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REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
American Medical Association v. Stenehjem

1:19-cv-00125 | U.S. District Court for the District of North Dakota

Filed Date: June 25, 2019

Case Ongoing

This is a case about constitutional challenges to two North Dakota laws that required physicians to provide patients with misleading and non-medical information about reproductive health. On June 25, 2019, American Medical Association, a North Dakota clinic, and the clinic’s medical director, filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of North Dakota seeking declaratory and injunctive relief. Represented by private counsel, the plaintiffs sued the Attorney General o…
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Christian Employers Alliance v. United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

1:21-cv-00195 | U.S. District Court for the District of North Dakota

Filed Date: Oct. 18, 2021

Case Ongoing

This is a case brought by the Christian Employers Alliance, a membership ministry for Christian employers, which sought exemptions for its members from requirements to provide gender transition-related health care coverage.  On October 18, 2021, Christian Employers Alliance (the “Alliance”), filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of North Dakota. The Alliance sued the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) and the U.S.Department of Health and Human Service…
POLICING
CODING IN PROCESS
Dundon v. Kirchmeier

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

Filed Date: Nov. 28, 2016

Case Ongoing

(This summary is temporary while we research the case.) This was a class action lawsuit filed on behalf of protestors who were injured by law enforcement while protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline. On November 28, 2016, a week after over 200 protestors were injured at Backwater Bridge in Standing Rock, North Dakota, this case was filed. Five years later, on December 29, 2021, the court dismissed the case.
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…
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

Case Ongoing

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…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Jensen v. Klecker

1:78-01063 | U.S. District Court for the District of North Dakota

Filed Date: July 28, 1978

Inmates of the North Dakota State Penitentiary brought suit as pro se plaintiffs under 42 U.S.C. §1983 in the U.S. District Court for the District of North Dakota. Originally, five separate actions were filed but these were later consolidated into one comprehensive complaint. The consolidated complaint alleged that state prison officials refused to reimburse inmates for money earned through an inmate operated prison concession stand and that prison officials routinely opened inmates' incoming a…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
CODING IN PROCESS
Coleman v. Block

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

Filed Date: 1984

Make this and the other two related articles a resource: https://www.agweek.com/business/agriculture/7304083-Surviving-to-win-Sarah-Vogels-Coleman-v.-Block-lawsuit-rocked-agriculture
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. Cyclone Drilling, Inc.

1:99-cv-00107 | U.S. District Court for the District of North Dakota

Filed Date: Sept. 30, 1999

Closed Date: May 8, 2001

The Denver office of the EEOC brought this suit against Cyclone Drilling, Inc. in September 1999, in the U.S. District Court for the District of North Dakota. The charging party intervened in the suit in May 2000. The parties settled the case, and the court entered a consent judgment in May 2001. Because the docket is the only document available, no information pertaining to the nature of the suit or the consent judgment is reported.
INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY (FACILITY)
Assoc. for Retarded Citizens of North Dakota v. Olson

1:80-cv-00141 | U.S. District Court for the District of North Dakota

Filed Date: Sept. 26, 1980

Closed Date: 1996

On September 26, 1980, the Association for Retarded Citizens of North Dakota (ARC-ND) and six citizens with intellectual disabilities filed a class action lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of North Dakota against the state. ARC-ND sought declaratory and injunctive relief regarding treatment and conditions in the Grafton State School's (later named the Developmental Center) facilities in Grafton and Dunseith. ARC-ND was represented by a private attorney and Legal Ser…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
CODING IN PROCESS
Sinner v. Jaeger

3:20-cv-00076 | U.S. District Court for the District of North Dakota

Filed Date: May 6, 2020

NOTE: This case is being tracked in close to real time by the Stanford/MIT Healthy Elections Project. So for information, see their tracker. According to their summary as of 09/01/2020, Suit challenged North Dakota constitutional and statutory provisions governing the signature process to place a constitutional amendment on the November 3, 2020 ballot that would create a nonpartisan legislative redistricting process. These provisions require persons to sign a petition in the presence of the in…