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DISABILITY RIGHTS
The Arc of Iowa v. Reynolds

4:21-cv-00264 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa

Filed Date: Sept. 3, 2021

Closed Date: March 19, 2024

On September 3, 2021, individual student plaintiffs, the Iowa ARC (a nonprofit dedicated to advocating for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities), and Iowa's Protection and Advocacy (P&A) system challenged the state of Iowa's k-12 school mask ban by filing a lawsuit against the state governor and certain school districts alleging the legislature's action to prohibit the wearing of masks during the covid-19 pandemic violated the Americans with Disabilities Act and Section 504 w…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Roberts v. Thompson

6:24-cv-02024 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa

Filed Date: May 13, 2024

Case Ongoing

This is a due process case related to jail fees. On May 13, 2024, the plaintiff, represented by the ACLU of Iowa, Public Justice, and private counsel, filed this putative class action lawsuit against the Black Hawk County Sheriff and Black Hawk County in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa. The plaintiff brought suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, alleging that the Black Hawk County Sheriff was collecting jail fees through an unconstitutional procedure. Specifically, the plaintif…
HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Planned Parenthood of the Heartland v. Reynolds

EQCE089066 | Iowa state trial court

Filed Date: July 12, 2023

Closed Date: Aug. 19, 2024

This is a case about an abortion ban enacted in a special session of the Iowa legislature on July 11, 2023. Previously, on May 4, 2018, Governor Reynolds signed into law a bill that would ban abortion in Iowa after a fetal heartbeat was detected, which could be as early as approximately six weeks after pregnancy. Before that, abortions were legal until twenty weeks. A district court judge declared the law to be in violation of Iowa's State Constitution because it posed an undue burden on the ri…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Bensley v. Pate

4:20-cv-00329 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa

Filed Date: Oct. 26, 2020

Closed Date: May 26, 2021

This case is about a voter's erroneous placement on a list of convicted felons, which excluded her from voting in Iowa.  In this case, an Iowa voter was erroneously placed on a list of convicted felons and excluded from voting, even though she had not been convicted of a felony.  The plaintiff alleged that she voted “as usual” in November 2018, and a few weeks later received a letter informing her that her vote had been rejected. On October 26, 2020, she sued the Iowa Secretary of State and Pol…
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
GLBT Youth in Iowa Schools Task Force v. Reynolds

4:23-cv-00474 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa

Filed Date: Nov. 28, 2023

Case Ongoing

The Iowa governor signed SF 496 into law on May 26, 2023. SF 496 includes an Age-Appropriate Standard, an Identity and Orientation Prohibition, a Library Restriction provision (together, the Book Restriction provisions), and a Parental Notice provision. The Age-Appropriate Standard dictates that school libraries must contain “only age-appropriate materials” which cannot include “any material with descriptions or visual depictions of a sex act.” SF 496 defines sex act broadly and does not accoun…
HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Planned Parenthood v. Reynolds

No. EQCE 83074 | Iowa state trial court

Filed Date: May 15, 2018

Closed Date: July 24, 2023

On May 15, 2018, a group of plaintiffs — non-profit organizations (Planned Parenthood and Emma Goldman Clinic) offering women’s health care in Iowa, as well as medical practitioners — filed a petition for declaratory judgment and injunctive relief against the state of Iowa, its governor, and the Iowa Board of Medicine, in an Iowa state trial court for Polk County. The plaintiffs were represented by the ACLU as well as private counsel. The complaint challenged an Iowa state abortion law that wou…
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Penguin Random House, LLC v. Robbins

4:23-cv-00478 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa

Filed Date: Nov. 30, 2023

Case Ongoing

The Iowa governor signed SF 496 into law on May 26, 2023. SF 496 includes an Age-Appropriate Standard and an Identity and Orientation Prohibition. The Age-Appropriate Standard dictates that school libraries must contain “only age-appropriate materials” which cannot include “any material with descriptions or visual depictions of a sex act.” SF 496 defines sex act broadly and does not account for the value of a book as a whole or its literary, scientific, medical, artistic, or political value. Th…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
DOJ Investigation of the Glenwood Resource Center

4:22-cv-00398 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa

Filed Date: Dec. 1, 2022

Case Ongoing

This was an out of court matter initiated by the United States Department of Justice Civil Rights Division (DOJ). The investigation examined conditions at the Glenwood Resource Center (Glenwood), an institution for individuals with intellectual disabilities operated by the State of Iowa in Glenwood, Iowa. The DOJ initiated the investigation in November 2019 under the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act (CRIPA), as well as Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). In a pos…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
DOJ Investigation of Cedar Rapids Community School District

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This was an out-of-court matter initiated by the United States Department of Justice Civil Rights Division (DOJ). The DOJ conducted an investigation into the Cedar Rapids Community School District in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, under Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). The DOJ’s investigation concluded that the District repeatedly employed inappropriate seclusion and restraints practices when engaging with students with disabilities, beginning as early as kindergarten. The DOJ determ…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
C.P.X. v. Garcia

4:17-cv-00417 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa

Filed Date: Nov. 27, 2017

Case Ongoing

On November 27, 2017, three individuals seeking to represent a class of all persons confined to the Boys State Training School in Eldora, Iowa (the “School”), then or in the future, and who had a significant mental illness or emotional impairment, filed this suit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa.  The School housed young boys incarcerated after adjudication as “juvenile delinquents” in state civil proceedings. The plaintiffs sued the Director of the Iowa Department o…