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Whitmer v. Linderman

2022-193498-CZ | Michigan state trial court

Filed Date: April 7, 2022

Case Ongoing

This case is Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s effort to avoid triggering Michigan’s dormant anti-abortion law. Michigan’s dormant 1931 felony abortion law, MCL 750.14, criminalizes providing an abortion in almost all circumstances and threatens physicians who perform the procedure with imprisonment. MCL 750.14 was never repealed and has only gone unenforced because of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Roe v. Wade, overruled on June 24, 2022, to protect the right to abortion. The Michigan…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
CODING IN PROCESS
Planned Parenthood of Michigan v. Attorney General of Michigan

22-000044-MM | Michigan state trial court

Filed Date: April 7, 2022

Case Ongoing

This case is  plaintiffs’ effort to avoid the triggering of Michigan’s dormant anti-abortion . Michigan’s 1931 felony abortion law, MCL 750.14,  criminalizes providing an abortion in almost all circumstances and threatens physicians who perform the procedure with imprisonment. MCL 750.14 was never repealed; it has not been enforced because of the Supreme Court’s decision in Roe v. Wade holding that the U.S. Constitution protects the right to get an abortion. The Michigan Supreme Court has yet t…
NATIONAL SECURITY
In Re: Guantanamo Bay Detainee Litigation

1:08-mc-00442 | U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

Filed Date: July 2, 2008

Case Ongoing

After the opening of the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay in January 2002, hundreds of the 780 men detained as enemy combatants filed petitions for the writ of habeas corpus in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. The detainees alleged that the President of the United States, the Secretary of the Department of Defense, and high-ranking army officials failed to provide evidence that the detainees were enemy combatants, and also failed to advance any justification for the a…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Jackson Women's Health Organization v. Dobbs

3:18-cv-00171 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi

Filed Date: March 19, 2018

Case Ongoing

In this case challenging Mississippi House Bill 1510 (HB 1510), an state law that banned abortions after 15 weeks (months before viability), the Supreme Court on June 24, 2022, overruled Roe v. Wade, and held there is no constitutional protection for abortion rights.   On March 19, 2018, the Jackson Women's Health Organization, the last remaining abortion clinic in Mississippi, and Jackson Women's Health Organization's Medical Director filed the case, represented by the Center for Reproductive …
PUBLIC HOUSING
Gautreaux v. Chicago Housing Authority

1:66-cv-01459 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Aug. 9, 1966

Case Ongoing

Background This longstanding chase chronicles efforts to stop racial discrimination by the Chicago Housing Authority (“CHA”). On August 9, 1966, a group of African American public housing residents brought suit against the CHA in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. The plaintiffs, represented by the ACLU, alleged that the CHA had segregated its public housing complexes through discriminatory site selection procedures. They brought suit on behalf of all the approximate…
FAIR HOUSING/LENDING/INSURANCE
CODING IN PROCESS
Gautreaux v. Weaver

01:66-cv-01460 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed in 1966 and still ongoing as of 2022, this is one of the most significant housing desegregation cases ever, leading to the nation's first housing mobility voucher program. On August 9, 1966, six Black tenants of Chicago public housing projects filed a class-action complaint against the Housing Assistance Administration, an agency within the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). This case was filed the same day as Gautreaux v. Chicago Housing Authority, in which the same plain…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
CODING IN PROCESS
COMMON CAUSE INDIANA v. LAWSON

1:17-cv-03936 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana

Filed Date: Oct. 27, 2017

Closed Date: Nov. 2, 2021

None
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
CODING IN PROCESS
Cowen v. Raffensperger

1:17-cv-04660 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: Nov. 21, 2017

Closed Date: April 11, 2022

None
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
CODING IN PROCESS
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Spring Valley Branch v. East Ramapo Central School District

7:17-cv-08943 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Nov. 16, 2017

Closed Date: March 30, 2021

None
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
CODING IN PROCESS
Spirit Lake Tribe v. Jaeger

1:18-cv-00222 | U.S. District Court for the District of North Dakota

Filed Date: Oct. 30, 2018

Closed Date: April 27, 2020

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