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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,…
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…
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…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Braidwood Management Inc. v. Becerra

4:20-cv-00283 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas

Filed Date: March 29, 2020

Case Ongoing

On June 11, 2019 — more than nine years after the Affordable Care Act was signed into law—the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommended that health insurance cover preexposure prophylaxis  (PrEP) drugs without any cost-sharing arrangements such as co-payments or deductibles. On March 29, 2020, in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas, Plaintiffs filed a complaint, challenging the PrEP mandate as well as a prior contraception mandate. Plaintiffs, individuals a…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Planned Parenthood of Maryland, Inc. v. Azar

1:20-cv-00361 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: Feb. 11, 2020

Case Ongoing

This is a case about the government’s adoption of the separate billing rule, which reinterpreted the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and required health insurance plans on the individual marketplace to send policyholders a separate bill and receive separate payment for the abortion-related portion of plan premiums. On February 11, 2020, Planned Parenthood of Maryland and individuals who wanted to maintain abortion coverage through their qualified health plans filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District C…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt

1:14-cv-00284 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

Filed Date: April 2, 2014

Case Ongoing

This is a case challenging a 2013 Texas law requiring (1) a physician providing abortion services to obtain admitting privileges at a local hospital no farther than 30 miles from the clinic and (2) abortion clinics to meet the building specifications of ambulatory surgical centers. On April 2, 2014, a group of Texas abortion clinics and physicians filed this lawsuit on behalf of themselves and their patients in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas. The plaintiffs sued the c…