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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…
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…
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.
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Libertarian Party of North Dakota v. Jaeger

3:10-cv-00064 | U.S. District Court for the District of North Dakota

Filed Date: July 16, 2010

On July 16, 2010, the Libertarian Party of North Dakota and three LPND candidates filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of North Dakota against the state of North Dakota, under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. They sought a declaratory judgment, alleging that their exclusion from the general ballot after failing to gain a state-imposed threshold number of votes in the primary election violated the First and Fourteenth Amendments of the Constitution. On September 3, 2010, the District Court (J…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Ramsey v. Dalrymple

3:14-cv-00057 | U.S. District Court for the District of North Dakota

Filed Date: June 6, 2014

Closed Date: June 29, 2015

This federal lawsuit challenges North Dakota's refusal to allow same-sex marriages or recognize those celebrated in other states. It was filed on June 6, 2014 in the U.S. District Court for the District of North Dakota, by seven same-sex couples. (Prior to this lawsuit, it seems that North Dakota was the only state that bans same-sex marriage without such a challenge pending.) One couple sought to marry in North Dakota; four were North Dakota residents who had married elsewhere; one couple h…
EDUCATION
Department of Education OCR Title IX Investigation of Minot State University

05-14-2061 | No Court

Filed Date: Dec. 18, 2014

On December 18, 2014, a student at Minot State University filed a complaint with the US Department of Education, Chicago Office for Civil Rights (OCR). She alleged that school officials failed to respond promptly and equitably to her report of sexual assault by a faculty member in violation of Title IX. On February 26, 2014, OCR announced that it would open an investigation.On July 7, 2016, OCR concluded the investigation and identified a number of substantial compliance issues. First, the Univ…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Self Advocacy Solutions v. Jaeger

3:20-cv-00071 | U.S. District Court for the District of North Dakota

Filed Date: May 1, 2020

Closed Date: Oct. 23, 2020

On May 1, 2020, Self Advocacy Solutions N.D., League of Women Voters of North Dakota, and an individual plaintiff filed a complaint against the Secretary of State of North Dakota and the County Auditor of Grand Forks County to challenge the absence of notice and cure procedures for the state’s signature matching requirement. The plaintiffs brought this as a declaratory action under 28 U.S.C. §§ 2201 and 2202, and as an injunctive action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Specifically, the plaintiffs sough…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Sinner v. Jaeger

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

Filed Date: May 6, 2020

Closed Date: June 24, 2020

This is a case about whether the U.S. Constitution was violated by the combined pressures of the COVID-19 pandemic and North Dakota's in-person signature gathering requirements for ballot initiative petitions. On May 6, 2020, the North Dakota Secretary of State was sued in the U.S. District Court for the District of North Dakota by four individual voters and North Dakota Voters First (NDVF), the sponsoring committee for a proposed state constitutional amendment related to election procedures an…
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…
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…