Apr 4, 2024
Alabama State Conference of the NAACP et al. v. Marshall et al.
Status: Active
Civil Rights, Voting Rights, Disability Rights Groups Sue Alabama Over SB 1’s Extreme Anti-Voter Restrictions and Penalties
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Sep 25, 2023
West Alabama Women’s Center, et al. v. Marshall, et al.
Status: Active
A group of health care providers filed a lawsuit in federal court to prevent Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall and district attorneys throughout the state from prosecuting those who assist Alabamians...
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Sep 25, 2023
Oasis Family Birthing Center et. al. v. Alabama Department of Public Health
Status: Active
We filed a lawsuit in Alabama challenging ongoing actions by the Alabama Department of Public Health (ADPH), which have imposed a de facto ban on freestanding birth centers throughout Alabama, preventing...
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Jan 24, 2022
Milligan et al. v. Allen et al.
Status: Victory!
This case decided whether Alabama’s congressional districts as drawn in 2021 violate Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act because they discriminate against Black voters.
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Sep 30, 2020
People First of Alabama v. Merrill
In July of 2020, the American Civil Liberties Union and ACLU of Alabama joined a lawsuit brought by the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Southern Poverty Law Center, and Alabama Disabilities...
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May 31, 2019
Robinson, et al. v. Marshall, et al.
The ACLU of Alabama, ACLU National, and Planned Parenthood Federation of America filed a lawsuit challenging an extreme law that bans abortion in nearly every case and punishes doctors with up to 99 years...
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Feb 6, 2018
Corbitt, et al. v. Taylor, et al.
This lawsuit challenges Alabama’s policy prohibiting gender marker changes on drivers’ licenses for trans people who have not had genital surgery.
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Mar 11, 2019
Bradford, et al. v. Marshall, Derzis
E.J. Bradford’s parents, Bradford family attorney Ben Crump, the ACLU of Alabama, and Alabama NAACP sued the attorney general of Alabama and Hoover Police Department for release of body camera footage,...
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Sep 19, 2018
Fasking, et al. v. Merrill
We filed this lawsuit against Secretary of State John Merrill on behalf of three Alabama citizens who were blocked from Merrill’s Twitter account after they criticized him or made comments that he did not...
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Mar 9, 2018
Hester v. Gentry
In Alabama’s criminal justice system, wealth can be synonymous with freedom, and lack of wealth can mean incarceration. That’s wealth-based justice, and it’s unconstitutional.
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May 18, 2017
Edwards v. Cofield
The American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit challenging Randolph County, Alabama’s practice of using money bail to detain people arrested for misdemeanors and felonies. The practice perpetuates a two...
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Sep 30, 2016
Hunter, et al. v. Beshear
This class-action lawsuit is against Alabama Department of Mental Health Commissioner James V. Perdue on behalf of persons with severe mental illness who have been languishing in Alabama county jails...
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Jul 6, 2016
West Alabama Women’s Center v. Williamson
Pre-existing law (before Planned Parenthood v. Strange) required that a physician either have admitting privileges or have a contract with a back-up physician. This has resulted in a substantial, and...
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Oct 1, 2014
Reproductive Health Services v. Marshall
For decades, Alabama has required that a minor seeking an abortion obtain the consent of a parent prior to the procedure. But in 2014, Alabama enacted a law that makes significant and harmful changes to the...
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Feb 27, 2019
Durham v. Rural/Metro
Durham was an Alabama Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) with Rural/Metro Corporation until the company refused to accommodate her need for a temporary modified duty assignment during pregnancy, despite...
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Sep 12, 2018
Gamble v. United States
Whether the “dual-sovereignty” exception to the Double Jeopardy Clause—whereby a state and the federal government can each prosecute a person for the same crime, even where neither would be able to do so...
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Mar 1, 2018
Greater Birmingham Ministries v. Merrill
In December 2015, NAACP-LDF, with Covington & Burling LLP, challenged Alabama’s enforcement of a 2011 photo ID law. Plaintiffs claim that the law intentionally discriminates on the basis of race in...
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Aug 30, 2016
Allen v. English, et al.
We represented Yvonne Allen, a devout Christian woman who covers her hair with a headscarf as part of her religious practice and who was forced to remove her head covering to renew her driver's license.
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