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CHILD WELFARE
CODING IN PROCESS
Odeneal v. Quin

3:25-cv-00566 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee

Filed Date: May 19, 2025

Case Ongoing

(This summary is temporary, while we research the case.) On May 19, 2025, 13 foster children in Tennessee filed this putative class action on behalf of more than 9,000 Tennessee children in foster care, in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee.  The complaint alleges that the system had temporarily improved while under court supervision until 2017, during a lawsuit known as Brian A., but now exposes children to significant risk of harm, fails to investigate reports of abu…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
United States v. State of Rhode Island

1:24-cv-00531 | U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island

Filed Date: Dec. 19, 2024

Case Ongoing

This is a case about community-based services for children with disabilities. On December 19, 2024, the United States of America (“United States”) sued the State of Rhode Island under Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act in the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island. The US alleged that Rhode Island failed to sufficiently provide community-based services for children with disabilities and caused them to be unnecessarily hospital…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
R. v. Pennsylvania Department of Human Services

1:17-cv-02332 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Dec. 18, 2017

Case Ongoing

This is a case challenging the child welfare system in Pennsylvania.  On December 18, 2017, six children with disabilities in Pennsylvania's foster care system filed a putative class action against the Pennsylvania Department of Human Services (“PDHS”) in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania. Represented by Disability Rights Pennsylvania, plaintiffs alleged that the state failed to provide children with mental health disabilities with adequate services and support in …
EDUCATION
Foote v. Ludlow School Committee

3:22-cv-30041 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: April 12, 2022

Case Ongoing

This case involved four parents who believed local public school officials overreached when they chose not to disclose their children’s decision to establish a new gender identity at school. On April 12, 2022, two sets of parents filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts. The parents sued the school district and various officials, administrators, and teachers in their official capacity under 42 U.S.C. 1983. Represented by public interest attorneys for the Massachus…
CHILD WELFARE
Katie A. v. Bonta

2:02-cv-05662 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: July 18, 2002

Case Ongoing

This lawsuit was filed in the Central District of California on July 18, 2002, by the class of children and young adults who (a) are in the custody of Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services; (b) have a behavioral, emotional, or psychiatric impairment; and (c) need individualized mental health services. The suit is against County and State agencies for neglecting their responsibilities to provide mental health care services to foster children in California. Plaintiffs soug…
CHILD WELFARE
Gary G. v. Gavin Newsom

5:23-cv-00947 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: May 25, 2023

Case Ongoing

This putative class-action lawsuit on behalf of more than 5,800 youths was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California on May 25, 2023 against the governor of California, the California Department of Social Services ("CDSS"), San Bernadino County, its Board of Supervisors, and the San Bernardino County Children and Family Services ("CFS"). The complaint alleged that CFS failed to protect those under its care. The plaintiffs, represented by A Better Childhood and priv…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Angelica S. v. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

1:25-cv-01405 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: May 8, 2025

Case Ongoing

This case is a challenge to Trump administration policies limiting the release of unaccompanied migrant children to their parents and other relatives. On May 8, 2025, five unaccompanied noncitizen children and a nonprofit organization sued the Department of Health and Human Services, its secretary, and the head of its Office of Refugee Resettlement, challenging an interim final rule and other policies that have limited release of unaccompanied migrant children to undocumented relatives seeking …
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…
CHILD WELFARE
Civil Rights Corps v. Walker

1:24-cv-00943 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina

Filed Date: Nov. 13, 2024

Case Ongoing

This case is about public access to the courts, specifically child dependency proceedings.  On November 13, 2024, the Civil Rights Corps filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina. Represented by a private law firm, the Civil Rights Corps sued the District Judge for the 14th Judicial District in Durham County and the sheriff of Durham County under the right of access to dependency proceedings under the First Amendment. The plaintiff argued t…
CHILD WELFARE
L.J. v. Massinga

1:84-cv-04409 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: Dec. 5, 1984

Case Ongoing

This case challenged the actions of twenty-one state and city officials, caseworkers, and supervisors who administered Maryland's federally-funded foster care program in Baltimore City, Maryland. The class action, filed on December 5, 1984, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland (Baltimore), alleged that the defendants' administration of the foster program subjected the plaintiffs to physical and sexual abuse as well as medical neglect. They sought broad interim and permanent i…