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DISABILITY RIGHTS
Demontray Hunter v. Kimberly Boswell, Commissioner of the Alabama Department of Mental Health

2:16-cv-00798 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama

Filed Date: Sept. 30, 2016

Case Ongoing

This is a case challenged the failure of the state of Alabama to provide court-ordered inpatient mental evaluations that are used to determine competency to stand trial, and to provide competency restoration treatment to persons committed to its custody in a timely manner. In their complaint, Plaintiffs alleged that pretrial detainees remained incarcerated in a county jail for up to eight months after a court order committing them to the Department for treatment or evaluation, in jails that are…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Wood v. Florida Department of Education

4:23-cv-00526 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida

Filed Date: Dec. 13, 2023

Case Ongoing

This lawsuit challenged the constitutionality of a Florida statute that prohibits public school teachers from sharing their personal pronouns or titles with students if those identifiers do not match the sex assigned to them at birth.  On December 13, 2023, three Florida public school teachers filed suit against the Florida Department of Education, the State Board of Education, multiple Florida state officials in their official capacities, and the teachers’ respective employers: Hillsborough Co…
EDUCATION
Gaines v. National Collegiate Athletic Association

1:24-cv-01109 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: March 14, 2024

Case Ongoing

This case is about transgender athletes' participation in NCAA swimming contests. On March 14, 2024, a group of current and former women’s collegiate athletes filed a putative class action lawsuit against the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), the University System of Georgia, and other related state and institutional officials, alleging that the NCAA’s policies concerning transgender athletes violated Title IX. They also brought claims under 42 USC § 1983, alleging that the polic…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Al Shimari v. CACI Premier Technology, Inc.

1:08-cv-00827 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

Filed Date: Aug. 8, 2008

Case Ongoing

This case involves allegations of abuse and torture suffered by four Iraqi men who were detained at Abu Ghraib in 2003. On June 30, 2008, an Iraqi civilian who was imprisoned and allegedly tortured in an Iraq prison filed a civil complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio against two defense contractors—CACI (and its wholly owned subsidiary, collectively known as “CACI Defendants”) and L-3—and a named individual who allegedly worked for CACI as a screener and interro…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Caballero v. New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision

9:20-cv-01470 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York

Filed Date: Dec. 2, 2020

Case Ongoing

This is a class action lawsuit alleging that the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (DOCCS) intentionally denied all people with moderate mental health disorders from having the opportunity to complete a program that would have made them eligible for early release.  The plaintiff, a formerly incarcerated individual out on parole, filed a complaint on December 2, 2020 against the DOCCS, alleging that the plaintiff was forced to spend nine extra months in prison be…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
City and County of San Francisco v. Donald J. Trump

3:25-cv-01350 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Feb. 7, 2025

Case Ongoing

This case challenged the Trump Administration’s authority to withhold federal funding from sanctuary cities  in order to coerce them to comply with the Administration’s immigration agenda. On February 7, 2025, five cities and counties–San Francisco, CA; Santa Clara, CA; Portland, OR; King County, WA; and New Haven, CT–filed this lawsuit against President Donald J. Trump, the Department of Justice, and the Department of Homeland Security (“DHS”) in the District Court for the Northern District of…
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…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Callais v. Landry

3:24-cv-00122 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana

Filed Date: Jan. 31, 2024

Case Ongoing

This case challenged the State of Louisiana alleged racial gerrymander in its creation of a majority-African American voting district (CD6). On January 30, 2024, a group of individual non-African American voters residing in Louisiana filed this lawsuit against the Louisiana Secretary of State in the Western District of Louisiana. Plaintiffs alleged that Louisiana’s new redistricting bill, SB8, segregated voters based entirely on their races through its creation of two majority-African American …
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Talbott v. Trump

1:25-cv-00240 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Jan. 28, 2025

Case Ongoing

This is one of several cases challenging President Donald J. Trump’s January 27, 2025 executive order banning openly transgender people from serving in the military, which reversed the U.S. Armed Forces’ policy of permitting transgender people who meet military standards to serve. (To see the Clearinghouse's collection of transgender rights-related legal challenges to actions by the second Trump Administration, click here.) On January 27, 2025, President Trump signed an executive order directin…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Citizens Project v. City of Colorado Springs

1:22-01365 | U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado

Filed Date: June 1, 2022

Closed Date: July 29, 2024

This case is about four non-profit corporations asserting that the City of Colorado Springs held its elections off-cycle in April of odd-numbered years and alleged that this contributed to unlawful racial discrimination and ultimately violated the Voting Rights Act.  On June 1, 2022, the plaintiffs--the nonprofits Citizens Project, Colorado Latinos Vote, League of Women Voters of the Pikes Peak Region, and Black/Latino Leadership Coalition-- represented by the Election Law Clinic at Harvard Law…