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EDUCATION
Rapuano v. Trustees of Dartmouth College

1:18-cv-01070 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire

Filed Date: Nov. 15, 2018

Case Ongoing

On November 15, 2018, seven female students in Dartmouth's Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences filed this putative class action suit against the Trustees of Dartmouth College under Title IX and New Hampshire common law in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire. The plaintiffs claimed a hostile educational environment, gender discrimination, quid pro quo sexual harassment, and retaliation in violation of Title IX. Additionally, the plaintiff class claimed that the T…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Libertarian Party of New Hampshire v. Sununu

1:20-cv-00688 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire

Filed Date: June 8, 2020

Closed Date: Sept. 4, 2020

The Libertarian Party of New Hampshire and several of its hopeful candidates in the 2020 elections brought this suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire on June 8, 2020. Plaintiffs brought their case against New Hampshire's Governor and Secretary of State. Plaintiffs alleged that their would-be nominees could not safely be placed on the ballot due to COVID-19 mitigation orders issued by the state. In New Hampshire, third-party candidates must secure nomination papers fr…
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Frese v. MacDonald

1:18-cv-01180 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire

Filed Date: Dec. 18, 2018

Case Ongoing

A person twice convicted under New Hampshire's criminal defamation law, N.H. Rev. Stat. § 644:11, sued New Hampshire's attorney general to challenge that law. The suit was filed on December 18, 2018, in the United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire and was assigned to Judge Joseph N. Laplante. The plaintiff asserted that the criminal defamation law violated the First Amendment because it was excessively vague. The plaintiff sought declaratory relief, a permanent injunction …
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
Meehan v. State of New Hampshire

New Hampshire state trial court

Filed Date: Jan. 11, 2020

Case Ongoing

This class action civil rights lawsuit alleged abuses at a New Hampshire youth detention center, the Youth Detention Center (YDC), in the 1990s. An alleged victim of that abuse filed this suit on January 11, 2021 against the New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services, YDC, the state Division of Juvenile Services, the state Division of Children, Youth, and Families, and hundreds of individual defendants. The plaintiff was represented by the private law firm Rilee & Associates and the …
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Frye v. Gardner

1:20-cv-00751 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire

Filed Date: July 7, 2020

Case Ongoing

This case is about equal access to voting for print-disabled voters. On July 7, 2020, the National Federation of the Blind, Inc.; the National Federation of the Blind of New Hampshire, Inc.; Granite State Independent Living; and three individuals, two who identify as blind and one with a muscle-weakness disability, filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire. The plaintiffs sued the state of New Hampshire under Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act …
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Casey v. Gardner

1:19-cv-00149 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire

Filed Date: Feb. 13, 2019

Closed Date: May 22, 2020

This is a case about voting rights—particularly those of college students—in New Hampshire. On February 13, 2019, two college students filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire. The plaintiffs sued the state’s Secretary of State and Attorney General, alleging violations of the First, Fourteenth, Twenty-Fourth, and Twenty-Sixth Amendments. Represented by the ACLU of New Hampshire, the plaintiffs sought an injunction prohibiting New Hampshire from implementin…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Drewniak v. C.B.P.

1:20-cv-00852 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire

Filed Date: Aug. 11, 2020

Case Ongoing

After being stopped and detained without a warrant at a U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) checkpoint 90 miles from the Canadian border, the plaintiff brought this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire on August 11, 2020, challenging CBP's practice of using checkpoints for general crime control. The plaintiff sued CBP, U.S. Border Patrol, the Deputy Chief Border Patrol Agent for the Swanton Sector (which policed some counties of New Hampshire), and the two a…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Gomes v. US Department of Homeland Security

1:20-cv-00453 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire

Filed Date: April 15, 2020

Case Ongoing

COVID-19 Summary: Detained immigrants sued the U.S. Department of Homeland Security alleging that the conditions of detention during the COVID-19 pandemic placed them at substantial risk of harm in violation of their due process rights. The court provisionally certified a class for the purpose of conducting bail hearings.Three immigration detainees filed this petition for habeas corpus and putative class-action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire on April 15, 20…
PRISON CONDITIONS
State of New Hampshire v. Adams

1:94-cv-00573 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire

Filed Date: Nov. 14, 1994

Closed Date: Nov. 12, 1998

This case began in 1991, when a New Hampshire state court sentenced the defendant to a term of imprisonment of 15-30 years for manslaughter. The defendant began serving his sentence at age 20.Shortly thereafter, the defendant alleged that he was denied a free and appropriate public education (FAPE) under the Individuals with Disabilities Act (IDEA), and requested a due process hearing. In lieu of a hearing, the parties reached an agreement, embodied in a consent decree, which confirmed the de…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Amanda D. v. Hassan

1:12-cv-00053 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire

Filed Date: Feb. 9, 2012

Case Ongoing

On April 7, 2011, DOJ conducted an investigation of the New Hampshire Mental Health System pursuant to the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). The DOJ concluded that the State of New Hampshire failed to provide sufficient community services to qualified individuals with mental illness in the most integrated setting appropriate to their needs, in violation of the ADA. The DOJ claimed in their findings letter that this violation had led to the needless and prolonged institutionalization of ind…