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POLICING
Gould v. The City of New York

1:24-cv-01263 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: Feb. 20, 2024

Case Ongoing

This is a case about alleged unconstitutional home searches by the New York City Administration for Children's Services (ACS). On February 20, 2024, the plaintiffs filed this putative class action lawsuit against New York City in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York. The plaintiffs alleged that that ACS conducts tens of thousands of warrantless, coercive home searches each year in which they threaten to call the police or take away people's children if they are not allow…
CHILD WELFARE
G. K. v. Sununu

1:21-cv-00004 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire

Filed Date: Jan. 5, 2021

Case Ongoing

On January 5, 2021, four teenagers with mental impairments in foster care in New Hampshire filed this putative class-action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire. They sought to represent a class of all minors between the ages of 14 and 17, with mental impairments, under the legal custody of the Division for Children, Youth and Families (DCYF) in New Hampshire who were at risk of placement in congregate care. The plaintiffs were represented by the ACLU of New Hamp…
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 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 Assistance Pro…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Jose P. v. Mills

1:96-cv-01834 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: Feb. 1, 1978

The Clearinghouse is unable to locate the docket and other key documents for this case. As such, the following summary is based on court orders from the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. This case was originally filed on February 1st, 1978, under the name Jose P. v. Ambach. The complaint was brought on behalf of a class of handicapped children who allege that New York State was depriving them of an appropriate public e…
HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
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…
HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
K.C. v. The Individual Members of the Medical Licensing Board of Indiana

1:23-cv-00595 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana

Filed Date: April 5, 2023

Case Ongoing

This case is about the constitutionality of the Indiana Senate Enrolled Act 480 (SEA 480, or the “Act”), which went into effect on July 1, 2023 and prohibits transgender minors from receiving gender transition procedures. Represented by the ACLU of Indiana, the plaintiffs included four minor children and their parents, a family medicine practice that provided care to transgender persons, and a physician who co-founded that medical practice. On April 5, 2023, they sued the individual members of …
HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Noe v. Parson

23AC-CC04530 | Missouri state trial court

Filed Date: July 25, 2023

Case Ongoing

This case concerns the health rights of transgender individuals. A group of parents and their transgender children, healthcare professionals, and LGBTQ+ organizations challenged the constitutionality of the "Missouri Save Adolescents from Experimentation (SAFE) Act" (SB 49), which prohibits the provision of gender-affirming medical care to individuals under 18 years of age, including transition surgery, the prescription or administration of cross-sex hormones, or puberty blockers. It also prohi…
EDUCATION
Tennessee v. U.S. Department of Agriculture

3:22-cv-00257 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee

Filed Date: July 26, 2022

Closed Date: March 29, 2023

This case is about whether the Food and Nutrition Act (“FNA”) (7 U.S.C. § 2011, et seq.) and Title IX (20 U.S.C. § 1681, et seq.) permit states to categorically refuse low income individuals federally funded food-assistance benefits on the basis of gender identity. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (“USDA”), through the Food and Nutrition Service (“FNS”), administers the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (“SNAP”). SNAP is implemented through cooperative grant agreements between the fed…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
DOJ Investigation of Alaska's Behavioral Health System for Children

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This was an investigation into potential American with Disabilities Act (ADA) violations via the institutionalization of children with behavioral health disabilities in Alaska. On December 17, 2020, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) notified Alaska of its intent to investigate whether the state had unnecessarily institutionalized children with behavioral health disabilities in violation of Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Legal frameworks like the ADA and the Medicaid A…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
B. v. Kinsley

1:22-cv-01046 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina

Filed Date: Dec. 6, 2022

Case Ongoing

On December 6, 2022, Disability Rights North Carolina (DRNC), the NAACP, and Children's Rights filed suit on behalf of a class of North Carolina youth in foster care with mental and behavioral health. The plaintiffs filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina against the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS). The case was assigned to Judge William L. Osteen, Jr. and Magistrate Judge L. Patrick Auld.  The plaintiffs asserted that the de…