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EDUCATION
Brooks v. State College Area School District

4:22-cv-01335 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Aug. 25, 2022

Case Ongoing

Plaintiffs alleged that their school district violated federal law by not providing accommodations for middle school girls who wanted to play club ice hockey. On August 25, 2022, four parents on behalf of their three minor daughters filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania. The girls sued the State College Area School District under Title IX, and the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment as enforced through 42 U.S.C. § 1983.  R…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Murphy v. Minnesota Department of Human Services

0:16-cv-02623 | U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota

Filed Date: Aug. 3, 2016

Case Ongoing

This case alleging that the Minnesota Department of Human Services' (DHS) reliance on group homes for individuals with disabilities made it difficult for individuals who wanted to live on their own to find housing. On August 3, 2016, individuals with disabilities who lived in group housing in Minnesota—including some who had tried to secure individual housing—as well as their guardians filed suit against the DHS and its commissioner. The plaintiffs alleged a violation of the Medicaid Act's fair…
PRISON CONDITIONS
State of Oklahoma v. FCC

16-01057 | U. S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit

Filed Date: Feb. 12, 2016

Closed Date: 2017

This suit, brought by the State of Oklahoma on January 25, 2016, challenged a Federal Communications Commission (FCC) order that set new rate caps for local (intrastate) and long-distance (interstate) inmate calling. More information on the prior administrative proceedings can be found here. The State brought this suit in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit pursuant to the Administrative Procedure Act (APA), alleging the FCC violated the APA's prohibition on regulations that are arb…
FAIR HOUSING/LENDING/INSURANCE
United States v. Village of Hinsdale

1:20-cv-06959 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Nov. 24, 2020

Case Ongoing

On November 24, 2020, the Housing and Civil Enforcement Section of the Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois against the Village of Hinsdale, Illinois. The lawsuit alleged that the Village discriminated on the basis of disability in violation of the Fair Housing Act (FHA) when it prohibited a sober living facility from operating and refused to consider  the facility’s request for a …
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Braidwood Management Inc. v. Becerra

4:20-cv-00283 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas

Filed Date: March 29, 2020

Case Ongoing

On June 11, 2019 — more than nine years after the Affordable Care Act was signed into law—the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommended that health insurance cover preexposure prophylaxis (PrEP) drugs without any cost-sharing arrangements such as co-payments or deductibles. On March 29, 2020, in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas, Plaintiffs filed a complaint, challenging the PrEP mandate as well as a prior contraception mandate. Plaintiffs, individuals an…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
DOJ Investigation of Rhode Island Community-Based Services

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This is a case about the level of service required of state medicaid providers under the Americans with Disabilities Act to ensure that persons with disabilities can live in their own communities. On May 18, 2022, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) reached an out-of-court settlement agreement with the Rhode Island Executive Office of Health and Human Services to resolve alleged violations of the ADA. The State Medicaid Director and the Department within the Executive branch that administers t…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Emery v. Hunt

3:00-cv-03008 | U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota

Filed Date: Feb. 14, 2000

Closed Date: Feb. 10, 2003

On February 14, 2000, Native American registered voters and residents of Dewey County, in District 28 of the South Dakota legislature, filed a lawsuit against South Dakota in the U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota, Central Division. The plaintiffs, represented by the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation and private counsel, sought declaratory and injunctive relief, alleging that the dissolution of two special legislative districts in 1996 violated 42 U.S.C. §1973. Specifi…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Georgia State Conference of the NAACP v. State of Georgia

1:17-cv-01397 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: April 20, 2017

Closed Date: April 11, 2018

The specific factual background of the case involves a 2017 special election in Georgia for its sixth congressional district. Representative Tom Price resigned in February 2017, and a special election was held in April 2017 to determine his replacement. None of the candidates garnered a majority of the votes, so Georgia state law O.C.G.A. § 21-2-501(a) required a runoff election between the two candidates receiving the most votes. It was determined that this election would take place on June 20…
EDUCATION
Peltier v. Charter Day School, Inc.

7:16-cv-00030 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina

Filed Date: Feb. 29, 2016

Case Ongoing

This lawsuit concerns a public charter school dress code that required female students to wear skirts. On February 29, 2016, three mothers of minor girls filed this lawsuit on their behalf in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina. Represented by private counsel and the ACLU, they sued Charter Day School, Inc.; members of its Board of Trustees; and The Roger Bacon Academy, Inc., seeking declaratory relief, injunctive relief prohibiting the defendants from enforcing t…
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Louisiana v. Becerra

3:21-cv-03970 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana

Filed Date: Nov. 15, 2021

Closed Date: Dec. 2, 2022

COVID-19 Summary: In this case, several states sued to block the federal vaccine mandate which required Medicare- and Medicaid-certified providers and suppliers to become vaccinated prior to December 6, 2021 (the CMS mandate). The judge granted the preliminary injunction on November 30,2021, and issued a nationwide injunction prohibiting the CMS mandate. 571 F.Supp.3d 516. The defendants appealed and requested the lower court issue a stay pending appeal, which the court denied the same day. The…