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SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Potter v. District of Columbia

1:01-cv-01189 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: May 30, 2001

Case Ongoing

This case challenged the District of Columbia Fire and Emergency Medical Services Department’s (D.C. Fire’s) grooming policy. The policy sets restrictions on the hair and facial hair of employees. Specifically, it sets restrictions on hair and facial hair length and requires that hair and facial hair be groomed in accordance with the policy.  On May 30, 2001, a group of firefighters in D.C. Fire brought this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Seeking declaratory an…
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
J.J. v. Litscher

3:17-cv-00047 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin

Filed Date: Jan. 23, 2017

Case Ongoing

On January 23, 2017, four minor children confined to the state juvenile facilities Copper Lake School for Girls and Lincoln Hills School for Boys filed this class action in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin. The plaintiffs sued various state officials responsible for the facility under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The plaintiffs alleged that the defendants had violated their Eighth and Fourteenth Amendment rights by wrongfully and unlawfully imposing solitary confinement, mecha…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Cancino Castellar v. Mayorkas

3:17-cv-00491 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California

Filed Date: March 9, 2017

Case Ongoing

This case challenged the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) policy of detaining individuals without prompt presentation before a judge or prompt judicial review of probable cause. On May 9, 2017, the ACLU, on behalf of three immigrants detained at the Otay Detention Facility in Southern California, filed a class action lawsuit and a petition for writ of habeas corpus against the Secretary of DHS, the Director and an official of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the Attorney Genera…
EDUCATION
Tirrell v. Edelblut

1:24-cv-00251 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire

Filed Date: Aug. 16, 2024

Case Ongoing

This case was originally filed on August 16, 2024 by two transgender teenage girls and their parents in the United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire against various officials of the New Hampshire Department of Education, New Hampshire State Board of Education, and the Pemi-Baker Regional School District. The Plaintiffs challenged HB 1205, a New Hampshire statute that barred Plaintiffs from playing school sports, alleging that the statute violated their rights under the Equ…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Cordellione v. Commissioner, Indiana Department of Correction

3:23-cv-00135 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana

Filed Date: Aug. 28, 2023

Case Ongoing

On August 28, 2023, a transgender woman incarcerated in an Indiana male prison sued the Commissioner of the Indiana Department of Correction (“DOC”) in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana, Evansville Division. The plaintiff had been prescribed gender-affirming surgery but was denied care based on an Indiana statute prohibiting the DOC from providing gender-affirming surgery to prisoners, Ind. Code § 11-10-3-3.5(a) [eff. 7/1/23]. The plaintiff alleged that this denial of…
HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Goidel v. Aetna Life Insurance Company

1:21-cv-07619 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Sept. 13, 2021

Case Ongoing

On September 13, 2021 a member of the LGBTQ community brought a lawsuit against Aetna Inc. over the insurance company’s policy regarding access to fertility treatment. Represented by private counsel and the National Women’s Law Center, the plaintiff brought suit in the Southern District of New York, seeking a class action.  The plaintiff alleged that Aetna’s health insurance policy engaged in sex discrimination under the Affordable Care Act and New York State Law, by denying LGBTQ individuals e…
POLICING
United States v. City of Seattle

2:12-cv-01282 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: July 27, 2012

Case Ongoing

On March 31, 2011, the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Civil Rights Division opened an investigation of the Seattle Police Department (SPD) pursuant to the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 (then codified at 42 U.S.C. § 14141; then recodified to 34 U.S.C. § 12601), the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968, and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Following a comprehensive investigation, on December 16, 2011, the DOJ announced its findings that SPD engag…
POLICING
U.S. v. Territory of the Virgin Islands

3:08-cv-00158 | District Court of the Virgin Islands

Filed Date: Dec. 23, 2008

Case Ongoing

In March 2004, the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Civil Rights Division initiated an investigation of the U.S. Virgin Islands Police Department (VIPD) pursuant to 42 USC § 14141. On October 5, 2005, the DOJ issued a technical assistance letter to VIPD, making recommendations regarding specific changes to the department's policies regarding use of force, vehicle pursuits, holding cells, misconduct investigations, discipline, supervisory oversight, and training. On December 23, 2008, the DOJ …
CHILD WELFARE
D.S. v. Washington State Department of Children, Youth, and Families

2:21-cv-00113 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: Jan. 28, 2021

Case Ongoing

This is a case about the treatment of children in the care of the Washington State Department of Children, Youth, and Families (DCYF) with behavioral health and/or developmental disabilities. On January 28th, 2021, three children under the care of DCYF brought a class-action suit along with Disability Rights Washington against DCYF in the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington. The case was assigned to Judge Barbara J. Rothstein. Disability Rights Washington argued …
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Raleigh Wake Citizens Association v. Barefoot

5:15-cv-00156 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina

Filed Date: April 9, 2015

Closed Date: Dec. 28, 2017

This case involved allegations that the North Carolina General Assembly’s Session Law 2015-4 violated voters’ rights to an equal vote and their right to not be subjected to racial classifications in redistricting. Voters and an association on voters (Raleigh Wake Citizens Association) who lived in election districts that under Session Law 2015-4 were overpopulated to a significant degree, filed suit on April 09, 2015 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina. Plainti…