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DISABILITY RIGHTS
United States v. One Boyertown Properties LP

5:20-cv-06249 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Dec. 11, 2020

Case Ongoing

Background This is a case about accessibility for people with disabilities in senior living communities. On December 11, 2020, the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) filed this lawsuit against fourteen companies who had designed, built, and/or owned fifteen buildings that housed independent living, assisted living, and memory care communities. The suit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. The DOJ sued the defendants under the …
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Lashbrook v. City of San Jose

5:20-cv-01236 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Feb. 19, 2020

Case Ongoing

On February 19, 2020, the main plaintiff filed a complaint against the city of San Jose in the US Court for the Northern District of California alleging that the City failed to build sufficient curb ramps for people with mobility disabilities. Plaintiff is a wheelchair user who has lived in San Jose all his life, and has encountered numerous obstacles in moving around the city, including a non-flush transition at the bottom of a curb ramp in 2017 that caused his wheelchair to tip over and for h…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Lowell v. Lyft, Inc.

7:17-cv-06251 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Aug. 17, 2017

Case Ongoing

On August 17, 2017, an individual from White Plains, New York who uses a motorized scooter to travel filed this putative class action in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. Represented by private counsel and the Westchester Independent Living Center, the plaintiff sued Lyft, Inc., alleging a failure to provide accessible service to people with mobility disabilities in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act (42 U.S.C. § 12181), the New York State Human Rights…
PUBLIC ACCOMMODATIONS/CONTRACTING
Hobaugh v. Montana

CDV-17-0673 | Montana state trial court

Filed Date: Oct. 17, 2017

Closed Date: Sept. 5, 2018

This is a case about a challenge to an anti-trans ballot initiative (I-183) that would prevent transgender Montanans from using any public bathroom, locker room, or changing facility consistent with their gender identity, endangering them and forcing them out of public schools, jobs, parks, and libraries. The language of I-183 required all state and local government entities, including schools and universities, to designate "protected facilities" in government buildings - such as locker rooms, …
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
DOJ Investigation of the Board of Election Commissioners for the City of St. Louis

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This matter was an investigation and settlement agreement to ensure polling place accessibility for voters with disabilities. On January 12, 2021, the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that it had reached a settlement agreement with the Board of Election Commissioners for the City of St. Louis (“the Board”). The settlement agreement followed an investigation initiated by the DOJ under Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) following surveys a…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
National Association of the Deaf v. SiriusXM Holdings Inc.

1:21-cv-10542 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Dec. 9, 2021

Case Ongoing

This case concerns ensuring podcast accessibility for deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals. On December 9, 2021, the National Association of the Deaf (NAD), alongside five individual plaintiffs who are deaf professionals, filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. The plaintiffs sued SiriusXM Holdings Inc., Stitcher Media Inc., and Pandora Media LLC under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the New York State Human Rights Law (NYSHRL), and …
PUBLIC ACCOMMODATIONS/CONTRACTING
Board of Education of the Highland Local School District v. U.S. Department of Education

2:16-cv-00524 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio

Filed Date: June 10, 2016

Closed Date: Sept. 30, 2021

This is a case about a transgender student’s ability to access the bathroom of her choice. On June 10, 2016, the Board of Education of the Highland Local School District sued the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio. The board sought an injunction preventing the DOE from enforcing Title IX’s antidiscrimination provisions after one of its schools was found to be in violation of Title IX for refusing to let a transgender student use the b…
PUBLIC ACCOMMODATIONS/CONTRACTING
Sines v. Kessler

3:17-cv-00072 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia

Filed Date: Oct. 11, 2017

Case Ongoing

In this case, ten private citizens of Charlottesville, Virginia, sued a host of individuals identified as organizers and promoters of the far-right “Unite the Right” rally held in the city on August 11-12, 2017. The plaintiffs filed this lawsuit on October 11, 2017, in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia. Represented by private counsel, the plaintiffs invoked state law and 42 U.S.C. § 1985, a Reconstruction Era federal statute creating a cause of action against those wh…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Mote v. City of Chelsea

2:16-cv-11546 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: April 28, 2016

Case Ongoing

This is a case about the accessibility of the City of Chelsea, Michigan to those with mobility impairments. On April 28. 2016, nine individuals with mobility impairments and the Ann Arbor Center for Independent Living, Inc. filed this class action lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. The plaintiffs sued the City of Chelsea, Chelsea Downtown Development Authority, and the Michigan Department of Transportation under the Americans with Disabilities Act,…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Namisnak v. Uber Technologies, Inc.

3:17-cv-06124 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Oct. 26, 2017

Case Ongoing

On October 26, 2017, three individuals from New Orleans, represented by private counsel, filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California against Uber Technologies, Inc. and its subsidiary, Rasier LLC (Collectively, “Uber”). The plaintiffs alleged that Uber violated its legal obligations under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the California Disabled Persons Act (CDPA), and California’s Unfair Competition Law (UCL) by failing to provide wheelchair-ac…