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DISABILITY RIGHTS
DOJ Investigation of Utah Sheltered Workshops

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This case entry summarizes a DOJ investigation into Utah’s services for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities.  In March 2021, the Department of Justice Civil Rights Division opened an investigation into the State of Utah’s employment and day services for youth and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD). The DOJ assessed if the State of Utah’s employment and day services for youth and adults with I/DD were in violation of Title II of the Americans …
DISABILITY RIGHTS
State of Texas v. Becerra

5:24-cv-00225 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas

Filed Date: Sept. 26, 2024

Case Ongoing

This is a federal lawsuit brought by Republican state attorneys general against the Biden Administration's updated disability discrimination regulation, challenging two aspects of that rule--one potentially allowing discrimination protections for transgender individuals and the other setting out parameters for application of the statutory "integration mandate." The states claimed that these two aspects of the rule violated the Administrative Procedures Act and that they, and the entirety of Sec…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Hebert v. Illinois Department of Corrections

1:24-cv-07950 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Aug. 30, 2024

Case Ongoing

This is a case about the lack of special education services provided to young people incarcerated by the Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC). On August 30, 2024, twenty-one individual plaintiffs, people who were in IDOC custody and did not have a high school diploma, filed this lawsuit arguing that IDOC had been discriminating against people who need special education services for over 20 years. The plaintiffs argued that the lack of special education services prevented young people with …
PRISON CONDITIONS
Wilson v. Dixon

1:24-cv-24253 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida

Filed Date: Oct. 31, 2024

Case Ongoing

This is a putative class action lawsuit about heat-related prison conditions in Florida. A group of people incarcerated at Dade Correctional Institution (DCI) filed this lawsuit on October 31, 2024 in the US District Court for the Southern District of Florida against the Florida Department of Corrections, the Secretary of the Florida Department of Corrections, and the warden of DCI. Represented by the Florida Justice Institute, the plaintiffs alleged that stifling heat at DCI (a concrete prison…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Commonwealth of Massachusetts v. E*Trade Access

1:03-cv-11206 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: June 25, 2003

Closed Date: Aug. 21, 2020

This is a class action case about accessibility of bank ATMs for blind people. On June 25, 2003, the state of Massachusetts, the National Federation of the Blind (NFB), and several blind individuals sued E*Trade Access and E*Trade Bank in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, alleging that the defendants' ATMs were not accessible to blind people. The plaintiffs alleged that this violated the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and Massachusetts law, and sought a declarato…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
G.B. v. Nassau County

2:24-cv-05884 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: Aug. 22, 2024

Case Ongoing

This case is regarding Nassau County’s mask ban in public known as the Mask Transparency Act (MTA). On August 22, 2024, two immunocompromised residents of Nassau County filed a lawsuit challenging the County’s ban on mask-wearing in public. In addition, they filed a motion for a preliminary injunction and a temporary restraining order arguing that the MTA would deny them equal access to community life and expose them to discrimination. The plaintiffs alleged that the MTA violated the United Sta…
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…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Tiede v. Collier

1:23-cv-01004 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

Filed Date: Aug. 24, 2023

Case Ongoing

This is a lawsuit alleging dangerous conditions in Texas prisons due to excessive heat. On August 21, 2024, a 65-year-old man with chronic health conditions incarcerated in a Texas prison filed this suit against the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ), alleging that his health had been endangered and he had suffered heat-related symptoms resulting in a stroke after the temperature of his cell reached nearly 120 degrees Fahrenheit. The stroke left the plaintiff with permanent facial disf…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Roppolo v. Linthicum

2:19-cv-00262 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas

Filed Date: Sept. 11, 2019

Case Ongoing

On September 11, 2017, individuals with Hepatitis C detained by the state of Texas brought this suit against the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) and its medical providers: Correctional Managed Healthcare Committee and the University of Texas Medical Branch. Hepatitis C, if left untreated, causes severe damage to a person’s liver. Yet Texas refused to provide Direct Acting Antiviral (DAA) medications to persons in custody of its state prison system, which the plaintiffs alleged viola…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Holloway v. City of Virginia Beach

2:18-cv-00069 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

Filed Date: Aug. 28, 2018

Closed Date: Nov. 27, 2023

On November 20, 2017, Plaintiff Latasha Holloway submitted an application to proceed in forma pauperis ("IFP") and a proposed complaint in the Richmond Division of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.  In the proposed complaint, Plaintiff alleged that the City of Virginia Beach, Virginia's at-large election of its City Council violated the Voting Rights Act, 42 U.S.C. §1983, the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Voting Accessibility for the Elderly and Handi…