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Cobb v. Georgia Department of Community Supervision

1:19-cv-03285 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: July 19, 2019

Case Ongoing

On July 19, 2019, individuals who are deaf and on parole or probation in the State of Georgia filed this putative class action lawsuit against the Georgia Department of Community Supervision and its commissioner (collectively, “GDCS”) for refusing to provide them with adequate communication access, in violation of Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act. The plaintiffs alleged that GDCS’s failure to provide them with adequate communication…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. Gamman's Architectural d/b/a Skylights International, Inc.

3:05-cv-00097 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: Sept. 30, 2005

Closed Date: Oct. 25, 2013

The Atlanta District Office of the EEOC brought this Title VII suit against Gammans Architectural (doing business as Skyline International, Inc.) and Gammans Architectural Products in September 2005 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. The complaint, filed on September 30, 2005, alleged that complainants were terminated because of their race. More specifically, the complainants alleged that the defendant terminated the complainants (the two most tenured and experienc…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Georgia State Conference of the NAACP v. Fayette County Board of Commissioners

3:11-cv-00123 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: Aug. 9, 2011

Closed Date: Sept. 20, 2016

This is a case about the whether at-large election methods violated the Voting Rights Act. In an at-large voting system, members of a governing body are elected by majority vote to represent an entire population, rather than a subset of that population as in a district voting system. In Fayette County, Georgia, members of the Board of Commissioners and Board of Education were elected using an at-large method, with the effect of diluting the strength of a subset of the county: Black voters who l…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Lathrop v. Deal

2012-cv-224423 | Georgia state trial court

Filed Date: Nov. 30, 2012

Closed Date: June 19, 2017

On November 30, 2012, the American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Georgia filed this lawsuit in Georgia's Superior Court of Fulton County on behalf of three Georgia obstetrician-gynecologists. The plaintiffs sued twenty state officers in their official capacities. They challenged Georgia Bill H.B. 954, which criminalized virtually all abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy, except for abortions in medical emergencies. Violations of the law were subject to a penalty of ten years imprisonme…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Green v. Hooks

6:14-cv-00046 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Georgia

Filed Date: May 17, 2014

Closed Date: Oct. 5, 2020

This case is the consolidation of two separate civil actions filed by the same plaintiff, a transgender woman housed at Rogers State Prison in Georgia, a single sex men's facility. The plaintiff was sexually assaulted several times by another prisoner while in both general population and protective custody. On May 17, 2014, she filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Georgia under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 alleging that the Warden, Deputy Warden, and Lieutenant of the prison w…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
VoteAmerica v. Raffensperger

1:21-cv-01390 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: April 7, 2021

Case Ongoing

This is a case challenging three provisions contained in Georgia Senate Bill 202 (SB 202) that allegedly made absentee voting more difficult. On April 7, 2021, VoteAmerica, the Voter Participation Center, and the Center for Voter Information filed this suit in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. The plaintiffs sued the Secretary of State of Georgia, as well as several state election board members under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Represented by the Campaign Legal Center…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Barrientos v. CoreCivic Inc.

4:18-cv-00070 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia

Filed Date: April 17, 2018

Case Ongoing

On April 17, 2018, three current or former detained immigrants filed this class-action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia, where the case was assigned to Judge Clay D. Land. The plaintiffs sued CoreCivic, Inc., a private prison corporation that owned and operated the Stewart Detention Center (“Stewart”), under the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA), 18 U.S.C. §§ 1589, 1594, and 1595. The plaintiffs, represented by the Southern Poverty Law Center and pri…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
The New Georgia Project v. Raffensperger

1:20-cv-01986 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: May 8, 2020

Closed Date: March 25, 2021

NOTE: This case is being tracked in close to real time by the Stanford/MIT Healthy Elections Project. So for more current information, see their tracker. COVID-19 summary: On May 8, 2020, two voters and a non-profit organization sued the Georgia Secretary of State, the Georgia State Election Board, and the Board of Registration and Elections of various counties to enjoin various absentee voting laws during COVID-19. The plaintiff sought declaratory and injunctive relief. They also submitted a …
JAIL CONDITIONS
Georgia Advocacy Office v. Jackson

1:19-cv-01634 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: April 10, 2019

Case Ongoing

On April 10, 2019, two female detainees in the South Fulton Municipal Regional Jail and the Georgia Advocacy Office filed this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. The plaintiff sued the Fulton County Sheriff’s Office and the South Fulton Municipal Jail under 42 U.S.C.§ 1983 and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). The plaintiffs, represented by the Southern Center for Human Rights and the Georgia Advocacy Office, sought class certification…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective v. Georgia

2022CV367796 | Georgia state trial court

Filed Date: July 26, 2022

Case Ongoing

On July 26, 2022, SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Collective, Feminist Women’s Health Center, Planned Parenthood Southeast, Atlanta Comprehensive Wellness Clinic, Atlanta Women’s Medical Center, Femhealth, Summit Medical Associates, Medical Students for Choice, and three physicians filed suit against the state of Georgia in the Superior Court for Fulton County (Georgia state trial court). The plaintiffs challenged the state's Six-Week Ban on abortion and the Records Access Provision enac…