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PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Metropolitan Transportation Authority v. Duffy

1:25-cv-01413 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Feb. 19, 2025

This case challenged the Trump Administration's February 2025 attempt to rescind federal funding for the New York State's congestion pricing program in New York City. The federal government had previously agreed that New York State could assess tolls on vehicles entering federal highways around the city. New York State had already fully implemented the program beginning on January 5, 2025. On February 19, 2025, plaintiffs, Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) and Triborough Bridge and Tu…

Preliminary Injunction Granted

ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Paher v. Cegavske

3:20-cv-00243 | U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada

Filed Date: April 21, 2020

Closed Date: July 31, 2020

This case challenged the Nevada Secretary of State's and County Administrators' plan to conduct an all-mail election for the 2020 primary election in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. Three individual residents of Nevada filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada on April 21, 2020.  Plaintiffs sued Nevada's Secretary of State and Washoe County's Registrar of Voters under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, claiming violations under the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constituti…
POLICING
United States v. City of Seattle

2:12-cv-01282 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: July 27, 2012

On March 31, 2011, the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Civil Rights Division opened an investigation of the Seattle Police Department (SPD) pursuant to the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 (then codified at 42 U.S.C. § 14141; then recodified to 34 U.S.C. § 12601), the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968, and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Following a comprehensive investigation, on December 16, 2011, the DOJ announced its findings that SPD engag…
SCHOOL DESEGREGATION
United States of America v. State of Mississippi

3:70-cv-04706 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi

Filed Date: July 9, 1970

Fifteen years after Brown v. Board of Education (1954), 88% of Mississippi’s black students still attended all-black schools. Ubiquitous “freedom of choice” plans let white children transfer to predominantly white schools. Individual lawsuits and threats of funding cuts from the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare proved unable to effect wholesale desegregation. But in 1969, the Supreme Court ruled that the freedom of choice plan in Holmes County, Mississippi, was unconstitutional and …
PRISON CONDITIONS
Bownes v. Washington

2:14-cv-11691 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: April 28, 2014

An incarcerated individual in the custody of the Michigan Department of Corrections (MDOC) filed this lawsuit on April 28, 2014, in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, on behalf of a class of similarly situated individuals, against the Director of the MDOC and the general dentist of the MDOC (in their official capacities). MDOC policy detailed that a person became eligible for routine dental care only after being incarcerated for two years. The plaintiff claimed that t…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Miller v. Hughs

1:19-cv-01071 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

Filed Date: Nov. 1, 2019

Closed Date: July 10, 2020

This case is about a Texas statute, Tex. Elec. Code § 12.082(a), that requires candidates of the same political party of the last elected Governor to appear first on general election ballots for every partisan race. On November 1, 2019, a registered Texas voter, the Texas Democratic Party, and three national Democratic committees filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas. They sued the Texas Secretary of State under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Because extensive acade…

Case Dismissed (Involuntary)

ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Project Vote Incorporated v. Reagan

2:16-cv-01253 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: April 27, 2016

Closed Date: Aug. 7, 2017

This is a case about access to public election records in Arizona. On April 27, 2016, a national non-profit voting rights organization called Project Vote, Inc. filed the lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona. The defendants were sued in their official capacity as the Secretary of State of the State of Arizona, the County Recorder of Maricopa County, and the County Recorder of Pima County. The judge was District Judge Douglas L. Rayes. The plaintiff was represented by p…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Fox v. Detzner

4:18-cv-00529 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida

Filed Date: Nov. 13, 2018

Closed Date: April 2, 2019

On November 13, 2018, seven registered Florida voters filed suit against Florida Secretary of State, Director of the Florida Division of Elections, and numerous county Supervisors of Elections in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida.  Plaintiffs, represented by private counsel, sought to compel Florida election officials to comply with their duties to preserve election ballot materials (specifically, ballot images produced by digital scanning voting equipment) for 22 mon…

Case Dismissed (Involuntary)

IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Orellana Castaneda v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security

2:17-cv-04267 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: July 18, 2017

Undocumented immigrants allege that Suffolk County law enforcement unlawfully detained immigrants past their release dates based on ICE detainers, raising key questions about local enforcement of immigration laws. On July 18, 2017, an undocumented immigrant brought this case against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the County of Suffolk, and the Suffolk County Sheriff's Office (SCSO) in the United States District Court for the …

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DISABILITY RIGHTS
R. v. Pennsylvania Department of Human Services

1:17-cv-02332 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Dec. 18, 2017

This is a case challenging the child welfare system in Pennsylvania.  On December 18, 2017, six children with disabilities in Pennsylvania's foster care system filed a putative class action against the Pennsylvania Department of Human Services (“PDHS”) in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania. Represented by Disability Rights Pennsylvania, plaintiffs alleged that the state failed to provide children with mental health disabilities with adequate services and support in …