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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
CODING IN PROCESS
Edwards v. Vos

3:20-cv-00340 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin

Filed Date: 2020

Case Ongoing

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, Class 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 …
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
Taylor v. Milwaukee Elections Commission

2:20-cv-00545 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin

Filed Date: April 2, 2020

Closed Date: May 12, 2020

On March 22, 2020, the Milwaukee Election Commission suspended early voting for the April 7, 2020, Wisconsin general election in response to safety concerns regarding election workers exposure to COVID-19. In response, Black city and state official candidates in Milwaukee, WI, along with Justice Wisconsin, Inc. ("the plaintiffs"), brought this lawsuit against the Milwaukee and Wisconsin Election Commissions ("the defendants") in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin. The…
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…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
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…
PRISON CONDITIONS
CODING IN PROCESS
Farmer v. Brennan

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

Filed Date: 1991

(This is a temporary summary, while we work on coding the case) 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 case was eventually decided by the Supreme Court, Farmer v. Brennan, 511 U.S. 825 (1994), in the first civil rights case in that court involving a transgender person. More coming, but while coding/summarizing is in progress, we are posting some of the underlying documents.
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Frank v. Walker

2:11-cv-01128 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin

Filed Date: Dec. 13, 2011

Case Ongoing

On December 13, 2011, registered voters in Wisconsin filed this lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (VRA). The plaintiffs sued the State of Wisconsin, the Wisconsin Government Accountability Board, and the Division of Motor Vehicles. The plaintiffs, represented by public interest and private counsel, claimed that the voter ID requirement implemented by 2011 Wisconsin Act 23 (Act 23) placed an undue burden…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Bembenek v. Bablitch

2:86-cv-00262 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin

Filed Date: March 10, 1986

Closed Date: 1997

On March 10, 1986, prisoners at the Wisconsin State Women's Prison filed a lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the Wisconsin Department of Corrections in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin. The plaintiffs alleged that their constitutional rights had been violated by overcrowding at the prison.The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin (Judge John Reynolds) entered a consent decree in the case, which provided for a population cap at the prison. …
PRISON CONDITIONS
Lindell v. Frank

3:02-cv-00021 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin

Filed Date: Jan. 17, 2002

Closed Date: 2005

On January 17, 2002, a prisoner confined at the Supermax Correctional Institution (Supermax) in Boscobel, Wisconsin, filed a lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the United States District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin against employees of the Wisconsin Department of Corrections and Supermax. The plaintiff claimed that prison rules and practices violated the First and Fourteenth Amendments and the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA). 42 U.S.C. § 2000cc-1. …