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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…
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…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Brown County Taxpayers Association v. President Joseph R Biden Jr

1:22-cv-01171 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin

Filed Date: Oct. 4, 2022

Case Ongoing

On October 4, 2022, the Brown County Taxpayers Association (BCTA), a local tax policy organization, filed suit against the Biden administration in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, alleging that the administration's announced one-time student loan debt relief plan was unconstitutional. The plan was designed to forgive $10,000 to $20,000 in student loans for qualified borrowers. BCTA asserted that the [lan violated the separation of powers doctrine by making a new la…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Boyden v. Conlin

3:17-cv-00264 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin

Filed Date: April 7, 2017

Closed Date: March 26, 2019

On April 7, 2017, two transgender state employees represented by the ACLU of Wisconsin filed this lawsuit against the state of Wisconsin in the United States District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin. The named defendants included the Department of Employee Trust Funds, State of Wisconsin Group Insurance Board, entities associated with the University of Wisconsin System, and the Wisconsin Physicians Service Insurance Corporation. The plaintiffs alleged that the state’s failure to cov…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Carey v. Wisconsin Elections Commission

3:22-cv-00402 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin

Filed Date: July 22, 2022

Case Ongoing

On July 8, 2022, the Wisconsin Supreme Court reversed a decades-old precedent that allowed people with disabilities to receive assistance from family members and caregivers in submitting their ballot. In Teigen v. Wisconsin Elections Commission, the court construed Wisconsin statute § 6.87(4)(b)1 to mandate that voters with disabilities return their ballot by mail, or in person themselves. The court expressly refused to consider whether voters with disabilities were entitled to assistance when …
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Debraska v. Oneida Business Committee

1:20-cv-01321 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin

Filed Date: Aug. 27, 2020

Closed Date: Oct. 22, 2020

Individual members of the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin, including Oneida Nation 2020 primary election candidates, filed a suit on August 28, 2020, against the Oneida Business Committee (the Business Committee) and the Oneida Election Board (the Election Board). The candidates were running for positions on the Business Committee, an elected committee of the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin, in the 2020 primary election. Claiming that it was not safe for poll workers amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, the Ele…
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

Case Ongoing

This is a case challenging Wisconsin's application of life-with-parole sentences for juvenile offenders. On April 30, 2019, the plaintiffs, a group of individuals who were sentenced to life with the possibility of parole while they were juveniles, filed this class action lawsuit in 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 plaintiffs sought decl…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
City of Green Bay v. Bostelmann

1:20-cv-00479 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin

Filed Date: March 24, 2020

Closed Date: March 27, 2020

The city of Green Bay, Wisconsin, the Green Bay city clerk, and the mayor of Green Bay brought this lawsuit on March 24, 2020, to challenge the constitutionality of the April 7, 2020, election in Wisconsin. The plaintiffs sued Wisconsin Elections Commissioners, the Secretary-Designee of the Wisconsin Department of Health Services, and the Governor of the State of Wisconsin ("the defendants") in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, alleging that requiring in-person abse…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Democratic National Committee v. Bostelmann

3:20-cv-00249 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin

Filed Date: March 18, 2020

Closed Date: Jan. 20, 2021

In the midst of the COVID-19 crisis, states all around the country attempted to conduct presidential primary elections. Simultaneously, Americans were practicing “social distancing,” sheltering in place, and avoiding going out in public and interacting with others as much as possible. Individuals, especially those over the age of sixty and those with preexisting conditions like asthma and autoimmune disorders, were encouraged to stay home as much as possible. Schools and daycares closed across …