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EMW Women's Surgical Center, P.S.C. v. Meier

3:19-cv-00178 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky

Filed Date: March 14, 2019

Case Ongoing

(This summary is temporary, while we research the case.) In 2019, the American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Kentucky filed a lawsuit to challenge two Kentucky laws: one banned on abortion at 6-weeks of pregnancy, and the other law banned abortion based on the specific reasons for the person’s decision, such as a fetal diagnosis. 
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Planned Parenthood Great Northwest, Hawaii, Alaska, Indiana and Kentucky, Inc. v. Cameron

3:22-cv-00198 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky

Filed Date: April 14, 2022

Case Ongoing

(This summary is temporary, while we research the case.) This lawsuit, brought by a branch of Planned Parenthood, challenged Kentucky's newly-passed restrictive abortion laws, which were passed because the Kentucky Legislature overrode the governor's veto.
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. Walmart

6:20-cv-00163 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky

Filed Date: Aug. 3, 2020

Case Ongoing

On August 3, 2020, the EEOC brought a class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky against Walmart alleging sex discrimination. Specifically, the complaint alleges that Walmart subjected two named plaintiffs and a class of female grocery workers to a physical ability test that disproportionately impacted female applications by denying them employment opportunities on the basis of their sex in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The l…
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EMW Women's Surgical Center v. Cameron

22-CI-3225 | Kentucky state trial court

Filed Date: June 27, 2022

Case Ongoing

(This summary is temporary while we research the case.) This case is about Kentucky's "trigger law" banning abortion following the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. On July 22, 2022, Jefferson County Circuit Judge Mitch Perry granted a temporary injunction that blocked enforcement of the ban.
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EMW Women's Surgical Center, P.S.C. v. Glisson

3:17-cv-00189 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky

Filed Date: March 29, 2017

Closed Date: Sept. 28, 2018

(This summary is temporary, while we research the case.)The ACLU and private counsel filed this lawsuit aimed at blocking a state law that would force the state's only abortion clinic to close.
JAIL CONDITIONS
CRIPA Investigation of the Boyd County Detention Center

N/A | No Court

Filed Date: Nov. 1, 2016

Case Ongoing

On November 1, 2016, the United States Department of Justice Civil Rights Division notified Boyd County officials of its intent to conduct an investigation of the Boyd County Detention Center pursuant to the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act (CRIPA), 42 U.S.C. § 1997. The DOJ indicated that the purpose of the investigation was to determine whether prisoners are adequately protected from the use of excessive force, whether prisoners are subject to an invasion of their bodily privacy …
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Nwanguma v. Trump

3:16-cv-00247 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky

Filed Date: March 31, 2016

Case Ongoing

On March 31, 2016, U.S. citizens who had engaged in peaceful protest filed this lawsuit in Jefferson Circuit Court (State Court, Kentucky). The case was later moved to the District Court of the United States, Western District of Kentucky. Plaintiffs sued then-Presidential Candidate, Donald J. Trump, and two individual participants at Trump's rally. The plaintiffs brought claims alleging assault and battery and incitement to riot. They alleged that these claims attached to Trump through agency a…
JAIL CONDITIONS
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CRIPA investigation of Grant County (Kentucky) jail

DJ 168-30-22 | No Court

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PRISON CONDITIONS
Adams & Knights v. Kentucky

3:14-cv-00001 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky

Filed Date: Jan. 1, 2014

Closed Date: Dec. 24, 2020

On January 1, 2014, deaf and hard of hearing prisoners in the Kentucky prison system filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky on behalf of themselves and those similarly situated against the Commonwealth of Kentucky, the Kentucky Department of Corrections, several other departments of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Plaintiffs, represented by private counsel and by the Washington Lawyers' Committee Prisoners Rights Project, alleged violations of the America…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Love v. Beshear

3:13-cv-00750 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky

Filed Date: July 26, 2013

Closed Date: 2016

On July 26, 2013, a same-sex couple married under the laws of Ontario filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the governor, attorney general, secretary of state of Kentucky and two county clerks. The plaintiffs challenged the constitutionality of Kentucky's laws prohibiting same-sex couples from marrying and voiding within Kentucky marriages of same-sex couples validly entered into under the laws of other states or countries…