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REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Little Rock Family Planning Services v. Jegley

4:21-cv-00453 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas

Filed Date: May 26, 2021

Case Ongoing

This case is one in a string of challenges to Arkansas’s abortion access restrictions. A few months prior to the suit, the Eighth Circuit enjoined the state’s pre-viability bans on abortion via Act 493 (criminalizing abortion at 18 weeks) in Little Rock Family Planning Services v. Rutledge. The present case was filed in response to Arkansas Act 309 (“Act 309”), signed into law in March 2021, which effectively prohibited abortion in nearly all cases and imposed criminal penalties on doctors who …
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…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Gonzalez v. CoreCivic

1:18-cv-00169 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

Filed Date: Feb. 22, 2018

Case Ongoing

On February 22, 2018, a former civil immigration detainee filed a putative class action lawsuit in the US District Court for the Western District of Texas. The plaintiff, represented by private counsel, sued the private prison company CoreCivic, Inc. under the Federal Trafficking in Victims Protection Act, 18 U.S.C. § 1589 (the “TPVA”). The plaintiff claimed that civil immigration detainees had been forced to work for 1-2 dollars a day or no wages under threats including solitary confinement an…
DISABILITY RIGHTS/PUBLIC ACCOMMODATIONS
DOJ Investigation of Brown University

No Docket | No Court

Filed Date: 2021

Case Ongoing

At some point unknown to the Clearinghouse, the Department of Justice (DOJ) and U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Rhode Island commenced an investigation and compliance review into allegations that Brown University violated Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). The investigation responded to a complaint regarding the university’s policies and procedures for readmission of undergraduate students seeking to return from a medical leave of absence. The investigation was j…
DISABILITY RIGHTS/PUBLIC ACCOMMODATIONS
Scharff v. Shah-Gavnoudias

6:10-cv-04208 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: Sept. 15, 2010

On September 15, 2010, plaintiffs, represented by private counsel, filed suit against the County of Nassau and the Commissioner of the Nassau County Department of Public Works, in her official capacity, for violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and Rehabilitation Act. The three named plaintiffs were visually impaired residents and members of the Long Island Council of the Blind (LICB), a private volunteer organization affiliated with the American Council of the Blind of New Yo…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Bownes v. Washington

2:14-cv-11691 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: April 28, 2014

Case Ongoing

An incarcerated individual in the custody of the Michigan Department of Corrections (MDOC), filed this lawsuit on March 28, 2014, in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, on behalf of a class of similarly situated individuals against the Director of the MDOC and the general dentist of the MDOC (in their official capacities). MDOC policy detailed that a person became eligible for routine dental care only after being incarcerated for two years. The plaintiff alleged that t…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Braggs v. Dunn

2:14-cv-00601 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama

Filed Date: June 17, 2014

Case Ongoing

On June 17, 2014, prisoners and the Alabama Disabilities Advocacy Program (ADAP) filed this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama. The plaintiffs sued the Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC) under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), § 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, and 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Represented by the Southern Poverty Law Center, ADAP, and private counsel, the plaintiffs sought declaratory and injunctive relief. They claimed that ADOC…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Holden v. Zucker

801592/2021E | New York state trial court

Filed Date: Feb. 4, 2021

Closed Date: March 29, 2021

This was a case about vaccine eligibility for incarcerated New Yorkers. On February 4, 2021, two people incarcerated at Rikers Island filed this lawsuit in Supreme Court of the State of New York, Bronx County. The plaintiffs sued the Commissioner of Health for New York State and the Governor of the State of New York under Article 78, the state’s analogue to the Administrative Procedure Act. Represented by the Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem, the Bronx Defenders, the Legal Aid Society, t…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
League of Women Voters of Ohio v. LaRose

2:20-cv-03843 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio

Filed Date: July 31, 2020

Closed Date: May 20, 2021

This case challenged Ohio’s signature matching policy when processing election ballots. On July 31, 2020, the League of Women Voters of Ohio, the Ohio A. Phillip Randolph Institute, and two adversely affected individuals filed a complaint against Ohio’s Secretary of State in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio. The plaintiffs alleged (1) that the state’s signature matching practices for absentee ballot applications constituted an impermissible burden on the right to vote, (2) …
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Toomey v. State of Arizona

4:19-cv-00035 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: Jan. 23, 2019

Case Ongoing

On January 23, 2019, a transgender man employed as an associate professor at the University of Arizona filed this lawsuit against the State, the Arizona Board of Regents, and the Arizona Department of Administration in United States District Court for the District of Arizona. The State provides healthcare coverage to state employees through a plan run by the Arizona Department of Administration. Although the plan generally covers medically necessary care, it categorically denies coverage for ge…