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ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
League of Women Voters of Utah v. Utah State Legislature

22-0901712 | Utah state trial court

Filed Date: March 16, 2022

Case Ongoing

In 2018, a coalition of Utah voters passed Proposition 4 (Prop 4), prohibiting partisan gerrymandering and establishing the Utah Independent Redistricting Commission (the Commission). The Utah legislature overruled the will of voters in 2020 by voting to replace Prop 4 with S.B. 200, which rescinded the ban on partisan gerrymandering and other government reforms. S.B. 200 kept the Commission in a solely advisory capacity, with the legislature giving itself the authority to discard nonpartisan m…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Planned Parenthood Association of Utah v. Miner

2:19-cv-00238 | U.S. District Court for the District of Utah

Filed Date: April 10, 2019

Closed Date: June 27, 2022

On April 10th, 2019, Planned Parenthood of Utah sued the State of Utah in the United States District Court for the District of Utah, alleging that the state's 18-week abortion ban was unconstitutional. In the complaint, Planned Parenthood specifically alleged that Utah House Bill 136 violated the Fourteenth Amendment by banning virtually all abortions at 18 weeks of pregnancy, in contravention of the constitutional right to abortion established by the Supreme Court in Roe v. Wade. Planned Paren…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Planned Parenthood Association of Utah v. State of Utah

220903886 | Utah state trial court

Filed Date: June 25, 2022

Case Ongoing

After the decision in Jackson Women's Health Organization v. Dobbs on June 24, 2022, Utah's trigger ban went into effect, making the provision of abortion in this state at any point in pregnancy a crime. The day after, Planned Parenthood filed this lawsuit in the Third Judicial District Court for Salt Lake County to challenge the abortion ban on state grounds. Plaintiffs claim that the ban violates multiple provisions of the Utah Constitution, including Utah’s guarantee of equal rights for men …
PRISON CONDITIONS
DOJ ADA Investigation of Utah Department of Corrections

No Court

The Special Litigation section of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division (“DOJ”) initiated an investigation into the Utah Department of Corrections (“UDOC”) upon receipt of a complaint. The complaint was filed pursuant to Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), alleging that UDOC failed to ensure effective communication for inmates with hearing disabilities, thereby denying them participation in educational, vocational, religious and other programs on the basis of…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Foote v. Spiegel

2:94-cv-00754 | U.S. District Court for the District of Utah

Filed Date: Aug. 1, 1994

Closed Date: Feb. 16, 2001

A motorist brought this suit under § 1983 against Utah State Troopers, corrections officers, and the state of Utah on August 1, 1994 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah. The motorist alleged that the officers violated her Fourth Amendment rights and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) when they strip searched after a traffic stop. The motorist sought damages for these alleged violations. She was represented by McCullough, Jones & Ivins and the American Civil Liberties Unio…
NATIONAL SECURITY
Abdi v. Wray

2:17-cv-00622 | U.S. District Court for the District of Utah

Filed Date: June 17, 2017

Closed Date: Jan. 6, 2020

This 2017 lawsuit challenged the FBI’s placement of a U.S. citizen on a terrorist watchlist; it was dismissed in 2019.The Terrorism Screening DataBase, also known as the “terrorist watchlist,” is maintained by the Terrorist Screening Center (TSC), a division of the National Security Branch of the FBI. The watchlist includes sub-lists--a No Fly List and a Selectee List. People on the No Fly List are not allowed to fly on American airplanes or flights into the US. People included on the Selectee …
JAIL CONDITIONS
Cottrell v. Kaysville City, Utah

1:91-cv-00095 | U.S. District Court for the District of Utah

Filed Date: Oct. 7, 1991

Closed Date: Nov. 28, 1995

This is a case about whether a 1990 arrest for driving under the influence and subsequent strip search were legal. The plaintiff, a woman who had been arrested on drunk driving charges, filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Utah on October 7, 1991. The case was assigned to District Judge Dee Benson. The plaintiff sued the City of Kaysville, Utah, one of its police officers, and Davis County and two sheriff's deputies, under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for wrongful arre…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Utah Coalition of La Raza v. Herbert

2:11-cv-00401 | U.S. District Court for the District of Utah

Filed Date: May 3, 2011

Closed Date: Sept. 15, 2015

On May 3, 2011, a coalition of immigrant rights groups and individual immigrants filed this class action lawsuit against the State of Utah in the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah, Central Division, challenging the state's immigration-enforcement law, House Bill 497 (HB 497). HB 497 was a severe, anti-immigrant law that criminalized everyday activities, such as driving an undocumented immigrant to the store and authorized police to stop and detail an individual simply to verify his o…
EDUCATION
Gordon v. Jordan School District

2:17-cv-00677 | U.S. District Court for the District of Utah

Filed Date: June 23, 2017

Case Ongoing

On June 23, 2017, six parents of schoolchildren who attend schools within the Jordan, Granite, and Canyons School Districts in Utah filed this class action lawsuit against their respective school districts, those districts’ superintendents, and the Utah High School Activities Association (UHSAA) in the U.S. District Court for Utah. The lead plaintiff helped start a recreational-girls only tackle football league, which had approximately 200 participants in spring 2017. Plaintiffs alleged sex dis…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Disability Law Center v. State of Utah

2:15-cv-00645 | U.S. District Court for the District of Utah

Filed Date: Sept. 8, 2015

Case Ongoing

On September 8, 2015, the Disability Law Center, a non-profit organization that advocates on behalf of individuals with disabilities, and three individuals who were charged with criminal offenses but declared incompetent to stand trial, filed this class-action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah. The plaintiffs sued Utah, the Utah Department of Human Services, the Utah Division of Substance Abuse and Mental Health, and the Utah State Hospital, under 42 U.S.C. §1983. Rep…