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ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Raleigh Wake Citizens Association v. Barefoot

5:15-cv-00156 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina

Filed Date: April 9, 2015

Closed Date: Dec. 28, 2017

This case involved allegations that the North Carolina General Assembly’s Session Law 2015-4 violated voters’ rights to an equal vote and their right to not be subjected to racial classifications in redistricting. Voters and an association on voters (Raleigh Wake Citizens Association) who lived in election districts that under Session Law 2015-4 were overpopulated to a significant degree, filed suit on April 09, 2015 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina. Plainti…
HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Murphy v. Health Care Service Corporation

1:22-CV-02656 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: May 19, 2022

Case Ongoing

This is a class action lawsuit alleging that the Blue Cross Blue Shield Insurance of Illinois (BSBSIL) has a discriminatory health policy that denies LGBTQ individuals equal access to infertility treatments.  On May 19, 2022, the named Plaintiff (represented by private counsel), filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois seeking to represent a class of LGBTQ individuals attempting to have children through the use of infertility treatments. The plaintiff …
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

This case concerns a habeas petition and the due process rights of detained Iraqi Americans facing deportation to Iraq. Petitioners in this class action/habeas petition were Iraqi nationals, including many Chaldean Christians, who had resided in the United States for many years. They had 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. After the Trump Administration negotiated with Iraq in early 201…
POLICING
Index Newspapers LLC v. City of Portland

3:20-cv-01035 | U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon

Filed Date: June 28, 2020

Case Ongoing

This case involved allegations that the Portland police assaulted news reporters, photographers, legal observers, and other neutrals who were documenting the police’s violent response to protests over the murder of George Floyd. On June 28, 2020, the plaintiffs, who are members of the media and legal observers, filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Oregon on behalf of themselves and as a class of similarly situated people. The plaintiffs sued the City of Por…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Martin v. Kemp

1:18-cv-04776 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: Oct. 15, 2018

Closed Date: July 24, 2019

This case involved allegations that Georgia state elections officials had arbitrary voting guidelines that disenfranchised honest voters due to minor administrative mistakes during the mail in ballot process. Four Georgia residents and voters filed suit in the U.S. District Court of the Northern District of Georgia on October 15, 2018. Defendants include the Secretary of State of Georgia, members of the State Election Board, members of the Gwinnett County Board of Registration and Elections. Pl…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Flores v. Town of Islip

2:18-cv-03549 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: June 18, 2018

Closed Date: Oct. 14, 2020

This case alleged that the town of Islip, New York's election scheme unconstitutionally diluted the strength of the Latino vote.  On June 18, 2018, Latino voters and a New York-based voting rights group sued the town of Islip, New York; the Islip Town Board; and the Suffolk County Board of Elections in the Eastern District of New York. Plaintiffs claimed that the city's at-large election scheme had the effect of impairing Islip’s minority Latino voters right to an equal opportunity to participa…
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
Alabama State Conference of the NAACP v. Marshall

2:24-cv-00420 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama

Filed Date: April 4, 2024

Case Ongoing

This is a case challenging Alabama voting laws.  This lawsuit was filed on April 4, 2024, on behalf of five Alabama civil rights organizations against the Alabama Attorney General, the Alabama Secretary of State, and 42 district attorneys for several counties challenging several provisions of Senate Bill 1 (SB1), a law that makes it illegal for individuals and organizations to assist voters in submitting their absentee ballots. The civil rights organizations brought suit against the Attorney Ge…
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
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…