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JAIL CONDITIONS
Briggs v. Slatton-Hodges

4:23-cv-00081 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma

Filed Date: March 1, 2023

Case Ongoing

This is a case about whether Oklahoma denied competency restoration treatments to criminal defendants awaiting trial in excess of constitutionally permissible time limits. Competency restoration is defined as the process by which persons who have been declared incompetent to stand trial in criminal proceedings are provided treatment to attempt to restore their mental competency. On March 1, 2023, three individuals currently held in jails across Oklahoma and declared incompetent to stand trial b…
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
Wright v. State of North Carolina

5:13-cv-00607 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina

Filed Date: Aug. 23, 2013

Closed Date: Sept. 29, 2017

This is a case alleging racial gerrymandering in North Carolina.  On August 22, 2013 Wake County Board of Elections in Wake County, North Carolina mapped a new plan for their voting districts, called the Session Law 2013-110. This redistricting plan was intended to change the voting districts composition for the Wake County Board of Education.  On August 23, 2013, Plaintiffs, Wake County registered voters, submitted a complaint to the court regarding this redistricting plan. Plaintiffs challeng…
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…
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
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…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Florida v. United States

3:21-cv-01066 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida

Filed Date: Sept. 28, 2021

Case Ongoing

This is a case about the government’s policies and practices concerning undocumented immigrants at the United States-Mexico border. On September 28, 2021, the State of Florida filed this lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida. Florida sued the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) under the Administrative Procedure Act (APA). Ci…
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 …
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…