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MENTAL HEALTH (FACILITY)
CODING IN PROCESS
Samuel E. v. The City of New York

16423-07 | New York state trial court

Filed Date: 2007

(This summary is temporary, while we research the case.) Four prisoners with mental illness sued prison officials in New York City in state court; the complaint alleged that the defendants violated the plaintiffs constitutional rights when the plaintiffs were placed isolation, and subjected to inhumane conditions, including being forced to use diapers, cut off from their mental health medications, deprived of all forms of mental health treatment, denied all reading and writing materials, and ot…
MENTAL HEALTH (FACILITY)
United States v. South Carolina

3:24-cv-07125 | U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina

Filed Date: Dec. 9, 2024

Case Ongoing

This federal law suit arose from a Department of Justice (DOJ) investigation into South Carolina's treatment of adults with serious mental illness (SMI). The investigation found that there was reasonable cause to believe that South Carolina violated Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) by failing to provide services to individuals with SMI in the most integrated setting appropriate to their needs. The investigation called for collaboration with the state; however, the DOJ retai…
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…
MENTAL HEALTH (FACILITY)
United States v. State of Maine

1:24-cv-00315 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maine

Filed Date: Sept. 9, 2024

Case Ongoing

This is a case alleging that the state of Maine engaged in healthcare discrimination against children with behavioral disabilities. On September 9, 2024, the U.S. Department of Justice brought this lawsuit against Maine, alleging that the state violated the ADA by unnecessarily separating children with behavioral disabilities from their families and placing them in institutions.  The DOJ argued that defendant’s community-based services were not available when children with behavioral health dis…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
DOJ Investigation into Michigan's State Psychiatric Hospitals

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On November 13, 2024, the U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division announced it had opened an investigation into whether Michigan's state psychiatric hospitals unnecessarily institutionalized adults with severe mental illnesses. The Division also planned to investigate whether the state failed to provide the necessary mental health services to allow people to transition out of the psychiatric services and remain out. Under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), people with disabilit…
MENTAL HEALTH (FACILITY)
DOJ Investigation of Kentucky's Mental Health Service System

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This case entry summarizes a DOJ investigation into Kentucky's mental health system. On May 24, 2022, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced an investigation into whether Kentucky subjects adults with serious mental illness living in the Louisville/Jefferson County Metro area to unnecessary institutionalization in psychiatric hospitals, in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), 42 U.S.C. §§ 12111 et seq. This investigation was separate from the DOJ investigation launched in …
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 being found not guilty by reason of insanity of criminal offenses, they were still being incarcerated in Louisiana prisons. T…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Braggs v. Dunn

2:14-cv-00601 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama

Filed Date: June 17, 2014

Case Ongoing

This case concerns alleged systemic failures to provide mental and physical healthcare in Alabama prisons. On June 17, 2014, prisoners and the Alabama Disabilities Advocacy Program (“ADAP”) filed this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama. The plaintiffs sued the Alabama Department of Corrections (“ADOC”) under the Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”), § 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, and 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Represented by the Southern Poverty Law C…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Glendening v. Howard

5:22-cv-04032 | U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas

Filed Date: May 26, 2022

Case Ongoing

This case arose out of the long wait times for competency evaluation and competency restoration for pre-trial defendants in Kansas. On May 26, 2022, three attorneys and a parent filed this lawsuit as “next friends” for five pre-trial defendants who underwent competency hearings and were awaiting competency restoration at Larned State Hospital. The plaintiffs sued the Secretary of the Kansas Department of Disability and Aging Services (KDADS), the State Hospitals Commissioner, and the Superinten…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Chairse v. State of Minnesota Department of Human Services

0:23-cv-00355 | U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota

Filed Date: Feb. 13, 2023

Case Ongoing

This case arose out of the Minnesota Department of Human Services’ alleged failure to transfer civilly committed inmates to a state-operated treatment facility within the timeframe prescribed by state law. On January 23, 2024, a person who was civilly committed while in state custody filed this lawsuit in Minnesota’s Fourth Judicial District (Hennepin County). The case was ultimately removed to the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota. The plaintiff sued the Minnesota Department of…