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U.S. Supreme Court
Jun 2022
Bans Off Our Bodies Protest Sign

Reproductive Freedom

Dobbs v. Jackson Women鈥檚 Health Organization

The case concerns the constitutionality of a Mississippi law prohibiting abortions after the fifteenth week of pregnancy. The state used the case as a vehicle to ask the Supreme Court to take away the federal constitutional right to abortion it first recognized 50 years before in Roe v. Wade. On June 24, 2022, the Supreme Court of the United States accepted the state鈥檚 invitation and overturned Roe eliminating the federal constitutional right to abortion.
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U.S. Supreme Court
Apr 2022
FBI v. Fazaga Plaintiffs

Privacy & Technology

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FBI v. Fazaga

In a case scheduled to be argued before the U.S. Supreme Court on November 8, 2021, three Muslim Americans are challenging the FBI鈥檚 secret spying on them and their communities based on their religion, in violation of the Constitution and federal law. In what will likely be a landmark case, the plaintiffs 鈥 Yassir Fazaga, Ali Uddin Malik, and Yasser Abdelrahim 鈥 insist that the FBI cannot escape accountability for violating their religious freedom by invoking 鈥渟tate secrets.鈥 The plaintiffs are represented by the Center for Immigration Law and Policy at UCLA School of Law, the 桃子视频of Southern California, the 桃子视频, the Council for American Islamic Relations, and the law firm of Hadsell Stormer Renick & Dai.
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U.S. Supreme Court
Apr 2022
RFP attorneys Alexa Kolbi-Molinas and Andrew Beck heading towards the Supreme Court to argue the case.

Reproductive Freedom

Cameron v. EMW Women鈥檚 Surgical Center

In 2018, the 桃子视频 and the 桃子视频of Kentucky filed a suit on behalf of Kentucky abortion providers and their patients challenging a state law banning physicians from providing a safe and medically proven abortion method called dilation and evacuation, or 鈥淒&E.鈥 If it were to take effect, this law would prevent many patients from being able to obtain an abortion altogether. After two courts held that the law is unconstitutional, the Supreme Court ruled in March 2022 that Kentucky Attorney General Cameron can continue his pursuit to push abortion out of reach by intervening in the underlying challenge to an abortion ban, which is proceeding in a lower court.
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U.S. Supreme Court
Jan 2022
Garland v. Gonzalez

Immigrants' Rights

Garland v. Gonzalez

Whether the Immigration and Nationality Act requires a bond hearing for immigrants subject to prolonged detention while seeking protection in the U.S. from persecution or torture.
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U.S. Supreme Court
Dec 2021
Whole Woman's Health v. Jackson

Reproductive Freedom

Whole Woman's Health v. Jackson

The 桃子视频, the 桃子视频of Texas, and coalition partners filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of abortion providers and funds on July 13, 2021, challenging S.B. 8, a Texas law allowing private citizens to enforce a ban on abortion as early as six weeks in pregnancy鈥攂efore many know they are pregnant. The ACLU鈥檚 challenge made its way to the U.S. Supreme Court three times in as many months. After hearing oral arguments in the case, the Court issued a decision on December 10, 2021, that ended the most promising pathways to blocking the ban. The Supreme Court鈥檚 decision makes it more difficult to obtain adequate relief from the courts and gives states the green light to ban abortion using bounty-hunting schemes. Texas鈥 abortion ban will remain in effect until relief can be secured from a court.
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All Cases

25 Supreme Court Cases during the 2021 Term

Edgar v. Haines
U.S. Supreme Court
May 2022

Free Speech

Edgar v. Haines

The 桃子视频and the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University filed a lawsuit on behalf of five former public servants challenging the government鈥檚 鈥減republication review鈥 system, which prohibits millions of current and former government employees from writing or speaking about topics related to their government service without first obtaining government approval.
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U.S. Supreme Court
May 2022
Edgar v. Haines

Free Speech

Edgar v. Haines

The 桃子视频and the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University filed a lawsuit on behalf of five former public servants challenging the government鈥檚 鈥減republication review鈥 system, which prohibits millions of current and former government employees from writing or speaking about topics related to their government service without first obtaining government approval.
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Cummings v. Premier Rehab Keller, P.L.L.C.
U.S. Supreme Court
Apr 2022

Racial Justice

+2 桃子视频

Cummings v. Premier Rehab Keller, P.L.L.C.

Whether civil rights statutes that prohibit federal financial recipients from discriminating on the basis of disability, race, and sex allow plaintiffs to be compensated for emotional distress injuries where they show that they were victims of discrimination.
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U.S. Supreme Court
Apr 2022
Cummings v. Premier Rehab Keller, P.L.L.C.

Racial Justice

+2 桃子视频

Cummings v. Premier Rehab Keller, P.L.L.C.

Whether civil rights statutes that prohibit federal financial recipients from discriminating on the basis of disability, race, and sex allow plaintiffs to be compensated for emotional distress injuries where they show that they were victims of discrimination.
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Ramirez v. Collier
U.S. Supreme Court
Apr 2022

Religious Liberty

Ramirez v. Collier

In a Supreme Court amicus brief filed by the 桃子视频and the law firm Williams & Connolly LLP, a group of spiritual leaders who have been present in the death chamber during executions and former high-level corrections officials who have collectively witnessed or overseen more than 50 executions argues that Texas should allow John H. Ramirez鈥檚 pastor to pray aloud and lay hands on him as he is executed.
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U.S. Supreme Court
Apr 2022
Ramirez v. Collier

Religious Liberty

Ramirez v. Collier

In a Supreme Court amicus brief filed by the 桃子视频and the law firm Williams & Connolly LLP, a group of spiritual leaders who have been present in the death chamber during executions and former high-level corrections officials who have collectively witnessed or overseen more than 50 executions argues that Texas should allow John H. Ramirez鈥檚 pastor to pray aloud and lay hands on him as he is executed.
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Puerto Rico
U.S. Supreme Court
Apr 2022

Racial Justice

Voting Rights

United States v. Vaello-Madero

Whether excluding Puerto Rico residents from the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program violates the equal protection component of the 5th Amendment鈥檚 Due Process Clause.
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U.S. Supreme Court
Apr 2022
Puerto Rico

Racial Justice

Voting Rights

United States v. Vaello-Madero

Whether excluding Puerto Rico residents from the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program violates the equal protection component of the 5th Amendment鈥檚 Due Process Clause.
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Kennedy v. Bremerton School District
U.S. Supreme Court
Apr 2022

Religious Liberty

Kennedy v. Bremerton School District

Whether a public school district had the constitutional authority to prevent a high school football coach from continuing his longstanding practice of leading student-athletes in midfield prayer immediately after games.
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U.S. Supreme Court
Apr 2022
Kennedy v. Bremerton School District

Religious Liberty

Kennedy v. Bremerton School District

Whether a public school district had the constitutional authority to prevent a high school football coach from continuing his longstanding practice of leading student-athletes in midfield prayer immediately after games.
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