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PFLAG v. Abbot

D-1-GN-22-02569 | Texas state trial court

Filed Date: June 8, 2022

Case Ongoing

(This summary is temporary, while we research the case.) This state court case, filed by Lambda Legal, the American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Texas, and Texas-based law firm Baker Botts LLP, on behalf of PFLAG National and three Texas families challenges Texas's rule defining the provision of gender-affirming care to transgender kids as child abuse. It seeks an injunction barring the state from implementing the rule; so far, the Court has granted a temporary injunction. 
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M.B. v. Colyer

2:18-cv-02617 | U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas

Filed Date: Nov. 16, 2018

Case Ongoing

In 2018, children in the Kansas foster care system filed a class-action suit against the Governor of Kansas, the Kansas Department for Children and Families (DCF), the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, and the Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services. The named plaintiffs allegedly experienced great hardship while involved in the Kansas foster care system, including dozens or even hundreds of moves, night-to-night changes, and starkly inadequate mental and behavioral diagn…
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Salazar v. Edwards

No. 92 Ch 5703 | Illinois state trial court

Filed Date: 1992

Closed Date: 1999

In 1992, homeless children and their parents filed a class action lawsuit in Illinois State Court against the Illinois State Board of Education, the Illinois Coordinator for Homeless Children and Youth, the State Superintendent of Education, the Chicago School Board, and the Chicago School Reform Board of Trustees. A children class and parent class was created. The children class consisted of all children between the ages of three and twenty who were or would be living in Chicago, homeless, and…
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M. v. Crum

3:22-cv-00129 | U.S. District Court for the District of Alaska

Filed Date: May 19, 2022

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C.M. v. Robert J. Bentley

2:13-cv-00591 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama

Filed Date: Aug. 19, 2013

Closed Date: April 8, 2014

(This summary is temporary while we research the case) Named plaintiffs, children attending public schools in Alabama's Black Belt region, filed suit against the Governor of Alabama in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama challenging the Alabama Accountability Act ("the Act"). The Act gave tax breaks to families transferring their children to successful schools, discriminating against impoverished families. Plaintiffs were represented by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
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Dwayne B. v. Snyder

2:06-cv-13548 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: Aug. 8, 2006

Case Ongoing

A class of children in foster care custody in Michigan, represented by Children's Rights, filed this class action suit against the state of Michigan and the Michigan Department of Human Services (DHS) in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan on August 8, 2006. They alleged violations of the U.S. Constitution's First, Ninth, and Fourteenth Amendments; federal law including the Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act of 1980, 42 U.S.C. § 670 et seq.; and state law. The compl…
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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…
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Sheila A. v. Finney

Kansas state trial court

Filed Date: 1989

Case Ongoing

In January 1989, a local attorney seeking additional foster care beds for Shawnee County children field this lawsuit in Shawnee County District Court. The Children's Rights Project of the ACLU filed an amended petition on February 1990 and made the suit a class action, which contended that the Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services of Kansas was not in compliance with state and federal law and was violating the constitutional rights of Kansas children. They described numerous instanc…
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Brazwell v. Wagner

California state trial court

Filed Date: March 23, 2010

Case Ongoing

On March 23, 2010, the National Center for Youth Law, the Alliance for Children's Rights, and private counsel filed this state court lawsuit representing children who receive benefits through California's Kin-GAP program, which provides cash assistance and Medi-Cal to foster children living with relatives as their legal guardians. The program was created in 1999 by the California Legislature to encourage family members to care for youth who had been removed from their parents by the dependency …
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Charlie and Nadine H. v. Corzine

2:99-cv-03678 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

Filed Date: Aug. 4, 1999

Case Ongoing

On August 4, 1999, a group of children in the legal and/or physical custody of the New Jersey Division of Youth and Family Services (DYFS) filed this lawsuit against the State of New Jersey and DYFS in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey. Represented in part by Children's Rights, Inc., the plaintiffs alleged that DYFS failed to protect them from abuse, failed to provide them with services such as medical care, and failed to provide DYFS caseworkers with adequate resources and…