Cases and Briefs

Lewis County v. Helphenstine

ICAP represented Julie Helphenstine in a case arising from the death of her husband in pretrial detention due to inadequate medical care.

Status

Cert denied

Court

U.S. Supreme Court No. 23-259

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Grants Pass v. Johnson

ICAP represented the homeless residents of Grants Pass, Oregon, in a constitutional challenge to a set of ordinances that punished homeless people for sleeping or resting anywhere on public property at any time with so much as a blanket to survive the cold, regardless of whether they have anywhere else to go.

Status

Decision issued

Court

U.S. Supreme Court No. 23-175

9th Circuit (En Banc) No. 20-35752 / 20-35881

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Brown v. Yost

ICAP represented a group of Ohio citizens asserting a First Amendment challenge to the state’s ballot-initiative process.

Status

Decision issued

Court

U.S. Supreme Court No. 24A970

6th Circuit No. 24-3354

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Goldey v. Fields

ICAP represented Andrew Fields, a federal prisoner who was subjected to egregious physical abuse by prison guards who then sabotaged his efforts to file an administrative complaint.

Status

Decision issued

Court

U.S. Supreme Court No. 24-809

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Mullin v. Al Otro Lado

ICAP represented the nonprofit Al Otro Lado, Inc., and a class of asylum seekers before the Supreme Court in defending a Ninth Circuit decision striking down a turnback policy under which border officers physically blocked asylum seekers arriving at ports of entry in order to prevent them from lawfully presenting their asylum claims.

Status

Decision issued

Court

U.S. Supreme Court No. 25-5

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Singleton v. Taylor

ICAP filed a brief opposing the Supreme Court review of a decision striking down Alabama's anti-panhandling laws as violations of the First Amendment's free speech protections.

Status

Cert denied

Court

U.S. Supreme Court No. 25-368

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CASA v. Trump (2025)

ICAP represents a class of people for whom President Trump attempted to deny birthright citizenship by Executive Order.

Status

Decision issued

Court

U.S. Supreme Court No. 24A884

4th Circuit No. 25-1153 / 21-2188

D. Md. No. 25-00021

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Ritter v. Migliori

ICAP filed a brief in opposition on behalf of the respondent judicial candidate, opposing review of a Third Circuit decision holding that the Civil Rights Act of 1964's materiality provision prohibited throwing out ballots that were undated but timely filed.

Status

Dismissed as moot

Court

U.S. Supreme Court No. 22-30

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Fitzhugh v. Patton

ICAP successfully opposed Supreme Court review of a decision allowing pretrial detainees to bring Fourteenth Amendment claims challenging unconstitutional conditions of confinement.

Status

Cert denied

Court

U.S. Supreme Court No. 25-50

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City of Anaheim v. Valenzuela

ICAP represented the family of Fermin Valenzuela, Jr., in a high-stakes appeal that clarified the availability of damages in federal civil rights lawsuits.

Status

Successful resolution

Court

U.S. Supreme Court No. 21-1598

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McKinney v. Arizona

ICAP represented a prisoner in the Supreme Court challenging the state of Arizona's approach to imposing the death penalty.

Status

Brief filed

Court

U.S. Supreme Court No. 18-1109

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Ermold v. Davis

ICAP represented David Ermold and David Moore, a same-sex couple who were unlawfully denied a marriage license by then-Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis, in defiance of the Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Obergefell v. Hodges, which established the fundamental right of same-sex couples to marry.

Status

Cert denied

Court

U.S. Supreme Court No. 25-125

6th Circuit No. 24-5524

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McNeal v. LeBlanc

ICAP represented Brian McNeal, an individual who remained in Lousiana prison for 41 days after his release date because prison officials failed to convey his release date to the facility holding him.

Status

Cert denied

Court

U.S. Supreme Court No. 24-19

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University of Toledo v. Wamer

ICAP represented a student in a Title IX case alleging the university's deliberate indifference to sexual harassment by a professor.

Status

Cert denied

Court

U.S. Supreme Court No. 22-123

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Luna Vanegas v. Signet Builders

ICAP represented, in certain appellate proceedings, Jose Ageo Luna Vanegas and similarly situated migrant workers in a federal wage-and-hour lawsuit against Signet Builders, Inc.

Status

Cert denied

Court

U.S. Supreme Court No. 22-869

7th Circuit No. 23-2964

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Huffman v. Harris

ICAP represented Rachel Harris, the guardian of Steven Jessie Harris, in a significant federal civil rights case challenging the six-year detention of an incompetent, non-convicted man in a Mississippi jail.

Status

Successful Resolution

Court

U.S. Supreme Court No. 22-474

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Acheson Hotels v. Laufer

After the Supreme Court granted certiorari, ICAP stepped in to represent and present oral argument on behalf of Ms. Laufer, a disabled person who was unable to access information about hotel accessibility that federal law requires the hotel to provide.

Status

Dismissed

Court

U.S. Supreme Court No. 22-429

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Roper/City of Arlington v. Crane

ICAP represented the family of a man shot and killed by a police officer during a traffic stop.

Status

Cert denied

Court

U.S. Supreme Court No. 22-1151 / 22-1157

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Herrera v. Cleveland

ICAP represented Justin Herrera, a pre-trial detainee at Cook County Jail, in a federal civil rights lawsuit and a subsequent petition to the U.S. Supreme Court. Mr. Herrera sought to hold three correctional officers accountable for failing to protect him from a brutal assault by other detainees and for denying him prompt medical care.

Status

Cert denied

Court

U.S. Supreme Court No. 21-771

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Shenandoah Valley Juvenile Center Commission v. Doe

ICAP helped preserve a win for unaccompanied migrant children suing a juvenile detention center for inadequate mental health care.

Status

Cert denied

Court

U.S. Supreme Court No. 21-48

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Trump v. Thompson

ICAP assisted the House Select Committee to investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol in its defense against a lawsuit by Donald Trump seeking to enjoin the release of Presidential records from the National Archives containing White House communications relating to the events on and leading up to January 6, 2021.

Status

Decision issued

Court

U.S. Supreme Court No. 21A272

D.C. Circuit No. 21-5254

D.D.C. No. 21-2769

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In re: Application of the House Judiciary Committee for an Order Authorizing Release of Certain Grand Jury Materials

ICAP assisted the House Committee on the Judiciary in its high-stakes legal battle to obtain grand jury materials redacted from Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report.

Status

Case concluded

Court

U.S. Supreme Court No. 19A1035

D.C. Circuit No. 19-5288

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