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DISABILITY RIGHTS
Day v. District of Columbia

1:10-cv-02250 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Dec. 23, 2010

The plaintiffs, institutionalized individuals in the District of Columbia with disabilities, filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on December 23, 2010. The complaint alleged that the District of Columbia had policies and procedures that force the unnecessary institutionalization of people with disabilities who could live in the community with appropriate services. The plaintiffs claimed that these policies, which erected barriers to receiving long-term care…
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Global Health Council v. Trump

1:25-cv-00402 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Feb. 11, 2025

This case challenged the Trump Administration's authority to suspend nearly all congressionally-appropriated foreign assistance funding and dismantle the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).  On February 11, 2025, the Global Health Council and several non-profit organizations filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia against President Donald J. Trump, the U.S. State Department of State, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), and USAID. Represen…

Preliminary Injunction Granted

Reversed

CHILD WELFARE
Rocky Mountain Gun Owners v. Polis

1:23-cv-01077 | U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado

Filed Date: April 28, 2023

Closed Date: June 6, 2025

[This summary is temporary while we research the case.] Rocky Mountain Gun Owners, a nonprofit organization, and two individuals between the ages of 18 and 21 wanting to purchase a gun sued the Governor of Colorado in April of 2023. This lawsuit comes after the passage of Senate Bill 23-169, which prohibits persons over the age of 18 but under the age of 21 from purchasing a firearm of any type. Plaintiffs claimed this prohibition violated their Second Amendment rights.

Case Is Ongoing

ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Stringer v. Cascos

5:16-cv-00257 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

Filed Date: March 14, 2016

Closed Date: Aug. 3, 2021

On March 14, 2016, four individual plaintiffs filed a suit against the Texas Secretary of State and the Director of the Texas Department of Public Safety (“DPS”), seeking declaratory and injunctive relief to redress defendants’ alleged systemic and ongoing violations of the “motor voter” provisions of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (“NVRA”). The plaintiffs also alleged that the defendants’ conduct violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment due to alleged dispa…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Democratic National Committee v. Republican National Committee

2:81-cv-03876 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

Filed Date: Dec. 14, 1981

Closed Date: Jan. 29, 2019

On October 28, 2004, the Democratic National Committee (“DNC”) filed this complaint to reopen this case and seek preliminary and permanent injunctive and declaratory relief against the Defendant Republican National Committee (“RNC”).  Judge Dickinson R. Debevoise of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey previously entered two Consent Decrees and an Order to restrain the ballot security and ballot integrity activities of the RNC after the committee sent out mass mailing…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Hoffard v. Cochise County

4:20-cv-00243 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: June 3, 2020

Closed Date: Nov. 2, 2022

This is a case about a physically disabled individual who was unable to vote because the County of Cochise, Arizona removed curbside voting. On June 30, 2020, Plaintiff filed this lawsuit in United States District Court of Arizona. The Plaintiff sued Lisa Marra in her official capacity as Director of Cochise County Elections Department, and Cochise County under Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act, 42 U.S.C. § 12131 et seq., and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, 29 U.S.C…

Case Dismissed (Involuntary)

ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Meadors v. Erie County Board of Elections

1:21-cv-00982 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York

Filed Date: Aug. 30, 2021

Closed Date: Aug. 20, 2024

This case is about New York’s deadline for independent nominating petitions, which must be filed 23 weeks before the general election. Byron W. Brown was the incumbent Mayor of Buffalo but lost the June 22, 2021 Democratic primary election. Two months later, Brown filed an independent nominating petition seeking to appear on the general election ballot. That petition was rejected because it was filed after the deadline of May 25, 2021. On August 30, 2021, three registered voters who supported B…

Case Dismissed (Involuntary)

DISABILITY RIGHTS
Fair Housing Council of Central Indiana, McGuffin v. Smitley

1:16-cv-00880 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana

Filed Date: April 19, 2016

Closed Date: Aug. 25, 2020

Plaintiffs filed suit in federal court on April 19, 2016, requesting compensatory and punitive damages, attorney fees and costs, injunctive relief to end a landlord's disability discrimination and a declaration that the landlord violated the housing discrimination and related state laws. Hon. William T. Lawrence of the U.S. District Court, Southern District of Indiana, Indianapolis Division, presided over the case. The Plaintiffs in this case were the Fair Housing Center of Central Indiana, Inc…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Brown v. Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services

1:16-cv-00945 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: March 30, 2016

Closed Date: June 6, 2019

Nine current and former inmates at Roxbury Correctional Institute who are blind brought a discrimination lawsuit against the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland. One individual inmate filed his complaint on March 30, 2016, and five days later this case was consolidated with eight other cases. The plaintiffs, represented by the National Federation of the Blind and Prisoner Rights Information System of Maryland, alleged tha…
NATIONAL SECURITY
Twitter v. Barr [Holder]

4:14-cv-04480 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Oct. 7, 2014

Closed Date: Jan. 8, 2024

[Note: This case was previously known as Twitter v. Holder, then Twitter v. Lynch, then Twitter v. Sessions] On October 7, 2014, Twitter -- an online social networking service -- filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California against the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) under the Administrative Procedure Act. Twitter, represented by private counsel, asked the court for declaratory judgment and injunctive relief, a…

Case Dismissed (Involuntary)

Affirmed