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NAACP v. Lee

3:20-cv-01039 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee

Filed Date: Dec. 3, 2020

Case Ongoing

The following was a case that challenged Tennessee’s voting rights restoration process for those convicted of felonies. On December 3, 2020, this class action suit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee. It challenged the state's statutory scheme for restoring the voting rights of people with felony convictions. The plaintiffs included the NAACP and several individuals who had been convicted of felonies. Defendants included Tennessee’s governor, the Commission…
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
CODING IN PROCESS
Occupy Nashville v. Haslam

3:11-cv-01037 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee

Filed Date: Oct. 31, 2011

Closed Date: Oct. 30, 2014

On October 31, 2011, a group of individuals who gathered to protest the disparities in wealth and power in the United States filed this lawsuit against various Tennessee state officials in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee. The plaintiffs sued pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983, alleging violations of their First, Fourth, Fifth, and Fourteenth Amendment rights under the U.S. Constitution, as well as their rights under the Constitution of the State of Tennessee. They alleged…
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Friends of George's, Inc. v. Mulroy

2:23-cv-02176 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Tennessee

Filed Date: March 30, 2023

Case Ongoing

In 2022, Jackson Pride attempted to hold a family-friendly drag show in a public park, but the organizers were forced to move the show indoors and set age restrictions due to a lawsuit from Tennessee State Representative Chris Todd, where he stated that the performance was child abuse and that drag should be “nonexistent” in his community. In response, Todd introduced a bill to the Tennessee legislature banning “adult cabaret performance[s]” in front of minors, which he stated was intended to c…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Zelaya v. Miles

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

Filed Date: Feb. 21, 2019

Closed Date: March 2, 2023

This is a 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 with raci…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
United States v. Cumberland County, Tennessee

2:23-cv-00001 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee

Filed Date: Jan. 18, 2023

Case Ongoing

On January 18, 2023, the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee against Cumberland County, Tennessee. The DOJ sought declaratory, injunctive, and monetary relief, alleging that the County violated Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) by penalizing a county employee for taking a drug to treat his opioid use disorder. The case was assigned to Judge Waverly David Crenshaw Jr. and Magistrate Judge …
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Baker v. Carr

59-cv-02724 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee

Filed Date: May 18, 1959

This case was a malapportionment challenge resulting from Tennessee’s over 50-year failure to redistrict its legislative districts. Ultimately, the U.S. Supreme Court determined that redistricting claims brought under the Equal Protection Clause were justiciable. Further, the court created a categorical test to determine whether a case presented a non-justiciable political question. On May 18, 1959, numerous Tennessee voters filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tenne…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Escobar v. Gaines

3:11-cv-00994 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee

Filed Date: Oct. 19, 2011

Closed Date: Aug. 26, 2022

This is a case about a large-scale immigration and law enforcement raid on a predominantly Latino apartment complex in Nashville, Tennessee, that occurred on October 20, 2010. The plaintiffs were 15 individuals who were victims of the raid and residents of the apartment complex, the Clairmont. The plaintiffs brought this action nearly one year later on October 19, 2011, in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee to remedy violations of their Fourth, Fifth, and Fourteenth Am…
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…
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…