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REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
DeOtte v. Azar

4:18-cv-00825 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas

Filed Date: Oct. 6, 2018

Closed Date: Aug. 31, 2022

This case is a challenge to the Affordable Care Act's (ACA) contraceptive mandate under the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) and the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA). On October 6, 2018, four private plaintiffs and a health and wellness center filed this class action lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas. The plaintiffs sued the U.S. Secretaries of Health and Human Services, Treasury, and Labor under the RFRA and the APA (42 USC § 2000bb-1(c) and 5 USC § 70…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Blackcrow v. Lake County Montana

9:21-cv-00097 | U.S. District Court for the District of Montana

Filed Date: Sept. 3, 2021

Case Ongoing

This is a case about conditions of confinement in the Lake County Jail in Montana. The plaintiff, an incarcerated individual, filed this suit on September 3, 2021, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Montana against Lake County, the Lake County Sheriff, and ten individual law enforcement officers. The plaintiff alleged that he was denied medical care and subjected to unsanitary and unsafe conditions in the jail in violation of the Eighth Amendment. The plaintiff further asserted a Fo…
POLICING
Dundon v. Kirchmeier

1:16-cv-00406 | U.S. District Court for the District of North Dakota

Filed Date: Dec. 28, 2016

Closed Date: Dec. 30, 2021

This is a putative class action about excessive police force used to disperse protestors of the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL). On November 20, 2016, the plaintiffs– Native Americans and other concerned citizens who referred to themselves as "water protectors"--gathered to pray and protest the DAPL at Backwater Bridge in North Dakota. They were met by local police forces who were armed with specialty impact munitions, teargas, and water cannons. Without warning, the police began to use force to …
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Sobel v. Cameron

22-CI-005189 | Kentucky state trial court

Filed Date: Oct. 6, 2022

Case Ongoing

This is a case about Kentucky’s abortion laws (Revised Statutes KRS 311.710 et seq.), and the ways in which they allegedly restricted religious freedom. The statutes posed a complete ban on abortions, beginning at fertilization, and provided exceptions only to save the pregnant person's life and/or to prevent serious risk to the pregnant person's physical health. The statutes also made it a felony for physicians to perform an abortion on a viable fetus except to preserve the life and health of …
POLICING
Clark v. City of New York

1:18-cv-02334 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: March 16, 2018

Case Ongoing

On March 16, 2018, the nonprofit Turning Point for Women and Families and individuals who were forced to remove their religious head coverings for post-arrest photographs while in the custody of the New York Police Department filed this class-action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. The plaintiffs sued the City of New York under the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA), § 1983 for violations of plaintiffs’ right to freely exercise…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Gary v. Alaska Department of Corrections

3:23-cv-00262 | U.S. District Court for the District of Alaska

Filed Date: Nov. 15, 2023

Case Ongoing

On November 15, 2023, a practicing Muslim man incarcerated pre-trial at the Anchorage Correctional Complex (ACC) filed this class action lawsuit in the District of Alaska under § 1983. The named defendants included the Alaska Department of Corrections (DOC), DOC Commissioner Jen Winkelman, and the ACC Superintendent. Plaintiff claimed that the defendants violated the rights of current and future Muslim prisoners under the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act, as well as infringi…
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Agudath Israel of America v. Cuomo

1:20-cv-04834 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: Oct. 8, 2020

Closed Date: April 28, 2023

COVID-19 Summary: A group of Orthodox Jewish synagogues brought this lawsuit against the Governor of New York on October 8, 2020, alleging that the governor's restrictions on gatherings in light of surges in COVID-19 cases violated the First Amendment’s Free Exercise Clause. After the district court denied the plaintiffs' motion for a preliminary injunction, they appealed to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and the United States Supreme Court. The Supreme Court granted …
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Khairullah v. Garland

3:23-cv-30095 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: Sept. 18, 2023

Case Ongoing

This lawsuit relates to a terrorism watchlist maintained by the United States government. Several Muslim American citizens, permanent residents, and asylees brought this lawsuit alleging that the US government placed names on the list without valid reason, and that the Muslims on the list face scrutiny only because of anti-Muslim discrimination. On September 18, 2023, twelve Muslim-Americans filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts against the heads of twenty-nine…
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Phillips v. North Carolina Department of Public Instruction

22CV015616 | North Carolina state trial court

Filed Date: Dec. 16, 2022

Case Ongoing

This is a case about a professor alleging his free speech rights were violated when he was fired after hosting some controversial, optional lectures at the Governor's School of North Carolina, a summer program for high school students run by the state. On December 16, 2022, an English professor who taught at the North Carolina Governor’s School filed this lawsuit in the Wake County Superior Court in the state of North Carolina. The plaintiff sued North Carolina education officials pursuant to t…
PRISON CONDITIONS
McGill, Jr. v. Clements

3:19-cv-01712 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Oct. 1, 2019

Closed Date: Nov. 19, 2021

This case is about whether a correctional facility may house an inmate in solitary confinement for refusal to cut his hair as part of the inmate's religious beliefs. This case was filed by a pre-trial detainee at the Lebanon County Correctional Facility in Pennsylvania against the facility's warden, assistant warden, and head of security on October 3, 2019. The plaintiff, filing pro se, alleged in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania that the facility's officials were…