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PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Neese v. Becerra

2:21-cv-00163 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas

Filed Date: Aug. 25, 2021

Closed Date: Nov. 22, 2022

Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) prohibits sex discrimination in health programs or activities that receive federal financial assistance. On May 10, 2021, Secretary Becerra announced that HHS would interpret and enforce this provision to include gender identity and sexual orientation discrimination. On August 25, 2021 two doctors sued Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), Xavier Becerra, and the United States in the U.S.District Court for the Northern District of Texas to e…
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…
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…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Hayes v. Rutledge

4:21-cv-00347 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas

Filed Date: April 30, 2021

After the Coronavirus pandemic emerged in early 2020, the US Federal Government mobilized to bolster the US economy by creating advanced tax credits, also known as stimulus payments. While Congress explicitly stated the eligibility of incarcerated folks for these stimulus payments, the State of Arkansas passed an act—Act 1110—on April 26, 2021, which allowed Arkansas’ Department of Corrections (ADC) to seize any "federal relief or stimulus funds" from people in its custody. This act prevented a…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Planned Parenthood Great Northwest, Hawaii, Alaska, Indiana and Kentucky, Inc. v. Cameron

3:22-cv-00198 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky

Filed Date: April 14, 2022

Case Ongoing

Planned Parenthood Great Northwest, Hawaii, Alaska, Indiana and Kentucky (Planned Parenthood) filed this suit on April 14, 2022 in the Western District of Kentucky in response to the enactment of the Humanity in Healthcare Act of 2022 (the Act) on April 13. The Act imposed significant restrictions on abortion providers, including imposing vast reporting requirements and banning all abortions after fifteen weeks, with very narrow exceptions. Under the Act, providers risked significant fines and …
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Pennsylvania Democratic Party v. Boockvar

407-MD-2020 | Pennsylvania state appellate court

Filed Date: July 10, 2020

Closed Date: Feb. 22, 2021

This case is about the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on mail-in voting. On July 10, 2020, the Democratic Party of Pennsylvania and several Democratic politicians in the state filed this lawsuit in the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania, a state appeals court that had original jurisdiction in this case because the matter was about elections. The plaintiffs, represented by a private law firm, sued Pennsylvania under the state Declaratory Judgment Act, seeking declaratory and injunctive relief in sup…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
UC Hastings v. City of San Francisco

4:20-cv-03033 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: May 4, 2020

On May 4, 2020, four individuals, a business, and the University of California Hastings School of Law filed a class action lawsuit against the City and County of San Francisco in the Northern Federal District of California to challenge living conditions related to accessibility, criminality, and health and safety in a neighborhood called the Tenderloin. The plaintiffs alleged that city/county’s inaction allowed conditions to exist and grow, especially during the Covid-19 pandemic, in violation …
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
State of Texas v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

2:21-cv-00194 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas

Filed Date: Sept. 20, 2021

Case Ongoing

This is a case about whether Bostock v. Clayton County prevents Texas from maintaining gender-discriminatory employment policies (e.g., on bathrooms and pronouns) and from requiring mandatory reporting of some youth sex-change procedures.  On September 20, 2021, Texas, as the plaintiff, brought a lawsuit against the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) in the U.S. District Court, Northern District of Texas [Amarillo] challenging June 15, 2021 guidance from the EEOC which interpreted e…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Ivey v. Lamone

1:20-cv-01995 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: July 7, 2020

Closed Date: July 20, 2020

During the November 2020 election, an individual (the plaintiff in this case) wanted to become an independent candidate for Maryland’s Seventh Congressional District on the November 2020 general election ballot. However, COVID-19 restrictions and communication issues from the Maryland Board of Elections provided some obstacles to her goal.  To become a candidate, the plaintiff needed to get signatures from 1% of the total number of registered and eligible voters (voters that can vote for the po…