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Das v. Brantley

1:16-cv-01367 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: April 27, 2016

Closed Date: March 2, 2017

(This summary is temporary while we research the case) Georgia had a policy that directed state officials to deny driver's licenses to people based on their past, rather than their current, immigration status. Six people denied licenses, represented by the Southern Poverty Law Center, filed suit against the Commissioner of the Georgia Department of Driver Services in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, alleging that the policy violated the equal protection clause of th…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
CODING IN PROCESS
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

(This summary is temporary while we research the case.) The Southern Poverty Law Center and ACLU of Georgia filed suit on June 9, 2022, after the Cobb County Board of Education in Georgia and state legislators used racial demographic information to "pack" Black and Latinx voters into three of seven school board voting districts to diminish their political power.
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
CODING IN PROCESS
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

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PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
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King v. State of Georgia

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

Filed Date: July 30, 2021

(This summary is temporary while we research the case) On June 22, 2021, four plaintiffs represented by the Southern Poverty Law Center filed suit against the state of Georgia in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. Plaintiffs alleged that the Georgia Department of Labor's (GDOL) failure to process unemployment claims during the Covid-19 pandemic violated state and federal law.  
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…
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

Case Ongoing

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 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 experienced employees at their position…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
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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 16, 2019

(This summary is temporary, while we research the case.) This case concerns a lawsuit challenging a signature matching provision of Georgia election law.
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective v. Kemp

1:19-cv-02973 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: June 28, 2019

Case Ongoing

The ACLU, the ACLU of Georgia, the Center for Reproductive Rights, and Planned Parenthood filed this suit June 28, 2019, challenging an imminent Georgia law banning abortions as early as six weeks into pregnancy. The plaintiffs, which also included health care providers and their patients, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, Atlanta Division, against the Georgia state governor, attorney general, health officials, and district attorneys. On due process grounds,…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
CODING IN PROCESS
Common Cause v. Raffensperger

1:22-cv-00090 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: Jan. 7, 2022

(This summary is temporary while we research this case) The Southern Poverty Law Center filed suit on January 7, 2022, in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, alleging that Georgia's 6th, 13th, and 14th congressional districts violate the Constitution and unlawfully diminish the power of voters of color.  
DISABILITY RIGHTS
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L.E. v. Ragsdale

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

Filed Date: Oct. 1, 2021

(This summary is temporary while we research the case) The Southern Poverty Law Center filed suit on October 1, 2021 in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia; plaintiffs alleged that by failing to implement and enforce protocols to reduce the spread of Covid-19 in schools, the Cobb County School District unlawfully denied students with disabilities and medical conditions access to a safe learning environment.