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ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Hoffard v. County of Cochise

4:20-cv-00243 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: June 3, 2020

Closed Date: Nov. 2, 2022

This is a case about a disabled voter's right to be given public accommodations in order to vote.  On June 3, 2020, plaintiff, a registered Arizona voter with multiple physical disabilities that limit her ability to walk and stand, filed suit in the District Court of Arizona against Defendants, Cochise County and the Elections Director of Cochise County. Plaintiff filed an Amended Complaint on August 27, 2020 claiming that Defendants  discriminated against her on the basis of her disability due…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Fund for Empowerment v. City of Phoenix

2:22-cv-02041 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: Nov. 30, 2022

Case Ongoing

This is a challenge to Phoenix’s policies policing homelessness and the City’s treatment of unsheltered individuals concerning unreasonable seizure and destruction of property during “homeless sweeps.” On November 30, 2023, the Fund for Empowerment (FFE) and two individual plaintiffs filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District court for the District of Arizona. Defendants included the City of Phoenix and police officials in their official capacities. Represented by the ACLU of Arizona, plaintiffs s…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Valimont v. Minnesota

0:17-cv-03655 | U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota

Filed Date: Aug. 9, 2017

Closed Date: July 16, 2018

This is a case about a Protection and Advocacy (P&A) agency’s representation of a person who is deaf and who requested an interpreter so that he could participate on a grand jury.  After he made the request for the interpreter, the court involuntary excused him from jury service.   On August 9, 2017, the Minnesota Disability Law Center, Minnesota’s P&A, filed this lawsuit on behalf of the plaintiff in the U.S. District Court for Minnesota. MDLC claimed the State, the Judicial Branch, the Judici…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Enos v. State of Arizona

2:16-cv-00384 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: Feb. 11, 2016

Closed Date: Dec. 30, 2019

This is a case about deaf persons’ ability to meaningfully access 911 services.   On February 11, 2016, the National Association of the Deaf filed this lawsuit on behalf of three plaintiffs in the U.S. District Court for Arizona. The plaintiffs sued the State of Arizona, Maricopa County Board of Supervisors, City of Surprise, City of Tempe and the City of Phoenix.  Plaintiffs alleges violations of Title II of the ADA and Section 504 because defendants failed to ensure that the multiple governme…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Goodall v. New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision

9:19-cv-01359 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York

Filed Date: Jan. 23, 2019

Case Ongoing

This case challenged an incarcerated person's lack of access to a drug treatment program in a corrections facility due to his disabilities. The case began after plaintiff was excluded from a drug treatment program provided by the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (DOCCS), due to his disabilities. The plaintiff had a number of disabilities, including a seizure disorder and heart conditions. He applied to join a drug treatment program in the DOC called SHOCK, whic…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Jennings v. Wolf

3:20-cv-00148 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Jan. 29, 2020

Case Ongoing

This case, filed January 29, 2020, objected to the closure of two Pennsylvania intermediate care facilities for individuals with intellectual disabilities (ICF/IID) (the Polk Center and the White Haven Center) and the rights of the individuals residing in those facilities. It is what some describe as a "reverse-Olmstead" lawsuit. (See Olmstead v. L.C., 527 U.S. 581 (1999) (ADA guarantees the right to receive disability-related services in the community, where appropriate). The complaint was fil…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Gore v. Lee

3:19-cv-00328 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee

Filed Date: April 23, 2019

Case Ongoing

This case is about the right of transgender individuals born in Tennessee to change the gender marker on their birth certificates. On April 23, 2019, four transgender adults brought this lawsuit against the governor of Tennessee and the Commissioner of the Tennessee Department of Health, challenging the State’s categorical refusal to change the gender marker on transgender people’s birth certificates. Represented by Lambda Legal and private counsel, Plaintiffs alleged that such a policy violate…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Flinn v. City of Evanston

1:24-cv-04269 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: May 23, 2024

Case Ongoing

This is a lawsuit challenging an Evanston, Illinois program that offers reparations to Black Americans for past housing discrimination.  On May 23, 2024, six individuals filed this putative class action lawsuit against the City of Evanston in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. They challenged the city's Restorative Housing Program, an initiative to compensate Black residents for housing discrimination they or their ancestors faced between 1919 and 1969 via $25,000 pa…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
K.O. v. Mueller

0:21-cv-01837 | U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota

Filed Date: Aug. 12, 2021

Case Ongoing

On August 12, 2021, the Minnesota P&A (the Minnesota Disability Law Center), filed this class action lawsuit in the Minnesota federal district court against the State of Minnesota and its Department of Education on behalf of a young man with intellectual disabilities. It challenged a Minnesota’s statute that ended special education eligibility on July 1 of the year a student turns 21. Jason Kim, of Schneider Wallace Cottrell Konecky LLP,  was pro bono co-counsel with the P&A. The plaintiff cont…
HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Braidwood Management Inc. v. Becerra

4:20-cv-00283 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas

Filed Date: March 29, 2020

Case Ongoing

On June 11, 2019 — more than nine years after the Affordable Care Act was signed into law—the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommended that health insurance cover preexposure prophylaxis (PrEP) drugs without any cost-sharing arrangements such as co-payments or deductibles. On March 29, 2020, in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas, Plaintiffs filed a complaint, challenging the PrEP mandate as well as a prior contraception mandate. Plaintiffs, individuals an…