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DISABILITY RIGHTS
Martinez v. Cuomo

1:20-cv-03338 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: May 17, 2020

Case Ongoing

COVID-19 Summary: On April 29, 2020, four individuals with disabilities and Disability Rights New York sued the Governor of New York over the absence of live televised American Sign Language (ASL) interpretation on the Governor’s daily televised briefings. Given the COVID-19 pandemic, the plaintiffs alleged that the lack of live ASL accommodations discriminated against people with disabilities residing in New York. The court granted the plaintiffs a preliminary injunction and the parties later …
EDUCATION
E.E. v. California

3:21-cv-07585 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Sept. 28, 2021

Closed Date: Aug. 11, 2022

On September 28, 2021, plaintiffs filed a class action lawsuit against the state of California, the California Board of Education, and the California Department of Education. Plaintiffs were students with disabilities and an organization that advocates for disabled students and their families. They were represented by Disability Rights California. They sought to represent a class of "all California students who, now or in the future, have an Individual Education Plan and whose parent, guardian …
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
G.H. v. Marstiller

4:19-cv-00431 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida

Filed Date: Sept. 4, 2019

Closed Date: Sept. 8, 2022

On September 4, 2019, three minors—through their legal guardians—filed a complaint against the Florida Department of Juvenile Justice (DJJ) in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida. The plaintiffs, represented by lawyers from the Southern Poverty Law Center, Florida Justice Institute, and Florida Legal Services, sought class action certification to represent several thousand juveniles (and several hundred in a subclass of juveniles with disabilities) who were or would be …
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Bird v. Barr

1:19-cv-01581 | U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

Filed Date: May 29, 2019

Case Ongoing

On May 29, 2019, a group of female Intelligence Analyst and Agent Trainees at the FBI’s Training Academy in Quantico, Virginia filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia on behalf of themselves and a class of more than 125 female Agent and Analyst Trainees who had been subjected to similar gender-based harassment, discrimination, and retaliation. The plaintiffs sued the Attorney General of the United States in his official capacity under Title VII of the…
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
U.S. v. Mississippi

3:03-cv-01354 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi

Filed Date: Dec. 18, 2003

Closed Date: Aug. 19, 2014

In 2002, the U.S. Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division ("DOJ") conducted investigations, aided by expert consultants in juvenile justice administration, psychology, medicine, education, and sanitation, at two military-style juvenile facilities ("Oakley" and "Columbia") operated by the state of Mississippi. In June 2003, DOJ notified the state in a findings letter that the investigations revealed that the facilities deprived the resident juveniles of rights under the First, Eighth and F…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Taliaferro v. North Carolina State Board of Elections

5:20-cv-00411 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina

Filed Date: July 27, 2020

Case Ongoing

On July 27, 2020, disability organizations filed a lawsuit against the North Carolina State Board of Elections (NCSBOE) for excluding North Carolinians with disabilities from their Absentee Voting program. The lawsuit alleged that voters who were unable to independently and privately mark a paper ballot due to vision disabilities were being discriminated against in violation of Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. The lawsuit was fil…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
OCA-Greater Houston et al. v. Esparza et al.

1:21-cv-00780 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

Filed Date: Sept. 3, 2021

Closed Date: Sept. 30, 2021

This lawsuit was filed on September 3, 2021 on behalf of OCA-Greater Houston, League of Women Voters of Texas, REVUP-Texas, Texas Organizing Project and Workers Defense Action Fund challenging the state’s voter suppression legislation, Senate Bill 1. Disability Rights Texas, the state's protection and advocacy agency, served as one of the plaintiffs' attorneys. The suit challenged multiple provisions of S.B. 1: strict ID requirements for mail-in ballots, a restriction on providing assistance to…
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
Smith v. Edwards

3:22-cv-00573 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana

Filed Date: Aug. 19, 2022

Case Ongoing

Louisiana officials announced that they would incarcerate about two dozen children in the former death row of the Louisiana State Penitentiary (commonly referred to as Angola) after Chief District Judge Shelly D. Dick signed off on the transfer. On August 19, 2022, plaintiffs, represented by the ACLU, filed suit against Governor John Bel Edwards, Deputy Secretary of the Office of Juvenile Justice William Sommers, and Secretary of the Louisiana Department of Public Safety & Corrections James M. …
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Vinyard v. IL Dept. Human Svc.

2:21-cv-02043 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of Illinois

Filed Date: March 5, 2021

Closed Date: June 2, 2023

Plaintiff in this case is a young man with a physical disability who had received support services, through the State Medicaid waiver program since 1990. These services enabled him to live independently in the community, but on March 2019, his home care provider told him his services would be terminated on March 22, 2019. He received no notice from the Illinois Department of Human Services (IDHS) that ran the waiver program.   On April 11, 2019 he requested an administrative hearing. The hearin…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
L.E. v. Ragsdale

1:21-cv-04076 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: Oct. 1, 2021

Case Ongoing

This is a case about COVID-19 policies for schools in Cobb County, Georgia. On October 1, 2021, four students, whose disabilities made them particularly vulnerable to COVID-19 and put them at an increased risk for severe symptoms or death from an infection, filed this lawsuit in the District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. The plaintiffs sued the Cobb County School District, members of the Cobb County School Board and the Board’s superintendent under Title 2 of the Americans with Di…