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PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
State of Maine v. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

1:25-cv-00324 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maine

Filed Date: June 17, 2025

This case challenged the Trump Administration’s termination of a $9 million federal grant awarded to the state of Maine for a project to restore tidal salt marsh habitat and protect coastal infrastructure from flooding. The administration provided no explanation for the termination of the grant; plaintiffs alleged it was in retaliation against Maine’s policies protecting the civil rights of transgender people. NOAA only terminated funding for this project, not for any other similar grants; addi…

Case Is Ongoing

SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Libby v. Fecteau

1:25-cv-00083 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maine

Filed Date: March 11, 2025

Closed Date: June 8, 2011

(This summary is temporary while we research the case further). On February 15, 2025, Maine State Representative Laurel Libby was barred from speaking or voting on the House floor by the Maine House of Representatives. Representative Libby was censured for making posts on social media about a teenage transgender student athlete. Representative Libby filed suit soon after. On May 20, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court granted emergency relief in Representative Libby's favor.  
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Smith v. Fitzpatrick

1:18-cv-00288 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maine

Filed Date: July 26, 2018

Closed Date: Oct. 30, 2018

This case concerns the treatment of opioid addiction for incarcerated people. On July 26, 2018, the named plaintiff, represented by the ACLU of Maine, filed suit against the Commissioner of Maine Department of Corrections and the Chief Deputy and Acting Aroostook County Sheriff in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maine. The plaintiff, an incoming inmate at the Aroostook County Jail, alleged that despite the medical consensus that medication-assisted treatment (MAT) is the standard of…

Settled: Case Closed

Appeal Pending

HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Doe v. Austin

2:22-cv-00368 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maine

Filed Date: Nov. 21, 2022

Closed Date: Jan. 8, 2025

In this case challenging the constitutionality of a 1976 federal statute that prohibits the Military Health System from providing coverage for medically necessary surgical treatments for gender dysphoria for dependents of service members, a federal district court judge held that the prohibition violates the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment.  On December 1, 2022, a ​transgender woman receiving health insurance through the U.S. military's TRICARE program as a dependent of a former se…

Case Dismissed (Involuntary)

CHILD WELFARE
Bryan C v. Lambrew

1:21-cv-00005 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maine

Filed Date: Jan. 6, 2021

Closed Date: Nov. 27, 2024

This is a class action lawsuit about the administration of psychotropic drugs in Maine foster care.  On January 6, 2021, the plaintiffs, four foster children in the custody of the Maine Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), filed suit through their next friend in U.S. District Court for the District of Maine against the Commissioner of the Maine DHHS and the Director of the Maine Office of Child and Family Services. The complaint set forth that Maine’s Department of Health and Human S…

Case Is Ongoing

MENTAL HEALTH (FACILITY)
United States v. State of Maine

1:24-cv-00315 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maine

Filed Date: Sept. 9, 2024

This is a case alleging that the state of Maine engaged in healthcare discrimination against children with behavioral disabilities. On September 9, 2024, the U.S. Department of Justice brought this lawsuit against Maine, alleging that the state violated the ADA by unnecessarily separating children with behavioral disabilities from their families and placing them in institutions.  The DOJ argued that defendant’s community-based services were not available when children with behavioral health dis…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
DeSena v. State of Maine

1:11-cv-00117 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maine

Filed Date: March 28, 2011

Closed Date: March 21, 2012

This is a case alleging malapportioned districts in Maine. Plaintiffs, two individual residents of Congressional District 1 in Maine, filed this action in the United States District Court for the District of Maine on March 28, 2011 alleging that their right to vote was unlawfully diluted in violation of Article II, section 2 of the United States Constitution and the Equal Protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution.  Defendants included Maine, its Governor, t…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Dyer v. Harris

2:21-cv-00002 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maine

Filed Date: Jan. 4, 2021

Closed Date: Jan. 19, 2021

This case involved a claim by a private citizen against Kamala Harris and others (including the Democratic National Committee, Michael R. Pence and the Secretary of State of Maine), alleging that Kamala Harris did not possess United States citizenship and was not eligible to serve as Vice President of the United States. On January 4, 2021, Plaintiff filed this action in the District of Maine. Plaintiff alleged that violations of the Civil Rights Act of 1866, the Voting Rights Act and the U.S. C…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
American Civil Liberties Union of Maine Foundation v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security

2:18-cv-00182 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maine

Filed Date: May 8, 2018

Closed Date: Dec. 9, 2020

This is one of a pair of lawsuits filed by state affiliates of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), each relating to two separate Freedom of Information Act requests seeking agency records on immigration enforcement practices in Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont. (The other case is American Civil Liberties Union of Maine Foundation v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security.) Both cases were brought in U.S. District Court for the District of Maine; the ACLU sought declaratory and injunctive …
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Key v. City of Augusta

1:17-cv-00007 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maine

Filed Date: Jan. 5, 2017

Closed Date: Sept. 5, 2017

This is a case about a state prisoner's right to vote in the 2016 presidential and state elections. On January 5, 2017, the plaintiff, who was incarcerated at the Main State Prison-Warren, filed this lawsuit in United States District Court, District of Maine. The plaintiff, who argued that he had a valid pre-incarceration street address, alleged that Defendants were negligent in denying his voter registration for a non-existent street address and that departmental practices amounted to discrimi…