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ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
CODING IN PROCESS
Tomasik v. Goins

3:13-cv-01118 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee

Filed Date: Oct. 9, 2013

Closed Date: Nov. 25, 2013

None
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
CODING IN PROCESS
Hicks v. Robertson County Election Commission

3:18-cv-01235 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee

Filed Date: Nov. 5, 2018

Closed Date: Jan. 4, 2019

None
POLICING
CODING IN PROCESS
Kendrick v. Chandler

2:76-cv-00449 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Tennessee

Filed Date: Sept. 10, 1976

In 1976, the ACLU of Western Tennessee, along with two Memphis residents, filed this case against the Memphis Police Department in the United States District Court for the Western District of Tennessee. Plaintiffs claimed that the Memphis police interfered with their First Amendment rights to free speech and association when it gathered "political intelligence." On September 14, 1978, the court (Judge Robert M. McRae) entered a Consent Order prohibiting the police from engaging in any sort of …
PRISON CONDITIONS
CODING IN PROCESS
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

(This summary is temporary, while we research the case.)  A deaf prisoner filed suit alleging that TDOC had violated the ADA by failing to provide sign language interpretation or telecommunication services.
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 …
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Planned Parenthood of Tennessee and North Mississippi v. Slatery

3:20-cv-00740 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee

Filed Date: Aug. 31, 2020

Case Ongoing

On August 31, 2020, the ACLU, Planned Parenthood, and the Center for Reproductive Rights, on behalf of abortion providers in Tennessee, challenged what they alleged was a medically unsound “abortion reversal” state law. The providers brought this lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, alleging that the law violated their First Amendment right against compelled speech and Fourteenth Amendment rights to equal protection and substantive due process. They sued the Commissioner of the Tennessee Department …
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
NAACP v. Lee

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

Filed Date: Dec. 3, 2020

Case Ongoing

This class action lawsuit, filed by the NAACP and several individual plaintiffs on December 3, 2020, challenged Tennessee's statutory scheme for people convicted of felonies to have their voting rights restored. Plaintiffs alleged that Tennessee’s voting rights restoration scheme was, at best, error-ridden and confusing, and at worse, discriminatory against indigent applicants. For example, plaintiffs alleged that at least one county (Rutherford) charged a fee for production of the Certificate …
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 …
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 …
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…