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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. 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…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Planned Parenthood of Alaska v. Campbell

3AN-09-09236CI | Alaska state trial court

Filed Date: July 31, 2009

Closed Date: Oct. 6, 2010

This is a state court case challenging a ballot initiative in the state of Alaska. In 1997, the Alaska legislature passed the Parental Consent Act (PCA), a law requiring unemancipated minor patients to first obtain parental consent or judicial authorization before seeking abortions. A 10-year legal battle culminated in the Alaska Supreme Court’s declaration that the PCA unconstitutionally violated the patient’s right to privacy, but that the state constitution could permit a parental notificati…
POLICING
Levy Armstrong v. City of Minneapolis

0:20-cv-01645 | U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota

Filed Date: July 28, 2020

Case Ongoing

This civil rights suit arose out of protests in Minneapolis following the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis Police Department (MPD) officer Derek Chauvin in May 2020. On July 28, 2020, four protesters brought suit on behalf of themselves and other similarly situated protesters under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota. They sued the City of Minneapolis, the Minneapolis Chief of Police, the president of the Police Officers Federation of Minneapolis (“Pre…
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Honeyfund.com, Inc. v. DeSantis

4:22-cv-00227 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida

Filed Date: June 22, 2022

Case Ongoing

This is a case about legislation impacting private employers' ability to offer diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) trainings. This case was filed on June 22, 2022, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida against Florida Governor Ron DeSantis; the Florida attorney general; the senior chair, the vice chair, nine commissioners of the Florida Commission on Human Relations. The plaintiffs, (1) private employers with DEI programs in Florida and (2) DEI training consultants,…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Alianza Americas v. DeSantis

1:22-cv-11550 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: Sept. 20, 2022

Case Ongoing

This is a case about the relocation of about fifty immigrants from Texas to Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, by chartered planes. The plaintiffs alleged that the defendants—Florida officials and unidentified individuals—induced the immigrants to board two planes with promises of employment, housing, and educational opportunities at their destination, but that once the planes landed in Martha's Vineyard, the immigrants were left without any assistance and the defendants were unreachable.  On Se…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
United States v. The State of Georgia

1:21-cv-02575 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: June 25, 2021

Case Ongoing

The Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice ("DOJ") filed suit against the state of Georgia, the Georgia Secretary of State, and the Georgia State Election Board over voting procedures adopted by Georgia Senate Bill 202 (SB 202) in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia on June 25, 2021. DOJ alleged that SB 202 provisions violated the Voting Rights Act. SB 202 included restrictions on mailing, requesting, and submitting absentee ballots and prohibited distr…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Community Provider of Enrichment Services Incorporated

4:10-cv-00592 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: Sept. 29, 2010

Closed Date: Sept. 15, 2016

On September 29, 2010, the Equal Opportunity Employment Commission (the “Commission” or “EEOC”), in the interests of several aggravated public parties, filed suit against the Community Provider of Enrichment Services, Inc. (“CPES”) alleging that CPES violated both Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA) and Title I of the Civil Rights Act of 1991 (“Civil Rights Act”). The case was brought in the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona where it was assigned to Distri…
EDUCATION
Fisk v. Board of Trustees of the California State University

3:22-cv-00173 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California

Filed Date: Feb. 7, 2022

Case Ongoing

Seventeen female varsity athletes sued San Diego State University (SDSU) for depriving women of equal athletic financial aid in violation of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California on February 7, 2022. The case was assigned to District Judge Todd W. Robinson.  Plaintiffs sought class certification for all current and former female students who participated in intercollegiate varsity athletics at SDSU in or since the 2019-20…