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HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Guam Society of Obstetricians and Gynecologists v. Ada

1:90-cv-00013 | District Court of Guam

Filed Date: March 23, 1990

Closed Date: Feb. 3, 2026

This was a case about whether Guam could enforce a near-total abortion ban in 1990 and, decades later, whether that ban could be revived after Dobbs. On March 23, 1990, a group of plaintiffs led by the Guam Society of Obstetricians and Gynecologists filed a class action in the United States District Court for the Territory of Guam challenging Guam Public Law 20-134, which had been enacted four days earlier and criminalized almost all abortions, with only narrow exceptions for ectopic pregnancy …

Judgment for Plaintiff

Affirmed

PRISON CONDITIONS
Anderson v. Redman

1:76-cv-00364 | U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware

Filed Date: Oct. 29, 1976

Closed Date: Sept. 7, 1995

In 1976, inmates at the Delaware Correctional Center, represented by counsel from the community Legal Aid Society, filed a section 1983 class action suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware against prison officials. The original complaint, docket 76-202, was superseded by an identical complaint filed later that year with the docket 76-364. (The multiple filings were a result of the uncertainty regarding the status of the three-judge court act, 28 USC section 2281. After the …
SCHOOL DESEGREGATION
Montgomery v. Oakley Training School

04117 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi

On December 4th, 1969 and January 2, 1970, the Judge Dan M. Russell Jr. of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi entered two orders adopting desegregation plans for two juvenile reform schools. These orders desegregated two juvenile reform schools: Oakley Training School, which housed Black students, and Columbia Training School, which housed white students. The desegregation plan prohibited the assignment of children to the training school based on race. Further, the…

Settled: Case Closed

SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
StandWithUs Center for Legal Justice v. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

1:24-cv-10577 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: March 7, 2024

Closed Date: Jan. 1, 2026

This case challenged the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) for allegedly permitting and failing to prevent and address pervasive antisemitism on its campus, particularly after the October 7 attacks, in violation of federal and state law. Other cases involving universities’ responses to speech and activity concerning Israel and Palestine, including matters involving antisemitism and/or anti-Palestinian expression, can be found here. On February 7, 2024, StandWithUs Center for Legal Jus…
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Case Dismissed (Involuntary)

Affirmed

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. C.P. Shades, INC.

1:01-cv-00816 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: March 30, 2001

Closed Date: April 2, 2002

In March 2001, the Atlanta District Office of the EEOC brought this suit against C.P. Shades in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. The EEOC sued under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, on behalf of a female employee claiming racial discrimination. Plaintiff claimed that the defendant business fired her from her position as acting store manager because of her race. WL 1901311. A charging party intervened in the suit in July 2001. After some discovery disputes, the par…

Settled: Case Closed

CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
CODING IN PROCESS
Meridian Mississippi Court Costs Settlement

No Court

Filed Date: 2019

(This summary is temporary, while we research the case.) On April 2, 2019, the city of Meridian, Mississippi entered into a settlement agreement with the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and the MacArthur Justice Center regarding the fines and fees imposed by its municipal court. This agreement came after an investigation by the civil rights organizations. While the complete settlement is not available to the Clearinghouse, press releases from the SPLC and the MacArthur Justice Center indicat…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
League of Women Voters of Alabama v. Merrill

20-cv-900702 | Alabama state trial court

Filed Date: May 28, 2020

Closed Date: Aug. 5, 2020

This case involved allegations that Alabama election officials violated the right to vote of plaintiffs and of all qualified Alabama voters guaranteed by the Alabama Constitution Article VIII, Section 177, and their right to exercise the franchise free of undue influence from tumult guaranteed by the Alabama Constitution Article I, Section 33, by failing to exercise emergency statutory and constitutional authority and by maintaining restrictive voting requirements during the COVID-19 pandemic t…

Case Dismissed (Involuntary)

IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Kordia v. Noem

3:25-cv-01072 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas

Filed Date: April 30, 2025

Case Ongoing

This is one of several challenges the Trump administration’s immigration detention policies as unconstitutional retaliation against protected speech. On April 30, 2025, Petitioner Leqaa Kordia is a Palestinian woman detained by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Petitioner was arrested at a voluntary immigration meeting on allegations of "supporting Hamas" after sealed information was disclosed to Homeland Security regarding her prior arrest at a protest near Columbia campus. P…

Case Is Ongoing

DISABILITY RIGHTS
Doe A v. Spahn

1:23-cv-02859 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Sept. 26, 2023

Case Ongoing

This class action lawsuit challenges the Peace Corps acceptance guidelines and processes in regards to volunteers with disabilities and mental illness diagnoses in particular under the Rehabilitation Act. On September 26, 2023, plaintiffs—attempted Peace Corps Volunteers who were denied positions in the program—brought this class action suit against the director of the Peace Corps. Plaintiffs alleged that the Peace Corps Volunteers improperly denied them medical clearance and acceptance into th…

Case Is Ongoing

POLICING
DOJ Investigation of Trenton Police Department

No Court

On October 17, 2023, the U.S. Attorney’s Office and the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division (collectively, DOJ) opened a pattern or practice investigation of the City of Trenton and the Trenton Police Department (TPD) under the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, 34 U.S.C. § 12601. The investigation assessed whether the City and the Police Department engaged in a pattern or practice of excessive force in violation of the Fourth Amendment, as well as unlawful stops, …