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DISABILITY RIGHTS
Ashley W. et. al. v. Holcomb, et al.

3:19-cv-00129 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana

Filed Date: June 25, 2019

Closed Date: June 23, 2022

This case, filed on June 25, 2019, addresses the large-scale failures of the State of Indiana’s child welfare system to protect and meet the needs of children in its custody. The named plaintiffs are children in foster care who brought a class action seeking declaratory and injunctive relief against the state. Plaintiffs sought certification of a class consisting of all children who are now, or will be, in the custody of DCS. Plaintiffs allege that DCS failed to “provide safe and appropriate fo…
LABOR RIGHTS
Walsh v. Packers Sanitation Services, Inc.

4:22-cv-03246 | U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska

Filed Date: Nov. 9, 2022

Case Ongoing

Martin Walsh filed suit in his official capacity as the Secretary of Labor for the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) against Packers Sanitation Services, one of the largest food safety companies in the U.S., in the U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska on November 9, 2022. DOL alleged that Packers illegally employed more than two dozen children, ranging in age from 13 to 17, in meatpacking plants in violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act. DOL also filed a motion for a Temporary Restr…
CHILD WELFARE
Jeremiah M. v. Crum

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

Filed Date: May 19, 2022

Case Ongoing

This case is about allegations of longstanding, systematic deficiencies in the Alaskan child welfare system as relating to its foster care services. On May 20, 2022, twelve foster children involved with the Alaska Office of Children's Services (OCS) — represented by A Better Childhood, Northern Justice Project, Disability Law Center of Alaska, and private counsel — filed this putative class action lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Alaska, suing the Alaska Departmen…
CHILD WELFARE
Brandt v. Rutledge

4:21-cv-00450 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas

Filed Date: May 25, 2021

Case Ongoing

On April 6, 2021, the Arkansas legislature passed H.B. 1570 — the "Save Adolescents from Experimentation” (SAFE) Act — over the governor’s veto. The Safe Act banned healthcare professionals from providing gender transition procedures, including puberty blockers and hormones, to anyone under 18 or from referring anyone under 18 to any healthcare professional for such procedures. Additionally, the SAFE Act prohibited coverage of gender transition procedures for minors by Medicaid or private insur…
CHILD WELFARE
Wyatt B. v. Brown

6:19-cv-00556 | U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon

Filed Date: April 16, 2019

Case Ongoing

On April 16, 2019, ten children in the custody of the Oregon Department of Human Services (ODHS) filed this putative class action lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Oregon. The plaintiffs sued the Governor of Oregon, the Director of the Oregon Department of Child Welfare, and ODHS, along with its director, under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) (42 U.S.C. § 12131(2)), Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act (29 USC § 794), the Adoption Assis…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
American Hospital Association v. Heckler (later Bowen v. Am. Hosp. Ass'n)

1:83-cv-02638 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: April 6, 1983

Case Ongoing

In 1982, a newborn child with Down’s Syndrome in Bloomington, Indiana was denied life-saving surgery to repair a blocked esophagus (unrelated to the child’s disability) after the parents of the child refused to consent to surgery. The child’s death generated such widespread public discussion that the President directed the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office of Civil Rights to remind healthcare providers receiving federal funding that Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1…
CHILD WELFARE
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…
CHILD WELFARE
Jonathan R. v. Justice

3:19-cv-00710 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia

Filed Date: Sept. 30, 2019

Case Ongoing

This is a case about the administration of child welfare.  On September 30, 2019, twelve named plaintiffs, all children in the custody of West Virginia's Department of Health and Human Resources (DHHR), brought a class action complaint against the Governor of West Virginia Jim Justice, as well as the Cabinet Secretary for the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), the Deputy Secretary for the West Virginia DHHS, and the Commissioner for Bureau of Children and Families (BC…
CHILD WELFARE
Doe v. Abbott

D-1-GN-22-000977 | Texas state trial court

Filed Date: March 1, 2022

Case Ongoing

This is a case about transgender children in Texas. For regular updates, please refer to the ACLU resource; we will update this page with the Texas trial court docket when issues with that site resolve. On February 18, 2022, the Texas Attorney General issued an opinion which found that gender-confirmation treatment, including surgeries and hormone-replacement therapy, was child abuse as defined by the Texas Family Code. The Code defines "abuse" as mental, emotional, or physical injuries that ha…
CHILD WELFARE
B.B. v. Hochul

1:21-cv-06229 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: Nov. 10, 2021

Case Ongoing

This class action lawsuit challenged New York's practice of rejecting people who apply to be foster parents to relatives because of past convictions or only charges under state, federal, and city rules. The complaint was filed on November 10, 2021 in the Eastern District of New York and assigned to Judge LaShann DeArcy Hall. The named plaintiffs were children who had been involuntarily removed from their parents or guardians by the New York City Administration for Children's Service (ACS) and w…