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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…
EDUCATION
J.N. v. Oregon Board of Education

6:19-cv-00096 | U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon

Filed Date: Jan. 22, 2019

Case Ongoing

This case is about discrimination that students with disabilities face in the Oregon Public School system. On January 22, 2019, plaintiffs brought a class-action suit against the Oregon Department of Education under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act. The plaintiffs sought to address the long-standing problem in Oregon of denying students with disabilities the ability to attend a full-day of sc…
DISABILITY RIGHTS/PUBLIC ACCOMMODATIONS
G.T. v. Board of Education of Kanawha

2:20-cv-00057 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia

Filed Date: Jan. 24, 2020

Case Ongoing

This is a case challenging the legality of the Kanawha County Schools (KCS) treatment of students with disabilities. On January 24, 2020, a plaintiff who was a third-grade student in the Kanawha County School district, filed this class-action suit against the school district and its superintendent. The Arc of West Virginia, an advocacy organization that supports students with disabilities, also joined as a plaintiff. The student had autism and ADHD. The plaintiff had been denied effective behav…
DISABILITY RIGHTS/PUBLIC ACCOMMODATIONS
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, this class-action suit was filed against the New York City Department of Education, the City of New York, and the Chancellor of the New York City Department of Education on behalf of a class of nearly 2,000 Staten Island children with disabilities who alleged that they were being taught in segregated and unequal settings in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), a…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Emily Q. v. Bonta

2:98-cv-04181 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: May 27, 1998

On May 27, 1998 a group of seven children with intensive mental health needs who were eligible for Medi-Cal benefits filed suit against the California Department of Health Services in the Federal District Court for the Central District of California alleging violations of the Medicaid Act. They contended they were entitled under federal law to mental health benefits that were being denied to them, specifically Therapeutic Behavioral Services (TBS). They sought injunctive relief requiring that…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Bravo v. Board of County Commissioners for the County of Doña Ana

6:08-cv-00010 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico

Filed Date: June 16, 2008

Closed Date: 2010

On June 16, 2008, people with mental disabilities who had been arrested and detained in the Doña Ana County Detention Center (“DACDC”) brought this class action lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of New Mexico. The plaintiffs sued the Board of County Commissioners for the County of Doña Ana, the DACDC, and law enforcement. The Plaintiffs, represented by the Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law and private counsel, sought sought class-wide preliminary and permanent inju…
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…
DISABILITY RIGHTS/PUBLIC ACCOMMODATIONS
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 …
DISABILITY RIGHTS/PUBLIC ACCOMMODATIONS
HHS-OCR Complaint of Alabama Disabilities Advocacy Program Against Alabama Department of Public Health

No Court

Filed Date: March 24, 2020

Closed Date: April 8, 2020

COVID-19 Summary: This is a complaint, dated March 24, 2020, made to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (HHS OCR); it alleges that Alabama's particular protocols for rationing ventilator access in the event of over-demand bars access to ventilators to people with intellectual and cognitive disabilities, in violation of federal anti-discrimination law. Alabama withdrew its ventilator rationing policy and instructed hospitals that they could not discriminate …
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
State of Connecticut Office of Protection and Advocacy for Persons With Disabilities v. Connecticut

3:06-cv-00179 | U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

Filed Date: Feb. 6, 2006

Case Ongoing

On February 6, 2006, the State of Connecticut Office of Protection and Advocacy for Persons With Disabilities (an independent State agency charged with advocating for persons with disabilities), along with several persons with mental disabilities residing in nursing facilities, filed this lawsuit against the State of Connecticut, its Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services, its Department of Public Health, and its Department of Social Services in the United States District Court for …