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DISABILITY RIGHTS
A.A. v. Buckner

2:21-cv-00367 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama

Filed Date: May 20, 2021

Case Ongoing

(This summary is temporary while we research the case) On May 20, 2021, the Alabama Disabilities Advocacy Program, Children's Rights, and Southern Poverty Law Center filed suit in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama against the state's Department of Human Resources (DHR) on behalf of four teens with mental disabilities placed unnecessarily in or at risk of segregation in pyschiatric residential treatment facilities. 
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Harness v. Hosemann

3:17-cv-00791 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi

Filed Date: Sept. 28, 2017

Closed Date: June 30, 2023

This is a case about the felony disenfranchisement provision of Mississippi’s Constitution, which was enacted in 1890 and strips the right to vote for life from anyone convicted of certain crimes. On 28 September 2017, Black citizens of Mississippi with past felony convictions brought an action against Mississippi's Secretary of State. The claim was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi. The complaint argued that the disqualifying crimes in the felony disenfr…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Disability Rights Mississippi v. Lauderdale County

4:09-cv-00137 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi

Filed Date: Oct. 19, 2009

Closed Date: June 13, 2010

This is a case about a Protection and Advocacy (P&A) agency’s access authority. On October 19, 2009, Disability Rights Mississippi  filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi. DRMS alleged that Lauderdale County violated the Developmental Disabilities Assistance and Bill of Rights (DD) Act, 42 U.S.C. § 15041 et seq., the Protection and Advocacy for Individuals with Mental Illness (PAIMI) Act, 42 U.S.C. § 10801 et seq., and the Protection and Advocacy …
PRISON CONDITIONS
Caswell v. Horton

4:23-cv-01380 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama

Filed Date: Oct. 13, 2023

Case Ongoing

This case is about the alleged callous indifference exhibited by corrections officers to an incarcerated woman during the course of her high-risk pregnancy, particularly the failure to provide needed medical care and basic accommodations.  On October 13, 2023, a private plaintiff filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court of the Northern District of Alabama, Middle Division. She sued Etowah County, the Etowah County Sheriff, the Etowah County Chief of Administration, Doctors’ Care Physicians…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
The Farmworker Association of Florida v. DeSantis

1:23-cv-22655 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida

Filed Date: July 17, 2023

Case Ongoing

​​This is a case about the constitutionality of a Florida immigration law. On July 17, 2023, the Farmworker Association of Florida and individual defendants sued the Governor of Florida, the Florida Attorney General, the Florida Statewide Prosecutor, and Florida's State Attorneys in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida. The plaintiffs challenged the constitutionality of Section 10 of Senate Bill 1718, which made it a crime to transport a person into Florida if that perso…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Hugo Martin Recinos-Recinos v. Express Forestry Inc.

2:05-cv-01355 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana

Filed Date: April 7, 2005

Closed Date: June 22, 2009

On April 7, 2005, attorneys with the Immigrant Justice Project of the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Juvenile Justice Project of Louisiana filed a class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana on behalf of over 300 predominantly Guatemalan and Mexican migrant workers, admitted to work in the U.S. pursuant to H-2B temporary foreign worker visa program, who planted trees and performed other forestry-related activities for Express Forestry Inc. Plaintif…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
East Bay Sanctuary Covenant v. Barr

4:19-cv-04073 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: July 16, 2019

Case Ongoing

This case is about the ability of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to issue new guidelines on asylum application procedures and whether DHS is allowed to issue a rule that asylum seekers must first apply for asylum in another country before applying in the U.S. On July 16, 2019, four advocacy organizations — the East Bay Sanctuary Covenant, Al Otro Lado, Innovation Law Lab, and the Central American Resource Center — challenged a new asylum policy of the Trump administration narrow…
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…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Braggs v. Dunn

2:14-cv-00601 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama

Filed Date: June 17, 2014

Case Ongoing

This case concerns alleged systemic failures to provide mental and physical healthcare in Alabama prisons. On June 17, 2014, prisoners and the Alabama Disabilities Advocacy Program (“ADAP”) filed this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama. The plaintiffs sued the Alabama Department of Corrections (“ADOC”) under the Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”), § 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, and 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Represented by the Southern Poverty Law C…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Disability Rights Mississippi v. Forrest County, Miss.

2:11-cv-00053 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi

Filed Date: March 27, 2011

On March 27, 2011, Disability Rights Mississippi (the Protection and Advocacy organization for Mississippi) filed suit against Forrest County in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi. Plaintiff, represented by counsel from the Southern Poverty Law Center in Jackson, alleged violations of three separate Protection and Advocacy acts: the Developmental Disabilities Assistance and Bill of Rights Act, the Individuals with Mental Illness Act, and the Individual Rig…