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POLICING
Coleman v. Brookside

2:22-cv-00423 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama

Filed Date: April 4, 2022

Case Ongoing

This is a class-action lawsuit challenging a small town’s practice of over-policing to generate revenue through fines and fees. On April 4, 2022, a group of individuals whom the Brookside police detained in traffic stops filed this complaint and motion for class certification in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama. The plaintiffs sued the Town of Brookside, Alabama, Jett’s Towing, and three Brookside police officers in their individual capacities, seeking redress for Fourth…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Corbitt v. Taylor

2:18-cv-00091 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama

Filed Date: Feb. 6, 2018

Case Ongoing

On February 6, 2018, three transgender individuals brought an action against the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency, the Alabama Department of Public Safety, the Alabama Driver License Division, and administrative officials in their official and individual capacities in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama. The plaintiffs, represented by the ACLU of Alabama and the ACLU LGBT & HIV Project, sued under 42 U.S.C § 1983, alleging violations of their First and Fourteenth A…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Alabama Disability Advocacy Program v. Wood

2:07-cv-00434 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama

Filed Date: May 16, 2007

Closed Date: Sept. 10, 2008

This is a case about the scope of a Protection and Advocacy (P&A) agency’s records, facilities, and residents access authority under its enabling statutes. On May 16, 2007, Alabama Disabilities Advocacy Project (ADAP), Alabama’s P&A, filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama. ADAP filed this lawsuit against J. Walter Wood, Jr., Executive Director of Alabama Department of Youth Services (DYS), in his official capacity under the Developmental Disabilities As…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Gomillion v. Lightfoot

57-cv-00462 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama

Filed Date: 1957

Closed Date: Feb. 17, 1961

This case challenged an Alabama law, Act 140, that redrew Tuskegee’s borders, excluding all but five of the city’s black voters. Prior to this law, activists were making a concerted effort to register more black voters in the city. Ultimately, the U.S. Supreme Court held that federal courts had authority to hear this claim despite municipal boundaries traditionally being exclusively under state control. Following World War II, the number of black registered voters in Tuskegee surged. This was i…
FAIR HOUSING/LENDING/INSURANCE
United States v. Housing Authority of Ashland Alabama

1:20-cv-01905 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama

Filed Date: Dec. 1, 2020

Case Ongoing

On December 1, 2020, the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama against the Ashland, Alabama Housing Authority, alleging that it had engaged in a pattern or practice of discrimination on the basis of race at multiple low-income public housing communities in violation of the Fair Housing Act. The complaint alleged that the Ashland Housing Authority, and three property development companies who were the private own…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Mason v. City of Huntsville

5:10-cv-02794 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama

Filed Date: Oct. 15, 2010

Closed Date: March 13, 2014

On October 15, 2010, two private plaintiffs, represented by private counsel, filed this suit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama. The plaintiffs asserted claims against the City of Huntsville, Alabama (the City) for injunctive relief, attorney’s fees, and costs pursuant to the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA) and the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (Rehabilitation Act). They also sought an order requiring the City to undertake a self-evaluation of its program…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
National Federation of the Blind of Alabama v. John H. Merrill

2:22-cv-00721 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama

Filed Date: June 8, 2022

Case Ongoing

This case challenged Alabama’s accommodations for disabled voters. The suit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama on June 8, 2022. by three plaintiffs, two of whom were blind. The third individual had “print disabilities” (any condition which makes it difficult to read, mark, or handle paper documents). The lone defendant was Alabama’s Secretary of State, John H. Merrill, designated as the “chief election official” under Alabama law. Plaintiffs alleged that A…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Greater Birmingham Ministries v. State of Alabama

2:15-cv-02193 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama

Filed Date: Dec. 2, 2015

Closed Date: Jan. 10, 2018

This case is about Alabama House Bill 19 ("HB 19"). HB 19 required voters to present photographic identification in order to vote, with exceptions that include if an election worker could "positively identify" a potential voter. While the bill passed in 2011, the law did not take effect until 2014. On December 2nd, 2015, the Alabama chapter of the NAACP and Greater Birmingham Ministries filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama against the State of Alaba…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Singleton v. Taylor

2:20-cv-00099 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama

Filed Date: Feb. 12, 2020

Case Ongoing

On February 12, 2020, the Southern Poverty Law Center, ACLU, and National Law Center of Homelessness & Poverty filed suit against the City of Montgomery, the Sheriff of Montgomery County, and the Secretary of the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama. The case was assigned to Judge Andrew L. Brasher. The plaintiffs were three Montgomery residents experiencing homelessness, on behalf of themselves and a class of those similarly situ…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Milligan v. Merrill

2:21-cv-01530 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama

Filed Date: Nov. 16, 2021

Case Ongoing

On November 16, 2021, a coalition of civil rights organizations and Alabama voters filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama against Secretary of State Thomas Merrill and the co-chairs of the Alabama Permanent Legislative Committee on Reapportionment. Plaintiffs alleged that the reapportionment committee impermissibly used race as the predominant factor in drawing the district maps adopted in House Bill 1 ("HB 1"). Plaintiffs further alleged that by preventing t…