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Eknes-Tucker v. Ivey

2:22-cv-00184 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama

Filed Date: April 19, 2022

Case Ongoing

This lawsuit was filed on April 19, 2022 on behalf of a four transgender children and their parents, two medical professionals, and a Reverend in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama. Plaintiffs challenged Alabama's Vulnerable Child Compassion and Protection Act, which was set to take effect on May 8. The plaintiffs—represented by the National Center for Lesbian Rights, GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders, Southern Poverty Law Center, Human Rights Campaign Foundation, and pr…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Doe v. Massachusetts Department of Corrections

1:17-cv-12255 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: Nov. 15, 2017

Closed Date: July 8, 2019

The plaintiff in this case is a trans woman who was housed in a men's prison in Massachusetts for a nonviolent drug possession charge. Because of her gender presentation and identity, she faced degrading sexual harassment from both staff and other prisoners. She was forced to use communal showers and bathrooms without locks, and was subject to strip searches conducted by male staff in front of other prisoners. The living conditions and repeated sexual harassment during her time there prompted h…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Kosilek v. Spencer

1:00-cv-12455 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: Dec. 12, 2000

Closed Date: March 31, 2015

On December 12, 2000, a transgender inmate at the Massachusetts Correction Institute in Norfolk filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts. Filing pro se, the plaintiff sued the Massachusetts Department of Corrections, the Correctional Medical Services, and the University of Massachusetts Medical School under 42 U.S.C. 1983. The inmate sought injunctive relief and damages to be determined by the jury, alleging violations of her constitutional rights and immu…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Baker v. Vermont

97-01009 | Vermont state trial court

Filed Date: 1997

Closed Date: 1999

In 1997, three same-sex couples filed suit against the state of Vermont and their respective town governments after they attempted to obtain marriage licenses and were denied based on the fact that they were not of different sexes than their partners. They alleged violations of the state constitution, ch. 1 art. 7, the Common Benefits clause, which predates by nearly a century but is substantially similar in content to the federal Equal Protection clause, although more expansive. The trial cour…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
DeBoer v. Snyder

2:12-cv-10285 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: Jan. 23, 2012

Closed Date: 2015

On January 23, 2012, a same-sex couple, individually and on behalf of their three adopted children, filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, against the State of Michigan. The case proceeded under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, and began by challenging the Michigan law preventing adoption by unmarried parents. The plaintiffs, represented by private counsel (including a professor at Wayne State law school), asked the court for both declaratory and injunctive relief. …
PRISON CONDITIONS
Adams v. Federal Bureau of Prisons

1:09-cv-10272 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: Feb. 24, 2009

Closed Date: 2011

On February 24, 2009, a prisoner serving her sentence in a facility operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts against the Federal Bureau of Prisons. The plaintiff, represented by public interest and private attorneys, sought declaratory and injunctive relief, alleging that the prison's refusal to provide medical care for plaintiff's Gender Dysphoria (GD) constituted a violation of the Eighth Amendment.The plaintiff was…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Tevyaw v. Colvin

1:14-cv-00425 | U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island

Filed Date: Sept. 29, 2014

Closed Date: 2014

On September 29, 2014, the surviving widow of a same-sex marriage filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island against the Social Security Administration (SSA). The plaintiff, represented by the Gay & Lesbian Advocates and Defenders, asked the court to declare that several SSA regulations were invalid and contrary to the governing Social Security statutes, affirm that the plaintiff met the marriage requirements, declare that a person previously married to someon…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Hara v. Office of Personnel Management

09-03134 | No Court

Filed Date: 2009

Closed Date: 2013

Dean Hara, the appellant in this suit, is the widower of his legal same-sex spouse in Massachusetts (U.S. Congressman Gerry Studds, who died in October 2006). He filed two separate applications with the Office of Personnel Management (OPM); the first, seeking a survivor annuity benefit, and the second seeking to be enrolled as a surviving spouse for health benefits under the Congressman's Federal Employees' Health Benefit Plan. OPM denied coverage, on two bases: first, because of the Defens…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Pedersen v. Office of Personnel Management

3:10-cv-01750 | U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

Filed Date: Nov. 9, 2010

On November 9, 2010, several citizens of Connecticut, Vermont and New Hampshire who were or had been married to partners of the same sex under the law of their states filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut against the Office of Personnel Management, the Social Security Administration, the U.S. Postal Service, the Department of the Treasury, the Department of Labor, the Department of Justice, and the United States. The plaintiffs, represented by Gay and Lesbia…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Goodridge v. Department of Human Health

01-01647 | Massachusetts state trial court

Filed Date: 2001

Closed Date: 2003

On September 24, 2002, fourteen private citizens of five different Massachusetts counties filed this lawsuit in the Suffolk Superior Court in Massachusetts. The plaintiffs, all of which were in long-term same-sex relationships, sued the Massachusetts Department of Human Health because they believed that the Department’s refusal to issue them marriage licenses violated their rights under the Massachusetts Constitution. Represented by lawyers associated with GLAD, the plaintiffs asked the court f…