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MENTAL HEALTH (FACILITY)
Wyatt v. Stickney

2:70-cv-03195 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama

Filed Date: Oct. 23, 1970

Closed Date: 2003

On October 23, 1970, patients involuntarily confined for mental treatment purposes at Bryce Hospital in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, filed a class action lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the Alabama Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation (DMH/MR) in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama, Northern Division. The plaintiffs, represented by the American Civil Liberties Union and private counsel, asked the court for declaratory and injunctive relief, alleging that cond…
INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY (FACILITY)
Hunt v. Meszaros

2:91-cv-02564 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: Sept. 6, 1991

Closed Date: 1999

On September 6, 1991, Mary Hunt, a resident of the Great Oaks Center for developmentally disabled persons in Silver Springs, Maryland, filed a class-action lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland against the State of Maryland, the administrator of Great Oaks Center, and both the Secretary and Director of the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. The plaintiffs, including all persons then or who may in the future be confined at Great Oaks Center,…
INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY (FACILITY)
Travis D. v. Eastmont Human Services Center

6:96-cv-00063 | U.S. District Court for the District of Montana

Filed Date: Aug. 23, 1996

Closed Date: 2004

On August 23, 1996, attorneys for the Montana Advocacy Program and the Public Interest Law Center of Philadelphia filed a class action lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the District of Montana, challenging the conditions of treatment of Montanans with developmental disabilities who were being involuntarily confined in state institutions. Plaintiffs' complaint alleged violations of the Americans with 26 Disabilities Act, 42 U.S.C. §12101 et. seq.; Title XIX of the Social Security Act, 28 U.S.C…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Henry v. Deland

2:89-cv-01124 | U.S. District Court for the District of Utah

Filed Date: Dec. 18, 1989

Closed Date: 2000

On December 18, 1989, Sandra Henry filed a class action lawsuit under 42 U.S.C § 1983 in the United States District Court for the District of Utah against the Utah Department of Corrections. Henry brought the lawsuit on behalf of herself and current and future inmates at the Utah State Penitentiary at Draper. Plaintiffs were represented by the Legal Center for the Handicapped, the ACLU of Utah Foundation, and private attorneys. The National Prison Project of the ACLU later represented plaint…
MENTAL HEALTH (FACILITY)
Dixon v. Weinberger

1:74-cv-00285 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: April 8, 1986

Closed Date: March 30, 2014

In 1974, patients confined at the Federal Mental Institution (FMI) in the District of Columbia filed this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. The plaintiffs filed under the Hospitalization of the Mentally Ill Act (HMIA), 21 D.C. Code §501, against the District of Columbia. The plaintiffs, represented by the Center for Law and Social Policy and the Mental Health Law Project, asked the court for a declaration of the following: 1) that they had a right to…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Prye v. Blunt

2:04-cv-04248 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri

Filed Date: Oct. 8, 2004

Closed Date: 2007

During 2003, a law professor residing in Illinois developed a mental illness. Due to this illness, a state court appointed the Office of State Guardian as guardian of his person and, in 2004, of his estate. He moved to Missouri, where a petition was soon filed to appoint a guardian for him. The guardianship in Illinois did not affect his eligibility to vote while residing there, but the guardianship adjudication had a different, prohibitive impact on his voting rights in Missouri. Thus, in …
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
J.A. v. Barbour

3:07-cv-00394 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi

Filed Date: July 11, 2007

Closed Date: 2010

On July 11, 2007, a group of teenage girls in the Columbia Training School, a state-run reform school in Mississippi, filed a class-action lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. Section 1983 against the State of Mississippi in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi. Mississippi Protection and Advocacy Inc., a congressionally authorized nonprofit organization that enforces the civil rights of people with disabilities, is also a plaintiff in the suit. The plaintiffs are represented b…
CHILD WELFARE
K.J. v. N.J. Dep't of Youth and Family Services

1:04-cv-03553 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

Filed Date: May 26, 2004

Closed Date: Nov. 29, 2015

This action, filed on May 26, 2004 in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey, was brought by three adopted children placed in an abusive and neglectful home by the New Jersey Division of Youth and Family Services (DYFS). The plaintiffs were represented by private counsel and Children's Rights, Inc.; they sought compensatory and punitive damages, claiming that the state violated their federal and state civil rights by placing them in a foster-turned-adoptive home (approved and mo…
EDUCATION
Mills v. Board of Education of the District of Columbia

1:71-cv-01939 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Sept. 24, 1971

Closed Date: Jan. 1, 2001

In 1971 several school aged children, by and through their parents, filed a lawsuit against the Board of Education of the District of Columbia ("DC Board of Ed") in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. The Plaintiffs, represented by public interest and private counsel, sought declaratory and injunctive relief, claiming that the Defendants violated DC law and the United States Constitution by denying them access to publicly funded education. Class status was granted on …
CHILD WELFARE
R.C. v. Hornsby

2:88-cv-01170 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama

Filed Date: Nov. 15, 1988

Closed Date: 2007

As we have been unable to locate the complaint and a few of the earlier opinions for this case, some information in this summary is based on material made available by the Alabama Department of Human Resources and from the National Center for Youth Law.On November 15, 1988, the children of Alabama with behavioral or emotional disorders filed an action against the Alabama Department of Human Resources (DHR). The plaintiffs were represented by the Bazelon Center, Alabama Disabilities Advocacy Pro…