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POLICING
Jackson v. City of Fort Lauderdale

0:24-cv-60935 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida

Filed Date: May 31, 2024

Case Ongoing

This case involved police dispersal of Black Lives Matter protestors in Fort Lauderdale on May 31, 2020. Four years later, on May 31, 2024, several protestors filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida against the City of Fort Lauderdale and individual Fort Lauderdale Police Department (“FLPD”) officers under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and Florida state law. Represented by private counsel, the plaintiffs alleged that FLPD officers used tear gas and kinetic impact p…
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Pernell v. Florida Board of Governors of the State University System

4:22-cv-00304 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida

Filed Date: Aug. 18, 2022

Case Ongoing

A group of Florida educators and students, including a constitutional law professor and several professors of race and gender studies, filed this complaint against Florida and various Boards of Governors, trustees, and commissioners of Florida public colleges and universities. Plaintiffs filed suit on August 18, 2022 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida, Tallahassee Division, and were represented by the ACLU, ACLU of Florida, NAACP Legal Defense Fund, and a private la…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Keohane v. Jones

4:16-cv-00511 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida

Filed Date: Aug. 15, 2016

Closed Date: Nov. 17, 2021

This is a case about access to gender affirming care in Florida prisons. The plaintiff was a transgender woman imprisoned in a men's correctional facility in the custody of the Florida Department of Corrections (“FDOC”). On August 15, 2016, the plaintiff filed this suit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida against the Secretary of the FDOC, an FDOC medical official, and the warden and medical director of the prison in which the plaintiff was incarcerated. Represented …
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Trump Media & Technology Group Corp. v. De Moraes

8:25-cv-00411 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida

Filed Date: Feb. 18, 2025

Case Ongoing

(This summary is temporary, while we research the case.) On February 19, 2025, Trump Media and Technology Group and Rumble Inc. filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida against a justice on the Brazilian Supreme Federal Court. The Plaintiffs alleged that the judge had issued a sweeping "gag order" suspending multiple social media accounts based in the U.S., such that no one in the United States could see the suspended content, thereby "censor[ing…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
League of Women v. Secretary of State

1:06-cv-21265 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida

Filed Date: May 22, 2006

Closed Date: June 7, 2009

On May 22, 2006, the League of Women Voters of Florida, People Acting for Community Together (Pact), Florida AFL-CIO, American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, Council 79 (AFSCME), SEIU Florida Healthcare Union, as organizations and representatives of their members, the President of the Tallahassee League of Women Voters, and one hundred eligible voters who have not registered to vote, filed suit in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida. Defen…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Keohane v. Dixon

4:24-cv-00434 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida

Filed Date: Oct. 25, 2024

Case Ongoing

This case concerns transgender women inmates’ access to gender-affirming care, including hormone therapy and feminine clothing and grooming standards, in Florida Department of Corrections (FDC) facilities. After a previous suit in 2016 by the same Plaintiff, the FDC had been providing such gender-affirming care. However, on September 30, 2024, the FDC announced a change in policy requiring trans inmates to comply with male clothing and grooming standards within 30 days. Hormone therapy would be…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
CODING IN PROCESS
White v. Sessions

510:12-00077 | No Court

Filed Date: 2012

(This summary is temporary, while we research the case.) The EEOC initiated an investigation into the Bureau of Prisons following complaints from female employees who alleged they were subjected to sexual harassment and retaliation for reporting misconduct.
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Equality Florida v. DeSantis

4:22-cv-00134 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida

Filed Date: March 31, 2022

Closed Date: March 22, 2024

This case, filed on March 31, 2022, challenged Florida House Bill 1557, the Florida statute widely known as the "Don't Say Gay" law. H.B. 1557 banned any school instruction on "sexual orientation and gender identity." Equality Florida and Family Equality, two non-profit, public interest organizations, together with individual students, parents, and a teachers brought this suit against the State of Florida, Florida Department of Education, the Florida Board of Education, state officials in their…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Stanley v. City of Sanford, Florida

6:20-cv-00629 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida

Filed Date: April 11, 2020

Case Ongoing

This case involves alleged disability discrimination in a city’s health insurance subsidy. On April 11, 2020, a disabled, retired firefighter brought suit in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida against the City of Sanford, Florida, alleging discrimination on the basis of disability in violation of the Rehabilitation Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the Equal Protection Clause of the United States Constitution, and state law. Plaintiff, represented …
JAIL CONDITIONS
Swain v. Junior

1:20-cv-21457 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida

Filed Date: April 5, 2020

Closed Date: Sept. 2, 2022

COVID-19 Summary: On April 4, 2020, individuals detained in Miami-Dade County jails filed a class action complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, seeking habeas, injunctive, and declaratory relief. The court granted plaintiff’s motion for a TRO and preliminary injunction in part, and the defendants appealed to the Eleventh Circuit. On June 15, the Eleventh Circuit vacated the preliminary injunction. A jury trial was scheduled for March 1, 2021, but the case was…