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REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
American College of Obstetricians & Gynecologists v. United States Food and Drug Administration

8:20-cv-01320 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: May 27, 2020

Closed Date: May 19, 2021

On May 27, 2020, the American College of Obstetricians & Gynecologists ("ACOG"), a nonprofit organization representing obstetricians and gynecologists, a New York-based nonprofit advocacy organization representing family medicine, a nationwide nonprofit representing women and transgender people of color, and a family medicine doctor and certified mifepristone (a medical abortion pill) prescriber, represented by the ACLU, filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of ­­Maryland. The …
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Planned Parenthood of Maryland, Inc. v. Azar

1:20-cv-00361 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: Feb. 11, 2020

Case Ongoing

This is a case about the government’s adoption of the separate billing rule, which reinterpreted the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and required health insurance plans on the individual marketplace to send policyholders a separate bill and receive separate payment for the abortion-related portion of plan premiums. On February 11, 2020, Planned Parenthood of Maryland and individuals who wanted to maintain abortion coverage through their qualified health plans filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District C…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Robbins v. National Aeronautics & Space Administration

No Court

Filed Date: 2013

Case Ongoing

African American and Asian American employees of the National Aeronautics & Space Administration filed a class action lawsuit with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) in 2013 under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Plaintiffs alleged that NASA discriminated against African American and Asian American employees in salary grades 13-15 (generally professionals and mid-level managers). The case was initially assigned to Administrative Judge Laurence Gallagher. Progress in th…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Hopson v. Baltimore / Carter v. Baltimore City Police Dept.

1:04-cv-03842 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: Dec. 6, 2004

Closed Date: March 19, 2015

On December 6, 2004, a group of African-American police officers brought a lawsuit against their employer, the Baltimore Police Department (BPD), as well as various other municipal entities, including the City of Baltimore and the Baltimore City Council, in the United States District Court for the District of Maryland. The plaintiffs alleged that they had been discriminated against in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e and giving rise to a cause of action …
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Ivey v. Lamone

1:20-cv-01995 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: July 7, 2020

Closed Date: July 20, 2020

During the November 2020 election, an individual (the plaintiff in this case) wanted to become an independent candidate for Maryland’s Seventh Congressional District on the November 2020 general election ballot. However, COVID-19 restrictions and communication issues from the Maryland Board of Elections provided some obstacles to her goal.  To become a candidate, the plaintiff needed to get signatures from 1% of the total number of registered and eligible voters (voters that can vote for the po…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Maryland Green Party v. Hogan

1:20-cv-01253 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: May 19, 2020

Closed Date: June 19, 2020

This case, initially tracked by the Stanford/MIT Healthy Elections Project, is about Maryland election laws which required candidates from the Green Party and the Libertarian Party to gather 10,000 signatures in order to become official political parties and nominate a candidate, an amount which the plaintiffs wanted to be lower in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. The plaintiffs alleged that the laws, as well as restrictions put in place due to the COVID-19 pandemic, hindered them from being abl…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Ndambi v. CoreCivic

1:18-cv-03521 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: Nov. 14, 2018

Closed Date: April 12, 2021

On November 14, 2018, immigrants detained at the Cibola County Correctional Center filed this putative class-action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland. (Although the facility in question is located in New Mexico, the operator was organized as a Maryland corporation.) They sued the operator of the facility, CoreCivic, under the Fair Labor Standards Act (29 U.S.C. §§ 201-219), the New Mexico Minimum Wage Act, and the common law doctrine of unjust enrichment. The suit …
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Edgar v. Coats

8:19-cv-00985 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: April 2, 2019

Case Ongoing

This case is about the government’s prepublication review (PPR) regime which exposed intelligence-agency employees and military personnel to possible sanction if they wrote or spoke about their government service without first obtaining the government’s approval. On April 2, 2019, five former employees of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the Central Intelligence Agency, and the Department of Defense filed this suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland. The…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Dhillon v. Wobensmith

1:20-cv-02197 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: July 28, 2020

Case Ongoing

This is a case challenging Maryland’s mayoral signature gathering requirements in light of COVID-19. On July 28th, 2020, a prospective, unaffiliated candidate for mayor of Baltimore filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Maryland seeking to relax Maryland’s signature-gathering requirements for the upcoming November 2020 election.  Represented by private counsel, the prospective candidate sued the Secretary of State for Maryland under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 seeking …
PRISON CONDITIONS
Duvall v. Glendening (Duvall v. Hogan)

1:94-cv-02541 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: Sept. 14, 1994

Case Ongoing

COVID-19 Summary: On April 9, 2020, the plaintiffs in this longstanding litigation filed an emergency motion for COVID-19 mitigation measures at a Maryland jail. They sought a release plan, testing, plans for testing and treatment, and the ability to social distance. On July 2, 2020, the court ordered the defendants to develop a written plan for taking care of inmates who were at a heightened risk of serious illness or death from COVID-19. The court ordered additional mitigation measures on Jul…