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REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Reproductive Health Services of Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region, Inc. v. Parson

2:19-cv-04155 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri

Filed Date: July 30, 2019

Closed Date: July 13, 2022

On July 30, 2019, Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region and a licensed obstetrician-gynecologist brought this suit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri, challenging Missouri laws that would ban abortion in the state at nearly every stage of pregnancy. The plaintiffs, represented by the ACLU, sued the Governor of Missouri, the state Attorney General, the Circuit Attorney for the City of St. Louis, the President of the State Medical Board, and the Director of the D…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Wright v. Corrections Corporation of America

1:00-cv-00293 | U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

Filed Date: Feb. 16, 2000

Case Ongoing

On February 16, 2000, private attorneys, a public defender, and counsel from the D.C. Prisoners' Legal Services Project filed this 42 U.S.C § 1983 putative class action in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on behalf of incarcerated persons, their family members, legal counsel, and other recipients of telephone calls from prisoners housed in prison facilities operated by the defendant private corporation, Corrections Corporation of America (CCA—the largest operator of private …
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Louisiana v. Becerra

3:21-cv-03970 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana

Filed Date: Nov. 15, 2021

Closed Date: Dec. 2, 2022

COVID-19 Summary: In this case, several states sued to block the federal vaccine mandate which required Medicare- and Medicaid-certified providers and suppliers to become vaccinated prior to December 6, 2021 (the CMS mandate). The judge granted the preliminary injunction on November 30,2021, and issued a nationwide injunction prohibiting the CMS mandate. 571 F.Supp.3d 516. The defendants appealed and requested the lower court issue a stay pending appeal, which the court denied the same day. The…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Bone v. University of North Carolina Health Care System

1:18-cv-00994 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina

Filed Date: Dec. 3, 2018

Case Ongoing

(This summary is temporary while we research the case.) This case is about blind patients seeking accessible documents (e.g. large print, Braille) from the University of North Carolina Health Care System. In July 2022, the parties reached a settlement where UNC Health would pay $125,000 in damages and admit to violating federal disability rights laws.
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
United States v. State of Idaho

1:22-cv-00329 | U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho

Filed Date: Aug. 2, 2022

Case Ongoing

On August 22, 2022, the U.S. Department of Justice filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho to protect what it alleged were rights of patients to access emergency abortion care guaranteed by federal law. The suit challenged Idaho Code § 18-622, which was set to go into effect on Aug. 25 and to impose a near-total ban on abortion. The complaint sought a declaratory judgment that § 18-622 conflicted with, and was preempted by, the federal Emergency Medical Treatment…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Bergnes v. New York State Unified Court System/Office of Court Administration

1:22-cv-04298 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: May 25, 2022

Case Ongoing

On May 25, 2022, a self-identified class of interpreters and New York Communities for Change filed a class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York against the New York State Unified Court System. Plaintiffs asserted that interpreters, who also happen to largely be of non-U.S. national origin and all associate with people of non-U.S. national origin, are the lowest-paid state courtroom personnel, despite being the highest paid in the federal court system. …
JAIL CONDITIONS
Amador v. Baca

2:10-cv-01649 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: March 5, 2010

Case Ongoing

On March 5, 2010, two female former inmates who were imprisoned in the Century Regional Detention Facility ("CRDF"), a Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department ("LASD") facility, filed this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. Represented by a civil rights law firm, the plaintiffs sued the LASD under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The plaintiffs alleged violations of their Fourth, Eight, and Fourteenth Amendment rights, as well as their equivalents under the…
POLICING
Williams v. City of Beverly Hills

2:21-cv-08698 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: Aug. 30, 2021

Case Ongoing

This is a lawsuit challenging Beverly Hills Police Department stop, search, and arrest practices as racially discriminatory.  Two individual plaintiffs filed this putative class action lawsuit on August 30, 2021, in California Superior Court (County of Los Angeles, Case No. 218TCV31949).  Represented by private counsel, they sued the City of Beverly Hills and individual employees of the Beverly Hills Police Department (“BHPD” or the “Department”), bringing claims for violations of state law and…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Raidoo v. Camacho

1:21-cv-00009 | District Court of Guam

Filed Date: Jan. 28, 2021

Case Ongoing

This is a case determining whether a Guam statute’s restriction on abortion procedures is unconstitutional. On January 28, 2021, two Guam-licensed OB-GYNs on behalf of themselves and their patients filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Guam. The plaintiffs sued the Guamanian government under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 to redress the deprivation, under color of law, of rights secured by the U.S. Constitution and expressly extended to Guam under U.S.C. § 1421b(u). Represented by…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Texas v. United States

6:21-cv-00003 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas

Filed Date: Jan. 22, 2021

Closed Date: May 24, 2021

Shortly after President Joe Biden's inauguration on January 20, 2021, Acting Homeland Security Secretary David Pekoske issued a memorandum ordering U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement ("ICE") to halt most deportations from the United States for 100 days. The 100-day pause was intended to allow time for ICE to overhaul its enforcement priorities and focus its efforts on threats to national security, public safety, and border security. The 100-day pause did not apply to individuals who arriv…