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IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
West Virginia v. Department of Homeland Security

2:21-cv-00022 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of West Virginia

Filed Date: Aug. 19, 2021

Closed Date: July 5, 2023

In this case, the state of West Virginia challenged the Biden administration's attempt to repeal the Migrant Protections Protocol (MPP) policy, which required asylum applicants to return to Mexico while their claims were being processed instead of being held in detention or paroled in the United States. West Virginia sued the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas on August 19, 2021, alleging that its termination of the “Remain in Mex…

Case Dismissed (Voluntary)

SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Care and Prevention of Eve

SJC-13672 | Massachusetts state supreme court

Filed Date: Sept. 20, 2024

Closed Date: May 15, 2025

[This summary is temporary, while we research the case.] In this impounded (that is, sealed) case, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court held the state constitution’s free exercise of religion protection was violated by the Department of Children and Families when they vaccinated a child over the religious objections of her parents while the child was in temporary custody. 
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Grider v. Lucas

4:25-cv-00546 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas

Filed Date: Feb. 8, 2025

Closed Date: March 5, 2025

In this case, a supervisory attorney-advisor at the U.S. Equal Opportunity Employment Commission (“EEOC”) alleged that her EEOC supervisors discriminated against her on the basis of race and disability. The plaintiff filed suit against the EEOC on February 8, 2025, in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas. The plaintiff sued the Acting Chair of the EEOC, in their official capacity. The case was assigned to District Judge Lee H. Rosenthal. The plaintiff alleged that the EEOC…
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Meriwether v. Hartop

1:18-cv-00753 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio

Filed Date: Nov. 5, 2018

Closed Date: April 14, 2022

This lawsuit involves a First Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment challenge to disciplinary policies at Shawnee State University. On November 5, 2018, a Shawnee State University philosophy professor sued the following entities and individuals at the University: the Trustees; the Interim President (also the Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs); Acting Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences; Chair of the Department of English and Humanities; Title IX Coordinator; Deputy Title IX Coordin…

Case Dismissed (Involuntary)

Affirmed

DISABILITY RIGHTS
Means v. Teletech

2:06-cv-00461 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: April 7, 2006

Closed Date: March 26, 2007

This is a case about a former employee alleging disability discrimination against his employer. On April 7, 2006, a former employee at the defendant employer filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania. The plaintiff sued his employer, a corporation that provides customer management services on a contract basis to other businesses, under the Americans with Disability Act and the Family Medical Leave Act. Represented by counsel, the plaintiff sought com…
POLICING
McCormick v. Lawrence, Kansas

2002-cv-000512 | Kansas state trial court

Filed Date: Sept. 24, 2002

Closed Date: Oct. 29, 2007

On September 24, 2002, Plaintiff filed a lawsuit under K.S.A. 22-2521, K.S.A. 22-2522, and K.S.A. 22-2523 against the City of Lawrence and Lawrence police officers in the Douglas District Court. Plaintiff, represented by private counsel, asked for actual damages and costs, alleging that Lawrence police officers illegally subjected him to a strip and body cavity search. Specifically, Plaintiff alleged that on June 9, 1999, Lawrence police officers arrested him and put him in the back of a patrol…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Mi Familia Vota v. Hobbs

2:20-cv-01903 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: Sept. 30, 2020

Closed Date: Oct. 5, 2020

This is a case seeking an extended voter registration period in light of the COVID-19 pandemic.  On September 30, 2020, two nonprofit civic engagement groups and a resident of Arizona who engages in voter registration work, filed a complaint seeking declaratory judgment and emergency motion for a TRO against the Arizona Secretary of State to extend the voter registration deadline to October 27, 2020. Plaintiffs argued that the COVID-19 pandemic severely curtailed plaintiffs’ voter registration …
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Stengel v. Hogan

1:18-cv-03423 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: Nov. 5, 2018

Closed Date: Nov. 16, 2018

The case involves an emergency motion to halt the 2018 Maryland general election on the basis of fraud.  The plaintiff, pleading pro se, filed the emergency motion on November 5, 2018, in which they alleged they were falsely incarcerated and accused various government officials of illegal activities. Plaintiff filed this motion in the District of Maryland.  The motion proceeded for 8 pages and ends with a 5-page list of various celebrities who the plaintiff hoped to call as witnesses. Throughou…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
S.P.S., Ex Rel. v. Raffensperger

1:19-cv-04960 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: Nov. 1, 2019

Closed Date: Sept. 10, 2020

This is a case about challenging the constitutionality of Georgia’s ballot order statute, O.C.G.A. § 21-2-285(c). On November 1, 2019, individual voters, and the organizations, namely, the Democratic National Committee, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, and the Democratic Party of Georgia, Inc. filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court Northern District of Georgia Atlanta Division. The case was assigned to the United Stat…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Common Cause v. Kemp

1:16-cv-00452 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: Feb. 10, 2016

Closed Date: June 12, 2018

This case challenged Georgia’s purging of registered voters who had not voted in past elections. On February 2, 20216, Common Cause and the Georgia State Conference of the NAACP filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. The plaintiffs sued the Georgia Secretary of State, Brian Kemp, in both his individual and official capacity for perceived violations of the First Amendment and 52 U.S.C. § 20501. Represented by private counsel, the plaintiffs sought a d…