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MENTAL HEALTH (FACILITY)
U.S. v. City of New York (Kings County Hospital)

1:10-cv-00060 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: Jan. 7, 2010

Closed Date: Jan. 17, 2017

According to the press release issued by the Justice Department regarding this case, the facts were as follows: On December 7, 2007, the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice (DOJ) began an investigation into the care and treatment of mental health patients at Kings County Hospital Center (KCHC)'s Behavioral Health Service (BHS). "The investigation uncovered systemic deficiencies that violated the constitutional and civil rights of patients with psychiatric disabilities. These viol…
MENTAL HEALTH (FACILITY)
M.G. v. Cuomo

7:19-cv-00639 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Jan. 23, 2019

Case Ongoing

On January 23, 2019, six indigent prisoners with mental illness whom the defendants held in secure prisons past their release dates filed this class-action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, on behalf of other prisoners in similar situations. The plaintiffs sued the Governor of New York, the New York State Office of Mental Health, Commissioner, Associate Commissioner, and the New York Department of Corrections and Community Supervision ("DOCCS"), alleging …
MENTAL HEALTH (FACILITY)
Jeff D. v. Kempthorne

4:80-cv-04091 | U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho

Filed Date: Aug. 4, 1980

Case Ongoing

In 1980, a civil complaint relying upon 42 U.S.C. § 1983 was filed by private counsel in the U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho on behalf of four emotionally and mentally handicapped, institutionalized children, and the parties eventually, on September 7, 1982, stipulated to class certification. The complaint alleged that the defendants, state officials, had violated the class members' rights under the U.S. Constitution's Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments, the Idaho Constitution, and f…
MENTAL HEALTH (FACILITY)
Cooper v. Kliebert

3:14-cv-00507 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana

Filed Date: Aug. 14, 2014

Case Ongoing

On August 14, 2014, a number of prisoners in Louisiana state prisons filed this class action in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals. The plaintiffs, represented by public interest attorneys, asked the court for declaratory and injunctive relief, claiming that, despite their being found not guilty by reason of insanity of criminal offenses, they were still being incarcerated in Louisiana pris…
MENTAL HEALTH (FACILITY)
D.P. v. School Board of Palm Beach County

9:21-cv-81099 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida

Filed Date: June 22, 2021

Case Ongoing

This is a case about the School District of Palm Beach County (SDPBC), acting under the Baker Act, a Florida state law that authorized SDPBC to remove hundreds of children deemed to be a threat and took them to psychiatric facilities for involuntary psychiatric examinations each year. On June 22, 2021, four students of color and one white student with disabilities who qualified for Exceptional Student Education (ESE) and were enrolled in the School District of Palm Beach County filed this putat…
MENTAL HEALTH (FACILITY)
Costa v. Bazron

1:19-cv-03185 | U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

Filed Date: Oct. 23, 2019

Case Ongoing

COVID-19 Summary: This is an ongoing case to secure sanitary water in a psychiatric hospital in which the plaintiffs filed additional motions for temporary restraining orders in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, requesting release and mitigation measures including: adequate mental health care, social distancing, and hygiene products. The court granted a temporary restraining order on April 25 and a preliminary injunction on May 24, ordering the defendants to isolate patients exposed to the virus …
MENTAL HEALTH (FACILITY)
U.S. v. State of Georgia

1:09-cv-00119 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: Jan. 15, 2009

Closed Date: 2014

On May 30, 2008, the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) conducted a CRIPA investigation of the Georgia Regional Hospital in Atlanta (GRHA) and recorded several statutory violations. The DOJ concluded that numerous conditions and practices at GRHA violated the constitutional and statutory rights of its residents. In particular, the DOJ found that GRHA: (1) failed to adequately protect its patients from harm; (2) failed to provide appropriate mental health treatment; (3) failed to use secl…
MENTAL HEALTH (FACILITY)
Disability Rights Mississippi v. Mississippi Children's Home Services

3:13-cv-00547 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi

Filed Date: Sept. 6, 2013

Closed Date: Sept. 28, 2015

Plaintiff, Disability Rights Mississippi ("DRMS"), filed this lawsuit against CARES, Inc. (initially identified in Complaint as Mississippi Children's Home Services) on September 6, 2013, in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi. Defendant, a non-profit organization, operated CARES Center, a residential treatment facility for children with severe emotional or behavioral disabilities. Plaintiff asserted that, as Mississippi's designated Protection & Advocacy organizati…
MENTAL HEALTH (FACILITY)
Sonnenberg v. Disability Rights Idaho, Inc.

1:14-cv-00369 | U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho

Filed Date: Aug. 29, 2014

Closed Date: March 7, 2016

On August 29, 2014 Ada County and the Ada County Coroner filed a complaint in the Fourth Judicial District of Idaho. They sued Disability Rights Idaho (“DRI”) under Idaho Code § 10-1201 et seq., (Uniform Declaratory Judgment Act), and Idaho Rule of Civil Procedure 57. At the request of the defendant, Disability Rights Idaho, Inc. (DRI), the case was removed to the United States District Court for the District of Idaho on September 8, 2014. On September 18, 2014 DRI filed a counterclaim under th…
MENTAL HEALTH (FACILITY)
Georgia Advocacy Office v. Shelp

1:09-cv-02880 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: Oct. 16, 2009

Closed Date: 2014

On October 16, 2009, the Georgia Advocacy Office (GAO), a non-profit Georgia corporation that provides protection and advocacy services to individuals with disabilities, filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. The plaintiffs sued Georgia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities and the Regional Hospital Administrator at Southwestern State Hospital (SWSH) under 42 U.S.C. 1983 and 42 U.S.C. 10801. The plaintiffs, represent…