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Kaul v. Kapenga

2022-CV-1594 | Wisconsin state trial court

Filed Date: June 27, 2022

(This summary is temporary while we research the case.) On June 27, 2022, the Wisconsin Attorney General filed this lawsuit challenging the state’s pre-Roe abortion ban. The law, passed in 1849, would criminalize abortions, and only has exceptions for life endangerment. 
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
CODING IN PROCESS
Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin, Inc. v. Van Hollen, J.B.

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

Filed Date: June 28, 2013

Closed Date: March 20, 2015

(This summary is temporary, while we research the case.) This lawsuit challenged a state law that placed restrictions on abortion providers by requiring every physician who performed an abortion at a clinic to have staff privileges at a local hospital.
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
CODING IN PROCESS
Swenson v. Bostelmann

3:20-cv-00459 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin

Filed Date: May 18, 2020

Closed Date: Jan. 20, 2021

NOTE: This case is being tracked in close to real time by the Stanford/MIT Healthy Elections Project. So for information, see their tracker. According to their summary as of December 20, 2020, Action by group of citizens alleging denial of right to vote in 4/7/20 Wisconsin Presidential Primary and Spring Election. Complaint seeks damages and injunctive and declaratory relief to establish reasonable, disability accessible, and constitutionally sufficient voting procedures (including mail voting…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
CODING IN PROCESS
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

(This summary is temporary while we research the case.) This case is about who can return absentee ballots in Wisconsin, seeking to restore a decades-old precedent that allowed people with disabilities to receive assistance from family members and caregivers.
PRISON CONDITIONS
Flynn v. Doyle

2:06-cv-00537 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin

Filed Date: May 1, 2006

Case Ongoing

On May 1, 2006, attorneys for the National Prison Project of the ACLU Foundation and the American Civil Liberties Union of Wisconsin Foundation Inc. filed a civil rights class action in the United States District Court Eastern District of Wisconsin pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 on behalf of female inmates incarcerated at Taycheedah Correctional Institution (TCI) in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. Plaintiffs alleged that their conditions of confinement violated their rights under the Eighth and Fourteen…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Sundstrom and Fields v. Frank

2:06-cv-00112 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin

Filed Date: Jan. 24, 2006

Case Ongoing

On January 24, 2006, several transgender state prisoners in Wisconsin state prisons filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Division. The Plaintiffs sought declaratory and injunctive relief to redress Defendants' violations of their rights under the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution. Plaintiffs were represented by attorneys from the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, Inc., the ACLU Foundation, Inc., t…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. MT MORRIS MUTUAL INSURANCE CO

2:05-cv-00951 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin

Filed Date: Sept. 2, 2005

Closed Date: April 19, 2006

In September 2005, the Milwaukee office of the EEOC brought this suit against Mt. Morris Mutual Insurance Co. in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin. The complaint alleged that the defendant discriminated against the claimant by firing the claimant due to her pregnancy, violating Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The case settled by entry of a consent decree in April 2006. The two year consent decree includes: an anti-discrimination clause, training, posting o…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. Humane Animal Welfare Society

2:05-cv-00965 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin

Filed Date: Sept. 8, 2005

Closed Date: June 28, 2007

In September 2005, the Milwaukee District Office of the EEOC brought this suit against the Humane Animal Welfare Society in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin alleging violation of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act ("ADEA"). Specifically, the charging parties, former employees, alleged that the defendant terminated their employment because of their age and then refused to rehire them in retaliation for their complaint to the EEOC. In January 2006, the parties…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. CONSUMER PROGRAMS INCORPORATED (d/b/a SEARS PORTRAIT STUDIO)

3:05-cv-00747 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin

Filed Date: Dec. 29, 2005

Closed Date: July 11, 2008

In December 2005, the Milwaukee District Office of the EEOC filed this suit against Consumer Programs Incorporated, d/b/a Sears Portrait Studio, in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin. We do not have a copy of the complaint. However, according to the consent decree, the complaint alleged that the defendant violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by discriminating against the charging party, a female employee, because of her sex and pregnancy. After some s…
FAIR HOUSING/LENDING/INSURANCE
United States v. Dovenberg Investments, LLC

3:11-cv-00738 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin

Filed Date: Oct. 28, 2011

Closed Date: 2014

On October 28, 2011, the United States filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Western District, under the Fair Housing Act, 42 U.S.C. §§3601-3631, against the owner of a single-family rental home located in Bangor, Wisconsin. The suit was on behalf of a complainant who was a single mother with a minor child; the U.S. alleged--and the defendant conceded-- that the Defendant refused to rent the home to the complainant because of her sex and familial status. The parties moved …