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REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Planned Parenthood South Atlantic v. Wilson

3:21-cv-00508 | U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina

Filed Date: Feb. 18, 2021

Closed Date: July 25, 2022

Planned Parenthood of South Atlantic (PPSA), Greenville Women’s Clinic (GWC), and an individual abortion provider on behalf of himself and his patients brought this civil rights action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 to challenge the constitutionality of the South Carolina Fetal Heartbeat Protection from Abortion Act (hereinafter “SB 1” or “the Act”), which banned abortion after the detection of fetal or embryonic cardiac activity. This moment can occur as early as approximately the sixth week of pregna…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Commonwealth v. Trump

2:17-cv-04540 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Oct. 11, 2017

Case Ongoing

On October 11, 2017, the Attorney General of Pennsylvania brought this suit in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. The case is a challenge to administrative rules promulgated by the federal government that interpret the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in a way that gives employers broad discretion to deny women access to contraceptives. As such, the suit was brought against the President of the United States, acting Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Secretary of the U.S…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Hodgkins v. Frontier Airlines, Inc.

1:19-cv-03469 | U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado

Filed Date: Dec. 10, 2019

Closed Date: April 14, 2022

On December 10, 2019, the ACLU, the ACLU of Colorado, Towards Justice, and a private law firm filed this putative class action lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Colorado. The four individual plaintiffs were female flight attendants who were pregnant and breastfed their children during their employment with Frontier Airlines. The complaint challenged Frontier’s alleged discriminatory policies and practices of penalizing pregnancy-related absences, refusing to provid…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Henry v. Hulett

3:12-cv-03087 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of Illinois

Filed Date: March 20, 2012

Case Ongoing

On March 31, 2011, female prisoners at an Illinois women’s prison were strip searched as part of a training exercise for new guards. Several of the prisoners filed this putative class action in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of Illinois. The plaintiffs sued the Illinois Department of Corrections, Lincoln Correctional Center, and Logan Correctional Center under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Represented by civil rights attorneys Loevy a…
EDUCATION
G.G. [Gavin Grimm] v. Gloucester County School Board

4:15-cv-00054 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

Filed Date: June 11, 2015

Closed Date: Aug. 27, 2021

On June 11, 2015, Gavin Grimm, a sixteen-year-old transgender boy filed this lawsuit against the Gloucester County School Board in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. The plaintiff, represented by the national and Virginia ACLU, proceeded under Title IX and 42 U.S.C. § 1983. He sought a preliminary and permanent injunction allowing him to use the boys' restroom at school, claiming that the school board's policy of requiring transgender students to use a private restroo…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
June Medical Services, LLC v. Gee

3:17-cv-00404 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana

Filed Date: June 27, 2017

Closed Date: Oct. 16, 2020

This case challenged a series of 2001 Louisiana laws, including the Outpatient Abortion Facility Licensing Law (OAFLL), that attempted to shutter abortion clinics in the state by imposing more than 1,000 allegedly medically unnecessary requirements that applied only to abortion providers––including inspections of their facilities. On June 27, 2017, the Center for Reproductive Rights filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana on behalf of June Medical Serv…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Muehe v. City of Boston

1:21-cv-11080 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: June 2, 2021

Case Ongoing

On June 2, 2021 four individuals with mobility disabilities filed a class action complaint against the City of Boston to redress the City’s systemic failure to provide full and equal access to its pedestrian right of way to plaintiffs and similarly situated individuals with mobility disabilities. The complaint was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts and assigned to Judge Richard G. Stearns. It alleged that the City failed to install and maintain curb ramps when it…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
CODING IN PROCESS
Pelichet v. Lyon

2:18-cv-11385 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: May 2, 2018

Case Ongoing

On May 2, 2018 a group of individuals with mental health diagnoses sued the Commissioner of Michigan Department of Health and Human Services in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. They alleged that the defendants administered the mental health system in a manner that unnecessarily segregated and lacked sufficient due process, violating of the Americans with Disabilities Act and the 4th and 14th Amendments of the U.S. Constitution. District Judge Paul D. Borman was assi…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Common Cause v. Rucho

1:16-cv-01026 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina

Filed Date: Aug. 5, 2016

Closed Date: Oct. 18, 2019

The following case alleged that North Carolina’s 2016 redistricting plan was an unconstitutional partisan gerrymander. Ultimately, the U.S. Supreme Court determined that partisan gerrymandering was a non-justiciable political question.  The case was filed on August 5, 2016, in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina. Plaintiffs included an organization advocating for redistricting reform, the North Carolina Democratic Party, and fifteen registered Democrats. Defendants…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
League of United Latin American Citizens - Richmond Region Council 4614 v. Public Interest Legal Foundation

1:18-cv-00423 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

Filed Date: April 12, 2018

Case Ongoing

This is a case about the allegedly false claims made in reports published by the Public Interest Legal Foundation accusing the named plaintiffs of committing voter fraud.  On April 12, 2018, the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) and four private individuals filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. The plaintiffs sued the Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF) and its president under 42 U.S.C. § 1985(3), Section 11(b) of the Vot…