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Florida Immigrant Coalition, Inc. v. DeSantis

1:22-cv-23927 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida

Filed Date: Dec. 1, 2022

Case Ongoing

On December 1, 2022, three immigrant advocacy groups brought suit against Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and Jared W. Perdue, Secretary of the Florida Department of Transportation, in their official capacities. The Florida Immigrant Coalition (FLIC), Americans for Immigrant Justice (AI Justice) and Hope CommUnity Center (HCC), represented by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), the Criminal Justice Institute (CJI) of Harvard Law School, and private counsel, filed this suit in the U.S. Distric…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
T.W. v. Jacobo

4:13-cv-00457 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida

Filed Date: Aug. 15, 2013

This is a state-wide class action brought on behalf of over 300 individuals with psychiatric disabilities segregated in Florida state psychiatric treatment facilities. Plaintiff prisoners and the Protection and Advocacy agency, Disability Rights Florida, alleged that by failing to provide adequate community placements, Defendants created a situation in which individuals with psychiatric disabilities are segregated in large state facilities in violation of Title II of the Americans with Disabili…
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Falls v. DeSantis

4:22-cv-00166 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida

Filed Date: April 22, 2022

Case Ongoing

This is a case about legislation suppressing Florida's teachers and employers from encouraging discourse regarding critical race theory (“CRT”) and sex. CRT was a concept that encompassed a wide range of ideas and concepts, and it generally focused on the idea that racism is inherent in U.S. legal systems in a way that create and maintain social, economic, and political inequities. On April 22, 2022, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed into law a ban on CRT,  known as the Stop Wrongs Against O…
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
NetChoice v. Moody

4:21-cv-00220 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida

Filed Date: May 27, 2021

Case Ongoing

This is a case about content regulation of social-media providers in Florida. On May 27, 2021, NetChoice and Computer & Communications Industry Association (two trade associations that seek to promote and protect free speech and free enterprise on the Internet) filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida. The trade associations sued Florida state officials, including the Attorney General of Florida, Deputy Secretary of the Florida Department of Management …
PRISON CONDITIONS
Davis v. Jones

3:17-cv-00820 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida

Filed Date: July 19, 2017

Case Ongoing

On July 19, 2017, death-row inmates in Florida filed this lawsuit alleging that the practice of placing death-row inmates in solitary confinement indefinitely violated their Eighth and Fourteenth Amendment rights. Specifically, they claimed that the permanent solitary confinement posed a serious risk of harm to the health and safety of the plaintiffs. The plaintiffs filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida against employees of the Florida Department of Co…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Harvard v. Inch

4:19-cv-00212 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida

Filed Date: May 8, 2019

Case Ongoing

Six incarcerated persons with mental or physical disabilities from the Florida Department of Corrections (FDC) filed a class action complaint against the Secretary of the FDC and FDC in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida on May 8, 2019. Plaintiffs alleged that defendants frequently, unnecessarily, and harmfully used solitary confinement against people with physical and mental disabilities. They also alleged that defendants were aware of the heightened risk that solitar…
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Honeyfund.com, Inc. v. DeSantis

4:22-cv-00227 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida

Filed Date: June 22, 2022

Case Ongoing

This is a case about legislation impacting private employers' ability to offer diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) trainings. This case was filed on June 22, 2022, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida against Florida Governor Ron DeSantis; the Florida attorney general; the senior chair, the vice chair, nine commissioners of the Florida Commission on Human Relations. The plaintiffs, (1) private employers with DEI programs in Florida and (2) DEI training consultants,…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Gainesville Woman Care, LLC v. Florida

2015-CA-1323 | Florida state trial court

Filed Date: June 11, 2015

Case Ongoing

This is a state court case challenging an abortion restriction in the state of Florida. According to the plaintiffs, House Bill 633 (the Mandatory Delay Law) sought to restrict women’s access to abortion services in Florida by imposing a minimum 24-hour delay between receiving state-mandated information about the nature and risks of abortion and the abortion procedure. Florida Statutes § 390.0111 required physicians to provide the information in-person (an earlier case challenging that provisio…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Presidential Women's Center v. Florida

50-1997-CA-005796-OCAA-MB | Florida state trial court

Filed Date: June 28, 1997

Closed Date: March 21, 2014

This is a Florida state court case challenging the “Woman’s Right-To-Know Act” (the Act), enacted by the Florida Legislature in 1997. The Act essentially prohibited termination of pregnancy procedures from being performed or induced unless either the referring physician or the physician performing the procedure first obtained informed and voluntary written consent from the patient. In the initial stages of litigation, plaintiffs—comprising abortion clinics and an OB-GYN—argued that the Act shou…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Planned Parenthood of Southwest & Central Florida v. Florida

2022 CA 000912 | Florida state trial court

Filed Date: June 1, 2022

Case Ongoing

On June 1, 2022, Planned Parenthood, the Center for Reproductive Rights, the ACLU, and a private law firm filed a lawsuit on behalf of several Florida healthcare providers challenging Sections 3 and 4 of House Bill 5 (HB 5) and asserting that it violated the fundamental privacy rights guaranteed by the Florida Constitution. HB 5, scheduled to go into effect on July 1, 2022, would ban abortion after fifteen weeks of pregnancy as dated from the first day of a woman’s last menstrual period. Any he…