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ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
U.S.A. v. South Dakota

3:00-cv-03015 | U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota

Filed Date: March 28, 2000

Closed Date: Dec. 12, 2002

This is a case about the protection of the voting rights of Native Americans in state legislature elections.  South Dakota has 35 legislative districts, each of which elects one senator and two representatives.  Before the 1990 census, the two representatives were elected at large to represent the entire legislative district.  The legislature redistricted in 1991 "in order to protect minority voting rights”: District 28 in the north central part of the state was split into two single-member Hou…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Planned Parenthood Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota v. Daugaard

4:11-cv-04071 | U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota

Filed Date: May 27, 2011

Closed Date: Oct. 21, 2022

This is a case challenging an abortion restriction in the state of South Dakota. According to the plaintiffs, South Dakota H.B. 1217 sought to restrict women's access to abortion services in South Dakota by (1) imposing what was at the time the longest mandatory delay in the country; (2) forcing every woman who sought an abortion to disclose and discuss private personal and medical information with an unlicensed, non-medical organization opposed to her decision; (3) requiring physicians to enga…
PUBLIC ACCOMMODATIONS/CONTRACTING
NDN Collective v. Retsel Corporation

5:22-cv-05027 | U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota

Filed Date: March 23, 2022

Case Ongoing

This is a case about a hotel and bar that plaintiffs alleged refused to serve Native Americans, committing intentional race discrimination.  On March 23, 2022, an individual who is Native American and NDN Collective, a non-profit that educates, funds, and organizes people "engaged in Native American issues," filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota. Their case sought class action status for a class of all Native Americans who have or will visit the Grand Ga…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Estes v. Hughes County

3:20-cv-03013 | U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota

Filed Date: July 17, 2020

Case Ongoing

This lawsuit was filed in 2020 in the U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota by the estate of a diabetic Native American man who died as a pretrial detainee in the custody of the Hughes County Jail. The estate, represented by private counsel, brought claims for deliberate indifference to serious medical needs, failure to provide adequate medical care, race discrimination, and violations of state law. The lawsuit -- brought against Hughes County and various individual employees…
CHILD WELFARE
Oglala Sioux Tribe v. Van Hunnik

5:13-cv-05020 | U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota

Filed Date: March 21, 2013

Closed Date: Jan. 16, 2020

This case is about whether, despite the protections afforded by the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978 (ICWA) to Native American families, officials in Pennington County, South Dakota removed Native American children from their homes without sufficient evidence or adequate hearings. On March 21, 2013, three native parents and the Oglala Sioux Tribe and the Rosebud Sioux Tribe brought this class-action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota. They sued the Secretary of …
PRISON CONDITIONS
Native American Council of Tribes v. Weber

4:09-cv-04182 | U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota

Filed Date: Dec. 9, 2009

Closed Date: Dec. 22, 2017

On December 9, 2009, the Native American Council of Tribes and current and former Native American inmates in the South Dakota State Penitentiary filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota. Native American inmates in the South Dakota State Penitentiary were forbidden from using tobacco in their Native American rituals and ceremonies. Therefore, they sought declaratory and injunctive relief under the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA)…
FAIR HOUSING/LENDING/INSURANCE
United States v. TK Properties

4:09-cv-04153 | U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota

Filed Date: Oct. 15, 2009

Closed Date: 2014

On October 15, 2009, the United States filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of South Dakota, under the Fair Housing Act of 1988, 42 U.S.C. §§3601-3631, against the owner of a 48 unit apartment complex and its property managers. The U.S. sought injunctive, declaratory, and monetary relief and civil penalties, alleging that the managers frequently used the n-word and other slurs to refer to black tenants, threatened tenants with eviction without cause, filed false …
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. Mitchell Temporary And Dakota Pork Industries

4:03-cv-04222 | U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota

Filed Date: Sept. 29, 2003

Closed Date: 2007

The EEOC's Denver district office sued Dakota Pork Industries, Inc., a South Dakota meat processing facility, and Mitchell Temporary, a South Dakota employment agency, on September 29, 2003 in the U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota. The EEOC's complaint alleged that Mitchell and Dakota violated the Americans with Disabilities Act when they discriminated against the intervenor, who intervened in April 2004, based on a disability (deafness) when they failed to hire her and inst…
ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE
Yankton Sioux Tribe v. EPA

4:96-cv-04268 | U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota

Filed Date: Sept. 17, 1996

Closed Date: 1998

On September 17, 1996, The Yankton Sioux Tribe petitioned the District Court of South Dakota for judicial review of a final decision of Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) to grant the Southern Missouri Waste Management District’s (“District”) request to waive the composite liner requirement for a municipal solid waste landfill facility under construction on non-Indian land within the reservation. The Tribe’s complaint alleged that the EPA’s actions were arbitrary and capricious and that th…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Lambertz-Brinkman v. Reisch

3:07-cv-03040 | U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota

Filed Date: Nov. 21, 2007

Closed Date: 2012

On November 21, 2007, three female inmates in South Dakota Women's Prison filed a class action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court of South Dakota, alleging that they were denied medication and treatment for their mental illnesses in violation of the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments. The plaintiffs alleged that they and other inmates were routinely denied medication that had been prescribed by their treating physicians on the orders of prison staff who were not doctors and not aut…