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PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Fund for Empowerment v. City of Phoenix

2:22-cv-02041 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: Nov. 30, 2022

Case Ongoing

This is a challenge to Phoenix’s policies policing homelessness and the City’s treatment of unsheltered individuals concerning unreasonable seizure and destruction of property during “homeless sweeps.” On November 30, 2023, the Fund for Empowerment (FFE) and two individual plaintiffs filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District court for the District of Arizona. Defendants included the City of Phoenix and police officials in their official capacities. Represented by the ACLU of Arizona, plaintiffs s…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Petteway v. Galveston County, Texas

3:11-cv-00511 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas

Filed Date: Nov. 14, 2011

Closed Date: Aug. 6, 2015

This case is about redistricting plans for certain local election districts in Galveston County, Texas, following the 2010 Census and whether those plans violated the Voting Rights Act and the U.S. Constitution. Seven Galveston County, Texas, elected officials (six of whom were minorities and one of whom was not) and one minority Galveston County resident filed suit in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas, Galveston Division, on November 14, 2011.  Defendants were…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Jennings v. Wolf

3:20-cv-00148 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Jan. 29, 2020

Case Ongoing

This case, filed January 29, 2020, objected to the closure of two Pennsylvania intermediate care facilities for individuals with intellectual disabilities (ICF/IID) (the Polk Center and the White Haven Center) and the rights of the individuals residing in those facilities. It is what some describe as a "reverse-Olmstead" lawsuit. (See Olmstead v. L.C., 527 U.S. 581 (1999) (ADA guarantees the right to receive disability-related services in the community, where appropriate). The complaint was fil…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Toth v. Chapman

1:22-cv-00208 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Feb. 10, 2022

Closed Date: Feb. 11, 2022

This is a fast-paced case about redistricting and the drawing of congressional maps in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania following the results of the decennial census in which Pennsylvania lost one congressional seat. The case was filed in the Middle District of Pennsylvania on February 10, 2022, one day after the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania announced that it was suspending the General Primary Election calendar codified in 25 Pa. Stat. §§ 2868 and 2873.  Bringing the case were four registered …
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Isabel v. Reagan

2:18-cv-03217 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: Oct. 9, 2018

Closed Date: Feb. 11, 2021

This case is about Arizona’s failure to count certain provisional ballots in the 2016 general election when the voter registration deadline fell on a federal and state holiday. The deadline for registering to vote in Arizona for the 2016 election was before midnight on Monday, October 10, 2016, Indigenous Peoples’ Day. However, because of the weekend and the holiday, some methods of registration were unavailable to Arizona residents due to office closures. Some residents then registered to vote…
HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
EMW Women's Surgical Center, P.S.C. v. Glisson [later Meier]

3:17-cv-00189 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky

Filed Date: March 29, 2017

Closed Date: Dec. 14, 2023

This action was filed on March 29, 2017 by the ACLU, representing an individual doctor and his patients seeking abortions, as well as EMW Women’s Surgical Center, the only abortion clinic in the state of Kentucky, which was threatened with closure after the state found technical deficiencies in its agreements with a hospital and ambulance service. The suit was filed in the Western District of Kentucky against Kentucky’s Secretary for Health and Family Services and alleged violations of Substant…
EDUCATION
Students for Fair Admissions v. United States Military Academy at West Point

7:23-cv-08262 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Sept. 19, 2023

Case Ongoing

On September 19, 2023, Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA), a nonprofit group founded on the premise that race-based college admissions are unconstitutional, filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. This case was assigned to District Judge Philip M. Halpern and Magistrate Judge Judith C. McCarthy. SFFA sued the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and the U.S. Department of Defense and alleged that their use of racial benchmarks in admissions decisions…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Committee For A Fair And Balanced Map v. Illinois State Board of Elections

1:11-cv-05065 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: July 27, 2011

Closed Date: Dec. 15, 2011

This was a challenge to the congressional redistricting plan adopted by the State of Illinois after the 2010 census (the “Adopted Map”). Plaintiffs were an organization called the Committee for a Fair and Balanced Map (a not for profit organization created by Illinois citizens concerned about the congressional redistricting process in Illinois), ten incumbent Republican members, ten incumbent Republican members of Congress, and six registered voters (including some who identify themselves as La…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Kelly v. Johnson

2:08-cv-00025 | U.S. District Court for the District of Montana

Filed Date: April 8, 2008

Closed Date: May 25, 2012

This is a case about Montana’s ballot-access scheme for independent and minor-party candidates who were seeking to run for non-presidential offices in the November 2008 general election. On April 8, 2008, a prospective independent candidate wanting to run for the U.S. Senate, along with a Gallatin County registered voter who wanted to have the opportunity to vote for that candidate in the general election, filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Montana.  Plai…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Kassman v. KPMG LLP

1:11-cv-03743 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: June 2, 2011

Closed Date: June 22, 2022

On June 2, 2011, a female former manager filed this putative class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York against KPMG LLP, a large accounting and professional services firm. The plaintiff asserted claims of gender discrimination under the Equal Pay Act, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, and state and local laws. Represented by private counsel, she sought permanent injunctive relief and damages for gender-based employment discrimination. The case was as…