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REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky v. Commissioner

1:13-cv-01335 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana

Filed Date: Aug. 22, 2013

In 2013, Indiana made two changes to its state laws regulating abortion clinics. These amendments changed the definition of “abortion clinic” to include not only clinics which provide surgical abortions, but also clinics which provided abortion-inducing medicine. They also imposed new regulations on any clinic which fell under the new definition of “abortion clinic,” requiring that all abortion clinics meet standards only necessary for facilities which conducted surgical abortions. The new defi…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin, Inc. v. Van Hollen

3:13-cv-00465 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin

Filed Date: June 28, 2013

Case Ongoing

This is a case about the constitutionality of a Wisconsin statute requiring physicians who perform abortions to have admitting privileges in a hospital within 30 miles of where the abortion is performed. On July 5, 2013, Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Women's Medical Services, and two board-certified medical doctors at Planned Parenthood filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin. The plaintiffs sued the Wisconsin attorney general, the Dane C…
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Falls v. DeSantis

4:22-cv-00166 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida

Filed Date: April 22, 2022

Case Ongoing

This is a case about legislation suppressing Florida's teachers and employers from encouraging discourse regarding critical race theory (“CRT”) and sex. CRT was a concept that encompassed a wide range of ideas and concepts, and it generally focused on the idea that racism is inherent in U.S. legal systems in a way that create and maintain social, economic, and political inequities. On April 22, 2022, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed into law a ban on CRT,  known as the Stop Wrongs Against O…
POLICING
Taylor v. City of Saginaw

1:17-cv-11067 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: April 5, 2017

Closed Date: Sept. 20, 2022

This is the first case to allege that “chalking” tires––the practice of marking a legally parked vehicle to track how long it has been parked––to enforce parking time limits is a Fourth Amendment violation. On April 5, 2017, an individual plaintiff filed an action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan against the City of Saginaw and its parking enforcement officer in her individual capacity. The plaintiff sought injunctive and declaratory relief …
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Boyden v. Conlin

3:17-cv-00264 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin

Filed Date: April 7, 2017

Closed Date: March 26, 2019

On April 7, 2017, two transgender state employees represented by the ACLU of Wisconsin filed this lawsuit against the state of Wisconsin in the United States District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin. The named defendants included the Department of Employee Trust Funds, State of Wisconsin Group Insurance Board, entities associated with the University of Wisconsin System, and the Wisconsin Physicians Service Insurance Corporation. The plaintiffs alleged that the state’s failure to cov…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
American Council of the Blind of Indiana v. Indiana Election Commission

1:20-cv-03118 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana

Filed Date: Dec. 31, 2020

Case Ongoing

In a lawsuit filed December 2020 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana, several individual plaintiffs, joined by Indiana Disability Rights and the American Council of the Blind of Indiana, asserted that the Indiana Election Commission and the Secretary of State discriminated against voters who are blind or have low vision by not offering the necessary accommodations that these voters need to vote privately and independently when using the absentee vote-by-mail program.…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Guzzo v. Mead

2:14-cv-00200 | U.S. District Court for the District of Wyoming

Filed Date: Oct. 7, 2014

Case Ongoing

This is a 2014-2015 lawsuit about the right of same-sex couples in Wyoming to marry in Wyoming and have their out-of-state same-sex marriages recognized in Wyoming. On October 7, 2014, four same-sex couples and Wyoming Equality filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Wyoming under 42 U.S.C § 1983 against Wyoming. The four couples lived in Wyoming: two sought to get married in Wyoming and the others sought to have their marriages, performed in other jurisdictions,…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Hamama v. Adducci

2:17-cv-11910 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: June 15, 2017

Case Ongoing

Petitioners in this class action/habeas petition are Iraqi nationals—many, perhaps most, Chaldean Christian—who have resided in the United States for many years. They have been subject to final orders of removal for years, but the U.S. government permitted them to reside in the community under orders of supervision. In early 2017, political negotiation by the Trump administration with Iraq (related to Iraq's desire to be taken off the Trump Executive Order travel-ban list) led to Iraq’s agreeme…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Ashker v. Brown

4:09-cv-05796 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Dec. 9, 2009

Case Ongoing

On December 9, 2009, two prisoners at California's Pelican Bay prison who had been kept in solitary confinement for decades filed this § 1983 action against the State of California in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. The plaintiffs, originally proceeding pro se, asked the court for declaratory, injunctive, and compensatory relief, claiming violations of their First, Fourth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendment rights. Specifically, the plaintiffs claimed that the "in…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Dunsmore v. State of California

3:20-cv-00406 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California

Filed Date: March 2, 2020

Case Ongoing

This putative class action lawsuit alleges that county jail detainees were denied proper health accommodations at the San Diego county jail. On March 2, 2020, a jail detainee filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California. The plaintiff sued the State of California, San Diego County, the San Diego Sheriff's Department, the San Diego Department of Corrections, individuals, and the attorney general. Proceeding pro se, the plaintiff sought compensatory and pu…