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REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Kaul v. Kapenga

2022-CV-1594 | Wisconsin state trial court

Filed Date: June 28, 2022

Case Ongoing

In this case, plaintiffs sought a declaration that a Wisconsin criminal law broadly banning abortions is unenforceable. Wisconsin Statute § 940.04, enacted in 1849 before women could vote, states that it is a criminal felony to destroy the life of an unborn child at any point after conception unless necessary to save the pregnant woman’s life, but not for other health reasons. After Roe, the Wisconsin Legislature enacted another set of laws that criminalized abortion past the fetus’ viability a…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Heredia v. Landreman

3:19-cv-00338 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin

Filed Date: April 30, 2019

Closed Date: Nov. 2, 2022

This is a case challenging Wisconsin's application of life-with-parole sentences for juvenile offenders. On April 30, 2019, the plaintiffs, individuals who were sentenced to life with the possibility of parole while they were juveniles, filed this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin. The plaintiffs sued the Wisconsin Department of Corrections and the Wisconsin Parole Commission. Represented by private counsel and the ACLU of Wisconsin, the plain…
POLICING
Collins v. City of Milwaukee

2:17-cv-00234 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin

Filed Date: Feb. 22, 2017

Case Ongoing

Plaintiffs, ACLU national and the ACLU of Wisconsin, along with Covington & Burling attorneys, filed this class action alleging that the Milwaukee Police Department's (MPD) stop-and-frisk policies were unconstitutional. The case was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin on February 22, 2017. The complaint alleged under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 that Milwaukee's stop-and-frisk policies violated the Fourth Amendment's search and seizure protections as well as the Fourteent…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Wisconsin Coalition for Advocacy v. Czaplewski

2:00-cv-01363 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin

Filed Date: Oct. 23, 2000

Closed Date: June 27, 2001

This is a case about a protection and advocacy (P&A) agency’s records access authority. On October 23, 2000, Wisconsin Coalition for Advocacy, Wisconsin’s P&A filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin. The P&A sued the director of a residential healthcare facility under the Developmental Disabilities Assistance and Bill of Rights Act (DD Act), and the Protection and Advocacy for Individuals with Mental Illness Act (PAIMI Act). Represented by itself, the…
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
J.J. v. Litscher

3:17-cv-00047 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin

Filed Date: Jan. 23, 2017

Case Ongoing

On January 23, 2017, four minor children confined to the state juvenile facilities Copper Lake School for Girls and the Lincoln Hills School for Boys filed this class action in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin. The plaintiffs sued various state officials responsible for the facility under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The plaintiffs alleged that the defendants had violated their Eighth and Fourteenth Amendment rights by wrongfully and unlawfully imposing solitary confinement, m…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
United States v. State of Wisconsin, Department of Military Affairs

3:23-cv-00060 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin

Filed Date: Jan. 26, 2023

Case Ongoing

This is a case regarding equal employment and gender discrimination. On January 26th, 2023, the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”) sued the State of Wisconsin on behalf of a former employee  of the Wisconsin Department of Military Affairs (“WDMA”) in the U.S. District Court for Western District of Wisconsin. Represented by the DOJ, the plaintiff alleged discrimination on the basis of sex in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act. She claimed that the WDMA hi…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Disability Rights Wisconsin v. Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction

3:05-cv-00295 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin

Filed Date: May 19, 2005

Closed Date: Oct. 30, 2006

This is a case about whether a Protection and Advocacy agency (P&A) can access names of students from a school during an investigation. On May 19, 2005, Disability Rights Wisconsin (DR Wisconsin), Wisconsin’s P&A, filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin. DR Wisconsin filed this lawsuit against the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction under the Developmental Disabilities Assistance and Bill of Rights Act (DD Act), Protection and Advocacy of Human…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin, Inc. v. Van Hollen

3:13-cv-00465 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin

Filed Date: June 28, 2013

Case Ongoing

This is a case about the constitutionality of a Wisconsin statute requiring physicians who perform abortions to have admitting privileges in a hospital within 30 miles of where the abortion is performed. On July 5, 2013, Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Women's Medical Services, and two board-certified medical doctors at Planned Parenthood filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin. The plaintiffs sued the Wisconsin attorney general, the Dane C…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Farmer v. Haas

3:89-cv-00524 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin

Filed Date: 1989

Closed Date: Nov. 8, 1993

This case is closely related to Farmer v. Brennan, in which the plaintiff sued prison officials with the Federal Bureau of Prisons under the Eighth Amendment. Litigation in the lower court was identical across Brennan and Haas. Following litigation in Farmer v. Brennan, the Seventh Circuit reversed the district court’s grant of summary judgment for the defendants in an unpublished order submitted on March 10, 1991. The district court conducted a trial which produced a verdict for the defendants…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Farmer v. Brennan

3:91-cv-00716 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin

Filed Date: Aug. 20, 1991

Closed Date: 1997

In this case, Dee Farmer, a transgender prisoner in the custody of the federal Bureau of Prisons, sued prison officials for failing to protect her from rape. The suit was first heard in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin, where it was assigned to Judge John C. Shabaz. The plaintiff’s complaint, as amended on December 13, 1991, claimed that officials within the BOP showed “deliberate indifference” to a risk of violence by placing the plaintiff in the general prison populat…