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INDIGENT DEFENSE
State v. Covington

19-01494 | Louisiana state trial court

Filed Date: Oct. 29, 2018

Closed Date: Dec. 11, 2020

In this case, a Louisiana appellate court held that courts could not lawfully assign lawyers (in particular, public defenders) a larger caseload than they could competently handle. The Public Defender's evidence in this case established that the Louisiana public defense system currently has the capacity to handle only 21 percent of its workload with reasonable competence and effectiveness. See State v. Spears, No. 2019 KW 1494, 2020 WL 1230134 (La. Court of Appeal, First Circuit, March 13, 2020…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Hope Medical Group for Women v. LeBlanc

2:06-cv-09176 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana

Filed Date: Oct. 27, 2006

Closed Date: March 3, 2008

This is a lawsuit challenging a Louisiana abortion restriction requiring that all abortion providers be OB/GYNs. After the Louisiana State Board of Medical Examiners tried to discipline a non-obstetrician-gynecologist physician for performing a first-trimester abortion, Hope Medical Group for Women—a medical clinic that provides abortions—and the non-OB/GYN physician disciplined for providing abortions at the clinic brought this suit in the Eastern District of Louisiana on October 26, 2006. Rep…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Harding v. Edwards

3:20-cv-00495 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana

Filed Date: Aug. 3, 2020

Closed Date: May 17, 2021

This is a case about Louisiana voters who wished to avoid potential exposure to COVID-19 while casting their ballots in the November 2020 general election and December 2020 second-round runoff election. Some of the plaintiffs here had previously challenged Louisiana voting laws (with respect to the 2020 primary elections) in a case consolidated with Clark v. Edwards in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana. Chief District Judge Shelly D. Dick dismissed that case for lack …
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Giroir v. Leblanc

3:21-cv-00108 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana

Filed Date: Feb. 19, 2021

Case Ongoing

This is a case about the Louisiana Department of Public Safety & Corrections consistently over-detaining thousands of incarcerated people per year for nearly the past ten years. On February 19, 2021, an incarcerated person in DOC’s custody filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana. The plaintiff sued the Louisiana Department of Public Safety & Corrections and the Secretary of the Louisiana Department of Public Safety & Corrections under 42 U.S.C. § 1983.…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Caliste v. Cantrell

2:17-cv-06197 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana

Filed Date: June 27, 2017

Case Ongoing

On June 27, 2017, pre-trial detainees at the Orleans Parish Sheriff’s office filed this putative class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana under 42 U.S.C. §1983 against the magistrate judge of the Criminal District Court alleging unlawful bail setting practices. Plaintiffs claimed that defendant violated the Fourteenth Amendment Equal Protection Clause by keeping them in jail post-arrest when they could not afford the bail set by defendant. Plaintiffs…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Choice Inc. of Texas v. Greenstein

3:10-cv-00783 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana

Filed Date: Nov. 17, 2010

Closed Date: Aug. 17, 2012

This is a case about constitutional challenges to a Louisiana Act that allowed the Secretary of the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals to revoke an outpatient abortion facility’s license upon violation of any state or federal law or regulation. The case also concerned a zero-tolerance policy that the department instituted whereby the abortion facilities received no notice or opportunity to correct violations before having their license revoked. On September 20, 2010, several clinics t…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Achari v. Signal International, LLC

2:13-cv-06218 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana

Filed Date: March 21, 2013

Closed Date: May 26, 2017

This is the third case filed in the Signal International cases. On May 21, 2013, 33 Indian guestworkers filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi, for harm suffered as a result of an allegedly fraudulent and coercive employment recruitment scheme. The case was filed after District Judge Jay Zainey denied class certification on Jan. 3, 2012 in the related case David v. Signal International. Plaintiffs were represented by private law firms. Plaintiffs …
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Arizona v. Centers for Disease Control & Prevention

6:22-cv-00885 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana

Filed Date: April 3, 2022

Case Ongoing

This case concerns several states' challenge to the Biden Administration's decision to end a Centers for Disease Control (CDC) policy whereby migrants were summarily expelled to prevent further COVID-19 spread. Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, the CDC engaged in rulemaking that allowed the Director of the CDC to prevent individuals from entering the United States during a period deemed necessary to avert the danger of introducing a "quarantinable communicable disease into the United States." (Ti…
DISABILITY RIGHTS/PUBLIC ACCOMMODATIONS
Settlement Agreement Between United States of America and Louisiana Tech University

DJ #204-33-116 | No Court

Filed Date: 2013

Closed Date: 2018

A blind college student at Louisiana Technical University ("Louisiana Tech") filed a complaint with the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice against Louisiana Tech alleging that he was discriminated against based on his disability, in violation of Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), 42 U.S.C. § 12132. Specifically, the student alleged that his instructor at Louisiana Tech, a public institution, adopted an inaccessible internet-based application called MyOML…
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
CODING IN PROCESS
Louisiana v. Becerra

3:21-cv-03970 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana

Filed Date: Nov. 15, 2021

(This summary is temporary, while we research the case.)COVID-19 Summary: In this case, several states sued to block the federal vaccine mandate which required Medicare- and Medicaid-certified providers and suppliers to become vaccinated prior to December 6, 2021 (the CMS mandate). The judge granted the preliminary injunction on November 30,2021, and issued a nationwide injunction prohibiting the CMS mandate. 2021 WL 5609846. The defendants appealed and requested the lower court issue a stay pe…