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DISABILITY RIGHTS
Georgia Advocacy Office v. Georgia

1:17-cv-03999 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: Oct. 11, 2017

Case Ongoing

On October 11, 2017, parents of children with disabilities, the ARC of the United States and the Georgia Advocacy Office filed a class action lawsuit in federal court alleging that the State of Georgia has discriminated against thousands of public school students with disabilities by providing them with a separate and unequal education in the State’s Georgia Network for Educational and Therapeutic Supports Program (GNETS) and that in so doing, the State, violates the Americans with Disabilities…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Georgia Advocacy Office v. Camp

5:96-cv-00483 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia

Filed Date: Dec. 16, 1996

Closed Date: June 9, 1999

This is a case about a Protection and Advocacy agency’s (P&A) facilities access authority. On December 16, 1996, Georgia Advocacy Office (GAO), Georgia’s P&A, filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia. GAO filed this lawsuit against the Director of the Jasper County Department of Family and Children Services under the Protection and Advocacy for Individuals with Mental Illness (PAIMI) Act, with respect to a Jasper County youth facility. Represented by itse…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
King v. State of Georgia

1:21-cv-03082 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: June 22, 2021

Case Ongoing

A group of private plaintiffs, represented by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and private counsel, filed this putative class action in Georgia state court on June 22, 2021. They alleged that delays in the State of Georgia’s unemployment benefits system during the COVID-19 pandemic violated Georgia state law, the Georgia state constitution, and the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The plaintiffs sought declaratory and injunctive relief as well as compensatory damages. Georgi…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Diamond v. Ward

5:20-cv-00453 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia

Filed Date: Nov. 23, 2020

Case Ongoing

This case involved a Black transgender woman who was incarcerated by the Georgia Department of Corrections (“GDC”). In 2015, she successfully sued GDC officials after challenging its policies for failing to protect transgender people from sexual assault and failing to provide them adequate treatment for gender dysphoria. 131 F. Supp. 3d 1346 (M.D. Ga. 2015). After a parole violation, she was incarcerated again by GDC. The Center for Constitutional Rights and the Southern Poverty Law Center subs…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Wood v. Raffensperger

1:20-cv-04651 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: Nov. 13, 2020

Closed Date: Feb. 24, 2021

This is a case about an alleged mishandling of absentee ballots in Georgia during the November 3, 2020 general election. On November 13, 2020, a private individual filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. The plaintiff sued the Secretary of State of Georgia and members of the State Election Board under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Represented by private counsel, the plaintiff sought declaratory and injunctive relief. Specifically, the plaintiff sought de…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
L.E. v. Ragsdale

1:21-cv-04076 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: Oct. 1, 2021

Case Ongoing

This is a case about COVID-19 policies for schools in Cobb County, Georgia. On October 1, 2021, four students, whose disabilities made them particularly vulnerable to COVID-19 and put them at an increased risk for severe symptoms or death from an infection, filed this lawsuit in the District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. The plaintiffs sued the Cobb County School District, members of the Cobb County School Board and the Board’s superintendent under Title 2 of the Americans with Di…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Karen Finn, et al. v. Cobb County Board of Elections and Registration, et al.

1:22-cv-02300 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: June 9, 2022

Case Ongoing

This case alleged that the redistricting plan for Georgia’s Cobb County Board of Education (CCBE) was a racial gerrymander. On March 2, 2022, the Governor of Georgia signed HB 1028 which would redistrict Board of Education districts for the next ten years. Following the 2018 elections, the board’s membership had gone from a 6-1 white majority to a 4-3 white majority. Defendants claimed a primary goal for the redistricting plan was compliance with Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act (VRA). Under …
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
United States v. The State of Georgia

1:21-cv-02575 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: June 25, 2021

Case Ongoing

The Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice ("DOJ") filed suit against the state of Georgia, the Georgia Secretary of State, and the Georgia State Election Board over voting procedures adopted by Georgia Senate Bill 202 (SB 202) in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia on June 25, 2021. DOJ alleged that SB 202 provisions violated the Voting Rights Act. SB 202 included restrictions on mailing, requesting, and submitting absentee ballots and prohibited distr…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Georgia NAACP v. State of Georgia

1:21-cv-05338 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: Dec. 30, 2021

Case Ongoing

Georgia NAACP v. State of Georgia This is a case about protecting the power of voters of color in Georgia. On December 30, 2021, the Georgia NAACP, the Georgia Coalition for the People's Agenda, Inc. (GCPA) and the Galeo Latino Community Development Fund, Inc. (Galeo) filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. Appointed to the case was a three-judge panel comprised of District Judges Steven D. Grimberg and Steve C. Jones and Circuit Judge Elizab…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Georgia Muslim Voter Project v. Kemp

1:18-cv-04789 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: Oct. 16, 2018

Closed Date: April 15, 2019

As of 2018, Georgia state law allowed absentee ballots to be rejected in instances where ballot signatures did not match signatures on file. In these cases, no notice was provided prior to the rejection and no appeals process was in place. This led two civic organizations to sue then-Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp on October 16, 2018, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia with the ACLU as counsel. The plaintiffs brought the suit in the hopes of an injunction to …