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CHILD WELFARE
Bryan C v. Lambrew

1:21-cv-00005 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maine

Filed Date: Jan. 6, 2021

Closed Date: Nov. 27, 2024

This is a class action lawsuit about the administration of psychotropic drugs in Maine foster care.  On January 6, 2021, the plaintiffs, four foster children in the custody of the Maine Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), filed suit through their next friend in U.S. District Court for the District of Maine against the Commissioner of the Maine DHHS and the Director of the Maine Office of Child and Family Services. The complaint set forth that Maine’s Department of Health and Human S…
CHILD WELFARE
Charlie and Nadine H. v. Corzine

2:99-cv-03678 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

Filed Date: Aug. 4, 1999

Closed Date: April 25, 2023

On August 4, 1999, a group of children in the legal and/or physical custody of the New Jersey Division of Youth and Family Services (DYFS) filed this lawsuit against the State of New Jersey and DYFS in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey. Represented in part by Children's Rights, Inc., the plaintiffs alleged that DYFS failed to protect them from abuse, failed to provide them with services such as medical care, and failed to provide DYFS caseworkers with adequate resources and…
CHILD WELFARE
D.G. v. Henry

4:08-cv-00074 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma

Filed Date: Feb. 13, 2008

Closed Date: March 13, 2025

The plaintiffs, represented by Children's Rights, filed this class action suit against the Oklahoma Department of Human Services (DHS) in February 2008 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma. The complaint alleged violations of the First, Fifth, Ninth, and Fourteenth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution, the Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act of 1980, 42 U.S.C. § 621 et seq., the Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997, 42 U.S.C. § 670 et seq., and Oklahoma state …
CHILD WELFARE
Dwayne B. v. Snyder

2:06-cv-13548 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: Aug. 8, 2006

Case Ongoing

A class of children in foster care custody in Michigan, represented by Children's Rights, filed this class action suit against the state of Michigan and the Michigan Department of Human Services (DHS) in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan on August 8, 2006. They alleged violations of the U.S. Constitution's First, Ninth, and Fourteenth Amendments; federal law including the Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act of 1980, 42 U.S.C. § 670 et seq.; and state law. The compla…
CHILD WELFARE
J.E.L. v. Charest

1:24-cv-00471 | U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island

Filed Date: Nov. 13, 2024

Case Ongoing

This is a case about healthcare access for Medicaid-eligible youth in Rhode Island. On November 13, 2024, ten Medicaid-eligible minors brought a class action suit, filed in the U.S. District Court in Rhode Island, against the Director of the Rhode Island Department of Children, Youth, and Families, as well as the Executive Office of Health and Human Services, for failure to provide adequate treatment for Medicaid-eligible children and youth in Rhode Island with significant behavioral health nee…
CHILD WELFARE
Sam M. v. Chafee

1:07-cv-00241 | U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island

Filed Date: June 28, 2007

Case Ongoing

On June 28, 2007, ten named minor children in the legal custody of the Rhode Island Department of Children, Youth and Families ("DCYF") filed this putative class action lawsuit (by their Next Friends) in the United States District Court for the District of Rhode Island against the Governor of Rhode Island, Secretary of the Office of Health & Human Services, and Director of DCYF. The named plaintiffs were represented by the advocacy organization Children's Rights, then-Rhode Island Child Advocat…
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. 
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G. K. v. Sununu

1:21-cv-00004 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire

Filed Date: Jan. 5, 2021

Case Ongoing

On January 5, 2021, four teenagers with mental impairments in foster care in New Hampshire filed this putative class-action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire. They sought to represent a class of all minors between the ages of 14 and 17, with mental impairments, under the legal custody of the Division for Children, Youth and Families (DCYF) in New Hampshire who were at risk of placement in congregate care. The plaintiffs were represented by the ACLU of New Hamp…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
B. v. Kinsley

1:22-cv-01046 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina

Filed Date: Dec. 6, 2022

Case Ongoing

On December 6, 2022, Disability Rights North Carolina (DRNC), the NAACP, and Children's Rights filed suit on behalf of a class of North Carolina youth in foster care with mental and behavioral health. The plaintiffs filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina against the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS). The case was assigned to Judge William L. Osteen, Jr. and Magistrate Judge L. Patrick Auld.  The plaintiffs asserted that the de…
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Michelle H. v. Haley

2:15-cv-00134 | U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina

Filed Date: Jan. 12, 2015

Case Ongoing

On January 12, 2015, eleven named minor children in the legal custody of the South Carolina Department of Social Services ("SCDSS") filed this putative class action lawsuit (by their Next Friends) against the Governor of South Carolina and SCDSS in the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina. The named plaintiffs were represented by two advocacy organizations, Children's Rights and Appleseed, and by private counsel. Plaintiffs intended to seek certification of a class of…