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Sep 2025
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Voting Rights

Wise v. Missouri

In unprecedented fashion, the State of Missouri has redrawn the district lines used for electing members of Congress for a second time this decade. These new district lines are gerrymandered and will harm political representation for all Missourians, particularly Black residents in Kansas City, who have been divided along racial lines.
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U.S. Supreme Court
Sep 2023
Muldrow v. City of St. Louis

Racial Justice

Muldrow v. City of St. Louis

Do employees claiming that they have been denied a transfer because of their race have to demonstrate in addition that the transfer caused a significant material disadvantage?
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U.S. Supreme Court
Sep 2023
Molina v. Book

Free Speech

Molina v. Book

Whether police officers violated clearly established First Amendment rights when they tear-gassed plaintiffs for serving as legal observers in a public protest.
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20 Missouri Cases

Missouri
Sep 2013

Smart Justice

Criminal Law Reform

Barrett v. Claycomb

A federal district court has ruled that a public college in Missouri must end its unconstitutional program of requiring all of its students—irrespective of their course of study—to submit to suspicionless drug-testing.
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Missouri
Sep 2013

Smart Justice

Criminal Law Reform

Barrett v. Claycomb

A federal district court has ruled that a public college in Missouri must end its unconstitutional program of requiring all of its students—irrespective of their course of study—to submit to suspicionless drug-testing.
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Glossip v. Missouri Department of Transportation and Highway Patrol Employees' Retirement System
Missouri
Aug 2013

LGBTQ Rights

Glossip v. Missouri Department of Transportation and Highway Patrol Employees' Retirement System

Kelly Glossip and Dennis Engelhard had been committed domestic partners for 15 years when Dennis, a Missouri State Trooper, was killed while responding to an accident on Christmas Day, 2009. Missouri offers survivor benefits to spouses of state troopers who are killed in the line of duty, but excludes committed same-sex partners from receiving those benefits.
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Glossip V. Missouri Department Of Transportation And Highway Patrol Employees' Retirement System. Explore Case.
Missouri
Aug 2013
Glossip v. Missouri Department of Transportation and Highway Patrol Employees' Retirement System

LGBTQ Rights

Glossip v. Missouri Department of Transportation and Highway Patrol Employees' Retirement System

Kelly Glossip and Dennis Engelhard had been committed domestic partners for 15 years when Dennis, a Missouri State Trooper, was killed while responding to an accident on Christmas Day, 2009. Missouri offers survivor benefits to spouses of state troopers who are killed in the line of duty, but excludes committed same-sex partners from receiving those benefits.
Glossip V. Missouri Department Of Transportation And Highway Patrol Employees' Retirement System. Explore Case.
PFLAG v. Camdenton R-III School District
Missouri
Apr 2012

LGBTQ Rights

PFLAG v. Camdenton R-III School District

As part of our Don't Filter Me campaign, the Ƶ and the Ƶof Eastern Missouri filed a federal lawsuit against a school district in Camdenton, Missouri, whose Internet filtering software blocks access to web content geared toward the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) communities. The Ƶis joined in the lawsuit by LGBT organizations whose websites are blocked by the filter: Parents, Family and Friends of Lesbian and Gays (PFLAG), the Matthew Shepard Foundation, Campus Pride, and DignityUSA, a Catholic LGBT organization.
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Missouri
Apr 2012
PFLAG v. Camdenton R-III School District

LGBTQ Rights

PFLAG v. Camdenton R-III School District

As part of our Don't Filter Me campaign, the Ƶ and the Ƶof Eastern Missouri filed a federal lawsuit against a school district in Camdenton, Missouri, whose Internet filtering software blocks access to web content geared toward the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) communities. The Ƶis joined in the lawsuit by LGBT organizations whose websites are blocked by the filter: Parents, Family and Friends of Lesbian and Gays (PFLAG), the Matthew Shepard Foundation, Campus Pride, and DignityUSA, a Catholic LGBT organization.
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Hunter v. Salem Public Library Board of Trustees
Missouri
Jan 2012

Religious Liberty

Hunter v. Salem Public Library Board of Trustees

The Ƶ and the Ƶof Eastern Missouri have filed a lawsuit charging the Salem Public Library and its board of trustees with unconstitutionally blocking access to websites discussing minority religions by improperly classifying them as “occult” or “criminal.”
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Missouri
Jan 2012
Hunter v. Salem Public Library Board of Trustees

Religious Liberty

Hunter v. Salem Public Library Board of Trustees

The Ƶ and the Ƶof Eastern Missouri have filed a lawsuit charging the Salem Public Library and its board of trustees with unconstitutionally blocking access to websites discussing minority religions by improperly classifying them as “occult” or “criminal.”
Hunter V. Salem Public Library Board Of Trustees. Explore Case.
Blake v. Carnahan
U.S. Supreme Court
Feb 2010

Reproductive Freedom

Blake v. Carnahan

On September 17, 2009, Personhood Missouri submitted a proposed initiative petition to be placed on the 2010 ballot for a constitutional amendment redefining the term person as every human being from the beginning of the biological development of that human being.
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U.S. Supreme Court
Feb 2010
Blake v. Carnahan

Reproductive Freedom

Blake v. Carnahan

On September 17, 2009, Personhood Missouri submitted a proposed initiative petition to be placed on the 2010 ballot for a constitutional amendment redefining the term person as every human being from the beginning of the biological development of that human being.
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