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DISABILITY RIGHTS/PUBLIC ACCOMMODATIONS
K.O. by and through his parent and guardian J.O. v. Heather Mueller, Commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Education

0:21-cv-01837 | U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota

Filed Date: Aug. 12, 2021

Case Ongoing

On August 12, 2021, the Minnesota P&A (the Minnesota Disability Law Center), filed this class action lawsuit in Minnesota federal district court against the State of Minnesota and its State Department of Education challenging Minnesota’s special education statute that ends special education eligibility on July 1 of the year a student turns 21.  Jason Kim, of Schneider Wallace Cottrell Konecky LLP,  is pro bono co-counsel with the P&A. The class action plaintiffs contend that the state statute o…
DISABILITY RIGHTS/PUBLIC ACCOMMODATIONS
Disability Rights South Carolina v. McMaster

3:21-cv-02728 | U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina

Filed Date: Aug. 24, 2021

Case Ongoing

This is a case about a South Carolina ban on public primary and secondary school mask mandates during the COVID-19 pandemic. In June 2021, the South Carolina legislature passed its general budget, which included a proviso prohibiting school districts from using appropriated funds to impose mask mandates in schools. On August 24, 2021, Disability Rights South Carolina, Able South Carolina, and parents of South Carolina public school students with disabilities sued the South Carolina governor, at…
DISABILITY RIGHTS/PUBLIC ACCOMMODATIONS
CODING IN PROCESS
Goodall v. New York State Dept. of Corrections and Community Supervision (DOCCS)

9:19-cv-01359 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York

Filed Date: Jan. 23, 2019

Case Ongoing

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IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Amaya-Cruz v. Adducci

1:20-cv-00789 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio

Filed Date: April 10, 2020

Closed Date: Dec. 17, 2021

COVID-19 Summary: This habeas action was filed on April 10, 2020 by four medically vulnerable Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainees at the Geauga and Seneca County Jails, seeking release from detention in light of COVID-19. On April 13, the plaintiffs filed an amended petition, adding six new similarly situated plaintiffs. In April 2020, the Court granted preliminary relief and ordered the release of three of the original plaintiffs, while it denied relief for the remaining named plaint…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Voltz-Loomis v. McMaster

5:20-cv-01533 | U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina

Filed Date: April 21, 2020

Closed Date: Oct. 15, 2020

This is a case about the constitutionality of South Carolina’s failure to protect incarcerated people from the risks posed by the COVID-19 virus in its prisons. On April 21, 2020, the ACLU and a private law firm filed this lawsuit in the District of South Carolina on behalf of all people housed in a South Carolina Department of Corrections prison during the duration of the COVID-19 pandemic. Protection & Advocacy for People with Disabilities joined the lawsuit as a plaintiff on behalf of incarc…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Money v. Pritzker

1:20-cv-02093 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: April 2, 2020

Closed Date: July 1, 2021

COVID-19 Summary: This is a class action brought on behalf of prisoners in the Illinois Department of Corrections seeking various types of relief in light of COVID-19. The plaintiffs alleged that as people in groups who are particularly vulnerable to the virus, they were exposed to a heightened risk of COVID-19. On April 10, the judge denied the plaintiffs' request for a temporary restraining order and a preliminary injunction. The plaintiffs filed an amended complaint on May 20. The parties re…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Hernandez v. New York State Board of Elections

1:20-cv-04003 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: May 22, 2020

Case Ongoing

This is a case about the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the 2020 election cycle in New York. On April 9, 2020, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo issued a series of executive orders allowing any voter in the state to apply to vote in the June 23, 2020 primary election using a paper absentee ballot mailed to their home. The plaintiffs are four disabled individuals and four disability advocacy groups: Disability Rights New York, National Federation of the Blind of New York State, American Council…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Merrill v. Dunlap

1:20-cv-00248 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maine

Filed Date: July 15, 2020

Case Ongoing

This is a case about accessible electronic voting and vote-by-mail procedures during the COVID-19 pandemic. On July 15, 2020, the plaintiffs, who are blind or legally blind, filed this lawsuit in the District of Maine against the state of Maine and four Maine towns and cities. Represented by Disability Rights Maine, the plaintiffs requested a preliminary and permanent injunction requiring Maine to provide vote-by-mail and electronic voting procedures that were accessible to blind voters. The pl…
POLICING
Wolfe v. Portland

3:20-cv-01882 | U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon

Filed Date: Nov. 1, 2020

Case Ongoing

This case involved allegations that local, state, and federal law enforcement failed to accommodate people with disabilities during public assemblies and protests. Four Portland, Oregon residents with disabilities, along with Disability Rights Oregon, filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon (Portland) on November 1, 2020. Defendants included the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the Director of the U.S. Marshals, the Superintendent of the Oregon Sta…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Gary v. Virginia Department of Elections

1:20-cv-00860 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

Filed Date: July 27, 2020

Case Ongoing

A voter with print disabilities, along with the National Federation for the Blind of Virginia and the American Counsel of the Blind of Virginia, filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia on July 27, 2020, where it was assigned to Judge Claude M. Hilton. They sued the Virginia Department of Elections, the Virginia Board of Elections, and the Virginia Secretary of Elections. Represented by private counsel, the plaintiffs alleged that the defendants violate…