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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

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…
LABOR RIGHTS
Tetzaguic Lux v. Centrum Valley Farms

3:25-cv-03017 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa

Filed Date: March 14, 2025

This is a case alleging mistreatment of immigrant workers by an employer. On March 14, 2025, six Guatemalan nationals filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Iowa. The plaintiffs sued their former employer, Centrum Valley Farms, and their former supervisor. They alleged that their employer failed to compensate them with overtime, and that their supervisor harassed them and demoted or transferred them based on their national origin and ethnicity. Accor…

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IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Iowa Migrant Movement for Justice v. Bird

4:24-cv-00161 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa

Filed Date: May 9, 2024

(This summary is temporary while we research the case further). This is a case about a law in Iowa that criminalized entering Iowa after being deported or denied entry into the United States. It was brought by Iowa Migrant Movement for Justice against Iowa on May 9, 2024. 
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Doe 1 v. Noem

3:25-cv-00042 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa

Filed Date: April 21, 2025

This case is one of numerous lawsuits challenging the Trump administration’s abrupt termination of immigration visas—mostly student or work visas—with no notice to the visa-holders and with dubious or no legal basis. You can see all of the cases here. (This summary is temporary, while we research the case.) On April 21, 2025, four international students—attending school on an F-1 visa--filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Iowa against the Secretary…

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PUBLIC ACCOMMODATIONS/CONTRACTING
Meadows v. Liberty High School

CVCV086130 | Iowa state trial court

(This summary is temporary while we research the case further). In this lawsuit, a transgender parent challenged an Iowa City Community School District policy that restricted use based on biological sex. Represented by the ACLU of Iowa, the plaintiff filed suit against Liberty High School and  the Iowa City Community School District on February 17, 2025. The parent plaintiff dismissed the suit on March 31, 2025. 
NURSING HOME CONDITIONS
State of Kansas v. Becerra

1:24-cv-00110 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa

Filed Date: Oct. 8, 2024

This case challenges national nursing home staffing and reporting requirements. Twenty states and several organizational plaintiffs collectively filed suit on October 8, 2024, in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa against the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) and the Secretary of DHHS, as well as the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Administrator of CMS. Plaintiffs set forth the following facts in their complaint: In February 2022, se…
FAIR HOUSING/LENDING/INSURANCE
United States v. Williams

3:25-cv-00007 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa

Filed Date: Jan. 17, 2025

This case challenges alleged sex discrimination in violation of the Fair Housing Act (FHA) by a manager and owner of multiple rental dwellings. On January 17, 2025, the United States Department of Justice filed this Fair Housing Act discrimination pattern-or-practice complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa against a manager and owner of approximately 20 rental properties in the Davenport, Iowa area. The case was assigned to District Judge Rebecca Goodgame Ebinger.…

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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

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…