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CHILD WELFARE
Anderson v. Houstoun

2:00-cv-04148 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Aug. 16, 2000

Closed Date: April 1, 2005

This class action involving adult care givers, either relatives of the children or close friends of the children's parents, caring for Pennsylvania children whose parents are unable to provide care was filed on August 16, 2000, in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. The plaintiffs were represented by the Juvenile Law Center and ACLU; they sought declaratory and injunctive relief against the state for failing to provide for the financial needs of these children, cla…
CHILD WELFARE
Nicholson v. Williams

1:00-cv-02229 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: April 17, 2000

Closed Date: 2007

The plaintiffs in this case are mothers in New York who have been subjected to domestic violence, and as a result, had the Administration for Children's Services (ACS) remove their children from their custody. Represented by the Sanctuary for Families, Lawyers for Children, and the New York Legal Aid Society, they each brought suit, separately, in 2000 in U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York, against ACS. Their cases were then consolidated and converted to a class action in Janua…
CHILD WELFARE
Kenny A. v. Perdue

1:02-cv-01686 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: June 19, 2002

The advocacy organization Children's Rights, Inc. filed this lawsuit in June 2002 against the state of Georgia and the Departments of Family and Children Services (DFCS) in Fulton and DeKalb Counties, on behalf of children in foster care in Fulton and DeKalb counties. Plaintiffs alleged violations of the Georgia State Constitution, the First, Ninth, and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution, the Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act of 1980, the Medicaid Act, and the Multi…
CHILD WELFARE
Charlie and Nadine H. v. Corzine

2:99-cv-03678 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

Filed Date: Aug. 4, 1999

Closed Date: April 25, 2023

On August 4, 1999, a group of children in the legal and/or physical custody of the New Jersey Division of Youth and Family Services (DYFS) filed this lawsuit against the State of New Jersey and DYFS in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey. Represented in part by Children's Rights, Inc., the plaintiffs alleged that DYFS failed to protect them from abuse, failed to provide them with services such as medical care, and failed to provide DYFS caseworkers with adequate resources and…

Case Dismissed (Involuntary)

CHILD WELFARE
Jeanine B. v. Doyle

2:93-cv-00547 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin

Filed Date: June 1, 1993

On June 1, 1993, Children's Rights, the ACLU, and private co-counsel filed this class-action lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin against the Wisconsin Department of Health and Social Services and the Milwaukee County Department of Human Services. The complaint alleged abuse and neglect of children in the Milwaukee child-welfare system, inadequate investigations into abuse and neglect, lack of services, improper foster care placement, and high casewo…
CHILD WELFARE
B.H. v. Johnson

1:88-cv-05599 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Jan. 1, 1988

The ACLU filed this class action lawsuit in 1988 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois against the state of Illinois, on behalf of all children in the custody of the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) placed somewhere other than with their parents. The plaintiffs sued under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and the Adoption Assistance Welfare Act, 42 U.S.C. §§ 620-28, 670-76. The class consisted of all children who had been or would be in the custody of DCFS, a…
CHILD WELFARE
C.H. v. Payne

1:09-cv-01574 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana

Filed Date: Dec. 22, 2009

Closed Date: 2011

On December 22, 2009, four groups of foster parents and children directly receiving foster care maintenance payments or adoption assistance payments from the Indiana Department of Child Services ("DCS"), filed a law suit against DCS and its director ("Payne") under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana. The plaintiffs, represented by the ACLU of Indiana and private counsel, asked the court for injunctive relief, alleging that the DCS violated Title IV-…
CHILD WELFARE
Angela R. v. Clinton

4:91-cv-00415 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas

Filed Date: July 8, 1991

Closed Date: 2001

Plaintiffs, represented by the National Center for Youth Law, Central Arkansas Legal Services, and Ozark Legal Serices, brought this class action suit in 1991, in the United States District Court, Eastern District of Arkansas, against the Arkansas Department of Human Services (DHS). Plaintiffs complained that DHS child welfare programs failed to investigate complaints of abuse and neglect, to make reasonable efforts to keep families together, to provide adequate care to children in foster home…
CHILD WELFARE
Aristotle P. v. McDonald

1:88-cv-07919 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Sept. 15, 1988

The plaintiffs, children who had been made wards of the state and placed in foster homes in Illinois, brought this lawsuit on September 15, 1988, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, against the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS). Represented by the Office of the Cook County Public Guardian, the plaintiffs sued under the Adoptive Assistance and Child Welfare Act of 1980, 42 U.S.C. §§ 620-628, 670-679. They challenged the defendants' practice …
CHILD WELFARE
Mark A. v. Wilson

2:98-cv-00041 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California

Filed Date: Jan. 8, 1998

Closed Date: Nov. 2, 1999

This action involving California's Adoption Assistance Program was filed against the State of California on January 8, 1998, in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California. The plaintiffs, children who are or will be in foster care, were represented by Youth Law Center; they sought declaratory and injunctive relief pursuant to the Due Process Clause and the federal Adoption Assistance Program, claiming that the defendant's policies and actions violated their rights.The compla…