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IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
V. v. Acuna

3:25-cv-00669 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana

Filed Date: July 31, 2025

On July 31, 2025, several Honduran citizens and their U.S. citizen children filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and its Secretary; the U.S. Attorney General, and several named and unnamed federal officials.. The case was assigned to District Judge Brian A. Jackson. Plaintiffs are represented by a group of attorneys from the National Immigration Pr…

Case Is Ongoing

PRISON CONDITIONS
United States v. State of Louisiana

3:24-cv-01041 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana

Filed Date: Dec. 20, 2024

On December 20, 2024, the Department of Justice (DOJ/the Department) brought this case against the state of Louisiana and the Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections in the Middle District of Louisiana. The DOJ alleged the Louisiana incarcerated thousands of people each year past their sentences resulting in a system of over detention. The Department filed this case pursuant to the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act, 42 U.S.C. §§ 1997-1997j (CRIPA), and requested injunc…

Administrative Stay Granted

POLICING
Hardnett v. City of Baton Rouge-Parish of East Baton Rouge

3:23-cv-01393 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana

Filed Date: Sept. 29, 2023

This case involved a class action lawsuit alleging the Baton Rouge Police Department engaged in a practice of strip-searching individuals and taking them into custody without probable cause or reasonable suspicion. On September 29, 2023, an individual plaintiff filed this lawsuit against the City of Baton Rouge and the Chief of the Baton Rouge Police Department, in his official capacity, in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana. The plaintiff alleged violations of the Fou…
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
Smith v. Edwards

3:22-cv-00573 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana

Filed Date: Aug. 19, 2022

Louisiana officials announced that they would incarcerate about two dozen children in the former death row of the Louisiana State Penitentiary (commonly referred to as Angola) after Chief District Judge Shelly D. Dick signed off on the transfer. On August 19, 2022, plaintiffs, represented by the ACLU, filed suit against Governor John Bel Edwards, Deputy Secretary of the Office of Juvenile Justice William Sommers, and Secretary of the Louisiana Department of Public Safety & Corrections James M. …
HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Louisiana v. U S Food & Drug Administration

6:25-cv-01491 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana

Filed Date: Oct. 6, 2025

This case challenged a Biden Administration agency action which allegedly allowed residents in states where abortion rules were more lenient to mail mifepristone, an abortion pill, to residents in Louisiana, where nearly all abortions were banned.  Louisiana banned nearly all abortions after the 2022 decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which allowed states to control over abortion laws. In 2023, the FDA, under the Biden Administrat…

Case Is Ongoing

POLICING
DOJ Investigation of Louisiana State Police

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On June 9, 2022, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Civil Rights Division’s Special Litigation Section began investigating the Louisiana State Police (LSP) to determine if the LSP's officers employed excessive force and if its policing practices were racially discriminatory. As described in the DOJ press release, its investigation included a "comprehensive review of LSP policies, training, supervision, and force investigations, as well as LSP’s systems of accountability, including misconduct …
JAIL CONDITIONS
Jones v. Gusman

2:12-cv-00859 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana

Filed Date: April 2, 2012

On April 2, 2012, ten prisoners at the Orleans Parish Prison -- the New Orleans Jail (NOJ) -- brought this class action suit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana against the Orleans Parish Sheriff, under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The plaintiffs, represented by the Southern Poverty Law Center, asked for both declaratory and injunctive relief, alleging that they suffered from abusive and unconstitutional treatment while confined at the NOJ. The case was assigned to Judge Lance…

Injunction Granted

Pending in Supreme Court

SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Deep South Today v. Murrill

3:24-cv-00623 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana

Filed Date: July 31, 2024

[This summary is temporary while we research this case.] On July 31, 2024, Louisiana journalists filed suit against Louisiana government officials in U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana. On May 24, 2024, Louisiana enacted a law that abridges that critical function of the press: HB 173, Act 259 of the 2024 Regular Session. In relevant part, the Act makes it a criminal offense to “knowingly or intentionally approach within twenty-five feet of a peace officer who is lawfully e…

Judgment for Plaintiff

Appeal Pending

ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
United States v. Wilder

62-cv-08695 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana

Filed Date: Feb. 21, 1962

Closed Date: Oct. 23, 1963

This is a case about a county in Louisiana depriving citizens of the United States of the right to vote based on race or color. On February 21, 1962, the Attorney General of the United States filed suit in the Western District of Louisiana against the Registrar of Voters of Jackson Parish, the State of Louisiana, and the Citizens’ Council of Jackson Parish (as an organization and six members in their individual capacity), represented by the Attorney General of Louisiana. The U.S. Attorney Gener…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
United States v. Winnice J.P. Clement

63-09334 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana

Filed Date: 1963

Closed Date: July 14, 1964

This case is about whether state officials deprived citizens of the right to register to vote in Webster Parish, Louisiana, without distinction of race or color. On February 18, 2023, the U.S. Attorney General filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana, Shreveport Division. Plaintiff sued the Registrar of Voters of Webster Parish, Louisiana and the State of Louisiana under the Civil Rights Act of 1957, as amended and sought injunctions against D…

Judgment for Plaintiff

Affirmed