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ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
CODING IN PROCESS
BROWNS VALLEY IRRIGATION DISTRICT v. HOLDER

1:12-cv-01597 | U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

Filed Date: Sept. 26, 2012

Closed Date: Feb. 4, 2013

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PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Whitman-Walker Health v. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

1:20-cv-01630 | U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

Filed Date: June 22, 2020

Case Ongoing

This is a case about the Trump Administration's limits on LGBTQ protections under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (42 U.S.C. § 18116). On June 22, 2020, a group of LGBTQ-focused private healthcare providers, organizations providing community services, health professional associations, and individual providers filed this lawsuit in the District Court for the District of Columbia. The plaintiffs sued the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) under the Administrative Pr…
PRISON CONDITIONS
CODING IN PROCESS
Securus Technologies v. FCC

16-01321 | U. S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit

Filed Date: 2016

(This summary is temporary, while we research the case.) This suit, brought on Sept. 13, 2016, challenged a Federal Communications Commission (FCC) order that set new rate caps for local (intrastate) and long-distance (interstate) inmate calling. More information on the prior administrative proceedings can be found here. The State brought this suit pursuant to the Administrative Procedure Act (APA), alleging the FCC violated the APA's prohibition of arbitrary and capricious regulations and regu…
NATIONAL SECURITY
In re Directives to Yahoo Pursuant to Section 105B of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. [105B(g) 07-01]

07-00001 | Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court

Filed Date: 2007

Closed Date: 2016

In 2012, leaks by Edward Snowden revealed many details about NSA surveillance programs that had been going on for many years. In the aftermath of those leaks, the government declassified many previously secret details regarding these programs. Among the declassified documents were those in this case, in which the internet company Yahoo!, Inc. attempted to resist surveillance of some of its customers by the NSA, but lost in front of the FISA Court and the FISA Court of Review. Beginning in 2007…

Standard [FBI] Physical Search Minimization Procedures

In the Matter of the Application of the United States for an Order Authorizing Physical Search of a Non-United States Person Agent of a Foreign Power

Jan. 20, 1995

FBI Standard Physical Search Minimization Procedures [Search of a US Person Agent of a Foreign Power]

In re Directives to Yahoo Pursuant to Section 105B of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act

Jan. 20, 1995

Standard Minimization Procedures for Electronic Surveillance of a United States Person Agent of a Foreign Power

In the Matter of the Application of the United States for an Order Authorizing Electronic Surveillance of a United States Person Agent of a Foreign Power

Sept. 17, 1997

FBI Standard Minimization Procedures for Electronic Surveillance of a Non-US Person Agent of a Foreign Power

In re Directives to Yahoo Pursuant to Section 105B of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act

Sept. 17, 1997

Amendments to FBI Standard Minimization Procedures

In re Amendment to the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Standard Minimization Procedures for Electronic Surveillance and Physical Search

Sept. 26, 2006

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REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Center for Reproductive Rights v. U.S. Department of Health & Human Services

1:18-cv-01688 | U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

Filed Date: July 19, 2018

Closed Date: Oct. 12, 2021

On July 19, 2018, the Center For Reproductive Rights and the National Women’s Law Center filed a complaint in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. The plaintiffs sued the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). Represented by Covington and Burling LLP, the plaintiffs asked the court to compel HHS to disclose records responsive to two FOIA requests, which sought records pertaining to certain complaints filed with the HHS Office…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
P.K. v. Tillerson

1:17-cv-01533 | U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

Filed Date: Aug. 3, 2017

Case Ongoing

A group of diversity visa lottery winners and their family members filed suit in the US District Court for the District of Columbia on August 3, 2017. The defendants included the US Secretary of State and consular officials. The plaintiffs were represented by the Arab-American Anti-Discrimination Committee, the ACLU, the National Immigration Law Center, and private counsel. The plaintiffs challenged the State Department’s practice of denying immigrant visas to diversity lottery winners from cou…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
CODING IN PROCESS
Relf v. Weinberger

73-cv-01557 | U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

Filed Date: July 17, 1973

(This summary is temporary while we research the case.) Filed by the Southern Poverty Law Center on July 17, 1973, this case was about the widespread forced sterilization of Black women in the South through federally funded programs.
SCHOOL DESEGREGATION
Bolling v. Sharpe

50-04949 | U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

Filed Date: Nov. 9, 1950

Closed Date: 1955

In 1947, barber and civil rights activist Gardner Bishop and a group he founded, the Consolidated Parents Group, began a crusade to end segregated schooling in Washington, D.C. For more information about his efforts, including a student strike, see this account. With the strike unsuccessful, Bishop and his group decided to contact Charles Hamilton Houston, the special counsel to the NAACP--even though they saw Houston as a representative of elite blacks, not working class people like their grou…
NATIONAL SECURITY
Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security

10-01157 | U. S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit

Filed Date: July 2, 2010

Closed Date: July 15, 2011

This case was filed directly in the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Along with this case, there is a related mandamus matter with a different docket number.The Plaintiff is an independent nonprofit research center in Washington, D.C. Its mission is to protect the public's privacy and human rights. On July 2, 2010, the Plaintiff filed a petition for review with the Appellate Court. This case was about three agency actions of the Transportation Security Admini…
FAIR HOUSING/LENDING/INSURANCE
In re Black Farmers' Discrimination Litigation ("Pigford II")

1:08-mc-00511 | U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

Filed Date: Aug. 7, 2008

Case Ongoing

On April 14, 1999, a consent decree was approved in Pigford v. Glickman, involving a class of thousands of Black farmers who had sued the U.S. Department of Agriculture over racially discriminatory farm loan denials. 185 F.R.D. 82 (D.D.C. 1999). In the settlement, two "claim tracks" were created: Track A, which had a lower standard of proof of discrimination (paying up to $50,000 for credit claims and $3,000 for non-credit claims), and Track B, which required a preponderance of the evidence (pa…