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DISABILITY RIGHTS
Ragoonath v. Swissport USA, Inc.

1:15-cv-01356 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: March 17, 2015

Closed Date: Dec. 18, 2015

This is an employment disabilities case. On March 17, 2015 a private plaintiff employee filed a complaint in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York against his employer alleging that his employer violated the Americans with Disabilities Act and New York City Human Rights Law for failing to provide a reasonable accommodation and retaliation for request a reasonable accommodation.  Plaintiff had suffered a workplace injury to his back in 2014, and while he was clear…
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Woodmere Art Museum, Inc. v. Trump

2:25-cv-04887 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Aug. 26, 2025

Closed Date: Sept. 5, 2025

This case centered on a federal grant, previously awarded to the Woodmere Art Museum, that the Institute for Museum and Library Services withheld following President Trump’s Executive Order 14238, Continuing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy. On August 26, 2025, Woodmere Art Museum, Inc. filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania against the President of the United States; the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) and other federal ag…

Case Dismissed (Voluntary)

ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Public Interest Legal Foundation v. North Carolina State Board

5:19-cv-00248 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina

Filed Date: June 17, 2019

Closed Date: Jan. 31, 2022

This case is about access to voting records maintained by the North Carolina State Board of Elections. On June 17, 2019, the Public Interest Legal Foundation, a public interest organization focused on election integrity, filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina. The Foundation sued the North Carolina State Board of Elections under the National Voter Registration Act, 52 U.S.C. § 20507. Represented by private local counsel and their own attorneys, …

Case Dismissed (Involuntary)

Reversed

ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Smith v. Husted

2:16-cv-00212 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio

Filed Date: March 8, 2016

Closed Date: April 29, 2016

March 8, 2016, 17 year old minors, their parents, and Bernie Inc. (collectively "the plaintiffs") sued the Ohio Secretary of State on the grounds that certain minors aged 17 were not permitted to vote in a primary, as they were aged 17 on primary election day, despite turning 18 before the general election day. The Ohio Revised Code provides pursuant to the Threshold Voter Law that a 17-year-old who will be 18 by the time of the next general election may vote in a ‘primary election’. The Thresh…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Eggers v. Evnen

4:22-cv-03089 | U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska

Filed Date: May 16, 2022

Closed Date: Oct. 13, 2022

This case is about Nebraskans for Medical Marijuana (“NMM”), an incorporated nonprofit entity and a ballot campaign committee, and a paid contractor, volunteer, and sponsor of NMM, seeking to enjoin Nebraska Secretary of State from enforcing the unconstitutional multicounty signature distribution requirement of Article III, Section 2 of the Nebraska Constitution. On May 16, 2022, the plaintiffs commenced this civil rights action in the United States District Court for the District of Nebraska u…
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Shapiro v. U.S. Department of the Interior

2:25-cv-00763 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Feb. 13, 2025

This case is one of several challenging the Trump administration’s authority to suspend congressionally appropriated federal funds pending a review of whether the spending aligns with the administration’s policy priorities. (To see the Clearinghouse's collection of legal challenges to spending freezes and cuts by the second Trump administration, click here.) On January 20, 2025, President Trump signed Executive Orders 14151, 14154, 14168, and 14173, directing federal agencies to immediately pau…

Case Dismissed (Voluntary)

ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Jabbour v. Merrill

1:20-cv-00034 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Alabama

Filed Date: Jan. 21, 2020

Closed Date: March 25, 2020

On January 21, 2020, one individual plaintiff and National Defense Committee (“NDC”) filed a suit against the Alabama Secretary of State and the Mobile County Board of Registrars, seeking declaratory and injunctive relief to redress defendants’ alleged violations of the Fourteenth Amendment and the First Amendment due to defendants’ use of ranked choice ballots. This action challenged Alabama’s Instant Runoff Primary Election scheme, or the Ranked Choice Voting scheme (“RCV Scheme”) for voters …
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
The Democratic Party of Georgia v. Crittenden

1:18-cv-05181 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: Nov. 11, 2018

Closed Date: Jan. 14, 2019

On November 11, 2018, The Democratic Party of Georgia, Inc., and AFG Group Inc., a nonprofit doing business as Stacey Abrams for Governor, filed a class action complaint against (1) the Secretary of State for Georgia, (2) members of the Gwinnett County Board of Registration and Elections, (3) members of the DeKalb County Board of Registration and Elections, and (4) a class of defendants comprised of superintendents and boards of elections for each of the 159 counties in Georgia.  The complaint …

Case Dismissed (Involuntary)

ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Hoffard v. Cochise County

4:20-cv-00243 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: June 3, 2020

Closed Date: Nov. 2, 2022

This is a case about a physically disabled individual who was unable to vote because the County of Cochise, Arizona removed curbside voting. On June 30, 2020, Plaintiff filed this lawsuit in United States District Court of Arizona. The Plaintiff sued Lisa Marra in her official capacity as Director of Cochise County Elections Department, and Cochise County under Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act, 42 U.S.C. § 12131 et seq., and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, 29 U.S.C…

Case Dismissed (Involuntary)

ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Robinson v. District of Columbia Board of Elections

1:20-cv-01364 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: May 21, 2020

Closed Date: June 30, 2020

This was a case about the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on polling in Ward 8.  Specifically, the Complaint alleged that the Washington, D.C. Board of Elections closed many polling locations, encouraged mail-in voting, and provided information for receiving mail-in ballots almost solely through mailed correspondence, which disproportionately affected African American voters.   On May 21, 2020, two Ward 8 residents filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.  Bot…

Case Dismissed (Involuntary)