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DISABILITY RIGHTS
Iowa Protection and Advocacy Services v. Tanager Place

1:04-cv-00069 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa

Filed Date: June 3, 4

Closed Date: March 9, 2006

This case is about a Protection and Advocacy agency’s (P&A) access authority to interview relevant parties during an investigation. Iowa Protection and Advocacy Services (Iowa P&A) filed this lawsuit on June 3, 2004, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa. Iowa P&A filed this lawsuit against Tanager, Inc., a private facility offering youth inpatient psychiatric services, under the Protection and Advocacy for Individuals with Mental Illness (PAIMI) Act. Represented by a pri…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Planned Parenthood Association of Utah v. Miner

2:19-cv-00238 | U.S. District Court for the District of Utah

Filed Date: April 10, 2019

Closed Date: June 27, 2022

On April 10th, 2019, Planned Parenthood of Utah sued the State of Utah in the United States District Court for the District of Utah, alleging that the state's 18-week abortion ban was unconstitutional. In the complaint, Planned Parenthood specifically alleged that Utah House Bill 136 violated the Fourteenth Amendment by banning virtually all abortions at 18 weeks of pregnancy, in contravention of the constitutional right to abortion established by the Supreme Court in Roe v. Wade. Planned Paren…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Georgia Advocacy Office v. Jackson

1:19-cv-01634 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: April 10, 2019

Case Ongoing

On April 10, 2019, two female detainees in the South Fulton Municipal Regional Jail and the Georgia Advocacy Office filed this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. The plaintiff sued the Fulton County Sheriff’s Office and the South Fulton Municipal Jail under 42 U.S.C.§ 1983 and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). The plaintiffs, represented by the Southern Center for Human Rights and the Georgia Advocacy Office, sought class certification…
EDUCATION
Tennessee v. United States Department of Education

3:21-cv-00308 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee

Filed Date: Aug. 30, 2021

Case Ongoing

20 Republican state attorneys general brought this lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Education (DoE) and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) to challenge their packages of directives that extended federal sex discrimination protections to transgender people in schools and government employment. The case was filed on August 30, 2021, in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee. President Biden directed the DoE and EEOC to reinterpret the law afte…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Cook County, Illinois v. Wolf

1:19-cv-06334 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Sept. 23, 2019

Closed Date: March 12, 2021

This case is one of several brought nationwide by States, counties, and nonprofit organizations challenging the Trump administration's revised, final public charge rule, which expands the types of programs that the federal government will consider in public charge determinations to now also include previously excluded health, nutrition, and housing programs. In the fall of 2019, district court judges from across the country granted preliminary injunctions enjoining the government from implement…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Ligas v. Maram [now Ligas v. Hamos]

1:05-cv-04331 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: July 28, 2005

Case Ongoing

On July 28, 2005, nine individuals with developmental disabilities filed this lawsuit against the Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services, the Illinois Department of Human Services, and the Illinois Department of Public Health in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. They alleged that they were eligible for long-term care through state-administered Medicaid Services but were forced to reside in large congregate care institutions rather than commun…
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
Common Cause v. Trump

1:20-cv-02023 | U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

Filed Date: July 23, 2020

Case Ongoing

On July 21 2020, President Trump issued a memorandum titled “Excluding Illegal Aliens From the Apportionment Base Following the 2020 Census.” This memorandum included instructions to exclude undocumented immigrants from the state-population totals in the 2020 Census, and therefore exclude them from being counted when apportioning seats in the US House of Representatives and votes in the Electoral College. Two days later, on July 23, Common Cause—along with other interested groups, cities, and i…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Casey v. Gardner

1:19-cv-00149 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire

Filed Date: Feb. 13, 2019

Closed Date: May 22, 2020

This is a case about voting rights—particularly those of college students—in New Hampshire. On February 13, 2019, two college students filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire. The plaintiffs sued the state’s Secretary of State and Attorney General, alleging violations of the First, Fourteenth, Twenty-Fourth, and Twenty-Sixth Amendments. Represented by the ACLU of New Hampshire, the plaintiffs sought an injunction prohibiting New Hampshire from implementin…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Toomey v. State of Arizona

4:19-cv-00035 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: Jan. 23, 2019

Case Ongoing

On January 23, 2019, a transgender man employed as an associate professor at the University of Arizona filed this lawsuit against the State, the Arizona Board of Regents, and the Arizona Department of Administration in United States District Court for the District of Arizona. The State provides healthcare coverage to state employees through a plan run by the Arizona Department of Administration. Although the plan generally covers medically necessary care, it categorically denies coverage for ge…