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DISABILITY RIGHTS
Crumley v. Forestal

1:19-cv-04110 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana

Filed Date: Oct. 4, 2019

Closed Date: Sept. 16, 2022

This is a case about an individual with an intellectual disability and mental health diagnoses who was detained against medical advice and, while in custody, was denied basic medical care, supervision, reasonable accommodations and support necessary to protect him from harm and injury. On October 4, 2019, plaintiff, through his guardian and with counsel by Indiana Disability Rights, filed an action in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana. Plaintiff sued the Marion County…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Allen v. Waller County, Texas

4:18-cv-03985 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas

Filed Date: Oct. 12, 2018

Closed Date: April 14, 2022

This case involved allegations that county officials failed to allocate sufficient time for early voting during the 2018 general election cycle to Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU) (a historically Black university) in the State of Texas as compared to the other surrounding areas. Individual students and a student and alumni organization PVAMU, represented by NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund attorneys, filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas Houston Div…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Garza v. Vera

7:18-cv-00046 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas

Filed Date: Feb. 21, 2018

Closed Date: May 12, 2021

This is a case about the constitutionality of electioneering and property use policies adopted by Starr County, Texas.   On January 8, 2018, Starr County adopted an order (the “County Order”) banning electioneering on all property owned by, or under the control of, the County.  After the County failed to address multiple requests for clarifications on the meaning and practical implementation of the County Order, on February 21, 2018, two politically active Starr County residents filed a lawsuit…
POLICING
Lewis v. Rosenberg Police Department

4:22-cv-02593 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas

Filed Date: Aug. 4, 2022

Case Ongoing

This case stems from an alleged incident of misconduct and excessive use of force by members of the police department in Rosenberg, Texas, against an elderly African American couple in late 2020. Officers stopped and detained the couple for nearly an hour while allegedly searching for several teenage boys thought to be driving a similar-looking vehicle. During their interaction with police, the couple allegedly both informed officers that one of the two of them, a 67-year-old man with kidney di…
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Lavin v. Husted

1:10-cv-01986 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio

Filed Date: Sept. 3, 2010

Closed Date: May 21, 2018

This case was a challenge to an Ohio campaign finance law brought by physicians who served patients through the Medicaid program. They filed a suit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio on September 3, 2010, against the Secretary of State, challenging a state law that made it a crime for attorney general or county prosecutor candidates to accept campaign contributions from Medicaid providers or any person having an ownership interest in the provider. The plaintiffs intend…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
City of El Cenizo v. State of Texas

5:17-cv-00404 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

Filed Date: May 8, 2017

Case Ongoing

This suit challenged Texas's "Sanctuary City" legislation, Senate Bill 4 (SB4), which required local Texas law enforcement to cooperate with federal immigration officials and punished them if they did not. Unlike the other suits in this special collection, this suit did not challenge President Trump's "Sanctuary City" Executive Order. There were three other cases addressing SB4 (in addition to this one). This case was before Judge Orlando L. Garcia, as was El Paso County v. Texas, No. 17-cv-004…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Feehan v. Wisconsin Elections Commission

2:20-cv-01771 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin

Filed Date: Dec. 1, 2020

This case stemmed from alleged voter fraud in the State of Wisconsin during the 2020 presidential election. In the decade preceding the 2020 election, Wisconsin passed various laws aimed at ensuring the integrity of absentee ballots. These laws included, in relevant part, requirements that most voters presented a photo ID at the time of registering for an absentee ballot (Wis. Stat. §§ 6.34; 6.79) and absentee ballots contained certain certifications from both the voter and a stated witness in …
PRISON CONDITIONS
West v. Gobeille

2:19-cv-00081 | U.S. District Court for the District of Vermont

Filed Date: May 21, 2019

Closed Date: 2023

On May 21, 2019, incarcerated individuals in Vermont with chronic hepatitis C (HCV) filed a class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Vermont, and Judge William K. Sessions III presided. The plaintiffs alleged that the Vermont Department of Corrections, its leadership, and its medical contractors violated the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution by withholding treatment from incarcerated individuals wit…
POLICING
Tapps v. McClendon

2:22-cv-00013 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana

Filed Date: Jan. 4, 2022

Closed Date: Sept. 15, 2023

On January 4, 2022, an African American, Louisiana resident filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana against the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office (“JPSO”), Hum Management LLC (“Hum”), and a JPSO deputy in his individual capacity. The plaintiff brought this action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 to remedy violations of her Fourth Amendment rights as well as several state law claims, including: (1) unreasonable seizure in violation of Louisiana Constitution Article I, S…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Concerned Pastors for Social Action v. Khouri

2:16-cv-10277 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: Jan. 27, 2016

Case Ongoing

On January 27, 2016, Concerned Pastors for Social Action filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. The plaintiffs sued the state of Michigan and the city of Flint under the federal Safe Drinking Water Act, 42 U.S.C. §300j-8(a). The plaintiffs, represented by counsel from the ACLU, the Natural Resources Defense Council, and private counsel, sought declaratory and injunctive relief. Specifically, the plaintiffs requested that the court: (1) declare the de…