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ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
CODING IN PROCESS
Ivey v. Lamone

1:20-cv-01995 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: July 7, 2020

Closed Date: July 20, 2020

During the November 2020 election, an individual (the plaintiff in this case) wanted to become an independent candidate for Maryland’s Seventh Congressional District on the November 2020 general election ballot. However, COVID-19 restrictions and communication issues from the Maryland Board of Elections provided some obstacles to her goal.  To become a candidate, the plaintiff needed to get signatures from 1% of the total number of registered and eligible voters (voters that can vote for the po…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
People First of Alabama v. Merrill

2:20-cv-00619 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama

Filed Date: May 1, 2020

Case Ongoing

COVID-19 Summary: This lawsuit was filed by Alabama voters to temporarily enjoin Alabama’s voting law provisions during the COVID-19 pandemic. The plaintiffs challenged the witness and photo ID requirement, requiring absentee voters to obtain witness or notary signatures, and submit a photocopy of their ID with their ballot. The plaintiffs sought declaratory and injunctive relief to enjoin enforcement of the Witness and ID requirement and to allow curbside voting during the primary, municipal, …
PRISON CONDITIONS
Baxley v. Jividen

3:18-cv-01526 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia

Filed Date: Dec. 18, 2018

Case Ongoing

COVID-19 Summary: The plaintiffs in this West Virginia jail conditions class-action case filed an emergency motion for relief on March 25, 2020, seeking an order to require the defendants to develop, disclose, and implement a plan to take appropriate actions to protect the plaintiff class from COVID-19. The court denied the motion because it found that the plaintiffs were unlikely to succeed on the merits of their claim. On December 18, 2018, the plaintiff, a pretrial detainee at West Virginia'…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
CODING IN PROCESS
Hayes v. Rutledge

4:21-cv-00347 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas

Filed Date: April 30, 2021

(This summary is temporary, while we research the case.) This case concerns a challenge by Arkansas state prisoners to a state law that denied or confiscated their COVID-19 stimulus payments.
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Donald J. Trump for President v. Boockvar

2:20-cv-00966 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: June 29, 2020

Closed Date: Oct. 10, 2020

This is a case about mail-in voting during the COVID-19 pandemic. On June 29, 2020, the Donald Trump Presidential Campaign, the Republican National Committee, four Republican members of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania, and two residents of Pennsylvania filed this suit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania. These plaintiffs, represented by a private law firm, sued Pennsylvania and its county boards of elections under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, alleging th…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
CODING IN PROCESS
Pennsylvania Democratic Party v. Boockvar

20-md-00407 | Pennsylvania state trial court

Filed Date: 2020

Case Ongoing

NOTE: This case is being tracked in close to real time by the Stanford/MIT Healthy Elections Project. So for information, see their tracker. According to their summary as of September 6, 2020, Petitioners request a declaratory and injunction relief so as to protect the franchise of absentee and mail-in voters. On October 31, 2019, the Governor enacted Act 77 which permits no excuse mail-in voting for all qualified electors. Due to COVID-19, Act 12 was passed. This Act allowed counties to tempo…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Duncan v. LaRose

2:20-cv-02295 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio

Filed Date: May 6, 2020

Closed Date: Aug. 24, 2020

This case is about the constitutionality of Ohio’s ballot access laws. The plaintiff, an individual Ohio voter and repeated independent presidential candidate, filed this complaint pro se on May 6, 2020, against the Governor of Ohio, the Secretary of State of Ohio, and the Ohio General Assembly in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio. The plaintiff sued under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, arguing that the state’s 5000 signature requirement and deadline of August 5 to appear on the Nove…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Southern Poverty Law Center v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security

1:18-cv-00760 | U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

Filed Date: April 4, 2018

Case Ongoing

COVID-19 Summary: On May 7, the plaintiffs sought a temporary restraining order in response to COVID-19, directing the defendants to remove access barriers and ameliorate dangerously punitive conditions at the detention facilities at issue, such as providing detainees with access to free and private phone calls. They claimed that the defendants had restricted access to legal visitations due to COVID-19, but failed to accommodate remote communications. The court granted in part the temporary res…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Brnovich v. Biden

2:21-cv-01568 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: Sept. 14, 2021

Case Ongoing

COVID-19 Summary: This is a case brought by Arizona's Attorney General challenging the Biden administration's planned vaccine mandate as unconstitutional under the Equal Protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. On September 9, 2021, President Biden announced a broad plan to increase vaccination rates nationwide. The plan would require all employers with 100 or more employees to ensure their workforces were fully vaccinated or tested weekly. In addition, it would require federal contracto…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Arriaga Reyes v. Decker

2:20-cv-03600 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

Filed Date: April 2, 2020

Case Ongoing

This is a case about five men, aged 33 to 59 with underlying medical conditions, detained in United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody who petitioned for immediate release based on their vulnerability to serious COVID-19 infection. On April 2, 2020, the plaintiffs filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, but the case was transferred to the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey after the court conclu…