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DISABILITY RIGHTS
Disability Rights NC v. Brajer

1:16-cv-00137 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina

Filed Date: Oct. 14, 2016

Closed Date: Dec. 20, 2016

Action filed on October,14, 2016, in the Federal District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina by plaintiff, Disability Rights North Carolina (DRNC), against the Secretary of the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS). DRNC brought this action, in their own right, in the interests of Medicaid eligible children under the age of 21 who have both complex behavioral health and Developmental disabilities and are unnecessarily institutionalized because of DHHS’ fail…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
King v. State of Georgia

1:21-cv-03082 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: June 22, 2021

Case Ongoing

A group of private plaintiffs, represented by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and private counsel, filed this putative class action in Georgia state court on June 22, 2021. They alleged that delays in the State of Georgia’s unemployment benefits system during the COVID-19 pandemic violated Georgia state law, the Georgia state constitution, and the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The plaintiffs sought declaratory and injunctive relief as well as compensatory damages. Georgi…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Loving v. Commonwealth of Virginia

59-04138 | Virginia state trial court

Filed Date: 1959

Closed Date: 1967

In this landmark civil rights case, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that state statutes banning interracial marriage violated the Equal Protection and Due Process Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. In June 1958, two Virginia residents, Mildred Jeter, a Black woman, and Richard Loving, a white man, married in Washington, D.C., pursuant to its laws. In October 1958, upon returning to Virginia, a grand jury issued an indictment charging the Lovings with violating Virginia a…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Neese v. Becerra

2:21-cv-00163 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas

Filed Date: Aug. 25, 2021

Closed Date: Nov. 22, 2022

Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) prohibits sex discrimination in health programs or activities that receive federal financial assistance. On May 10, 2021, Secretary Becerra announced that HHS would interpret and enforce this provision to include gender identity and sexual orientation discrimination. On August 25, 2021 two doctors sued Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), Xavier Becerra, and the United States in the U.S.District Court for the Northern District of Texas to e…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Brown County Taxpayers Association v. President Joseph R Biden Jr

1:22-cv-01171 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin

Filed Date: Oct. 4, 2022

Case Ongoing

On October 4, 2022, the Brown County Taxpayers Association (BCTA), a local tax policy organization, filed suit against the Biden administration in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, alleging that the administration's announced one-time student loan debt relief plan was unconstitutional. The plan was designed to forgive $10,000 to $20,000 in student loans for qualified borrowers. BCTA asserted that the [lan violated the separation of powers doctrine by making a new la…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Mabel Wadsworth Women's Health Center v. Mayhew

PORSC-CV-2015-527 | Maine state trial court

Filed Date: Nov. 24, 2015

Closed Date: Jan. 14, 2020

On November 24, 2015, the American Civil Liberties Union, ACLU of Maine, and Planned Parenthood Federation of America filed a lawsuit in the Superior Court of Maine (Maine's only trial-level court), Cumberland County, seeking to restore abortion coverage for women receiving free and low-cost Maine Medicaid ("MaineCare") as health insurance. These nonprofit organizations filed on behalf of Mable Wadsworth Women's Health Center, Maine Family Planning, and Planned Parenthood of New England, each a…
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…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Garcia v. Johnson

2:09-cv-01747 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: April 24, 2009

On April 24, 2009, a class action suit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. The suit alleged that the defendants violated the Social Security Act, federal regulations, and the Due Process Clause. The plaintiffs consisted of two elderly Pennsylvanians who were Medicare recipients, as well as two nonprofit organizations, Arc of Pennsylvania and Center for Advocacy for the Rights and Interests of the Elderly (CARIE). They were represented by two non-profit…
ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE
United States v. The City of Jackson, Mississippi

3:22-cv-00686 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi

Filed Date: Nov. 29, 2022

Case Ongoing

This is a case about unsafe public drinking water in Jackson, Mississippi. On November 29, 2022, the U.S. Department of Justice ("DOJ") filed a complaint against the city of Jackson, Mississippi ("the City"), on behalf of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ("EPA") in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi. The DOJ sued the city of Jackson under the Safe Drinking Water Act. Prior to this lawsuit, in February 2020, the EPA found infrastructure problems indicating t…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Monk v. United States

3:22-cv-01503 | U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

Filed Date: Nov. 28, 2022

Case Ongoing

On November 28, 2022, a black veteran filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut against the United States of America for the acts of its employees under the Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA) and state law. The case was assigned to Judge Janet Bond Arterton. Represented by Yale Law School's Veterans Legal Services Clinic at the Jerome N. Frank Legal Services Organization, the plaintiff alleged that the Department of Veteran Affairs and its predecessor, t…