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Mid-America Milling Company v. U.S. Department of Transportation

3:23-cv-00072 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky

Filed Date: Oct. 26, 2023

This case challenged the U.S. Department of Transportation’s (DOT) Disadvantaged Business Enterprise Program (DBE). DBE was a legislatively mandated program, established in 1982, that ensured that federally-assisted contracts for highway, transit, and aviation projects were made available to small businesses owned and controlled by socially and economically disadvantaged individuals, including women and certain racial and ethnic minority groups. While any small business owner may qualify as soc…

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ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
De La Fuente v. Kemp

1:16-00256 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: Jan. 28, 2016

Closed Date: April 22, 2016

On January 28, 2016, an individual who sought to be a Democratic candidate for the presidency, and three individuals, filed a suit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia Atlanta Division against the Georgia Secretary of State (Defendant GSS) and The Democratic Party of Georgia (Defendant DPG) alleging that the  denial of candidate plaintiff’s request to include plaintiff’s name on the ballot for the Democratic candidates in the State of Georgia’s 2016 Presidential Prima…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Jabbour v. Merrill

1:20-cv-00034 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Alabama

Filed Date: Jan. 21, 2020

Closed Date: March 25, 2020

On January 21, 2020, one individual plaintiff and National Defense Committee (“NDC”) filed a suit against the Alabama Secretary of State and the Mobile County Board of Registrars, seeking declaratory and injunctive relief to redress defendants’ alleged violations of the Fourteenth Amendment and the First Amendment due to defendants’ use of ranked choice ballots. This action challenged Alabama’s Instant Runoff Primary Election scheme, or the Ranked Choice Voting scheme (“RCV Scheme”) for voters …
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Miller v. Dunkerton

3:16-cv-00724 | U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

Filed Date: May 13, 2016

Closed Date: March 21, 2017

On April 27, 2016, Plaintiff, a voter in Brookfield, Connecticut, filed this lawsuit in the Connecticut Superior Court against the Republican Registrar of Voters for the Town of Brookfield, Connecticut after not being re-enrolled on the town Republican Party voter rolls. Plaintiff alleged that her constitutional rights were violated, including her right to due process of law and her right to freedom of association.   The following month, on May 13, Defendant removed the case to the District of …
JAIL CONDITIONS
Morris v. Sheriff of Allen County

1:20-cv-00034 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana

Filed Date: Jan. 21, 2020

This is a case about incarcerated individuals experiencing overcrowding in their cells. This class action lawsuit was filed on January 21, 2020, contending that the chronically overcrowded conditions of the Allen County Jail in Indiana violates the inmates' rights under the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments. This action was brought under the 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The plaintiff, a man held at the Allen County Jail,  was represented by ACLU of Indiana and private counsel. The plaintiff sued the sherif…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Mathis v. United States Parole Commission

1:24-cv-01312 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: May 6, 2024

This is a case about the right to accommodation of individuals on supervision with disabilities.  On May 6, 2024, two individuals with disabilities on parole in Washington DC brought this putative class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of the District of Columbia against the U.S. Parole Commission and DC's Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency. They challenged the alleged failure of the federal government’s post-conviction supervision system to accommodate ind…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Davis v. Commonwealth Election Commission

1:14-cv-00002 | District Court for the Northern Mariana Islands

Filed Date: Jan. 27, 2014

Closed Date: June 2, 2014

The plaintiff in this case is John H. Davis, Jr., a registered voter in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI). The defendants are the Commonwealth Election Commission, Frances M. Sablan (Chairperson of the Commonwealth Election Commission), Robert A. Guerrero (Executive Director of the Commonwealth Election Commission), and Eloy Inos (Governor of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands). John H. Davis, Jr. sought a declaration that Article XVIII, § 5(c) of the Commonw…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Rose v. The Board of Election Commissioners for the City of Chicago

1:15-cv-00382 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Feb. 25, 2015

Closed Date: April 1, 2016

This is a case alleging that a candidate should be placed on the ballot for a local election in Chicago. On January 15, 2015, an individual resident of Chicago sued the State of Illinois and the Chicago Board of Election Commissioners after they refused to place his name on the ballot for a local election in 2015. Plaintiff brought suit in the Northern District of Illinois. Plaintiff alleged that he met the required number of signatures but was not placed on the ballot, which plaintiff alleged …
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Grant v. Gonzales County, Texas

5:06-cv-01099 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

Filed Date: Dec. 14, 2006

Closed Date: Feb. 15, 2007

This is a case about a challenge to Gonzales County, Texas's change of locations of an election polling place without administrative or judicial preclearance. On December 14, 2006, three African American registered voters in Gonzales County filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas San Antonio Division. The plaintiffs sued Gonzales County, Texas under the Voting Rights Act. Represented by private counsel, the plaintiffs sought a declaration that El…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Blackfeet Nation v. Stapleton

4:20-cv-00095 | U.S. District Court for the District of Montana

Filed Date: Oct. 9, 2020

Closed Date: Oct. 15, 2020

This case concerns the constitutionality of the voter registration and polling locations provided by the State of Montana that are accessible to the members of the Blackfeet Nation. On October 9, 2020, the Blackfeet Nation on behalf of its members filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Montana against Corey Stapleton, in his official capacity as Montana Secretary State; Pondera County, Montana; Kody Farkell, in her official capacity as Pondera County Clerk and Recorder/E…