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SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Friends of George's, Inc. v. Mulroy

2:23-cv-02176 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Tennessee

Filed Date: March 30, 2023

Case Ongoing

In 2022, Jackson Pride attempted to hold a family-friendly drag show in a public park, but the organizers were forced to move the show indoors and set age restrictions due to a lawsuit from Tennessee State Representative Chris Todd, where he stated that the performance was child abuse and that drag should be “nonexistent” in his community. In response, Todd introduced a bill to the Tennessee legislature banning “adult cabaret performance[s]” in front of minors, which he stated was intended to c…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Missouri Protection & Advocacy Services v. Missouri Department of Mental Health

2:04-cv-04064 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri

Filed Date: April 5, 2004

Closed Date: May 10, 2006

This is a case about a Protection and Advocacy (P&A) agency’s records access authority for peer review records in a death investigation. On April 5, 2004, Missouri P&A Services filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri. Missouri P&A filed this lawsuit against the Missouri Department of Mental Health under the Protection and Advocacy for Individuals with Mental Illness (PAIMI) Act. Represented by itself, Missouri P&A sought declarative and injunctive reli…
POLICING
Shaw v. Schulte

6:19-cv-01343 | U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas

Filed Date: Dec. 19, 2019

Case Ongoing

This case involved an alleged unconstitutional policy of the Kansas Highway Patrol (KHP) whereby they stopped motorists with out of state plates who were driving the I-70 corridor to or from the state of Colorado. On December 19, 2019, the three named plaintiffs on behalf of a class filed this lawsuit pro se in the District of Kansas. The plaintiffs sued the Kansas Highway Patrol superintendent and two named officers in their official capacity for the alleged unconstitutional stops and seizures…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
United States v. King County Washington

2:20-cv-00203 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: Feb. 10, 2020

Closed Date: March 20, 2023

On February 10, 2020, the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington. The DOJ sued King County, Washington and its Executive under 28 U.S.C. § 2201 and the Airline Deregulation Act (ADA) and sought declaratory and injunctive relief. The case was assigned to Judge Robert J. Bryan.  On April 23, 2019, the King County Executive signed King County Executive Order PFC-7-1-EO ("Airport EO"), prohibiting the transporta…
PRISON CONDITIONS
United States v. Florida

1:12-cv-22958 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida

Filed Date: Aug. 14, 2012

Case Ongoing

On August 14, 2012, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida on behalf of Jewish prisoners under 42 U.S.C. § 2000cc-2(f) and 28 U.S.C. §§ 2201 and 2202 against the Florida Department of Corrections. The DOJ asked the court for declaratory and injunctive relief, claiming that defendant violated religious freedoms granted by the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000 (RLUIPA). Specifically, plaint…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Reynolds v. Arnone

3:13-cv-01465 | U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

Filed Date: Oct. 4, 2013

Case Ongoing

On October 4, 2013, a death row inmate at the Connecticut Northern Correctional Institution (NCI) filed this lawsuit pro se in the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut. The plaintiff sued the commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Corrections and six other state officials in their official and individual capacities under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). The plaintiff sought declaratory and injunctive relief, including a release from 23 hour-p…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
R.F M. v. Nielsen

1:18-cv-05068 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: June 7, 2018

Closed Date: June 1, 2022

This class action lawsuit challenged a U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services (USCIS) change to qualifications for the Special Immigrant Juvenile Status (SIJS) program during the Trump administration. On June 7, 2018, this lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York by three immigrant youths, aged 19 to 20, whose SIJS applications had been denied even though they would have been eligible before the change. Represented by private counsel and the Legal Aid …
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Planned Parenthood of Alaska v. Perdue

3AN-98-7004 CI | Alaska state trial court

Filed Date: June 1, 1998

Case Ongoing

Two medical doctors and Planned Parenthood of Alaska filed this lawsuit in the Superior Court, Third Judicial District of Alaska in June 1998. Represented by the ACLU of Alaska, ACLU Foundation, and Reproductive Freedom Project, the plaintiffs sued the Alaska Department of Health and Social Service (DHSS) and sought declaratory and injunctive relief. Plaintiffs challenged 7 AAC 43.140, a regulation that, beginning July 1, 1998, swapped out Alaska's older General Relief Medical Program for a new…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
City of Providence v. Sessions

1:18-cv-00437 | U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island

Filed Date: Aug. 9, 2018

Case Ongoing

On August 9, 2018, two Rhode Island cities filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island, challenging the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) policy of conditioning federal funding on compliance with immigration-related conditions. The cities argued that the new conditions forced them to make an impossible choice: accept unlawful conditions that undermined their ability to protect their communities or forfeit funding crucial to protecting their communities. Accor…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Planned Parenthood of the Great Northwest v. Streur

3AN-14-4711 CI | Alaska state trial court

Filed Date: Jan. 29, 2014

Case Ongoing

This is a case about abortion funding restrictions in Alaska. On January 30, 2014, the American Civil Liberties Union, Planned Parenthood Federation of America, and the Center for Reproductive Rights filed a lawsuit in Alaska Superior Court (state trial court) on behalf of Planned Parenthood of the Great Northwest in order to challenge Regulation 7 AAC 160.900(d)(30), a new regulation that allegedly severely restricted abortion access for low-income women. The plaintiffs sued the State of Alask…