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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 U.S. opened a military prison at Guantanamo Bay in January 2002, hundreds of the 780 men detained as enemy combatants filed petitions for writs 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 arrest, in…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
State of New York v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security

1:19-cv-07777 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Aug. 21, 2019

Closed Date: March 6, 2023

This case is one of several brought nationwide by States, counties, and nonprofit organizations challenging the Trump administration's revised, final public charge rule, which expands the types of programs that the federal government will consider in public charge determinations to now also include previously excluded health, nutrition, and housing programs. District court judges from across the countries granted preliminary injunctions enjoining the government from implementing the public char…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Oklahoma Call for Reproductive Justice v. O'Connor

120543 | Oklahoma state supreme court

Filed Date: July 1, 2022

Case Ongoing

On July 1, 2022, abortion providers filed this case directly with the Supreme Court of Oklahoma as a challenge to two abortion bans. This case was officially brought by Oklahoma Call for Reproductive Justice, Tulsa Women’s Reproductive Clinic, an M.D., Comprehensive Health of Planned Parenthood Great Plains, and Planned Parenthood of Arkansas & Eastern Oklahoma against the State of Oklahoma. The Plaintiffs asked the Court to assume original jurisdiction and declare Okla. Stat. tit. 21, § 861 (t…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Henry v. Hulett

3:12-cv-03087 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of Illinois

Filed Date: March 20, 2012

Case Ongoing

On March 31, 2011, female prisoners at an Illinois women’s prison were strip searched as part of a training exercise for new guards. Several of the prisoners filed this putative class action in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of Illinois. The plaintiffs sued the Illinois Department of Corrections, Lincoln Correctional Center, and Logan Correctional Center under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Represented by civil rights attorneys Loevy a…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Fair Maps Nevada v. Cegavske

3:20-cv-00271 | U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada

Filed Date: May 6, 2020

Closed Date: June 9, 2020

This is a case about the constitutionality of Nevada's signature-gathering requirements for ballot initiatives during the COVID-19 pandemic. Near the end of 2019, a political action committee called Fair Maps Nevada filed a ballot initiative that would amend the Nevada Constitution to provide for the establishment of an independent redistricting commission. After social distancing measures were implemented at the beginning of the pandemic, the organization discovered that it would be unable to …
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Florida v. United States

3:21-cv-01066 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida

Filed Date: Sept. 28, 2021

Case Ongoing

This is a case about the government’s policies and practices concerning undocumented immigrants at the United States-Mexico border. On September 28, 2021, the State of Florida filed this lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida. Florida sued the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) under the Administrative Procedure Act (APA). Ci…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Stapleton v. Singletary Jr.

2:88-cv-14178 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida

Filed Date: Sept. 30, 1988

This case challenged Florida’s prison system and its treatment of individuals in protective custody compared to those in the general population. It culminated in a settlement which mandated reforms to Florida’s protective custody system. Unfortunately, the publicly available documents for this case are limited. On September 20, 1988, eleven incarcerated persons filed a class action complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida. Defendants included the Secretary of th…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Roe v. Sims

3:06-cv-03034 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of Illinois

Filed Date: Feb. 14, 2006

Closed Date: March 24, 2009

This is a case about prison officials' deliberate indifference toward the medical needs of incarcerated persons who suffered from hepatitis C. On September 20, 2005, four individuals who were or had been incarcerated at the Illinois Lincoln Correctional Center ("Lincoln") filed this putative class action lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Central District of Illinois. Judge Harold A. Baker was assigned to the case. Represented by private counsel, the plaintiffs sued Lincoln's w…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Harper v. Lewis

5:19-cv-00452 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina

Filed Date: Oct. 14, 2019

Closed Date: Dec. 2, 2019

On September 27, 2019, a group of North Carolina voters filed a lawsuit against members of the North Carolina State Board of Elections and various state legislators in North Carolina's Superior Court for Wake County. Plaintiffs alleged that the state's 2016 congressional redistricting plan was an unconstitutional gerrymander in violation of the Free Elections Clause, Equal Protection Clause, and Freedom of Speech and Freedom of Association Clauses of the North Carolina Constitution. Plaintiffs …
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…