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ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
League Of Women Voters of South Dakota v. Noem

4:22-cv-04085 | U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota

Filed Date: June 28, 2022

Closed Date: Jan. 27, 2023

This case is about the League of Women Voters of South Dakota and the League of Women Voters of the United States (collectively, the “League”) and two private plaintiffs asserting that South Dakota Senate Bill 180 (“SB180”) would limit petition circulators who contact voters of proposed ballots measures to residents of South Dakota who have lived in the state for more than 30 days, severely restricting voters’ access to ballot measures and voter-engagement organizations’ ability to engage in po…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Saxena v. Noem

5:25-cv-05035 | U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota

Filed Date: April 17, 2025

This case is one of numerous lawsuits challenging the Trump administration’s abrupt termination of immigration visas—mostly student or work visas—with no notice to the visa-holders and with dubious or no legal basis. You can see all of the cases here. On April 17, 2025, an international student—attending school on an F-1 visa--filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of South Dakota against the Secretary of Homeland Security and the Acting Director of Immigration …

Preliminary Injunction Granted

PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Bruce v. State of South Dakota

5:17-cv-05080 | U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota

Filed Date: Oct. 13, 2017

Closed Date: Jan. 25, 2019

On October 13, 2017, a private plaintiff brought suit against the State of South Dakota and the Commissioner of the South Dakota Bureau of Human Resources in U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota, Western Division. Plaintiff, a transgender man who worked for state government, alleged that South Dakota’s healthcare coverage to state employees, offered through the South Dakota State Employee Health Plan (“SDSEHP”), categorically excludes medical care for gender dysphoria. Plaintiff…

Case Dismissed (Involuntary)

ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Wilson & Oglala Sioux Tribe Election Commission

5:22-cv-05095 | U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota

Filed Date: Dec. 2, 2022

Closed Date: June 13, 2023

In this case, an enrolled member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe invoked the 1868 Fort Laramie Treaty Rights to have the Department of the Interior investigate and prosecute the Oglala Sioux Tribe Election Commission for breaking certain rules governing elections that were permitted by the Oglala Sioux Tribe Commission.   On December 2, 2022, Plaintiff, a member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe, commenced this action pro se in the United States District Court for the District of South Dakota against the Ogl…

Case Dismissed (Involuntary)

ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Johnson v. Krebs

4:18-cv-04108 | U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota

Filed Date: Aug. 29, 2018

Closed Date: June 28, 2019

This case is about infringement of the right of free speech, the fundamental right to vote, and the right of association as it relates to the Constitution Party, a minority political party, to be represented on South Dakota’s state ballot in the November 2018 South Dakota state election. On October 26, 2012 the Constitution Party filed a Statement of Organization with a particular individual as Chairman and Treasurer, whom was subsequently replaced as Party Chair in 2016. The new Chairman was u…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. Siouxland Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Associate

4:04-cv-04215 | U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota

Filed Date: Dec. 28, 2004

Closed Date: Feb. 18, 2011

The Denver and New Mexico Offices of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) filed this action in the U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota on December 28, 2004. The Defendant was Siouxland Oral Maxillofacial Surgery Associates, LLP, an outpatient surgical center for oral and maxillofacial surgery. The controversy involved the alleged termination of one complainant because of her pregnancy, and the alleged failure to hire another complainant because she told her interv…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Rosebud Sioux Tribe v. Barnett

5:20-cv-05058 | U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota

Filed Date: Sept. 16, 2020

On September 16, 2020, the Rosebud Sioux Tribe and their members, the Oglal Sioux Tribe and their members, and Four Directions Inc., an organization that fights for Native American voting rights filed suit in the United States District Court, District of South Dakota, Western Division. The Plaintiffs filed the action against Steve Barnett, Secretary of State of South Dakota and chairperson of its board of elections, Laurie Gill, Secretary of South Dakota's Department of Social Services, Marcia …
PRISON CONDITIONS
Lambertz-Brinkman v. Reisch

3:07-cv-03040 | U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota

Filed Date: Nov. 21, 2007

On November 21, 2007, three female inmates in South Dakota Women's Prison filed a class action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court of South Dakota, alleging that they were denied medication and treatment for their mental illnesses in violation of the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments. The plaintiffs alleged that they and other inmates were routinely denied medication that had been prescribed by their treating physicians on the orders of prison staff who were not doctors and not aut…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Emery v. Hunt

3:00-cv-03008 | U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota

Filed Date: Feb. 14, 2000

Closed Date: Feb. 10, 2003

On February 14, 2000, Native American registered voters and residents of Dewey County, in District 28 of the South Dakota legislature, filed a lawsuit against South Dakota in the U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota, Central Division. The plaintiffs, represented by the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation and private counsel, sought declaratory and injunctive relief, alleging that the dissolution of two special legislative districts in 1996 violated 42 U.S.C. §1973. Specifi…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Bender v. Regier

4:01-cv-04151 | U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota

Filed Date: July 2, 2001

Closed Date: Nov. 18, 2004

On July 2, 2001, plaintiff filed this action pro se in the U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota.  The case was assigned to Judge Lawrence L. Piersol. Plaintiff had been diagnosed with Hepatitis C virus (HCV) while in the custody of the South Dakota Department of Corrections in 1998, and, in the intervening years, was evaluated on numerous occasions by Department medical staff but never provided interferon-based treatment.  In his complaint and in an amended complaint filed on Se…