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SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Gruber v. Tennessee Tech Board of Trustees

2:21-cv-00039 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee

Filed Date: Oct. 5, 2021

Case Ongoing

Facts Turning Point USA (TPUSA) is a conservative organization that publishes profiles of progressive college professors, potentially to harass them. Outsiders, including the two professors, characterize TPUSA as a hate group with ties to white supremacy. Tennessee Tech University (TTU) has a chapter of TPUSA. On February 4, 2021, after witnessing the TTU TPUSA faculty advisor, also a professor, celebrate a local school's decision to maintain "the Redskins" as their mascot, the two professors p…
FAIR HOUSING/LENDING/INSURANCE
United States v. Evolve Bank and Trust

2:22-cv-02667 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Tennessee

Filed Date: Sept. 29, 2022

Case Ongoing

On September 29, 2022, the United States filed a complaint against Evolve Bank and Trust in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Tennessee under the Fair Housing Act and the Equal Credit Opportunity Act. Judge Sheryl H. Lipman and Chief Magistrate Judge Tu M. Pham heard this case. The United States claimed that, from 2014 to 2019, Evolve Bank discriminated against women, Black, and Hispanic borrowers via its “discretionary pricing” components of home loan borrowing. “Discretionar…
EDUCATION
Tennessee v. United States Department of Education

3:21-cv-00308 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee

Filed Date: Aug. 30, 2021

Case Ongoing

20 Republican state attorneys general brought this lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Education (DoE) and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) to challenge their packages of directives that extended federal sex discrimination protections to transgender people in schools and government employment. The case was filed on August 30, 2021, in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee. President Biden directed the DoE and EEOC to reinterpret the law afte…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Zelaya v. Miles

3:19-cv-00062 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee

Filed Date: Feb. 21, 2019

Case Ongoing

This is an ongoing racial profiling and illegal seizure case about an immigration raid at an East Tennessee meat processing plant conducted by officers from the Department of Homeland Security (“DHS”). In April 2018, DHS officers were assisting with an Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) search related to alleged climes of the plant’s owner, but during the search, the DHS  officers seized and arrested approximately 100 Latinx workers without regard to their immigration status, while berating them …
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Memphis Center for Reproductive Health v. Slatery

3:20-cv-00501 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee

Filed Date: June 19, 2020

Closed Date: July 28, 2022

This is a case about challenges to several Tennessee abortion restrictions. On June 19, 2020, plaintiffs Memphis Center for Reproductive Health, Planned Parenthood of Tennessee and North Mississippi, Knoxville Center for Reproductive Health, FemHealth USA, and two doctors filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee. The plaintiffs sued the attorney general of Tennessee along with several other state officials for violating their Fourteenth Amendme…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Trivette v. Tennessee Department of Correction

3:20-cv-00276 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee

Filed Date: March 31, 2020

Case Ongoing

On March 31, 2020, a deaf man in the custody of the Tennessee Department of Correction (TDOC) and Disability Rights Tennessee (DRT), the state protection and advocacy entity, filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee. The plaintiffs sued TDOC alleging violations of Title II of the ADA and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act for failure to provide effective communication accommodations. Specifically, the plaintiffs alleged inmates incarcerated at TDOC f…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Lichtenstein v. Hargett

3:20-cv-00736 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee

Filed Date: Aug. 28, 2020

Case Ongoing

This case challenged Tennessee’s statute that forbids anyone but employees of election commissions to provide absentee ballots to any person. Plaintiffs are organizations (and one individual) who engage in voter outreach. The statute stood in the way of their plan to send absentee ballot applications to both their members and non-members.  On August 28, 2020, the Memphis and West Tennessee AFL-CIO Central Labor Council (along with its Executive Secretary), the Tennessee State Conference of the …
POLICING
Blanchard v. City of Memphis

2:17-cv-02120 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Tennessee

Filed Date: Feb. 22, 2017

Case Ongoing

On February 22, 2017, four plaintiffs filed this suit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Tennessee, against the City of Memphis, Tennessee for violating their First Amendment rights. The plaintiffs all found themselves on a “black list” created by the Memphis Police Department. They argued that the police department created the “black list,” which consisted of 81 individuals, by recording video protests of City Hall. The black list appeared to denote the individuals who the …
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
FemHealth USA, Inc. v. Mount Juliet, City of

3:19-cv-01141 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee

Filed Date: Dec. 18, 2019

Closed Date: Sept. 10, 2021

This case concerns an ordinance passed in March 2019 by Mt. Juliet, Tennessee, which modified zoning restrictions and effectively prohibiting surgical abortion clinics from being located within the city. The ordinance limited the location of abortion clinics to certain zones and prohibited abortion clinics from being located within 1000 feet of any church, school, college, home, park, public library, or child care center. As a result, there was no suitable land in Mt. Juliet for a surgical abor…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Adams & Boyle v. Slatery

3:15-cv-00705 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee

Filed Date: June 25, 2015

Case Ongoing

COVID-19 Summary In light of COVID-19, the Governor of Tennessee issued an executive order limiting "non-emergency" health care procedures, including all abortions except for medication abortion. The plaintiffs supplemented their complaint to address the order. The district court enjoined the defendants from enforcing the order on April 17, 2020, and the Sixth Circuit affirmed the injunction on April 24. However, on January 25, 2021, the Supreme Court vacated the injunction as moot. Challenge …