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DISABILITY RIGHTS
Disability Rights NC v. Moses Cone Health Systems

1:11-cv-00812 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina

Filed Date: Sept. 30, 2011

Closed Date: Sept. 11, 2013

This is a case about whether a Protection and Advocacy (P&A) agency can use its access authority to receive peer review and internal investigation records regarding a deceased psychiatric facility resident. On September 30, 2011 Disability Rights North Carolina (Disability Rights NC) filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina. DR North Carolina filed this lawsuit against Moses Cone Health Systems (Moses Cone), a medical center with an inpatient psych…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Equip for Equality v. Christian Women Services

1:03-cv-00796 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Feb. 3, 2003

Closed Date: April 30, 2003

This case is about whether a Protection and Advocacy agency (P&A) can enter a homeless shelter for persons with mental illness under its facilities access authority. Equip for Equality, Illinois’s P&A, filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois on February 3, 2003. Previously, in August 2002, Equip for Equality staff tried entering the shelter but were denied access. The complaint named Christian Women Services, a homeless shelter operator, and alleged v…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Donzel Shepherd v. Opportunities for Ohioans with Disabilities, et al.

2:16-cv-00776 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio

Filed Date: Aug. 9, 2016

Closed Date: Oct. 16, 2017

This case involves a Vocational Rehabilitation Services recipient’s appeal of an adverse Vocational Rehabilitation Act fair hearing decision. The plaintiff, an individual with a spinal cord injury, filed this lawsuit on August 9, 2016 in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio. The plaintiff sued Opportunities for Ohioans with Disabilities as well as the executive and administrative officer of the VR agency, under the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. Represented by counsel…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Connecticut Office of Protection and Advocacy v. Hartford Board of Education

3:04-cv-01338 | U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

Filed Date: Aug. 11, 2004

Closed Date: Oct. 18, 2006

This is a case about whether a Protection and Advocacy agency (P&A) can access the grounds, students, and student records of a non-residential therapeutic school. On August 11, 2004, Connecticut Office of Protection and Advocacy (OPA), Connecticut’s P&A, filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut. OPA filed this lawsuit against the Hartford Board of Education (Hartford), which operated the non-residential therapeutic school, under the Developmental Disabilitie…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
CODING IN PROCESS
E.T. v. Governor Greg Abbott

1:21-cv-00717 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

Filed Date: Aug. 17, 2021

Closed Date: Aug. 22, 2022

On August 17, 2021, Disability Rights Texas filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas challenging Governor Abbott's issuing of Executive Order GA-38 ("GA-38"), which prohibited school districts from instituting mask mandates in response to COVID-19. In addition to Governor Abbott, defendants included the Commissioner of the Texas Education Agency ("TEA") and the TEA. Disability Rights filed the suit on behalf of students with disabilities with compromised immu…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Carr v. Becerra

3:22-cv-00988 | U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

Filed Date: Aug. 3, 2022

Case Ongoing

This case concerns the effects of an agency rule change on Medicaid benefits provided by the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA). In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the federal government passed the FFCRA on March 18th, 2020. Among other things, the bill increased federal funding of Medicaid if certain provisions were met. One of these provisions was an extension of benefits through the end of the declared public health emergency. States could not terminate the benefit extension;…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Wolf v. General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

482 MD 2022 | Pennsylvania state appellate court

Filed Date: Sept. 23, 2022

Case Ongoing

This is a case about reproductive rights in Pennsylvania. This lawsuit was filed on September 23, 2022, in the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania, which is an intermediate appeals court with original jurisdiction over the case. The Governor of Pennsylvania, Tom Wolf, and the Acting Secretary of the Commonwealth, Leigh M. Chapman, sued Pennsylvania’s legislature, the General Assembly. The plaintiffs, represented by a private law firm, sought a declaratory judgment that the General Assembly’s pro…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Wolf v. General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

No. 73 MM 2022 | Pennsylvania state supreme court

Filed Date: July 28, 2022

Closed Date: Oct. 4, 2022

This is a case about reproductive rights in Pennsylvania. This lawsuit was filed on July 28, 2022, in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. The governor of Pennsylvania and the state’s acting secretary of the commonwealth, as both officials and private citizens, sued the state’s legislative body, the General Assembly. The plaintiffs, who were represented by the state’s Office of General Counsel and a private law firm, requested that the Court use its King’s Bench power, which would let the case be…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Tulsa Women's Reproductive Clinic v. Hunter

cv-2019-2176 | Oklahoma state trial court

Filed Date: Sept. 25, 2019

Case Ongoing

On September 25, 2019, Tulsa Women’s Reproductive Clinic, represented by the Center for Reproductive Rights, filed this lawsuit in an Oklahoma trial court challenging an Oklahoma law that forced doctors to tell patients that medication abortion can be “reversed” within 72 hours before their medication abortion appointment, a claim that is unsupported by scientific evidence. This law, S.B. 614, also required abortion providers to put up signs and inform patients of a website and 24-hour hotline …
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Nova Health Systems v. Cline

cv-2015-1838 | Oklahoma state trial court

Filed Date: Oct. 2, 2015

Case Ongoing

On October 2, 2015, NOVA Health Systems (NOVA, a reproductive services health care clinic that provides abortions), represented by the Center for Reproductive Rights, filed a lawsuit in the District Court of Oklahoma County (Oklahoma state trial court). The lawsuit challenged recently enacted state laws H.B. 1721 and H.B. 1409, which banned the most common method of second-trimester abortion, “dilation and evacuation,” and increased the state’s mandatory waiting period from 24 to 72 hours, resp…