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REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Planned Parenthood South Atlantic v. Wilson

3:21-cv-00508 | U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina

Filed Date: Feb. 18, 2021

Closed Date: July 25, 2022

Planned Parenthood of South Atlantic (PPSA), Greenville Women’s Clinic (GWC), and an individual abortion provider on behalf of himself and his patients brought this civil rights action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 to challenge the constitutionality of the South Carolina Fetal Heartbeat Protection from Abortion Act (hereinafter “SB 1” or “the Act”), which banned abortion after the detection of fetal or embryonic cardiac activity. This moment can occur as early as approximately the sixth week of pregna…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Kenny v. Wilson

2:16-cv-02794 | U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina

Filed Date: Aug. 11, 2016

Case Ongoing

On August 11, 2016, the non-profit, Girls Rock, and four students of South Carolina public schools, filed this lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina. The plaintiffs sued the Attorney General of South Carolina and the heads of twelve South Carolina Police Departments under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The plaintiffs, represented by the American Civil Liberties Union, asked the court for a declaratory judgment that two South Carolina codes, commonly referred to as the "Disturbing…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Planned Parenthood South Atlantic v. State of South Carolina

2022-001062 | South Carolina state supreme court

Filed Date: July 13, 2022

Case Ongoing

On July 13, 2022, Planned Parenthood South Atlantic, Greenville Women’s Clinic, and two physicians filed a lawsuit against South Carolina to challenge the state’s Senate Bill 1 (SB 1), a six-week abortion ban. This case was first filed in the Court of Common Pleas for the Fifth Judicial Circuit, then later taken up by the South Carolina Supreme Court after a petition for original jurisdiction was filed on July 20, 2022. Plaintiffs argued that South Carolina's six-week abortion ban violates the …
EDUCATION
CODING IN PROCESS
Rodriguez v. Finan

2:15-cv-02317 | U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina

Filed Date: June 8, 2015

Closed Date: Oct. 30, 2022

Named plaintiffs filed this class action lawsuit on June 8, 2015, in the U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina against the South Carolina Commission on Higher Education (“CHE”), the College of Charleston, and Trident Technical College. Their lawsuit challenged the defendants’ policies classifying U.S. citizen students residing in South Carolina as non-residents for the purposes of tuition, state merit scholarships, and need-based grants if they are dependents of parents who are…
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
United States v. South Carolina Department of Juvenile Justice

3:22-cv-01221 | U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina

Filed Date: April 14, 2022

Case Ongoing

This is a case about the alleged constitutional violations of the South Carolina Department of Juvenile Justice (the “Department of Juvenile Justice”) against the children in their custody at the Broad River Road Complex. These violations include not preventing fights among youths, staff harming children by using excessive force (such as choking, punching, kicking, and twisting arms), and isolating youth for minor indiscretions. On April 14, 2022 the United States, represented by attorneys from…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Z.M. v. Baker

3:18-cv-01370 | U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina

Filed Date: May 18, 2018

Closed Date: May 26, 2021

This is a case about whether South Carolina is required to provide proper therapy to children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) on Medicaid. On May 18, 2018, a child diagnosed with ASD and prescribed applied behavioral analytics treatment filed this putative class-action lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina. The plaintiff sued the Director of the South Carolina Department of Health and Human Services under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Represented by private coun…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Voltz-Loomis v. McMaster

5:20-cv-01533 | U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina

Filed Date: April 21, 2020

Closed Date: Oct. 15, 2020

This is a case about the constitutionality of South Carolina’s failure to protect incarcerated people from the risks posed by the COVID-19 virus in its prisons. On April 21, 2020, the ACLU and a private law firm filed this lawsuit in the District of South Carolina on behalf of all people housed in a South Carolina Department of Corrections prison during the duration of the COVID-19 pandemic. Protection & Advocacy for People with Disabilities joined the lawsuit as a plaintiff on behalf of incarc…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Geissler v. Stirling

4:17-cv-01746 | U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina

Filed Date: June 30, 2017

Closed Date: April 22, 2022

An individual with Hepatitis C who was incarcerated at the South Carolina Department of Corrections brought this pro se lawsuit on June 30, 2017. The plaintiff challenged the Department's testing and treatment protocols for Hepatitis C, alleging that the Department’s policies and practices fell below the constitutional standard of care. The Department’s conduct allegedly violated the Eighth Amendment and the Equal Protection and Due Process clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment. The plaintiff sou…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
White v. Shwedo

2:19-cv-03083 | U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina

Filed Date: Oct. 30, 2020

Closed Date: Sept. 17, 2021

On October 30, 2019, several people whose drivers licenses had been suspended filed this putative class action lawsuit against the Director of the South Carolina Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) and a Judge of Administrative Law who oversaw South Carolina DMV hearings. The plaintiffs filed their complaint in the U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina; it was assigned to Judge Richard M. Gergel. Represented by various public interest law organizations, including the ACLU and th…
PUBLIC ACCOMMODATIONS/CONTRACTING
United States of America v. Piggie Park Enterprises, Inc.

01605 | U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina

Filed Date: Dec. 18, 1964

Closed Date: March 18, 1968

On December 18, 1964, Black residents of South Carolina filed this class action lawsuit against the corporate entity Piggie Park Enterprises, Inc. The plaintiffs alleged that the defendants refused to serve them at their South Carolinian restaurants in violation of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Piggie Park operated six barbecue restaurants. Five of them were drive-in restaurants that served food to customers in their cars and let them drive away to eat elsewhere. The sixth restaurant, Little Jo…