Search for:
clear search

Docket Number

Key Dates

Filing Date

Settlement / Judgment Date

Terminating Date

Plaintiffs

Defendants

Case Details

Outcome

Issues

MORE▾

Document Details

Document Filing Date

MORE▾

Document Citation (Choose One)

Use this for most court reporters

S.Ct. reporter and WL only

LEXIS and L.Ed. only

Search for:
12 cases, 142 documents
Ordered by
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Amanda D. v. Hassan

1:12-cv-00053 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire

Filed Date: Feb. 9, 2012

Case Ongoing

On April 7, 2011, DOJ conducted an investigation of the New Hampshire Mental Health System pursuant to the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). The DOJ concluded that the State of New Hampshire failed to provide sufficient community services to qualified individuals with mental illness in the most integrated setting appropriate to their needs, in violation of the ADA. The DOJ claimed in their findings letter that this violation had led to the needless and prolonged institutionalization of ind…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Steward v. Perry

5:10-cv-01025 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

Filed Date: Dec. 20, 2010

Case Ongoing

Adults with developmental disabilities who were institutionalized filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas alleging that they, along with the class of similarly situated individuals, were institutionalized unnecessarily as a result of the policies of the State of Texas. There are also two organizational Plaintiffs: the Arc of Texas and the Coalition of Texans with Disabilities. The Plaintiffs alleged that Texas failed to provide adequate habilitation and…
INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY (FACILITY)
Dunakin v. Quiqley

2:14-cv-00567 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: April 16, 2014

Case Ongoing

After budget cuts, an intermediate care facility serving individuals with intellectual disabilities operated by Washington State was ordered to cut costs by up to $1.8 million. To comply with the October 2010 order, management moved 27 residents from the intermediate care facility to its nursing facility and simultaneously reduced programs and staffing at both sites. After bringing problems to the attention of state agencies, investigations by Disability Rights Washington (DRW)—the state Nation…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Van Meter v. Mayhew

1:09-cv-00633 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maine

Filed Date: Dec. 18, 2009

On December 18, 2009, plaintiffs, three Medicaid recipients diagnosed with cerebral palsy, filed a lawsuit against the Commissioner of the Maine Department of Health and Human Services in her official capacity (DHHS). The suit was filed in the United States District Court for the District of Maine and sought relief under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The plaintiffs, represented by the Disability Rights Center, Maine Equal Justice Partners, and the National Health Law Program, alleged that DHHS had violated…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Colbert v. Blagojevich

1:07-cv-04737 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Aug. 22, 2007

Case Ongoing

On August 22, 2007, individuals with disabilities filed a lawsuit under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the Social Security Act, the Rehabilitation Act, and the Nursing Care Reform Act, against various Illinois state officials in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. Plaintiffs, represented by private and public interest counsel, asked the court for declaratory and injunctive relief, claiming that they were institutionalized in a nursing facility ev…
NURSING HOME CONDITIONS
U.S. v. Mercer County, New Jersey

3:05-cv-01122 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

Filed Date: Feb. 18, 2005

Closed Date: Aug. 26, 2010

Pursuant to the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act ("CRIPA"), 42 U.S.C. § 1997, the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice ("DOJ") conducted an investigation of conditions at the Mercer County Geriatric Center ("MCGC"), a public nursing home facility in New Jersey, evidently operated by Mercer County. The investigation resulted in an October 9, 2002, findings letter being sent to the County Executive. The letter stated that in December 2001, DOJ advised county offi…
NURSING HOME CONDITIONS
Valdivia v. California Department of Health Services

2:90-cv-01226 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California

Filed Date: Oct. 1, 1990

Closed Date: March 16, 1999

On Oct. 1, 1990, two residents of California nursing homes filed this class action in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California under the Medicaid Act against the California Department of Health Services. The plaintiffs asked the court for declaratory and injunctive relief, claiming that the state had failed to comply with the recently enacted federal nursing home reform law, 42 U.S.C. §§ 1395i-3(a)-(h) and 1396r(a)-(h). The plaintiffs also requested a preliminary injunctio…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Joseph S. v. Hogan

2:06-cv-01042 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: March 8, 2006

Closed Date: Dec. 1, 2016

This lawsuit was a challenge to New York's alleged practice of warehousing individuals with mental illness in nursing homes rather than in the community. The complaint, filed on March 8, 2006 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, alleged that New York frequently discharged individuals from psychiatric institutions to nursing homes instead of integrating them into their communities. The Plaintiffs claimed that New York's policies forced them to languish in sometimes …
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Davis v. California HHS

4:00-cv-02532 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: July 13, 2000

Closed Date: 2007

On July 13, 2000 plaintiffs, a group of nursing care patients at the Laguna Honda Hospital and Rehabilitation Center in San Francisco, filed suit against San Francisco City and County, the California Health and Human Services Agency, the California Department of Social Services, the California Department of Mental Health, the California Department of Health Services, the California Department of Developmental Services, and the California Department of Aging in the United States District Court f…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Hale v. Belshe

3:96-cv-01804 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: May 15, 1996

Closed Date: Oct. 20, 1997

On May 15, 1996 plaintiffs, a group of individuals with psychiatric disorders who were housed in locked nursing facilities but were eligible for community-based treatment, sued the California Department of Mental Health, the California Department of Health Services, and various officials in their official capacity in the District Court for the Northern District of California. They alleged that the failure of the state to place them in community treatment facilities violated the Americans with …