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Helen L. v. DiDario

2:92-cv-06054 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Oct. 1, 1992

Closed Date: June 7, 1996

Plaintiffs filed this lawsuit, an Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) challenge to the Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare's refusal to provide them with in-home attendant care services rather than nursing home care, in the fall of 1992, in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. There were five plaintiffs in this case (Helen L., Beverly D., Ilene F., Florence H., and Idell S.) who were joined and dismissed at various times, depending on their institutionaliza…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Crabtree v. Goetz

3:08-cv-00939 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee

Filed Date: Sept. 23, 2008

Closed Date: 2010

On September 23, 2008 a group of disabled individuals who were receiving home-based care filed suit against the Tennessee Department of Finance and Administration and the Bureau of TennCare in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee. They alleged that the defendants were violating that Americans with Disabilities Act and the Rehabilitation Act by moving to reduce or eliminate their home-based nursing services. They claimed that these reductions were being made wi…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Jones v. Arnold

3:09-cv-01170 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida

Filed Date: Dec. 2, 2009

Closed Date: Jan. 3, 2011

The plaintiff in this case, Jacqueline Jones, has quadriplegia as a result of a spinal cord injury and requires assistance in carrying out daily life activities due to her mobility impairment. For many years, her parents were able to care for her, but as they approach old age they no longer have the physical capacity to do so. Ms. Jones was on the waitlist for Traumatic Brain Injury/Spinal Cord Injury (TBI/SCI) Medicaid waiver for several years. In 2009, the state conducted an assessment inter…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Cruz v. Arnold

1:10-cv-23048 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida

Filed Date: Aug. 17, 2010

Closed Date: March 16, 2012

This case emerged from Haddad v. Arnold. With slightly differing facts from others in the proposed class in Haddad, plaintiffs Luis Cruz and Nigel de la Torre filed this separate complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida on April 15, 2011. The plaintiffs have spinal cord injuries that caused quadriplegia. Both have paralysis, use a wheelchair for mobility, and require assistance in their homes in order to perform daily life activities. Although both plaintiffs r…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Boyd v. Mullins

2:10-cv-00688 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama

Filed Date: Aug. 12, 2010

Closed Date: April 30, 2012

Plaintiff filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama, against the Alabama Medicaid Agency, on August 12, 2010, alleging that the denial of home-based Medicaid services as opposed to institution-based services violated the ADA and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act. The Plaintiff was paralyzed from the collar bone down and requires assistance performing daily activities. When his mother was able to take care of him, Alabama Medicaid was able to provide …
INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY (FACILITY)
Ruth L. v. White

2:90-cv-05562 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Aug. 27, 1990

Closed Date: 1996

On August 27, 1990, several individuals with intellectual disabilities, represented by attorneys for the Disabilities Law Project, filed a class action lawsuit against the Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare [DPW] pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in U.S. District Court Eastern District of Pennsylvania, challenging their continued confinement in state institutions. Plaintiffs sought to enjoin DPW from denying persons with intellectual disabilities appropriate treatment and placement in commun…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Fisher v. Oklahoma Health Care Authority

4:02-cv-00762 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma

Filed Date: Oct. 1, 2002

Closed Date: Nov. 17, 2003

Several individuals with disabilities filed this lawsuit to challenge Oklahoma's proposed reduction in prescription drug coverage under its Home and Community Based Services Medicaid waiver. Each of the plaintiffs has a range of (largely physical) disabilities and would qualify for nursing home care, but is able to remain in the community due to services provided via the Medicaid waiver. When the Oklahoma Health Care Authority announced that it would cover a maximum of 5 prescription drugs fo…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Kathleen S. v. Dept of Public Welfare

2:97-cv-06610 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Oct. 27, 1997

Closed Date: 1999

On October 27, 1997, a group of individuals with mental illness who had been institutionalized at Haverford State Hospital ("HSH") filed a lawsuit against the state under the Americans with Disabilities Act ("ADA") in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. The plaintiffs, represented by legal services, asked the Court for declaratory and injunctive relief, alleging that the defendants' announcement of their decision to close HSH by June 30, 1998 and to transfer cert…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Billy A. & Miss. Coalition for Citizens with Disabilities v. Lewis-Payton

3:02-cv-00475 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi

Filed Date: May 17, 2002

Closed Date: June 30, 2005

Five individuals with disabilities and the Mississippi Coalition for Citizens with Disabilities filed this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi on May 17, 2002. The plaintiffs argued that they were unnecessarily institutionalized (or at risk of unnecessary institutionalization) due to a lack of adequate community-based habilitation and support services. Plaintiffs claim that Mississippi's policy of only providing certain necessary services i…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Birdsong v. Perdue

1:03-cv-00288 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: Jan. 31, 2003

Closed Date: 2006

On January 31, 2003, a group of disabled individuals who received or were going to receive Medicaid long-term care services in nursing facilities rather than in their own homes filed a lawsuit against the state of Georgia under the Americans with Disabilities Act, 42 U.S.C. §§ 12101-12213, § 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, 29 U.S.C. § 794(a), Title XIX of the Social Security Act, 42 U.S.C. § 1396-1396v and the Civil Rights Act of 1871, 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the …