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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…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Access Independent Health Services, Inc. v. Wrigley

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

Filed Date: July 6, 2022

Case Ongoing

This case is about North Dakota's trigger ban, which criminalized nearly all abortions following the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Dobbs. The Red River Women's Clinic, the only remaining abortion provider in North Dakota, and its medical director sought to block enforcement of the ban.  The abortion ban in question is North Dakota Century Code Section 12.1-31-12 (page 8) (the “Abortion Ban”), which was enacted by the legislature and signed by the Governor during the 2007 legislative session …
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…
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

Case Ongoing

This is a case about the vote dilution of 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 American voters, filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of North Dakota. Represented by the Native American Rights Fund, the Campaign Legal Center, and private counsel, the plaintiffs sued North Dakota's Secretary of Stat…
POLICING
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 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 …
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 allegedly misleading and non-medical information about reproductive health. On June 25, 2019, American Medical Association, the Red River Women's 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 A…
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…
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…
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

COVID-19 Summary: 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 sought declaratory and injunctive relief. The plaintiffs sought a preliminary injunction on May 11, which the court granted on June 3. On A…