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United States v. City of Ferguson

4:16-cv-00180 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri

Filed Date: Feb. 10, 2016

Case Ongoing

On August 9, 2014, Michael Brown, an 18-year-old black man, was fatally shot by Darren Wilson, a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, a majority-Black city in the St. Louis metro area. The shooting sparked nationwide protests and attention to police use of force and police relations Black residents. The Prosecuting Attorney for St. Louis County, Missouri, brought the case in front of a grand jury to determine whether there was probable cause to indict Wilson for his actions. But on Novem…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Missouri Protection & Advocacy Services v. Missouri Department of Mental Health

2:04-cv-04064 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri

Filed Date: April 5, 2004

Closed Date: May 10, 2006

This is a case about a Protection and Advocacy (P&A) agency’s records access authority for peer review records in a death investigation. On April 5, 2004, Missouri P&A Services filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri. Missouri P&A filed this lawsuit against the Missouri Department of Mental Health under the Protection and Advocacy for Individuals with Mental Illness (PAIMI) Act. Represented by itself, Missouri P&A sought declarative and injunctive reli…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Southampton Community Healthcare v. Bailey

23SL-CC01673 | Missouri state trial court

Filed Date: April 24, 2023

Case Ongoing

This is a case about access to gender-affirming care for transgender people in Missouri. On April 13, 2023, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey promulgated an emergency regulation that imposed restrictions on gender-affirming care for both minors and adults. The regulation was the first of its kind in that it applied to adults too, not just minors. It required providers to inform patients of certain claims and to ensure that patients were eligible for the care. To be eligible, patients must…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Rev. Blackmon v. Missouri

2322-CC00120 | Missouri state trial court

Filed Date: Jan. 19, 2023

Case Ongoing

On January 19, 2023, a group of religious leaders who support abortion rights filed this lawsuit in the Circuit Court of St. Louis City (Missouri state trial court) challenging the state’s Total Abortion Ban (H.B. 126), Gestational Age Bans (H.B. 126), Reason Ban (H.B. 126), 72-Hour Delay (H.B. 1307), Same-Physician Requirement (S.B. 5), Medication Abortion Restrictions (S.B. 5), and Concurrent Original Jurisdiction Provision (S.B. 5). This lawsuit, filed against the state of Missouri, the Gove…
POLICING
Street v. O'Toole

4:19-cv-02590 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri

Filed Date: Sept. 17, 2019

Case Ongoing

This is a federal class action lawsuit for monetary damages against the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department (SLMPD) for its response to anti-police brutality protests on September 17, 2017. For the injunctive suit filed by the ACLU of Missouri against the City of St. Louis that also arose out of the events of September 17, 2017, see Ahmad v. City of St. Louis. Following the acquittal on September 15, 2017, of an SLMPD officer for the 2011 killing of the 24-year-old Black man, Anthony Lamar…
POLICING
Friedman v. United States

65-18245 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri

Filed Date: 1965

Closed Date: March 16, 1967

The United States charged the defendant in this case with lying to the FBI under 18 U.S.C. § 1001 (making a false statement in a matter within the jurisdiction of a department or agency of the United States). It brought suit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri, where the case was assigned to Judge John K. Regan. The defendant had told the FBI that he was beaten while handcuffed in the custody of the Missouri Highway Patrol. The FBI investigated but could not substant…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
State of Nebraska v. Biden

4:22-cv-01040 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri

Filed Date: Sept. 29, 2022

Case Ongoing

This case involves one of many challenges to President Biden's executive action to cancel specified amounts of federal student debt. On September 29, 2022, the states of South Carolina, Arkansas, Missouri, Iowa, Nebraska and Kansas filed a suit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri against President Biden, Department of Education Secretary Miguel Cardona (the Secretary), and the U.S. Department of Education (DOE). The states alleged that the debt cancellation plan woul…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Comprehensive Health v. Hawley

1716-CV24109 | Missouri state trial court

Filed Date: Oct. 10, 2017

Closed Date: June 28, 2019

On October 10, 2017, the ACLU, the ACLU of Missouri, and Planned Parenthood filed suit in the Circuit Court of Jackson County, Missouri, challenging a new abortion restriction that was scheduled to take effect on October 24, 2017. This mandate, often referred to as the “same-physician requirement,” would require a patient to receive certain state-scripted information in-person from the physician providing her medical care, at least 72 hours before an abortion. Plaintiffs argue that this mandate…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Comprehensive Health of Planned Parenthood Great Plains v. Lyskowski

2:16-cv-04313 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri

Filed Date: Nov. 30, 2016

Closed Date: Aug. 13, 2019

On November 30, 2016, Planned Parenthood brought this suit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri Central Division against Missouri state officials to challenge several abortion restrictions. In particular, Plaintiffs asserted that Missouri’s Ambulatory Surgical Center Licensing Law and Hospital Relationship Restriction unconstitutionally burdened access to abortion in the state. These statutes would have required health centers that provide abortions to be licensed as …
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Reproductive Health Services of Planned Parenthood v. Parson

1922-CC02395 | Missouri state trial court

Filed Date: May 28, 2019

Closed Date: April 22, 2022

On May 28, 2019, Planned Parenthood filed a lawsuit in the Circuit Court of St. Louis, Missouri to challenge the state’s denial of a license renewal for Missouri’s only remaining abortion care center. Without intervention, the license of the abortion facility would have lapsed on May 31, 2019. Missouri also had passed an eight-week ban on abortions, which was set to go into effect on August 28, 2019, without exceptions for rape or incest. Plaintiff sought (1) declaratory relief stating that the…