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DISABILITY RIGHTS
DOJ Investigation of Rhode Island Community-Based Services

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This is a case about the level of service required of state medicaid providers under the Americans with Disabilities Act to ensure that persons with disabilities can live in their own communities. On May 18, 2022, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) reached an out-of-court settlement agreement with the Rhode Island Executive Office of Health and Human Services to resolve alleged violations of the ADA. The State Medicaid Director and the Department within the Executive branch that administers t…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Egana v. Blair's Bail Bonds, Inc.

2:17-cv-05899 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana

Filed Date: June 16, 2017

Closed Date: Jan. 22, 2020

On June 16, 2017, three named individuals who had entered into agreements for the provision of bail bond services filed suit in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana against two New Orleans bail bond companies and insurers of bail bonds and an ankle monitor provider ("ankle monitor defendant"). The plaintiffs brought the suit under provisions of the Racketeer Influence and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO), 18 U.S.C. § 1962(c)–(d); the Truth in Lending Act (TILA)…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Lowell v. Lyft, Inc.

7:17-cv-06251 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Aug. 17, 2017

Case Ongoing

On August 17, 2017, an individual from White Plains, New York who uses a motorized scooter to travel filed this putative class action in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. Represented by private counsel and the Westchester Independent Living Center, the plaintiff sued Lyft, Inc., alleging a failure to provide accessible service to people with mobility disabilities in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act (42 U.S.C. § 12181), the New York State Human Rights…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Georgia State Conference of the NAACP v. State of Georgia

1:17-cv-01397 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: April 20, 2017

Closed Date: April 11, 2018

The specific factual background of the case involves a 2017 special election in Georgia for its sixth congressional district. Representative Tom Price resigned in February 2017, and a special election was held in April 2017 to determine his replacement. None of the candidates garnered a majority of the votes, so Georgia state law O.C.G.A. § 21-2-501(a) required a runoff election between the two candidates receiving the most votes. It was determined that this election would take place on June 20…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Jane Jones v. Annucci

1:16-cv-01473 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Feb. 25, 2016

Case Ongoing

On February 25, 2016, six women prisoners in the custody of the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (DOCCS) filed this class-action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. The plaintiffs, anonymous by request, sued various DOCCS officials in their official capacity under 42 U.S.C. 1983, claiming violations of their Eighth Amendment rights. The plaintiffs were represented by The Legal Aid Society Prisoners' Rights Project and by pr…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Emery v. Hunt

3:00-cv-03008 | U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota

Filed Date: Feb. 14, 2000

Closed Date: Feb. 10, 2003

On February 14, 2000, Native American registered voters and residents of Dewey County, in District 28 of the South Dakota legislature, filed a lawsuit against South Dakota in the U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota, Central Division. The plaintiffs, represented by the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation and private counsel, sought declaratory and injunctive relief, alleging that the dissolution of two special legislative districts in 1996 violated 42 U.S.C. §1973. Specifi…
EDUCATION
Peltier v. Charter Day School, Inc.

7:16-cv-00030 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina

Filed Date: Feb. 29, 2016

Case Ongoing

This lawsuit concerns a public charter school dress code that required female students to wear skirts. On February 29, 2016, three mothers of minor girls filed this lawsuit on their behalf in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina. Represented by private counsel and the ACLU, they sued Charter Day School, Inc.; members of its Board of Trustees; and The Roger Bacon Academy, Inc., seeking declaratory relief, injunctive relief prohibiting the defendants from enforcing t…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Reproductive Health Services of Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region, Inc. v. Parson

2:19-cv-04155 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri

Filed Date: July 30, 2019

Closed Date: July 13, 2022

On July 30, 2019, Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region and a licensed obstetrician-gynecologist brought this suit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri, challenging Missouri laws that would ban abortion in the state at nearly every stage of pregnancy. The plaintiffs, represented by the ACLU, sued the Governor of Missouri, the state Attorney General, the Circuit Attorney for the City of St. Louis, the President of the State Medical Board, and the Director of the D…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Amador v. Baca

2:10-cv-01649 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: March 5, 2010

Case Ongoing

On March 5, 2010, two female former inmates who were imprisoned in the Century Regional Detention Facility ("CRDF"), a Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department ("LASD") facility, filed this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. Represented by a civil rights law firm, the plaintiffs sued the LASD under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The plaintiffs alleged violations of their Fourth, Eight, and Fourteenth Amendment rights, as well as their equivalents under the…
POLICING
Guardian News v. Chicago Police Department

2015-CH-06157 | Illinois state trial court

Filed Date: April 13, 2015

Closed Date: Jan. 4, 2017

In February 2015, journalists at The Guardian lead by Spencer Ackerman began publishing a series of articles about Homan Square, a secretive facility operated by the Chicago Police Department. The Guardian alleged that the Department abused people detained there and held detainees incommunicado and without record of their detainment. On March 2, 2015, the Guardian submitted a Freedom of Information Act request to the Department for records related to interrogations, detentions, and arrests at H…