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DISABILITY RIGHTS
E.T. v. Governor Greg Abbott

1:21-cv-00717 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

Filed Date: Aug. 17, 2021

Closed Date: Aug. 22, 2022

On August 17, 2021, Disability Rights Texas filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas challenging Governor Abbott's issuing of Executive Order GA-38 ("GA-38"), which prohibited school districts from instituting mask mandates in response to COVID-19. In addition to Governor Abbott, defendants included the Commissioner of the Texas Education Agency ("TEA") and the TEA. Disability Rights filed the suit on behalf of students with disabilities with compromised immu…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Harvard v. Inch

4:19-cv-00212 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida

Filed Date: May 8, 2019

Case Ongoing

Six incarcerated persons with mental or physical disabilities from the Florida Department of Corrections (FDC) filed a class action complaint against the Secretary of the FDC and FDC in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida on May 8, 2019. Plaintiffs alleged that defendants frequently, unnecessarily, and harmfully used solitary confinement against people with physical and mental disabilities. They also alleged that defendants were aware of the heightened risk that solitar…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Planned Parenthood Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota v. Daugaard

4:11-cv-04071 | U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota

Filed Date: May 27, 2011

Closed Date: Oct. 21, 2022

This is a case challenging an abortion restriction in the state of South Dakota. According to the plaintiffs, South Dakota H.B. 1217 sought to restrict women's access to abortion services in South Dakota by (1) imposing what was at the time the longest mandatory delay in the country; (2) forcing every woman who sought an abortion to disclose and discuss private personal and medical information with an unlicensed, non-medical organization opposed to her decision; (3) requiring physicians to enga…
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Courthouse News Service v. Forman

4:22-cv-00106 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida

Filed Date: March 9, 2022

Case Ongoing

This case is about Florida's "no-access-before-process" policy that delayed public access to new non-confidential circuit court civil complaints while they sat in review queues until clerical processing was completed. On March 9, 2022, Courthouse News Service filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida against the Broward County, Florida Clerk of Courts, the Florida E-Filing Authority, and the chair of the Florida E-Filing Authority. Courthouse News alleged a…
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…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Aziz v. Trump

1:17-cv-00116 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

Filed Date: Jan. 28, 2017

Closed Date: June 1, 2017

On January 28, 2017, lawful permanent residents (LPRs) of the United States, represented by the Legal Aid Justice Center and Mayer Brown, filed this case in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. The plaintiffs brought the action as a petition for writ of habeas corpus and a civil complaint for declaratory and injunctive relief. They simultaneously filed an emergency application for a temporary restraining order (TRO). The plaintiffs were 50 to 60 lawful permanent residen…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Ali v. Trump

2:17-cv-00135 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: Jan. 30, 2017

Closed Date: Sept. 21, 2018

This class action lawsuit, filed January 30, 2017, challenged President Trump’s January 27, 2017, Executive Order (EO-1) ban on admission to the U.S. of nationals of Iraq, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen. The complaint was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington (in Seattle). Plaintiffs were represented by the Northwest Immigrants Rights Project, the National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild, and the American Immigration Council. The…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Washington & Minnesota v. Trump

2:17-cv-00141 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: Jan. 30, 2017

Closed Date: Nov. 9, 2018

Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson filed this federal lawsuit on January 30, 2017 against President Trump’s January 27, 2017, Executive Order (EO-1) barring legal immigrants and refugees from seven majority-Muslim countries from entering the U.S. and barring Syrian refugees indefinitely. The State filed a complaint and an emergency motion for a temporary restraining order in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington. The State of Minnesota also signed on as a plaintif…
POLICING
Anti Police-Terror Project v. Oakland

3:20-cv-03866 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: June 11, 2020

Case Ongoing

This class action lawsuit was filed on June 11, 2020 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. Plaintiffs were the Anti-Police Terror Project, Community Ready Corps, and several individuals. Defendants were the City of Oakland, the Oakland Police Department (OPD) Police Chief, an OPD Sergeant, and two OPD officers. The suit followed police actions to quell protests that arose after the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Plaintiffs were represented counsel f…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Maney v. Brown

6:20-cv-00570 | U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon

Filed Date: April 6, 2020

Case Ongoing

On April 6, 2020, prisoners in the Oregon Department of Corrections ("ODOC") filed this lawsuit against the governor of Oregon and several Oregon DOC officials in the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon. Represented by private counsel, the Oregon Innocence Center, and the Oregon Justice Resource Center, the plaintiffs sought injunctive relief under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, alleging violations of their Eighth Amendment rights, as well as violations of the Oregon Constitution. Specifically, t…