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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…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Fiandaca v. Cunningham

1:83-cv-00400 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire

Filed Date: June 30, 1983

On June 30, 1983, female prisoners at the New Hampshire State Prison filed a class action lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the New Hampshire Department of Corrections in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire. The plaintiffs, represented by New Hampshire Legal Assistance and the Disabilities Rights Center, challenged the state's failure to establish a facility for female inmates with programs and services equivalent to those provided to male inmates at the state prison…
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
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…
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 …
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 …
PRISON CONDITIONS
Nadeau v. Helgemoe

1:76-cv-00086 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire

Filed Date: March 17, 1976

On March 17, 1976, New Hampshire state prisoners who were held in protective custody ("PC") at their own request filed suit under 42 U.S.C. Section 1983, in the United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire against the New Hampshire State Prison alleging unconstitutional conditions of confinement on First, Sixth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendment grounds. The PC prisoners alleged that the prison placed stricter restrictions on the range of activities and work opportunities compa…
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…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Miles v. Sampson

1:77-cv-00384 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire

Filed Date: Nov. 25, 1977

Closed Date: March 25, 1982

In 1977, an inmate of the Rockingham County Jail brought a pro se lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the officials of Rockingham County Jail. In his complaint he alleged that he was being kept in solitary confinement under conditions so poor as to constitute cruel and unusual punishment, that he was denied medical treatment, and that he was denied the right to confer with his attorney, despite requests. It is unclear wh…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Feeley v. Sampson

1:75-00171 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire

Filed Date: June 17, 1975

In 1975, a pretrial detainee filed a class action lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against county officials of the Rockingham County Jail, New Hampshire, arguing that the conditions at the Rockingham County Jail violated detainees' constitutional rights. The Court (Judge Hugh H. Brownes, Jr.) considered the overarching question of whether pretrial detainees who had been accused of unbailable offenses or felonies, and were thus …