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DISABILITY RIGHTS
HHS-OCR Complaint of Disability Rights Washington Against Washington State Department of Health

No Court

Filed Date: March 23, 2020

As COVID-19 cases increase, U.S. health officials predict that there will be shortages in ventilators and other medical resources needed to treat patients with COVID-19 requiring intensive care. In response, many states and hospitals are developing policies for how to ration care and determine who will have access to lifesaving treatment. As groups develop these plans to ration care, there is concern that the protocols discriminate against people with disabilities in violation of federal disabi…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
HHS-OCR Complaint of Alabama Disabilities Advocacy Program Against Alabama Department of Public Health

No Court

Filed Date: March 24, 2020

Closed Date: April 8, 2020

As COVID-19 cases increase, U.S. health officials predict that there will be shortages in ventilators and other medical resources needed to treat patients with COVID-19 requiring intensive care. In response, many states, including Alabama, are developing policies for how to ration care and determine who will have access to lifesaving treatment. The Alabama Department of Public Health’s Emergency Operations Plan instructs that when cases of ventilator rationing arise during health emergencies, h…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
National Federation of the Blind v. Office of Personnel Management

1:19-cv-06249 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Sept. 19, 2019

On September 19, 2019, the National Federation of the Blind and a individual plaintiff who is blind and is a former federal employee filed suit against the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM), the director of OPM and Blue Cross Blue Shield Association. The plaintiffs alleged that the defendants failed to ensure the website for the Blue Cross Blue Shield Federal Employee Program (BC BS FEP) was accessible to blind individuals, in violation of Section 508 and Section 504 of the Rehabilitati…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Bone v. University of North Carolina Health Care System

1:18-cv-00994 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina

Filed Date: Dec. 3, 2018

This case is about accessibility of health care information for blind individuals. On December 3, 2018, two blind individuals—along with the National Federation of the Blind (NFB) and Disability Rights North Carolina (DRNC)—filed this lawsuit against the University of North Carolina Health Care System (UNC Health) and Nash Hospitals, Inc. (Nash) in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina. Represented by private counsel and lawyers from Disability Rights North Carolina,…
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

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…
HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Boyden v. Conlin

3:17-cv-00264 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin

Filed Date: April 7, 2017

Closed Date: March 26, 2019

On April 7, 2017, two transgender state employees represented by the ACLU of Wisconsin filed this lawsuit against the state of Wisconsin in the United States District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin. The named defendants included the Department of Employee Trust Funds, State of Wisconsin Group Insurance Board, entities associated with the University of Wisconsin System, and the Wisconsin Physicians Service Insurance Corporation. The plaintiffs alleged that the state’s failure to cov…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Cummings v. Premier Rehab, P.L.L.C.

4:18-cv-00649 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas

Filed Date: Aug. 7, 2018

Closed Date: April 28, 2022

An individual plaintiff brought this suit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas on August 7, 2018, against a physical therapy provider who declined to provide the plaintiff with an ASL interpreter. The complaint alleged violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the Rehabilitation Act, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), and the Texas Human Resources Code. The plaintiff sought injunctive relief and damages for the emotional distress she ex…
HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Poe v. Drummond

4:23-cv-00177 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma

Filed Date: May 2, 2023

This case centers around Senate Bill 613, an Oklahoma bill passed in September 2022, which bans gender-affirming care for minors in Oklahoma. Specifically, SB 613 mandates that “[a] healthcare provider shall not knowingly provide gender transition procedures to any child.” The banned gender transition procedures include surgical procedures and drugs administered “for the purpose of attempted to affirm the minor’s perception of his or her gender or biological sex, if that perception is inconsist…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Sheffield v. U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs

1:23-cv-11757 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: Aug. 2, 2023

This case involved Section 234 of the Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act of 2021 (“2021 Appropriations Act”), which gave the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (“VA”) the authority to provide in-vitro fertilization (“IVF”) services to veterans. The 2022 Appropriations Act was, in pertinent part, identical. Section 234 of the 2021 Appropriations Act authorized “fertility counseling and treatment using assisted reproductive technology to a covered ve…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
National Organization for Women-New York City v. United States Department of Defense

1:23-cv-06750 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Aug. 2, 2023

This case involved the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs 2019 Regulations (“VA 2019 Regulations”), which permitted the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs (“VA”) to provide in vitro fertilization (“IVF”) services to a veteran and the spouse of that veteran when clinically appropriate if the veteran has a “service-connected disability that results in the inability of the veteran to procreate without the use of fertility treatment.” 38 C.F.R. § 17.380(a)(1). The VA provided a memo that addressed …