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SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Fuller v. Warren County Educational Service Center

1:21-cv-00451 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio

Filed Date: July 2, 2021

Closed Date: March 29, 2023

This case challenges an elementary school’s policy (the “challenged policy”) banning its paraprofessionals from wearing clothing or face masks on which social or political messages were printed. Those messages include “Black Lives Matter,” “I Can't Breathe,” “Unapologetically Black,” and “Down With Racism.”  On July 2, 2021, three African-American paraprofessionals at the Laura Farrell Elementary School filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court Southern District of Ohio Western Div…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
League of Women Voters of Ohio v. LaRose

1:23-cv-02414 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio

Filed Date: Dec. 19, 2023

Case Ongoing

This case concerns Ohio's HB 458, which prohibited any person not an election official or mail carrier from returning an absentee voter's ballot.  On December 19, 2023 The League of Women Voters of Ohio, represented by the ACLU and private counsel, filed a lawsuit against the Ohio Secretary of State, the Attorney General of Ohio and the County Prosecutor of Cuyahoga County in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio. Plaintiffs challenged the law under the Voting Rights Act (VR…
HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Preterm-Cleveland v. Kasich

CV 13 815214 | Ohio state trial court

Filed Date: Oct. 9, 2013

Closed Date: Feb. 6, 2018

This case involves a challenge to three abortion-related amendments passed as part of Ohio’s state budget bill. On October 9, 2013 Preterm Cleveland, a state-licensed surgical facility that provides reproductive health services, filed suit challenging Ohio’s 2014-2015 Budget Bill in the Cuyahoga County Court. Represented by the ACLU of Ohio, Preterm Cleveland alleged that the Budget Bill’s inclusion of three provisions relating to abortion violated the bill’s unity of purpose and therefore the …
HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
CODING IN PROCESS
Moe v. Yost

24CVH03-2481 | Ohio state trial court

(This summary is temporary while we research the case further.) On March 26, 2024, two twelve-year old transgender girls and their families sued Ohio Attorney General, state medical board, and other officials in the Franklin County Court of Common Plea. Plaintiffs challenged the “Saving Ohio Adolescents from Experimentation Act,” and the “Save Women’s Sports Act” (collectively, “H.B. 68”). 
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
CODING IN PROCESS
State v. Rivera

04CR065940 | Ohio state trial court

Filed Date: 2004

(This summary is temporary, while we research the case.) This case challenged the Ohio lethal injection protocol as constituting cruel and unusual punishment, thereby violating the Eighth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution and the Ohio Constitution. The defendant was indicted in August 2004 for multiple offenses, including aggravated murder with a death specification. In 2006, the defendant sought to dismiss the death specification from the indictment, challenging Ohio's method of lethal inject…
EDUCATION
B.H. v. Ohio Department of Education and Workforce

2:24-cv-03966 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio

Filed Date: Sept. 23, 2024

Case Ongoing

This case poses a due process challenge to the absence of procedural safeguards rights of children with disabilities under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act ("IDEA") at the Warren County Educational Service Center ("WCESC"). On May 31, 2022, prior to the filing of this lawsuit, Disability Rights Ohio filed a systemic state complaint against WCESC with the Department of Education Workforce’s (the "Department") Office for Exceptional Children (the "Office"), alleging a violation of …
HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Women's Medical Professional Corporation v. Vanderhoff

A2200704 | Ohio state trial court

Filed Date: Feb. 25, 2022

Case Ongoing

This is a state court case challenging abortion restrictions in Ohio. Plaintiffs— two business operators providing abortion care—challenged 2021 Am.S.B. No. 157 (“SB157”).  In Ohio, a clinic providing abortion must maintain an ambulatory surgical facility (“ASF”) license by having a written transfer agreement (“WTA”) with a local hospital. However, public hospitals may not enter into a WTA with ASFs providing abortion. Alternatively, the clinic can maintain its license by obtaining a variance g…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Morris v. Voinovich

1:93-cv-00436 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio

Filed Date: June 28, 1993

Case Ongoing

On June 28, 1993, prisoners at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility filed a Section 1983 class action suit, pro se, in the Southern District of Ohio against officials in Youngstown, Ohio of the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction. Plaintiffs' claims were related to the treatment of prisoners during the prison riot that occurred in April 1993. Plaintiffs alleged that defendants locked as many as ten inmates in a cell, failed to protect them from violence, did not provide them wit…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
CODING IN PROCESS
Jordan v. Dayton Metro Housing Auth.

3:13-cv-00281 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio

Filed Date: Aug. 22, 2013

Closed Date: July 31, 2015

(This summary is temporary, while we research this case.) This case involves the denial of equal access to the Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher Program (“Voucher Program”) by the Greater Dayton Premier Management (“GDPM”) and Dayton Metropolitan Housing Authority (“DMHA”). The plaintiff, a blind individual, represented by Disability Rights Ohio and Advocates for Basic Legal Equality, Inc., filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio on August 22, 2013. The plaintiff …
POLICING
Chiaverini v. City of Napoleon

3:17-cv-02527 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio

Filed Date: Nov. 16, 2017

Case Ongoing

(This summary is temporary while we research the case.) The plaintiff filed this lawsuit against police officers from Napoleon, Ohio for allegedly arresting and detaining him for three days for charges the county prosecutors later dropped. The plaintiff alleged a Fourth Amendment malicious-prosecution claim under 42 U.S.C. § 1983.