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DISABILITY RIGHTS
American Council of the Blind of Indiana v. Indiana Election Commission

1:20-cv-03118 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana

Filed Date: Dec. 31, 2020

Case Ongoing

In a lawsuit filed December 3, 2020 in the U.S. District court for the Southern District of Indiana, several individual plaintiffs, joined by Indiana Disability Rights and the American Council of the Blind of Indiana, asserted that the Indiana Election Commission and the Secretary of State discriminated against voters who are blind or have low vision by not offering the necessary accommodations that these voters need to vote privately and independently when using the absentee vote-by-mail progr…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Reed-Veal v. Encinia

4:15-cv-02232 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas

Filed Date: Aug. 4, 2015

Closed Date: Nov. 1, 2016

This is the litigation that came out of the death of Sandra Bland in jail in Waller County after a routine traffic stop led to her arrest. Although the Clearinghouse does not focus on damage actions like this one, because of the widespread interest in this case, we've posted the key documents in the case for use by the public. On August 4, 2015, the mother of Sandra Bland filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas. The plaintiff sued the Texas Department of…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Priorities USA v. Nessel

4:19-cv-13341 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: Nov. 12, 2019

Case Ongoing

This lawsuit was filed on November 12, 2019 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. The plaintiff, a left-wing advocacy group called Priorities USA, sued Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel in her official capacity. They were represented by private counsel. The group claimed that two Michigan laws, the "Voter Transportation Ban" and the "Absentee Ballot Organizing Ban," violated the U.S. Constitution. The Voter Transportation Ban prohibited the hiring of vehicles to b…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Brown v. Smith

1:20-cv-08463 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

Filed Date: July 8, 2020

Case Ongoing

On July 8, 2020, the plaintiff, a pretrial detainee at the Cumberland County Department of Corrections (CCDOC) in the state of New Jersey filed this lawsuit in the District of New Jersey individually, and in another similar lawsuit on June 26, 2020, Brown v. Warren, on behalf of a class. The plaintiff filed pro se, and was repeatedly denied his request for an attorney until a New Jersey firm took on his case pro bono. The plaintiff filed suit against the CCDOC, Cumberland County New Jersey, CFG…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Braidwood Management Inc. v. Becerra

4:20-cv-00283 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas

Filed Date: March 29, 2020

Case Ongoing

On June 11, 2019 — more than nine years after the Affordable Care Act was signed into law—the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommended that health insurance cover preexposure prophylaxis (PrEP) drugs without any cost-sharing arrangements such as co-payments or deductibles. On March 29, 2020, in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas, Plaintiffs filed a complaint, challenging the PrEP mandate as well as a prior contraception mandate. Plaintiffs, individuals an…
POLICING
Gray v. City of New York

1:21-cv-06610 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Aug. 5, 2021

Case Ongoing

This suit was filed by five professional photojournalists against the City of New York and the New York City Police Department on August 5, 2021 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. The plaintiffs were represented by the National Press Photographers Association and private counsel. The plaintiffs alleged violations of their First Amendment right to film police officers in their official capacities in public and their Fourth Amendment right to be free from arrest and…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Coalition on Homelessness v. City and County of San Francisco

4:22-cv-05502 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Sept. 27, 2022

Case Ongoing

This case is a challenge to San Francisco’s policies regarding homelessness. The plaintiffs, several homeless individuals and an advocacy organization allege that San Francisco has enacted anti-homelessness ordinances and statutes that criminalize the unhoused population of the city, despite lack of access to shelter beds. The plaintiffs claim that in its efforts to “solve” the homelessness crisis, the City did not invest in adequate shelter to meet the needs of its unhoused population. Instead…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Donegan v. Norwood

1:16-cv-11178 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Dec. 8, 2016

Closed Date: April 17, 2022

This case concerns the Americans with Disabilities Act and age discrimination.  On December 8th, 2016, the named plaintiff, a young man with a disability requiring regular medical aid, filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, individually and on behalf of a class of similarly situated individuals.  The plaintiff sued the Director of the Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services (“HFS”).  Represented by private counsel, the plaintiff sought…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
American College of Obstetricians & Gynecologists v. United States Food and Drug Administration

8:20-cv-01320 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: May 27, 2020

Closed Date: May 19, 2021

On May 27, 2020, the American College of Obstetricians & Gynecologists ("ACOG"), a nonprofit organization representing obstetricians and gynecologists, a New York-based nonprofit advocacy organization representing family medicine, a nationwide nonprofit representing women and transgender people of color, and a family medicine doctor and certified mifepristone (a medical abortion pill) prescriber, represented by the ACLU, filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of ­­Maryland. The …
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Lo v. County of Siskiyou

2:21-cv-00999 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California

Filed Date: June 4, 2021

Case Ongoing

On June 4, 2021, six Hmong residents of Siskiyou County, California, represented by private counsel, filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California. The case was assigned to Chief District Judge Kimberly J. Mueller and Magistrate Judge Dennis M. Cota. The plaintiffs sued Siskiyou County, its sheriff, its county counsel, and its board members under 42 USC §1983 for violations of the Fourth Amendment's seizure clause and Fourteenth Amendment's equal …