 12, 2022

On January 25, 2012, this class action was brought by individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD) and the United Cerebral Palsy Association of Oregon and Southwest Washington, Inc. in the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon. The plaintiffs claimed that the State of Oregon and its Offices of Developmental Disability Services and Vocational Rehabilitation Services, along with other state agencies, violated the Americans With Disabilities Act ("ADA") and the Reha…
HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Poe v. Labrador

1:23-cv-00269 | U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho

Filed Date: May 31, 2023

Case Ongoing

The Idaho legislature passed HB 71, and the governor signed it into law, on April 4, 2023. The law is set to go into effect in January of 2024, and it will prohibit physicians, under felony sanctions, from providing medications or surgical treatments to minors “for the purpose of attempting to alter the appearance of or affirm the child’s perceptions of the child’s sex if that perception is inconsistent with the child’s biological sex.” The law amounts to a total ban on gender-affirming care fo…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Coalition for Good Governance v. Raffensperger

1:21-cv-02070 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: May 17, 2021

Case Ongoing

This case is about whether Georgia Senate Bill 202 (“SB 202”) violated the U.S. Constitution and the Voting Rights Act (52 U.S.C. § 10301, et seq.). On March 25, 2021, Georgia Governor Brian Kemp signed SB 202 into law. The bill regulated election-related processes and activities ranging from absentee ballot voting to election monitoring. SB 202 had seven key provisions: The “Observation Rule,” which prohibited a person from “intentionally observ[ing] an elector while casting a ballot in a man…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Ramirez Medina v. Asher [later U.S. Department of Homeland Security]

2:17-cv-00218 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: Feb. 13, 2017

Closed Date: Jan. 23, 2023

On February 13, 2017, a recipient of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) -- and believed to be the first DACA recipient detained under the Trump administration -- filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington. The plaintiff sued the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Represented by the organization Public Counsel, and by private attorneys including constitutional scholars Laurence Tribe and Erwin Chemerinsky, he sought a writ of habeas c…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
M.H. v. Monreal

1:12-cv-08523 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Oct. 23, 2012

Closed Date: Nov. 14, 2019

On October 23, 2012, a teenager detained awaiting a parole revocation hearing filed this class action in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The plaintiff, represented by the MacArthur Justice Center and Uptown People's Law Center, asked the court for a declaratory judgment that the policies of the Illinois Prisoner Review Board regarding parole revocation hearings were unconstitutional. He also requested that the Court enjoin the defendant from…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Rodriguez v. Hayes

2:07-cv-03239 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: May 16, 2007

Case Ongoing

On May 16, 2007, an immigration detainee who had been held for more than six months without a bond hearing while in removal proceedings petitioned the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California for a writ of habeas corpus. Plaintiff claimed that, without a bond hearing, detention over six months violated the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment and the statutory requirements of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA). Represented by private counsel, the ACLU of Southern C…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Evenson-Childs v. Ravalli County Sheriff's Office

9:21-cv-00089 | U.S. District Court for the District of Montana

Filed Date: Aug. 9, 2021

Case Ongoing

Plaintiff, a homeless resident of the state of Montana, filed this putative class action against Ravalli County Sheriff’s Office in the U.S. District Court for the District of Montana on August 9, 2021. She challenged the Office’s practice of charging pre-trial arrestees released on bail for various forms of pre-trial supervision, such as ankle monitors and breathalyzers, and of requiring pre-trial arrestees to sign a contract stating that they can be criminally charged with felony theft and cr…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Patino v. City of Pasadena

4:14-cv-03241 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas

Filed Date: Nov. 12, 2014

Closed Date: June 30, 2023

This is a case about voter dilution and preclearance of voting rights changes.  On November 12, 2014, registered Hispanic voters of the City of Pasadena, Texas filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas. Plaintiffs sued the City of Pasadena, the Mayor, and members of the Pasadena City Council under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, 52 U.S.C. § 10301 (formerly 42 U.SC. § 1973). Specifically, Plaintiffs claimed that the City altered its gove…