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EDUCATION
Pedersen v. South Dakota High Sch.

4:00-cv-04113 | U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota

Filed Date: June 9, 2000

Closed Date: 2005

On June 9, 2000, three parents, as guardians ad litem of their minor daughters, filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota against the South Dakota High School Activities Association. The students represented in the suit were all members of volleyball teams at high schools within the Association. The plaintiffs alleged that the Association violated Title IX of the Education Amendments and the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment by requiring girls voll…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. Siouxland Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Associate

4:04-cv-04215 | U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota

Filed Date: Dec. 28, 2004

Case Ongoing

The Denver and New Mexico Offices of the EEOC filed this action in the District Court for the District of South Dakota. The Defendant was Siouxland Oral Maxillofacial Surgery Associates, LLP, an outpatient surgical center for oral and maxillofacial surgery. The controversy involved the alleged termination of one complaint because of her pregnancy, and the alleged failure to hire the other complainant due to her sex. The lawsuit was filed in December 2004 and was tried to a jury in April 2007.…
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

Case Ongoing

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…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Cody v. Hillard

4:80-cv-04039 | U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota

Filed Date: March 7, 1980

Case Ongoing

On March 7, 1980, inmates of the South Dakota State Penitentiary in Sioux Falls, South Dakota filed a class action in the U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the South Dakota Department of Corrections. The plaintiffs, represented by the National Prison Project of the American Civil Liberties Union and by East River Legal Services, asked the court for class certification and declaratory and injunctive relief, alleging that their constitutional righ…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
CODING IN PROCESS
U.S.A. v. South Dakota

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

Filed Date: 2000

Closed Date: 2001

On March 28, 2000 the United States filed a lawsuit against South Dakota under 22 U.S.C. § 2201 in the U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota, Central Division. The government sought an injunction against the defendants from administering at-large elections in Legislative District 28. On April 10, 2000, the District Court (Judge Charles B. Kornmann) consolidated this case with Emery v. Hunt. The District Court requested certification from the State Supreme Court on the issue of St…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
CODING IN PROCESS
Emery v. Hunt

3:00-cv-03008 | U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota

Filed Date: 2000

Case Ongoing

On February 14, 2000, Native American registered voters and residents of Dewey County, in District 28 of the South Dakota legislature, filed a lawsuit against South Dakota in the U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota, Central Division. The plaintiffs, represented by the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation and private counsel, sought declaratory and injunctive relief, alleging that the dissolution of two special legislative districts in 1996 violated 42 U.S.C. §1973. Specifi…
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…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Wabasha v. Solem

4:79-cv-04064 | U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota

Filed Date: May 21, 1979

Closed Date: 1991

On May 21, 1979, Native American inmates confined in the Adjustment Center at the South Dakota Penitentiary filed a class action lawsuit under 42 USC 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota against the warden of the Penitentiary. Plaintiffs alleged that conditions of confinement violated their Eighth and Fourteenth Amendment rights. The complaint also alleged that confinement and transfer procedures violated their Fifth Amendment rights as well as the Fourteenth Amend…
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 …