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POLICING
United States v. City of New Orleans

2:12-cv-01924 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana

Filed Date: July 24, 2012

Case Ongoing

In 2010, New Orleans Mayor Mitchell Landrieu invited the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to review civil rights issues at the New Orleans Police Department (NOPD), and propose any necessary reforms. The DOJ opened the requested investigation on May 15, 2010, pursuant to the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968, and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Following a comprehensive investigation, on March 17, 2011, the DO…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
United States v. Housing Authority of New Orleans

2:22-cv-03568 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana

Filed Date: Sept. 30, 2022

Case Ongoing

This lawsuit is about discrimination against individuals with disabilities in violation of the Fair Housing Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act. The U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division filed suit against the Housing Authority of New Orleans (HANO) and seven private developers in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana on September 30, 2022. The complaint alleged that following Hurricane Katrina, the Housing Authority of New Orleans initiated a redevelo…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
June Medical Services LLC v. Caldwell

3:14-cv-00525 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana

Filed Date: Aug. 22, 2014

Case Ongoing

This is a case challenging an abortion restriction in the state of Louisiana. Act 620 prevented doctors from providing abortion services in the state unless they secured admitting privileges at a hospital within 30 miles of where they provide abortion care. On August 22, 2014, three women's reproductive health clinics and two individual doctors who perform abortions filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana. The plaintiffs sued the Attorney General of Lo…
ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE
CODING IN PROCESS
EPA Investigation of Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality and Health

No Court

In response to administrative complaints filed with the agency (Nos. 01R-22-R6, 02R-22-R6, and 04R-22-R6), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) opened an investigation into the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality (LDEQ) and the Louisiana Department of Health's (LDH) on April 6, 2022 via its authority under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and EPA's nondiscrimination regulations. The complaints alleged that LDEQ's implementation of its air pollution control permit program …
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
Smith v. Edwards

3:22-cv-00573 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana

Filed Date: Aug. 19, 2022

Case Ongoing

Louisiana officials announced that they would incarcerate about two dozen children in the former death row of the Louisiana State Penitentiary (commonly referred to as Angola) after Chief District Judge Shelly D. Dick signed off on the transfer. On August 19, 2022, plaintiffs, represented by the ACLU, filed suit against Governor John Bel Edwards, Deputy Secretary of the Office of Juvenile Justice William Sommers, and Secretary of the Louisiana Department of Public Safety & Corrections James M. …
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
June Medical Services, LLC v. Landry

22-5633 | Louisiana state trial court

Filed Date: June 27, 2022

Case Ongoing

This case is about Louisiana's abortion "trigger law," which had been enacted in 2006 in anticipation of the U.S. Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade. Three days after the Supreme Court issued its decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, the Center for Reproductive Rights sued, on behalf of June Medical Services (d.b.a. Hope Medical Group for Women), the state in the Civil District Court for the Parish of Orleans in the State of Louisiana on June 27, 2022, claiming Louisiana'…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
United States v. West Monroe

3:21-cv-00988 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana

Filed Date: April 14, 2021

Case Ongoing

This is a case about alleged violations of the Voting Rights Act by the city of West Monroe in their election process for the Board of Alderman. On April 14, 2021, the United States filed this lawsuit in the Western District of Louisiana against the city of West Monroe under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, 52 USC § 10301. The United States Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division sought declaratory relief through a court order declaring that the current method of electing West Monroe's…
POLICING
North Baton Rouge Matters v. City of Baton Rouge

3:16-cv-00463 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana

Filed Date: July 13, 2016

Case Ongoing

On July 13, 2016, organizations whose members participated in and witnessed protests in Baton Rouge, Louisiana in response to the death of Alton Sterling, filed this civil rights lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana. Represented by the ACLU of Louisiana, the New Orleans Workers’ Center for Racial Justice, and private counsel, the plaintiffs sued the City of Baton Rouge and local government officials in their official capacities under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for viola…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
VAYLA New Orleans v. Schedler

3:16-cv-00305 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana

Filed Date: May 4, 2016

Closed Date: June 13, 2016

This is a case about Louisiana's voter registration law that required naturalized U.S. citizens, but not native-born citizens, to provide documentary proof of citizenship in order to register to vote. Section 18:105(B) dated back to 1874 and was the last law of its type still enforced in the United States. On May 4, 2016, the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Fair Elections Legal Network filed suit on behalf of VAYLA New Orleans, three naturalized citizens, and a proposed class of other natur…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
CRIPA Investigation of Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections

No Court

Filed Date: Dec. 31, 2020

Case Ongoing

On December 3, 2020, the Special Litigation Section of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division (DOJ) announced that it had opened a statewide investigation into the Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections’ (LDOC) prisoner release practices and policies. DOJ’s announcement followed multiple lawsuits, including Humphrey v. LeBlanc, and a 2019 State Auditor’s report alleging that the state routinely keeps prisoners in jail past their release dates for days, weeks, and …