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REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Whole Woman's Health v. Smith

1:16-cv-01300 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

Filed Date: Dec. 12, 2016

Closed Date: Aug. 23, 2022

Whole Woman's Health and several other reproductive healthcare providers filed this lawsuit against the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas on December 12, 2016. Plaintiffs were represented by the Center for Reproductive Rights as well as private counsel. The suit challenged proposed regulations published by the Texas Department of State Health Services. These proposed regulations would require embryonic and fetal tissue …
LABOR RIGHTS
Associated Builders and Contractors of Southest Texas v. Rung

1:16-cv-00425 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas

Filed Date: Oct. 7, 2016

Closed Date: Dec. 21, 2017

This case addressed President Obama's Executive Order 13673, “Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces,” under which the Department of Labor and the Federal Acquisition Council required government contractors and subcontractors to report regularly on workplace law violations found by administrative agencies, the courts, and arbitrators. The Order explained that the federal government would take an employer’s record of violations into account when deciding whether to award future contracts, cancel existing …
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Texas v. United States

6:21-cv-00016 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas

Filed Date: April 6, 2021

Case Ongoing

This is a case challenging the Biden Administration's efforts to use systemic prosecutorial discretion in immigration enforcement. On April 6, 2021, the states of Texas and Louisiana filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas. The plaintiffs sued the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) under the Immigration and Nation…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Neese v. Becerra

2:21-cv-00163 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas

Filed Date: Aug. 25, 2021

Closed Date: Nov. 22, 2022

Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) prohibits sex discrimination in health programs or activities that receive federal financial assistance. On May 10, 2021, Secretary Becerra announced that HHS would interpret and enforce this provision to include gender identity and sexual orientation discrimination. On August 25, 2021 two doctors sued Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), Xavier Becerra, and the United States in the U.S.District Court for the Northern District of Texas to e…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Whole Woman's Health v. Paxton

2022-38397 | Texas state trial court

Filed Date: June 27, 2022

Closed Date: Oct. 10, 2022

Legislative Background This case is about Texas’ effort to criminalize pre-6-week abortions by enforcing 1925 state law, even prior to the effectuation of Texas' abortion trigger ban. On June 24, 2022, the Supreme Court's decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization overturned Roe v. Wade and ended the federal constitutional right to abortion. Prior to Dobbs, Texas had already effectively banned abortions after six weeks through Senate Bill (SB) 8. 142 S.Ct. 2228. A few providers co…
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
NetChoice LLC v. Paxton

1:21-cv-00840 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

Filed Date: Sept. 22, 2021

Case Ongoing

Two trade associations filed suit against Ken Paxton, the Attorney General of Texas, in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas on September 22, 2021. Represented by private counsel, they challenged a Texas state law, H.B. 20, that placed restrictions on social media platforms with over 50 million active users in the United States within one calendar month. They targeted two sections: section 2, which implemented detailed disclosure and moderation requirements, and section 7, …
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Brown v. U.S. Department of Education

4:22-cv-00908 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas

Filed Date: Oct. 10, 2022

Case Ongoing

This case concerns one of many challenges to President Biden's executive action to cancel up to $20,000 of federal student loans per borrower. On October 10, 2022, two private plaintiffs represented by private attorneys filed suit against the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas, challenging President Biden's student loan forgiveness plan. The debtor-plaintiffs alleged that the Department of Education (DoE) violated the Administrative …
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Texas LULAC v. Abbott

1:20-cv-01006 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

Filed Date: Oct. 1, 2020

Closed Date: March 24, 2021

This is a case about access to absentee ballot drop-off locations in Texas during the 2020 election, which took place during the COVID-19 pandemic. On October 1, 2020, the Texas League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), the League of Women Voters of Texas, and two individuals who vote in Texas filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas. The defendants included Texas Governor Greg Abbott, Secretary of State Ruth Hughs, and the elections officials of fo…
PUBLIC ACCOMMODATIONS/CONTRACTING
State of Texas v. Becerra

2:21-cv-00229 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas

Filed Date: Nov. 15, 2021

Closed Date: Jan. 24, 2022

On November 15, 2021, the State of Texas and the Texas Health and Human Services Commission (collectively, “Texas”) filed this suit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas to challenge an interim final rule published by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS Vaccine Mandate”). The CMS Vaccine Mandate required vaccination against COVID-19 for all “faculty staff” including employees, trainees, students, volunteers, and contractors “who provide any care, treatment…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Braidwood Management Inc. v. Becerra

4:20-cv-00283 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas

Filed Date: March 29, 2020

Case Ongoing

On June 11, 2019 — more than nine years after the Affordable Care Act was signed into law—the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommended that health insurance cover preexposure prophylaxis  (PrEP) drugs without any cost-sharing arrangements such as co-payments or deductibles. On March 29, 2020, in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas, Plaintiffs filed a complaint, challenging the PrEP mandate as well as a prior contraception mandate. Plaintiffs, individuals a…