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POLICING
Shaw v. Schulte

6:19-cv-01343 | U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas

Filed Date: Dec. 19, 2019

Case Ongoing

This case involved an alleged unconstitutional policy of the Kansas Highway Patrol (KHP) whereby they stopped motorists with out of state plates who were driving the I-70 corridor to or from the state of Colorado. On December 19, 2019, the three named plaintiffs on behalf of a class filed this lawsuit pro se in the District of Kansas. The plaintiffs sued the Kansas Highway Patrol superintendent and two named officers in their official capacity for the alleged unconstitutional stops and seizures…
CHILD WELFARE
M.B. v. Colyer

2:18-cv-02617 | U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas

Filed Date: Nov. 16, 2018

Case Ongoing

In 2018, children in the Kansas foster care system filed a class-action suit against the Governor of Kansas, the Kansas Department for Children and Families (DCF), the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, and the Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services. The named plaintiffs allegedly experienced great hardship while involved in the Kansas foster care system, including dozens or even hundreds of moves, night-to-night changes, and starkly inadequate mental and behavioral diagn…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Coca v. Dodge City, Kansas, City of

6:22-cv-01274 | U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas

Filed Date: Dec. 15, 2022

Case Ongoing

In this case, two Latino voters claimed that the at-large election system in Dodge City, Kansas, keeps Latine candidates out of office. The Dodge City Commission uses an at-large election system that allows citizens to vote for any candidate on the five-seat commission. The current method selects winners based on the total number of votes they receive instead of selecting single winners from geographic districts. The plaintiffs, Latino citizens who are registered voters in Dodge City, alleged t…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
American Civil Liberties Union of Kansas and Western Missouri v. Praeger

2:11-cv-02462 | U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas

Filed Date: Aug. 16, 2011

Closed Date: Jan. 23, 2013

This is a case challenging a Kansas law that prohibited insurance companies from including coverage for abortion in their comprehensive plans. On August 16, 2011, the ACLU of Kansas and Western Missouri filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the Kansas Insurance Commissioner. Represented by attorneys from the ACLU of Kansas and Western Missouri as well as the national ACLU's Reproductive Freedom Project, the ACLU sought declarator…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Cato Institute v. U.S. Department of Education

5:22-cv-04055 | U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas

Filed Date: Oct. 18, 2022

Case Ongoing

In this lawsuit, filed October 18, 2022 in the U.S. District Court of Kansas, the Cato Institute, a nonprofit libertarian think tank challenged President Biden's student loan forgiveness plan. Plaintiff claims that the one-time student loan debt relief will weaken the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program, which Cato says nonprofits rely upon to incentivize potential employees. Cato argued that the loan forgiveness program violated the Appropriations Clause of Article I § 9 of the Constitutio…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Trust Women Foundation Inc. v. Bennett

2019-CV-000060 | Kansas state trial court

Filed Date: Jan. 30, 2019

Case Ongoing

This case is about telemedicine abortion in Kansas. The case follows directly from Trust Women v. Schmidt, in which plaintiff Trust Women, a reproductive health care clinic in Kansas that relies on telemedicine, won a preliminary injunction and temporary restraining order preventing the state from enforcing House Bill 2028's ban on telemedicine abortion. However, following that preliminary injunction, Kansas appealed on January 30, 2019 and asserted that Kansas Healing Arts, other Kanas abortio…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Trust Women Foundation Inc. v. Schmidt

2018-CV-844 | Kansas state trial court

Filed Date: Nov. 8, 2018

On November 8, 2018, the Trust Women Foundation ("Trust Women") challenged a law that would have prohibited the provision of abortion care via telemedicine in Kansas. Trust Women is a reproductive health care clinic in Kansas that has relied on telemedicine to expand its practice and meet patient requests for remote care. The Center for Reproductive Rights and a private attorney represented Trust Women in the lawsuit, which they brought in Kansas' third Judicial District (Shawnee County), in Di…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Progeny v. City of Wichita

6:21-cv-01100 | U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas

Filed Date: April 15, 2021

Case Ongoing

This is a case challenging the Wichita Police Department’s (WPD) usage of gang lists, alleging that they imposed a disparate impact on Black and Latinx residents and that they were unconstitutional in their implementation. The plaintiffs, Progeny (a community based organization seeking to prevent the incarceration of young people) and Wichita residents who had been impacted by these policies, were represented by Kansas Appleseed Center for Law & Justice and the ACLU of Kansas. The plaintiffs fi…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Hodes & Nauser MDs, P.A. v. Schmidt

2015-CV-000490 | Kansas state trial court

Filed Date: June 1, 2015

Case Ongoing

This is a state court case challenging an abortion restriction in Kansas, Senate Bill 95 ("SB 95"). This act sought to ban the most commonly used method of terminating a pregnancy in the second trimester, Dilation and Evacuation (“D & E”), except when continuing the pregnancy would either endanger the pregnant person’s life or major bodily function. This ban on D & E procedures was the first of its kind passed in the United States, signed into law on April 7, 2015 and scheduled to take effect o…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Hodes & Nauser, MDs, P.A. et al. v. Robert Moser, M.D et al.

2011-CV-001298 | Kansas state trial court

Filed Date: Nov. 9, 2011

Case Ongoing

This is a state court case challenging abortion restrictions in Kansas. Plaintiffs originally challenged the restrictions in federal court (more details here), but voluntarily dismissed that suit to pursue the matter in this state court case instead. Plaintiffs—a team of physicians and the private OB-GYN practice they own and operate—challenged a regulatory scheme (the “Challenged Laws”) comprising the Kansas House Substitute for Senate Bill No. 36 (2011) (the “Act”), codified as K.S.A. § 65-4a…