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ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Schmitt v. Husted

2:18-cv-00966 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio

Filed Date: Aug. 28, 2018

Closed Date: Nov. 8, 2021

This case alleged that Portage County and Ohio state officials acted as "gatekeepers" by having near-total discretion in determining which initiatives were included on Ohio's ballots. On August 28, 2018, three individuals sued the Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted in his official capacity and the Portage County Board of Elections and each of its four members in their official capacities in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio, seeking a declaratory judgment, a pre…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Rivera Madera v. Detzner

1:18-cv-00152 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida

Filed Date: Aug. 16, 2018

Closed Date: Feb. 1, 2021

This case centers around allegations that the Secretary of State of Florida failed to uphold the requirements of Section 4(e) of the Voting Rights Act (52 U.S.C. 10301 et seq.), which prohibits conditioning the right to vote on a person's ability to understand English if they were educated in a school where the predominant language was not English, such as in Puerto Rico. On August 16, 2018, ahead of the 2018 midterm elections in November, the plaintiffs—which included voting rights organizatio…
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
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…
HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Doe v. Ladapo

4:23-cv-00114 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida

Filed Date: March 23, 2023

Case Ongoing

This is a lawsuit brought by transgender adolescents and their parents challenging Florida's ban on medical care for transgender minors (Board of Medicine, Rule 64B8-9.019, Fla. Admin. Code; and Board of Osteopathic Medicine, Rule 64B15-14.014, Fla. Admin. Code). The challenged bans prohibited the use of puberty blockers to stop or delay normal puberty as well as the use of hormones or hormone antagonists in order to affirm a person's perception of his or her sex if that perception was inconsis…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Cannavan v. County of Ventura

2:20-cv-10012 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: Oct. 30, 2020

Closed Date: Sept. 3, 2022

This is a case about inmates held at a county jail in Ventura County, California who were denied their right to vote via absentee ballots during the November 2020 presidential election. On October 30, 2020, an individual inmate, on behalf of himself and all other similarly situated inmates held in the county jail, filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Central District of California. The plaintiffs sued Ventura County and the Ventura County Sheriff's Department under sta…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Petteway v. Galveston County, Texas

3:11-cv-00511 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas

Filed Date: Nov. 14, 2011

Closed Date: Aug. 6, 2015

This case is about redistricting plans for certain local election districts in Galveston County, Texas, following the 2010 Census and whether those plans violated the Voting Rights Act and the U.S. Constitution. Seven Galveston County, Texas, elected officials (six of whom were minorities and one of whom was not) and one minority Galveston County resident filed suit in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas, Galveston Division, on November 14, 2011.  Defendants were…
NATIONAL SECURITY
In re: National Security Letter, Under Seal v. Holder (Sealed)

3:13-cv-01165 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: March 14, 2013

Case Ongoing

For the complete Civil Rights Litigation Clearinghouse collection of FISA Matters, see our special collection. This Clearinghouse entry describes litigation between the government and the internet infrastructure company Cloudflare about National Security Letters. For a similar case involving phone company CREDO Mobile, see here (the "prior case"). This case involves a dispute over administrative subpoenas known as National Security Letters (NSLs). In 1986, Congress empowered the FBI to issue N…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Vaughan v. Lewisville Independent School District

4:19-cv-00109 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas

Filed Date: Feb. 12, 2019

Closed Date: June 12, 2023

This is a case about the structure of the at-large district for the election of school board members for the Lewisville Independent School District ("Lewisville ISD") in Lewisville, Texas. On February 12, 2019, an individual voter in Lewisville Texas filed this lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas. The plaintiff sued the Lewisville ISD and the individual board members of the Lewisville ISD in their official capacities. Represented by private counsel, the plaintiff so…
HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Doe 1 v. Thornbury

3:23-cv-00230 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky

Filed Date: May 3, 2023

Case Ongoing

In March 2023, the Kentucky legislature voted to override Governor Andy Beshear’s veto and enact Senate Bill 150 (“SB 150”). Set to take effect on June 29, 2023, SB 150 prevented healthcare providers from using puberty blockers and hormone therapy to treat transgender patients under the age of 18. Healthcare professionals who violated SB 150 would have their licenses revoked by the appropriate regulatory agency. The law additionally created a private cause of action for parties to recover damag…