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DISABILITY RIGHTS
Alabama Disability Advocacy Program v. Wood

2:07-cv-00434 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama

Filed Date: May 16, 2007

Closed Date: Sept. 10, 2008

This is a case about the scope of a Protection and Advocacy (P&A) agency’s records, facilities, and residents access authority under its enabling statutes. On May 16, 2007, Alabama Disabilities Advocacy Project (ADAP), Alabama’s P&A, filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama. ADAP filed this lawsuit against J. Walter Wood, Jr., Executive Director of Alabama Department of Youth Services (DYS), in his official capacity under the Developmental Disabilities As…
MENTAL HEALTH (FACILITY)
Oregon Advocacy Center v. Mink

3:02-cv-00339 | U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon

Filed Date: March 19, 2002

Case Ongoing

This lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon on March 19, 2002, by the Oregon Advocacy Center (“OAC”), representing criminal patients unable to stand trial due to mental illness; the Metropolitan Public Defender Services, Inc. (“MPD”); and a criminal patient who waited 23 days after being found unfit to stand trial before admittance to a proper mental health treatment facility. The plaintiffs sued the Oregon Department of Human Services (“DHS”) under the Protecti…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Gibson v. Forest Hills School District Board of Education

1:11-cv-00329 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio

Filed Date: June 7, 2011

Closed Date: Nov. 2, 2016

The plaintiffs, parents of a student with a disability, represented by Disability Rights Ohio, prevailed in part in an administrative complaint against a school district alleging that it failed to provide a free appropriate public education (FAPE) under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). They filed a separate complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio for attorneys’ fees on June 7, 2011, where it was docketed as No. 1:11-cv-00329. That case was a…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Silguero v. CSL Plasma, Inc.

2:16-cv-00361 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas

Filed Date: Aug. 24, 2016

Closed Date: Dec. 8, 2021

On August 24, 2016 an individual filed this lawsuit In the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas against CSL Plasma alleging that CSL Plasma denied him the opportunity to donate blood solely because he had an orthopedic impairment and uses a cane in violation of Title III of the ADA and Texas Human Resources Code. Represented by Disability Rights Texas, the requested injunctive relief, damages, and attorneys' fees. The case was assigned to District Judge Hilda Tagle. On March 7…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Selene v. Bedke

1:21-cv-00021 | U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho

Filed Date: Jan. 11, 2021

Closed Date: Dec. 15, 2021

On January 11, 2021, two individuals and five non-profit organizations, including Idaho's Protection & Advocacy agency, filed this challenge to the Idaho Legislature's accessibility policies during the COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho. The plaintiffs alleged that the Legislature's failure to observe COVID-19 precautions, like requiring masks, placed them at a higher risk of contracting the virus. They also claimed that the Legislature's plan to provide remo…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
H.P. v. Board of Education of the City of Chicago

1:18-cv-00621 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Jan. 29, 2018

Case Ongoing

This is a class action lawsuit challenging the Chicago Public Schools' (CPS) and Illinois State Board of Education's policies for providing special education services to children who do not speak English fluently. The case was filed on January 29, 2018 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. The plaintiffs claimed that the school district systematically fail to provide CPS students with disabilities, whose parents are Limited English Proficient (“LEP”), with a free app…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
J.R. v. Austin Independent School District

1:21-cv-00279 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

Filed Date: March 29, 2021

Case Ongoing

On March 29, 2021, Disability Rights Texas and several individual plaintiffs filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas challenging the Austin School District’s failure to timely evaluate students for eligibility under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). The plaintiffs alleged that an estimated 800 students were on a waiting list for initial evaluations and twice as many students were late for their triennial reevaluations, in large part …
DISABILITY RIGHTS
E.F. v. New York City Department of Education

1:21-cv-00419 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: Jan. 26, 2021

Case Ongoing

On January 26, 2021, Disability Rights New York filed a class action complaint in the Eastern District of New York against the New York City Board of Education alleging that almost 2,000 Staten Island students with disabilities were “being educated in segregated and unequal public schools and classrooms in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”), Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act (“Section 504”), the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (“IDEA”), and the New York Cit…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
A.A. v. Walled Lake Consolidated Schools

2:16-cv-14214 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: Dec. 1, 2016

Closed Date: Feb. 25, 2019

A student plaintiff appealed an unfavorable Due Process Hearing related to alleged IDEA violations to Federal Court on December 1, 2016  The case was assigned to Judge Sean F. Cox.  The lawsuit alleged that the district denied the student a free appropriate public education (“FAPE”) in the least restrictive environment (“LRE”), as mandated by the IDEA, 20 U.S.C. § 1412(a)(5) and also asserted that the District violated Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”), 42 U.S.C. § 12182, …
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Sixth District of the African Methodist Episcopal Church v. Kemp

1:21-cv-01284 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: March 29, 2021

Case Ongoing

This case was part of a challenge to Georgia Senate Bill 202 (“SB 202”) which was signed into law in March 2021. SB 202 implemented numerous new voting restrictions including a ban on aiding voters in line and restrictions on absentee voting. The case was ultimately consolidated within In Re Georgia Senate Bill 202 (1:21-mi-55555-JPB) alongside seven other cases challenging the same law. In particular these cases focus on SB 202’s effect on people of color and voters with disabilities. On March…