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DISABILITY RIGHTS
Taylor v. Wexford Health Sources, Incorporated

2:23-cv-00475 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia

Filed Date: July 7, 2023

Closed Date: Aug. 30, 2024

This case concerns access to medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD) for incarcerated individuals. On July 7, 2023, the plaintiff, who had an imminent criminal sentencing scheduled, filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia against Wexford, the for-profit medical provider for all regional jails and state prisons in West Virginia, and the Commissioner of the West Virginia Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation (DCR). Represented by Mountain State Jus…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Warren v. City of Chico

2:21-cv-00640 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California

Filed Date: April 8, 2021

Case Ongoing

Involuntarily unhoused residents of Chico, California, filed this lawsuit against the City of Chico and the City of Chico Police Department, challenging the City’s ordinances that criminalized homelessness by banning camping and storing personal property in public places. Represented by attorneys from Legal Services of Northern California, on April 8, 2021, eight individuals sued under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and alleged violations of their rights guaranteed by the Fourth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amend…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Beltran v. Borough of Pottstown

2:23-cv-04234 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Nov. 1, 2023

Case Ongoing

This is a class action lawsuit seeking declaratory and injunctive relief to enjoin the defendant, the Borough of Pottstown, from closing the College Drive Encampment where unsheltered people lived in violation of their rights under the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution.  On November 1, 2023, the plaintiffs—non-profit organization Better Days Ahead and two unhoused individuals, represented by the Community Justice Project and Legal Aid of Southeastern PA—brought this laws…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Williamson v. Maciol

9:20-cv-00537 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York

Filed Date: May 12, 2020

Closed Date: Oct. 24, 2022

This is a class action about the unequal treatment of female general custody prisoners in the Oneida County Jail (“the Jail”). On May 12, 2020, three female general custody prisoners filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York on behalf of themselves and the jail's female general custody prisoners (present or future). The plaintiffs sued the Oneida County Sheriff and the Chief Deputy of the Oneida County Jail under the Declaratory Judgment Act for violati…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Farrell v. United States Department of Defense

3:23-cv-04013 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Aug. 8, 2023

Case Ongoing

This is a case about veteran discharge status following the repeal of the “don’t ask, don’t tell” (DADT) policy. DADT was a military policy repealed in 2010 that permitted members of the LGBTQ+ community to serve in the military as long as they kept their sexual orientation a secret. On August 8, 2023, a group of LGBTQ+ veterans who were discharged because of their sexual orientation filed this putative class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. Pla…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
L.R. (Lucas R.) v. Azar

2:18-cv-05741 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: June 29, 2018

Case Ongoing

COVID-19 Summary: This was a pre-existing class action about non-citizen children in HHS Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) custody. During the COVID-19 pandemic, plaintiffs sought emergency releases of nearly all such children, in light of the grave risk of infection in congregate settings. The court denied the plaintiffs' application for TRO on April 2, 2020. Those proceedings, and all other litigation in this case, are described in full below. This class action suit, filed on June 29, 201…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Steele-Warrick v. Microgenics

1:19-cv-06558 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: Nov. 20, 2019

Case Ongoing

On November 20, 2019, a formerly incarcerated individual filed a putative class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York. The plaintiff alleged negligence by Microgenics Corporation and its parent company, Thermo Fischer Scientific Corporation. The plaintiff sought to represent “all persons who obtained positive testing results for Suboxone/buprenorphine generated by Indiko Plus urinalysis analyzers while in the New York State Department of Corrections and …
DISABILITY RIGHTS
D.P. v. School Board of Palm Beach County

9:21-cv-81099 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida

Filed Date: June 22, 2021

Closed Date: July 5, 2023

This case challenged the School District of Palm Beach County (“SDPBC”) for its utilization of the Baker Act, a Florida state law that authorized medical professionals and law enforcement officers to initiate an involuntary psychiatric examination of a person in specific circumstances, including when there was a reason to believe that 1) the person had a mental illness, and 2) because of that mental illness, they posed an immediate danger to themselves or others. On June 22, 2021, five students…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Jimmo v. Sebelius

5:11-cv-00017 | U.S. District Court for the District of Vermont

Filed Date: Jan. 18, 2011

This case concerns the "Improvement Standard," a rule of thumb that required many beneficiaries to show a likelihood of medical or functional improvement before Medicare would pay for skilled nursing and therapy services. As a result, some people were forced into nursing homes or suffered other adverse medical outcomes. This lawsuit was brought against the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) by five individual plaintiffs who were Medicare beneficiaries and five national organization p…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Medina v. Fischer

1:11-cv-00176 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Jan. 4, 2011

Closed Date: July 22, 2016

On January 4, 2011, visually impaired and blind inmates at Sullivan and Wende Correctional Facilities filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. The plaintiffs— who initially represented themselves but later were represented by Legal Aid and private attorneys—asked the court for declaratory and injunctive relief. The plaintiffs sued the State of New York for violations of Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act and Title II of the American with D…