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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 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
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
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…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Planned Parenthood of Kansas And Mid-Missouri Inc. v. Donnelly

2:07-cv-04164 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri

Filed Date: Aug. 20, 2007

Closed Date: July 1, 2010

This is a case about Missouri’s Ambulatory Surgical Center Licensing Law, which restricted access to abortion in the state of Missouri. On August 20, 2007, Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri and a physician providing abortions for Planned Parenthood filed this lawsuit in the Western District of Missouri. Planned Parenthood sued the state of Missouri, Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services, Boone County, and Jackson County, MO under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Represented by private …
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Missouri v. Biden

4:21-cv-01329 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri

Filed Date: Nov. 10, 2021

Case Ongoing

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 judge granted the preliminary injunction on November 29, 2021, which enjoined the defendants from implementing the vaccination requirements in the states party to the lawsuit. The defendants appealed to the Eighth Circuit and moved for a stay of the injunction, which was denied by the …
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Wann v. City of St. Louis

1422-CC10272 | Missouri state trial court

Filed Date: June 1, 2014

Closed Date: April 12, 2016

This class action lawsuit challenged the St. Louis Municipal Court’s practice of imposing “warrant recall fees.” The named plaintiffs, who been charged with traffic offenses, were ordered to pay “fees” to the court to vacate arrest warrants after they missed court appearances. However, these fees were not authorized by state or local law. Represented by attorneys from the Saint Louis University Legal Clinic, the plaintiffs filed this case in the Circuit Court for the City of St. Louis City some…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Reproductive Health Services of Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region, Inc. v. Parson

2:19-cv-04155 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri

Filed Date: July 30, 2019

Case Ongoing

On July 30, 2019, the ACLU filed this litigation in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri to challenge Missouri laws that would ban abortion in the state at nearly every stage of pregnancy. The plaintiffs, a non-profit reproductive care provider and a licensed obstetrician-gynecologist, sued the Governor of Missouri, the state Attorney General, the Circuit Attorney for the City of St. Louis, the President of the State Medical Board, and the Director of the Department of H…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Brown v. Precythe

2:17-cv-04082 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri

Filed Date: May 18, 2017

Case Ongoing

This class-action litigation was filed on May 18, 2017, in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri. An amended complaint was filed on June 8, 2017. In the lawsuit, four named plaintiffs challenged the Missouri Department of Corrections’ (MDOC) parole procedures for juveniles sentenced to life without parole before the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Miller v. Alabama, 567 U.S. 460 (2012), which held that mandatory life sentences for juvenile offenders without the possibility…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Postawko v. Missouri Department of Corrections

2:16-cv-04219 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri

Filed Date: July 14, 2016

Case Ongoing

On July 14, 2016, an inmate at the Missouri Department of Corrections (MDOC) filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri, alleging that he had received inadequate medical care from the MDOC for a chronic Hepatitis C (HCV) viral infection. The inmate originally filed on his own, but the ACLU of Missouri and MacArthur Justice Center began representing this inmate and on December 15, 2016, the plaintiff filed an amended complaint seeking to proceed as a…