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SCHOOL DESEGREGATION
United States of America v. State of Mississippi

3:70-cv-04706 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi

Filed Date: July 9, 1970

Fifteen years after Brown v. Board of Education (1954), 88% of Mississippi’s black students still attended all-black schools. Ubiquitous “freedom of choice” plans let white children transfer to predominantly white schools. Individual lawsuits and threats of funding cuts from the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare proved unable to effect wholesale desegregation. But in 1969, the Supreme Court ruled that the freedom of choice plan in Holmes County, Mississippi, was unconstitutional and …
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Smith v. Husted

2:16-cv-00212 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio

Filed Date: March 8, 2016

Closed Date: April 29, 2016

March 8, 2016, 17 year old minors, their parents, and Bernie Inc. (collectively "the plaintiffs") sued the Ohio Secretary of State on the grounds that certain minors aged 17 were not permitted to vote in a primary, as they were aged 17 on primary election day, despite turning 18 before the general election day. The Ohio Revised Code provides pursuant to the Threshold Voter Law that a 17-year-old who will be 18 by the time of the next general election may vote in a ‘primary election’. The Thresh…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Jabbour v. Merrill

1:20-cv-00034 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Alabama

Filed Date: Jan. 21, 2020

Closed Date: March 25, 2020

On January 21, 2020, one individual plaintiff and National Defense Committee (“NDC”) filed a suit against the Alabama Secretary of State and the Mobile County Board of Registrars, seeking declaratory and injunctive relief to redress defendants’ alleged violations of the Fourteenth Amendment and the First Amendment due to defendants’ use of ranked choice ballots. This action challenged Alabama’s Instant Runoff Primary Election scheme, or the Ranked Choice Voting scheme (“RCV Scheme”) for voters …
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Mondy v. Messina

2:17-cv-00104 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas

Filed Date: June 14, 2017

Closed Date: Aug. 25, 2017

This case is about whether plaintiffs have standing to bring--and federal courts have jurisdiction to hear--claims regarding a city council's repeal of an initiated ordinance in alleged violation of state law. On June 14, 2017, the plaintiff filed this putative class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas on behalf of himself and all similarly situated citizens of the City of Helena-West Helena, Arkansas. Represented by private counsel, the plaintiff sued…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Project Vote Incorporated v. Reagan

2:16-cv-01253 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: April 27, 2016

Closed Date: Aug. 7, 2017

This is a case about access to public election records in Arizona. On April 27, 2016, a national non-profit voting rights organization called Project Vote, Inc. filed the lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona. The defendants were sued in their official capacity as the Secretary of State of the State of Arizona, the County Recorder of Maricopa County, and the County Recorder of Pima County. The judge was District Judge Douglas L. Rayes. The plaintiff was represented by p…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Fair Fight Action v. Raffensperger

1:18-cv-05391 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: Nov. 27, 2018

Closed Date: Sept. 30, 2022

Two voter-rights advocacy organizations and four religious non-profit organizations brought actions against the Georgia Secretary of State, the State Election Board, and members of the State Election Board alleging constitutional violations and violations of the Voting Rights Act.  The original complaint was filed on November 27, 2018, by the two voter-rights groups.  The complaint was amended twice.  The four religious non-profit organizations joined as plaintiffs as part of the first amendmen…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Duncan v. Louisiana State

2:15-cv-05486 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana

Filed Date: Oct. 27, 2015

Closed Date: May 26, 2016

This was a case about alleged denial of the right to vote. On October 27, 2015, an individual sued the State of Louisiana, the Louisiana Secretary of State Office, Louisiana Secretary of State, Tangipahoa Parish Council, Tangipahoa Parish Clerk of Court Office, Tangipahoa Parish Registrar of Voters Office, and Tangipahoa Parish Registrar of Voters in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana. The individual asserted claims under 18 U.S.C. § 96, 42 U.S.C. § 207(a), 42 U.S.C. …
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Flores v. Reno

2:85-cv-04544 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: July 11, 1985

Note: We've tagged this case as one challenging President Trump's immigration executive orders because those executive orders and their implementing memoranda, included as "resources," below, touch on many of the matters subject to longstanding court oversight in this case. On July 11, 1985, attorneys from the National Center for Immigrants' Rights, the National Center for Youth Law, and the ACLU Foundation of Southern California represented four minors who filed this class action complaint aga…

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ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Davis v. Benson

3:20-cv-12130 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: Aug. 9, 2020

Closed Date: Nov. 10, 2020

On August 9, 2020, one individual plaintiff filed a two-count complaint against the Michigan Secretary of State and the Wayne County Clerk, seeking compensatory, declaratory and injunctive relief from the provisions of Michigan Campaign Finance Act, which allegedly violated the plaintiff’s First Amendment right to engage in “anonymous” political speech (“Count 1”). Specifically, the plaintiff desired to distribute anonymous political literature that would criticize the Wayne County Prosecutor, …
PRISON CONDITIONS
Bradley v. Haley

2:92-cv-00070 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama

Filed Date: Jan. 15, 1992

Closed Date: Jan. 1, 2005

On January 15, 1992, a group of prisoners incarcerated in the Alabama Department of Corrections brought suit in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama under 42 U.S.C. §1983 challenging the adequacy of mental health treatment provided by state prison officials. The plaintiffs, mentally ill prisoners, were represented by private counsel and the Southern Poverty Law Center. The case was assigned to Judge W. Harold Albritton III. The plaintiffs were granted class certification o…