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ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Mi Familia Vota v. Hobbs

2:20-cv-01903 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: Sept. 30, 2020

Closed Date: Oct. 5, 2020

The Plaintiff organizations filed a Complaint seeking a declarator y judgment and Emergency Motion for a TRO against AZ Secretary of State seeking to extend the voter registration deadline to October 27, 2020. Without the extension tens of thousands of voters would not be able to register. The Plaintiffs' were successful in extending the voting registration deadline to October 2023, 2020.
PRISON CONDITIONS
Johnson v. Peterson

3:18-cv-00331 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio

Filed Date: Feb. 12, 2018

Closed Date: Jan. 23, 2023

Plaintiff, a state prisoner, brought suit on February 12, 2018, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio against the Allen Oakwood Correctional Institution (AOCI) and several of its employees claiming deliberate indifference in violation of the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments. Plaintiff sued AOCI, two of its lead doctors, and a registered nurse for allegedly refusing to provide necessary treatment for his worsening Hepatitis C (HCV). The case was assigned to Judge Jeffrey J…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Ray v. Madison Co., et al

1:20-cv-02973 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana

Filed Date: Nov. 13, 2020

Closed Date: June 23, 2021

On November 21, 2018, the plaintiff, a deaf woman, was arrested by the Anderson Police Department and transported to the Madison County Jail. The plaintiff was handcuffed behind her back while she was detained, preventing her from communicating using American Sign Language (ASL). Her requests for an interpreter were ignored and she was not provided with access to a qualified interpreter or other functional auxiliary aids (at one point, she was given a teletypewriter (TTY) but the facility lacke…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Sostre v. McGinnis

62-cv-28785 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York

Filed Date: 1962

Closed Date: Oct. 26, 1964

This is a historic case about religious liberty in New York prisons. It's part of the Clearinghouse's collection of several cases brought by prisoners rights activist (and prisoner) Martin Sostre, whose wikipedia biography is here.  In 1964, Sostre and other individuals incarcerated at Attica sued the New York Commissioner of Correction and the warden of Attica under §1983. Specifically, the plaintiffs alleged that the defendant violated their rights with respect to their religious practice, in…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Semien v. Hughs

1:20-cv-00789 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

Filed Date: July 24, 2020

Closed Date: Dec. 23, 2020

On July 24, 2020, individual plaintiffs with print disabilities, along with the National Federation of the Blind of Texas and the Coalition of Texans with Disabilities, filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas, where it was assigned to Judge Lee Yeakel. The plaintiffs, represented by Disability Rights Texas and a private law firm, sued the Secretary of State of Texas. Seeking declaratory and injunctive relief, the plaintiffs requested changes to the vote-b…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Eisen v. Cuomo

7:20-cv-05121 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: July 3, 2020

Closed Date: Aug. 12, 2020

An independent candidate for the United States House of Representatives in New York’s 17th congressional district filed a lawsuit on July 3, 2020 in order to declare unconstitutional, enjoin, or modify New York's in-person signature requirements for candidates seeking to qualify for the November 2020 elections due to the difficulties in obtaining these signatures caused by COVID-19. The Governor of New York had issued an Executive Order to suspend the collection of signatures for petitions of c…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Davis v. Jury Commission of Montgomery County

2:66-cv-02479 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama

Filed Date: Nov. 5, 1966

In this case, a Black man charged with a crime in Montgomery County, Alabama, challenged the County's policy of systematically excluding Black people from jury service. On November 5, 1966, the plaintiff filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama, where it was assigned to then-District Judge Frank M. Johnson. Bringing suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and the Declaratory Judgement Act (28 U.S.C. § 2201), the plaintiff claimed that the exclusion of Black …
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Asali v. DHS

5:17-cv-00447 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Jan. 31, 2017

Closed Date: April 12, 2017

On January 31, 2017, a Syrian family that sought to immigrate to the U.S. filed an emergency petition for a writ of habeas corpus and a civil complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania in Allentown. Represented by the ACLU of Pennsylvania and private counsel, the plaintiffs challenged President Trump’s January 27, 2017 executive order (EO-1) banning nationals of Iraq, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen from entering the U.S. The plaintiffs argued th…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
United States of America v. Florida Department of Corrections

9:98-cv-08087 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida

Filed Date: Feb. 12, 1998

Closed Date: June 19, 1998

On February 12, 1998, the United States filed a lawsuit against the Florida Department of Corrections under 42 U.S.C. § 2000e, et seq. ("Title VII") in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida. The United States, along with the individual plaintiff, sought injunctive and monetary relief, alleging that the defendant violated Title VII, by discriminating and retaliating against a female employee on the basis of gender.The plaintiff alleged that the female prison teacher was su…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
United States of America v. State of North Carolina

5:73-cv-04476 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina

Filed Date: Oct. 16, 1973

This case challenged North Carolina's use of a qualifying exam to certify teachers, alleging that the state's use of exam cut-off scores discriminated against Black and other minority candidates. On October 16, 1973, the United States, through the Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division, brought this pattern and practice lawsuit against the state of North Carolina in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina. The Justice Department alleged that the North Carolina …