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DISABILITY RIGHTS
Disabiltiy Rights North Carolina v. Frye

5:13-cv-00102 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina

Filed Date: July 22, 2013

Closed Date: Dec. 14, 2014

This is a case about whether a Protection and Advocacy (P&A) agency can use its records access authority to receive peer review and internal investigation records regarding a deceased psychiatric facility resident. On July 22, 2013, Disability Rights North Carolina (Disability Rights NC) filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina. Disability Rights NC filed this lawsuit against Frye Regional Medical Center (Frye), a medical center with an inpatient …
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
South Wind Women's Center v. Hunter

CV-2019-2506 | Oklahoma state trial court

Filed Date: Nov. 8, 2019

Closed Date: Feb. 23, 2021

On November 8, 2019, South Wind Women's Center and Trust Women Oklahoma City (two reproductive healthcare facilities), the medical director of the Trust Women clinics, and a nurse practitioner of Trust Women filed this lawsuit. Represented by the Center for Reproductive Rights, the plaintiffs challenged two Oklahoma statutes, 63 O.S. § 1-729.1 (“Physician-In Person Law”) and 63 O.S. § 1-731(A) (”Physician-Only Law”). The Physician-In Person Law prohibited the administration of medication aborti…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
American College of Obstetricians & Gynecologists v. United States Food and Drug Administration

8:20-cv-01320 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: May 27, 2020

Closed Date: May 19, 2021

On May 27, 2020, the American College of Obstetricians & Gynecologists ("ACOG"), a nonprofit organization representing obstetricians and gynecologists, a New York-based nonprofit advocacy organization representing family medicine, a nationwide nonprofit representing women and transgender people of color, and a family medicine doctor and certified mifepristone (a medical abortion pill) prescriber, represented by the ACLU, filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of ­­Maryland. The …
EDUCATION
Ohlensehlen v. The University of Iowa

3:20-cv-00080 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa

Filed Date: Sept. 25, 2020

Closed Date: Oct. 7, 2021

On September 25, 2020, four members of the University of Iowa women's swimming and diving team filed a class action suit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa against UI after it announced it was cutting the program. In October, plaintiffs amended the complaint adding two new named plaintiffs. Plaintiffs alleged that UI violated its obligation under Title IX by failing to provide female students with an equal opportunity to participate in athletics as compared to the oppo…
POLICING
Smith v. City of Chicago

1:06-cv-06423 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Nov. 22, 2006

Case Ongoing

This civil rights class action lawsuit challenged the Chicago Police Department’s asset forfeiture program. The named plaintiffs were persons who had property seized and detained by the Chicago Police Department pursuant to the Illinois Drug Asset Forfeiture Procedure Act (725 ILCS 150) and who had not been afforded a prompt post-seizure hearing to determine probable cause for the property seizure. On November 2, 2006, the plaintiffs filed their initial complaint against the City of Chicago, Su…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Reed v. Bernard

2:19-cv-03110 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: July 17, 2019

Closed Date: May 4, 2021

This is a case about whether the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution requires public access to audio recordings of bail hearings before the Philadelphia Municipal Court.  In Philadelphia, defendants who are arrested and then charged with a crime remain held in a divisional booking center, where they participate via videoconference in bail hearings.  Philadelphia Municipal Arraignment Court Magistrates (ACMs) conduct these hearings and determine whether to release a defendant and what condi…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Yang v. Kellner

1:20-cv-03325 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: April 28, 2020

Closed Date: May 5, 2020

In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, on April 27, 2020, the New York State Board of Elections (BOE) by unanimous vote and in spite of executive orders from the New York governor, adopted a resolution to cancel the New York presidential primary election that was slated for June 23, 2020, while still allowing down-ballot federal congressional and state elections to continue. BOE's rationale was that this was in line with larger goals of avoiding unnecessary social contact, and that there was no…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
League of Women Voters of Arizona v. Reagan

2:18-cv-02620 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: Aug. 18, 2018

Closed Date: Jan. 8, 2020

Section 5 of the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA) provides that when a registered voter changes their address with a state motor vehicle agency, the corresponding voter registration address must be automatically updated. This led three civic organizations to sue the Arizona Secretary of State (SOS) on August 18, 2018, for allegedly violating the NVRA. The suit was brought to the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona. The plaintiffs alleged that the SOS did not update voter regis…
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Carr v. District of Columbia

1:06-cv-00098 | U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

Filed Date: Jan. 19, 2006

Closed Date: Oct. 27, 2011

On January 19, 2006, the named plaintiffs filed this suit on behalf of themselves and similarly situated individuals in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. The plaintiffs alleged that the District of Columbia’s (“the District”) Metropolitan Police Department (“MPD”) falsely arrested and imprisoned persons who had been participating in or observing a demonstration in Washington, D.C., in response to the second inauguration of President George W. Bush. The MPD arrested the plain…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Comprehensive Health of Planned Parenthood Great Plains v. Lyskowski

2:16-cv-04313 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri

Filed Date: Nov. 30, 2016

Closed Date: Aug. 13, 2019

On November 30, 2016, Planned Parenthood brought this suit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri Central Division against Missouri state officials to challenge several abortion restrictions. In particular, Plaintiffs asserted that Missouri’s Ambulatory Surgical Center Licensing Law and Hospital Relationship Restriction unconstitutionally burdened access to abortion in the state. These statutes would have required health centers that provide abortions to be licensed as …