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SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Christian Employers Alliance v. United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

1:25-cv-00007 | U.S. District Court for the District of North Dakota

Filed Date: Jan. 15, 2025

This case is about two actions by the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) regarding gender identity and accommodations for abortion in the workplace. First, the EEOC published requirements and guidance on gender identity discrimination in the workplace. Specifically, the EEOC stated that discrimination based on gender identity constituted sex discrimination in violation of Title VII, and indicated that actions by an employer like misgendering, deadnaming, and unequal ba…

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ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians v. Jaeger

3:22-cv-00022 | U.S. District Court for the District of North Dakota

Filed Date: Feb. 7, 2022

In this case, the Eighth Circuit held that the Voting Rights Act is not individually enforceable.  Supreme Court Justice Kavanaugh has granted an administrative stay, while the Supreme Court considers a longer-lived stay pending review.  The case began as a claim of vote dilution by two Native American tribes through the "packing and cracking" of districts in North Dakota. On February 7, 2022, the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians and the Spirit Lake Tribe, along with individual Native A…

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HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
MKB Management Corp v. Burdick

1:13-cv-00071 | U.S. District Court for the District of North Dakota

Filed Date: June 25, 2013

Closed Date: April 15, 2016

This is a case about North Dakota’s 2013 ban on abortions as early as the sixth week of pregnancy. On June 25, 2013, the plaintiffs—including the last women’s health clinic in the state that provided abortions and a physician who performed family planning services, including abortions, for the clinic’s clients—filed this lawsuit in the District of North Dakota. The plaintiffs sued the state attorney for the county in which the clinic was located, the state attorney general, and the North Dakota…
HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
T.D. v. Wrigley

08-2023-CV-02189 | North Dakota state trial court

Filed Date: Sept. 15, 2023

This case is about a challenge to a state law banning gender-affirming care to transgender minors.  North Dakota Century Code Chapter 12.1-36.1 (the “Health Care Ban”) made it a crime for healthcare professionals to provide gender-affirming care to minors. The law went into effect on April 21, 2023.  On September 15, 2023, several transgender individuals, their families, and an endocrinologist who provides gender-affirming care to transgender minors filed this lawsuit against North Dakota's Att…
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Energy Transfer LP v. Greenpeace International

30-2019-CV-00180 | North Dakota state trial court

(This summary is temporary, while we research the case.) On August 22, 2017, Energy Transfer LP, one of the owners of the Dakota Access Pipeline, filed this lawsuit against Greenpeace International and other protesters in North Dakota state court. The Plaintiff alleged that Defendants' protests surrounding the Dakota Access Pipeline constituted unlawful trespass, conversion, nuisance, and defamation. Greenpeace in turn argued that its protests were protected under the First Amendment, and that …
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Tiegs v. Vilsack

3:21-cv-00147 | U.S. District Court for the District of North Dakota

Filed Date: July 6, 2021

Closed Date: Sept. 8, 2022

On July 6, 2021, the plaintiffs filed this complaint in the U.S. District Court for the District of North Dakota against the Secretary of Agriculture and the Administrator of the Farm Service Agency ("the defendants"). The plaintiffs, white farmers and/or borrowers on a farm loan, claimed that the defendants violated the Fifth Amendment and the Administrative Procedure Act. Specifically, the plaintiffs argued that under Section 1005 of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 ("Section 1005"), they…
POLICING
Dundon v. Kirchmeier

1:16-cv-00406 | U.S. District Court for the District of North Dakota

Filed Date: Dec. 28, 2016

Closed Date: Dec. 30, 2021

This is a putative class action about excessive police force used to disperse protestors of the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL). On November 20, 2016, the plaintiffs– Native Americans and other concerned citizens who referred to themselves as "water protectors"--gathered to pray and protest the DAPL at Backwater Bridge in North Dakota. They were met by local police forces who were armed with specialty impact munitions, teargas, and water cannons. Without warning, the police began to use force to …
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Brakebill v. Jaeger

1:16-cv-00008 | U.S. District Court for the District of North Dakota

Filed Date: Jan. 20, 2016

This case centers around an attempt to block enforcement of certain provisions in North Dakota’s voter ID laws adopted in 2016 and then amended in 2017.  The plaintiffs were six individuals, all of whom were members of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians, a native American tribe in North Dakota (the “Plaintiffs”).  The individuals were all residents of and qualified electors in North Dakota.  The defendant was Alvin Jaeger, the secretary of state of North Dakota, sued in his official c…
HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Access Independent Health Services, Inc. v. Wrigley

08-2022-cv-01608 | North Dakota state trial court

Filed Date: July 6, 2022

On June 28, 2022, four days after the U.S. Supreme Court decided Dobbs, the North Dakota Attorney General certified two state laws that banned nearly all abortions. These laws, N.D.C.C. § 12.1-31-12 and § 14-02.1-04.2, were originally enacted by the state legislature in 2007 under House Bill 1466 (“H.B. 1466” or "Abortion Ban"). Believing that Dobbs satisfied H.B. 1466’s trigger, the Attorney General declared that the ban would take effect one month later on July 28. In response, the Red River …
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Coleman v. Block

1:83-cv-00047 | U.S. District Court for the District of North Dakota

Filed Date: March 11, 1983

Closed Date: 1989

This case challenged the federal government’s servicing of farming loans in the 1980s. Prior to the case, the government had coerced farmers delinquent on their federal loan payments into foreclosing and liquidating their property. This class action resulted in a nationwide injunction that required adequate notice and procedural safeguards before adverse action could be taken against farmers who borrowed from the federal government. In the late 1970s/early 1980s, American farmers faced a severe…