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ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Moreno v. Denney

1:20-cv-00242 | U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho

Filed Date: May 19, 2020

Closed Date: Sept. 16, 2020

This is a case about the constitutionality of upholding Idaho’s absentee ballot request deadline after the state’s website failed, preventing voters from requesting ballots by the deadline. On May 19, 2020, Nicholas Jones for Congress (a principal political campaign committee with its main office in Idaho) along with two individual Idaho voters jointly filed suit against the Idaho Secretary of State in the U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho. The case was assigned to District Judge B.…
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
United States v. City of Troy, Idaho

3:25-cv-00262 | U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho

Filed Date: May 20, 2025

[This summary is temporary while we research the case]. On May 20, 2025, the U.S. Department of Justice sued the City of Troy, Idaho, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho, for religious discrimination.  The complaint alleged violations of the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000 (“RLUIPA”), 42 U.S.C. §§ 2000cc–2000cc5, when the city enforced zoning rules to deny Christ Church a conditional use permit allowing it to operate a religious assembly in a Troy b…

Case Is Ongoing

SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Visual Arts Collective, LLC v. Powell

1:16-cv-00414 | U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho

Filed Date: Sept. 15, 2016

Closed Date: March 12, 2018

This is a case about the application of the First Amendment to burlesque performances. When this lawsuit was filed (in 2016), Idaho had a state regulation (I.C. § 23-614) prohibiting liquor licensees from allowing female nudity or simulated sexual activity regardless of artistic context. In March 2016, undercover officers from the Idaho State Police attended a burlesque performance at Visual Arts Collective (“VAC”), a contemporary fine art gallery and performance venue. The state then initiated…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Idaho Organization of Resource Councils v. Labrador

1:25-cv-00178 | U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho

Filed Date: March 27, 2025

This lawsuit is about a class action challenge to Idaho House Bill 83 (“H.B. 83”), which attempted to regulate illegal immigration. On March 27, 2025, the Idaho Organization of Resource Councils, the Alliance of Idaho, and five named private plaintiffs brought suit in U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho against the Attorney General of the State of Idaho, and Prosecuting Attorneys for several Idaho counties. Plaintiffs alleged that H.B. 83, which created two new state law offenses enti…

Preliminary Injunction Granted

CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
The Associated Press v. Tewalt

1:24-cv-00587 | U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho

Filed Date: Dec. 6, 2024

(This summary is temporary while we research the case further). On December 6, 2024, the Associated Press, the Idaho Statesman, and East Idaho news filed sued against the Director of the Idaho Department of Corrections ("IDOC"). The news organizations alleged that IDOC's execution practices do not meed federal public transparency requirements, and they sought access for media witnesses to be present at executions. 
HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
St. Luke's Health System, LTD. v. Labrador

1:25-cv-00015 | U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho

Filed Date: Jan. 14, 2025

This case is a challenge to Idaho state law, which makes it a felony to terminate a pregnancy. On January 14, 2025, St. Luke's Health System ("St. Luke's"), an Idaho-based health system which operates hospitals across the state, brought suit against the Attorney General of the State of Idaho, in U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho. St. Luke's sued to challenge a law that Idaho passed in 2020 which created an almost-absolute ban on abortion, except in narrow circumstances. To receive f…

Case Is Ongoing

HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
M.H. v. Jeppesen

1:22-cv-00409 | U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho

Filed Date: Sept. 29, 2022

In 2022, plaintiffs, transgender and nonbinary Idahoans on Medicaid, sued the state, alleging Idaho Medicaid had an unwritten policy of denying or delaying gender-affirming care.  On September 29, 2022, two private transgender Medicaid plaintiffs (collectively, “Plaintiffs”), represented by Idaho Legal Aid Services, sued the Director of the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare (“DDHW”), the Medical Director of the Idaho Division of Medicaid (“MDI”), and the Idaho Department of Health and Welf…
HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Seyb v. Members of the Idaho Board of Medicine

1:24-cv-00244 | U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho

Filed Date: May 14, 2024

This case concerns a challenge to Idaho’s abortion bans.  On May 14, 2024 an Idaho physician filed suit for declaratory and injunctive relief in Idaho’s federal court against members of the Idaho Board of Medicine as well as several county prosecutors, all in their official capacity. Plaintiff was represented by Legal Voice and the Lawyering Project. Plaintiff alleged that Idaho’s abortion bans violated the 14th Amendment’s substantive due process and equal protection clauses by preventing wome…
HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Adkins v. State of Idaho

CV01-23-14744 | Idaho state trial court

Filed Date: Sept. 11, 2023

This suit challenged Idaho's Total Abortion Ban and Six-Week Abortion Ban as violating the rights of pregnant people and physicians protected by the Idaho Constitution. On September 11, 2023, four private plaintiffs, two doctors, and the Idaho Academy of Physicians, (collectively, “DRP”) sued the Governor of Idaho, the Attorney General of Idaho, and the Idaho State Board of Medicine (the “State Board”), (collectively, “Idaho”) in Idaho state trial court. DRP challenged both Idaho’s Total Aborti…
HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
United States v. State of Idaho

1:22-cv-00329 | U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho

Filed Date: Aug. 2, 2022

Closed Date: March 5, 2025

On August 2, 2022, the U.S. Department of Justice filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho to protect what it alleged were rights of patients to access emergency abortion care guaranteed by federal law. The suit challenged Idaho Code § 18-622, which was set to go into effect on Aug. 25 and to impose a near-total ban on abortion. The complaint sought a declaratory judgment that § 18-622 conflicted with, and was preempted by, the federal Emergency Medical Treatment …

Preliminary Injunction Granted