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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 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 of the Florida Commission on Human Relations, the vice chair, and nine commissioners of the commission. It was initially assigned to Judge Allen Winsor. The plaintiffs, private employers with DEI programs in Florida, …
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Jacksonville Branch of the NAACP v. City of Jacksonville

3:22-cv-00493 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida

Filed Date: May 3, 2022

Case Ongoing

(This summary is temporary while we research the case) The Southern Poverty Law Center filed suit on May 3, 2022 in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida after the city of Jacksonville, Florida adopted racially gerrymandered voting maps diluting the voting power of Black residents in city council and school board elections.
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 summary is temporary while we research the case.) This case is about a Florida state law that, among other things, prevented DEI discussions in schools.
EDUCATION
CODING IN PROCESS
Faith Action Ministry Alliance, Inc. v. Fried

8:22-cv-01696 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida

Filed Date: July 27, 2022

Case Ongoing

(This summary is temporary while we research the case.) This case is about a U.S. Department of Agriculture school meal program that prohibits discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. The suit was filed by a Christian school and led to the USDA issuing guidance that religious schools seeking exemptions did not need to submit written requests to obtain the exemption.
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Courthouse News Service v. Forman

4:22-cv-00106 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida

Filed Date: March 9, 2022

Case Ongoing

(This summary is temporary while we research the case.) This case is about Florida's "no-access-before-process" policy that delayed public access to electronic court filings until after clerical processing. On June 10, 2022, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida granted a preliminary injunction, forbidding this delay in public access to court filings.
POLICING
DOJ Investigation of Escambia County Sheriff's Office

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Filed Date: Jan. 9, 2009

Closed Date: Oct. 14, 2012

This investigation of the policing practices of the Escambia County Sheriff's Office (ECSO) was opened by the Department of Justice Civil Rights Division on Jan. 9, 2009, and closed on September 4, 2012. There was a simultaneous Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act (CRIPA) investigation into the jail operated by the ECSO. That investigation is included in this Clearinghouse here. DOJ closed the policing investigation without findings, but chose to issue a technical assistance letter to…
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
G.H. v. Marstiller

4:19-cv-00431 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida

Filed Date: Sept. 4, 2019

Case Ongoing

On September 4, 2019, three minors represented by their legal guardians filed a complaint against the Florida Department of Juvenile Justice (DJJ) in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida. The plaintiffs, represented by lawyers from the Southern Poverty Law Center, Florida Justice Institute, and Florida Legal Services, sought class action certification to represent several thousand juveniles (and several hundred in a subclass of juveniles with disabilities) who w…
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 prisoners with mental or physical disorders from the Florida Department of Corrections (FDC) filed a class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida on May 8, 2019. They sued the Secretary of the FDC and the agency itself. Plaintiffs alleged that the FDC had frequently, unnecessarily, and harmfully used solitary confinement against prisoners with physical and mental disabilities. They also alleged that the defendants were aware of the heightened risk tha…
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 …