Mississippi
Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s 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’s invitation and overturned Roe eliminating the federal constitutional right to abortion.
Status: Closed (Judgment)
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Mississippi
Mar 2017
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Dockery v. Hall
The ACLU, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), the Law Offices of Elizabeth Alexander, and the law firm of Covington & Burling LLP, filed a petition for class certification and expert reports for a federal lawsuit on behalf of prisoners at the East Mississippi Correctional Facility (EMCF). The lawsuit, which was filed in May 2013, describes the for-profit prison as hyper-violent, grotesquely filthy and dangerous. EMCF is operated “in a perpetual state of crisis” where prisoners are at “grave risk of death and loss of limbs.” The facility, located in Meridian, Mississippi, is supposed to provide intensive treatment to the state’s prisoners with serious psychiatric disabilities, many of whom are locked down in long-term solitary confinement.
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Mississippi
May 2016
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Alford v. Moulder
The American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Mississippi today filed a lawsuit to challenge HB 1523, the anti-LGBT law that passed this spring. The lawsuit, which targets the Registrar of Vital Records, was filed on behalf of ACLU of Mississippi members and Nykolas Alford and Stephen Thomas, a gay couple who are engaged to be married and face discrimination as a result of this law.
Status: Closed
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![Couple in Mississppi lawsuit](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2022/05/mississipicouple-600x600.jpg)
Mississippi
LGBTQ Rights
Religious Liberty
Alford v. Moulder
The American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Mississippi today filed a lawsuit to challenge HB 1523, the anti-LGBT law that passed this spring. The lawsuit, which targets the Registrar of Vital Records, was filed on behalf of ACLU of Mississippi members and Nykolas Alford and Stephen Thomas, a gay couple who are engaged to be married and face discrimination as a result of this law.
May 2016
Status: Closed
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Mississippi
Dec 2011
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Sturgis v. Copiah County School District
When graduating senior Ceara Sturgis chose to wear a tuxedo for her senior yearbook photo, rather than the drape typically reserved for girls, her school, Wesson Attendance Center, responded by excluding her entirely from the senior portrait section of the yearbook. The ACLU seeks damages for Ceara and hopes to prevent gender discrimination in the future.
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![Sturgis v. Copiah County School District](https://wp.api.aclu.org/wp-content/themes/aclu-wp/img/fallback-case-gavel.png)
Mississippi
LGBTQ Rights
Sturgis v. Copiah County School District
When graduating senior Ceara Sturgis chose to wear a tuxedo for her senior yearbook photo, rather than the drape typically reserved for girls, her school, Wesson Attendance Center, responded by excluding her entirely from the senior portrait section of the yearbook. The ACLU seeks damages for Ceara and hopes to prevent gender discrimination in the future.
Dec 2011
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U.S. Supreme Court
Mar 2011
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Cooley v. Forrest County Sheriff’s Department
Andre Cooley, a corrections officer for juvenile detainees at the Sheriff’s Department in Forrest County, Mississippi, was fired when his supervisors discovered that he was gay.
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U.S. Supreme Court
LGBTQ Rights
Cooley v. Forrest County Sheriff’s Department
Andre Cooley, a corrections officer for juvenile detainees at the Sheriff’s Department in Forrest County, Mississippi, was fired when his supervisors discovered that he was gay.
Mar 2011
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Mississippi
Nov 2010
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McMillen v. Itawamba County School District
Status: Closed (Settled)
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Mississippi
LGBTQ Rights
McMillen v. Itawamba County School District
Nov 2010
Status: Closed (Settled)
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Mississippi
Religious Liberty
Reproductive Freedom
Robinson v. Thompson
Nov 2009
Status: Ongoing
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