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REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Fischer v. Campbell

3AN-09-12037CI | Alaska state trial court

Filed Date: Nov. 23, 2009

Closed Date: Nov. 29, 2010

This state court case challenged a ballot initiative seeking to recognize the legal personhood of “all human beings including unborn children” (the “Initiative”). In August 2009, three sponsors filed an application with the Lieutenant Governor of Alaska to certify the Initiative. On October 23, 2009, the Lieutenant Governor certified the Initiative, allowing its circulation for gathering signatures. On November 3, 2009, three Alaska citizens filed their complaint for declaratory and injunctive …
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Greater Birmingham Ministries v. State of Alabama

2:15-cv-02193 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama

Filed Date: Dec. 2, 2015

Closed Date: Jan. 10, 2018

This case is about Alabama House Bill 19 ("HB 19"). HB 19 required voters to present photographic identification in order to vote, with exceptions that include if an election worker could "positively identify" a potential voter. While the bill passed in 2011, the law did not take effect until 2014. On December 2nd, 2015, the Alabama chapter of the NAACP and Greater Birmingham Ministries filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama against the State of Alaba…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
State of Arizona v. Biden

2:22-cv-01661 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: Sept. 30, 2022

Case Ongoing

Led by Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich, this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court of Arizona challenges President Biden's student loan forgiveness plan. In their September 30, 2022, complaint, Plaintiff alleged that the state would lose tax revenue because student loan debt forgiveness can't be taxed until 2025; that the program would increase inflation, which would hurt the state's economy; and that recruiting for government jobs would be hurt by the devaluation of the Public Service Loan…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Access Independent Health Services, Inc. v. Wrigley

08-2022-cv-01608 | North Dakota state trial court

Filed Date: July 6, 2022

Case Ongoing

This case is about North Dakota's trigger ban, which criminalized nearly all abortions following the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Dobbs. The Red River Women's Clinic, the only remaining abortion provider in North Dakota, and its medical director sought to block enforcement of the ban.  The abortion ban in question is North Dakota Century Code Section 12.1-31-12 (page 8) (the “Abortion Ban”), which was enacted by the legislature and signed by the Governor during the 2007 legislative session …
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Planned Parenthood South Atlantic v. Moore

20-cvs-500147 | North Carolina state trial court

Filed Date: Sept. 3, 2020

Case Ongoing

Abortion providers in North Carolina (Planned Parenthood South Atlantic; A Woman’s Choice of Charlotte; A Woman’s Choice of Greensboro; A Woman’s Choice of Raleigh; three doctors; and an advanced practice clinician), and SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective filed this case on September 3, 2020 to challenge five medically unnecessary abortion restrictions (the “Abortion Restrictions”): The Advanced Practice Clinician (“APC”) Ban, which disallows qualified physician assistan…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Trust Women Foundation Inc. v. Schmidt

2018-CV-844 | Kansas state trial court

Filed Date: Nov. 8, 2018

On November 8, 2018, the Trust Women Foundation ("Trust Women") challenged a law that would have prohibited the provision of abortion care via telemedicine in Kansas. Trust Women is a reproductive health care clinic in Kansas that has relied on telemedicine to expand its practice and meet patient requests for remote care. The Center for Reproductive Rights and a private attorney represented Trust Women in the lawsuit, which they brought in Kansas' third Judicial District (Shawnee County), in Di…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
State of Nebraska v. Biden

4:22-cv-01040 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri

Filed Date: Sept. 29, 2022

Case Ongoing

This case involves one of many challenges to President Biden's executive action to cancel specified amounts of federal student debt. On September 29, 2022, the states of South Carolina, Arkansas, Missouri, Iowa, Nebraska and Kansas filed a suit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri against President Biden, Department of Education Secretary Miguel Cardona (the Secretary), and the U.S. Department of Education (DOE). The states alleged that the debt cancellation plan woul…
EDUCATION
DOJ Investigation of New Bedford Public Schools

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After receiving a complaint in 2020 from K’iché-speaking students and families, the Department of Justice opened an investigation into the New Bedford Public Schools to see how the Massachusetts school district was addressing the needs of people of indigenous Mayan descent. Complainants alleged that the district was in violation of the Equal Educational Opportunities Act of 1974, 20 U.S.C. §& 1701 et seq., which requires schools to take “appropriate action to overcome language barriers that imp…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Trust Women Foundation Inc. v. Bennett

2019-CV-000060 | Kansas state trial court

Filed Date: Jan. 30, 2019

Case Ongoing

This case is about telemedicine abortion in Kansas. The case follows directly from Trust Women v. Schmidt, in which plaintiff Trust Women, a reproductive health care clinic in Kansas that relies on telemedicine, won a preliminary injunction and temporary restraining order preventing the state from enforcing House Bill 2028's ban on telemedicine abortion. However, following that preliminary injunction, Kansas appealed on January 30, 2019 and asserted that Kansas Healing Arts, other Kanas abortio…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Garrison v. U.S. Department of Education

1:22-cv-01895 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana

Filed Date: Sept. 27, 2022

Case Ongoing

This is one of many cases challenging President Biden's plan to cancel specified amounts of student debt, which he announced on August 24, 2022. On September 27, 2022, Pacific Legal Foundation, a libertarian public interest law firm, filed this action on behalf of one of their employees. The employee lives in Indiana, received Pell Grants, and qualifies for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program. Plaintiff alleges injury from President Biden's plan because if $20,000 of his loans ar…