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DISABILITY RIGHTS
Charlson v. Galvin

SJ-2020-0588 | Massachusetts state supreme court

Filed Date: Aug. 21, 2020

Closed Date: Sept. 1, 2020

This case involved voting accommodations for the 2020 Massachusetts primary election that was set to take place on September 1, 2020. On August 21, 2020, the Disability Law Center (DLC) (Massachusetts’s Protection and Advocacy agency) filed an emergency petition for relief on behalf of the Bay State Council of the Blind, the Boston Center for Independent Living, and six individual voters with disabilities against the Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (“Secretary”) in his official c…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
LightHouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired of San Francisco v. Automatic Data Processing, Inc.

4:20-cv-09020 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Dec. 16, 2020

Case Ongoing

On September 17, 2020, the Disability Rights Advocates filed this lawsuit in the San Francisco County Superior Court on behalf of LightHouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired—a non-profit organization that advocates on behalf of persons who are blind or have low vision—and two of its employees. The plaintiffs filed this lawsuit against Automatic Data Processing (“ADP”), a payroll processing and human resources corporation. The complaint alleged that ADP failed to make their products and servi…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Harper v. Lewis

5:19-cv-00452 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina

Filed Date: Oct. 14, 2019

Closed Date: Dec. 2, 2019

On September 27, 2019, a group of North Carolina voters filed a lawsuit against members of the North Carolina State Board of Elections and various state legislators in North Carolina's Superior Court for Wake County. Plaintiffs alleged that the state's 2016 congressional redistricting plan was an unconstitutional gerrymander in violation of the Free Elections Clause, Equal Protection Clause, and Freedom of Speech and Freedom of Association Clauses of the North Carolina Constitution. Plaintiffs …
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Vargas v. Quest Diagnostics Clinical Laboratories, Inc.

2:19-cv-08108 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: Sept. 18, 2019

Case Ongoing

This is a case about whether touchscreen kiosk check-in procedures are discriminatory against blind and visually impaired persons. On September 18, 2019, two visually impaired individuals that relied on auxiliary aids and services brought a class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. The plaintiffs sued Quest Diagnostics Clinical Laboratories ("Quest") and ten unknown Quest employees for discrimination under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) a…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Mental Health & Wellness Coalition v. Stanford University

5:18-cv-02895 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: May 17, 2018

Closed Date: Oct. 29, 2019

On May 17, 2018, three Stanford University students and the Mental Health & Wellness Coalition, an organization focused on advocating for administrative changes related to student mental health, filed this putative class action lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. The plaintiffs sued Stanford University and its Board of Trustees under 42 U.S.C. § 12182 (Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act), 28 U.S.C. § 794 (Section 504 of the Rehabili…
POLICING
Williams v. City Of Chicago

1:22-cv-03773 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: July 21, 2022

Case Ongoing

This case is a constitutional challenge to investigatory stops performed on the basis of Chicago’s ShotSpotter system used to detect gunshots. Two plaintiffs filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois on July 21, 2022. Both plaintiffs had been subject to investigatory stops, arrest, and criminal charges as a result of ShotSpotter data. The first plaintiff was an elderly man who was charged with first degree murder and was jailed for over 11 months before the cha…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Trowbridge v. Institute for Basic Research in Developmental Disabilities

1:98-cv-03529 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: May 11, 1998

Closed Date: March 30, 2004

On May 11, 1998, seven people who were formerly employed by the Institute for Basic Research in Developmental Disabilities (IBR), represented by private counsel, filed a putative class action lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York. The case was initially assigned to Judge Sterling Johnson Jr. and Magistrate Cheryl L. Pollak. The plaintiffs sued IBR, the Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities, the New York State Department of Mental …
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Manderson v. New York City Department of Education

1:21-cv-02047 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: March 10, 2021

Closed Date: Nov. 30, 2021

This lawsuit, commenced on March 10, 2021, followed a Charge of Discrimination filed by the Disability Rights Advocates with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission against the New York City Department of Education (NYCDOE) on May 6, 2020. The subsequent lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York on behalf of a public school teacher who alleged that the NYCDOE failed to provide her with necessary and reasonable accommodations. Specifically, the plaintiff allege…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Planned Parenthood Great Northwest v. State of Idaho

49615-2022 | Idaho state supreme court

Filed Date: March 30, 2022

Case Ongoing

Background This is a case about abortion rights in Idaho. It was consolidated from three cases filed on March 30, June 27, and July 25, 2022. All three cases were filed by Planned Parenthood and an Idaho doctor, represented by private law firms. The plaintiffs sued Idaho in each case; the second and third cases also included two Idaho counties and the state boards of medicine, nursing, and pharmacy as defendants. The cases were all heard by the Idaho Supreme Court, which has original jurisdicti…
POLICING
Chang v. County of Siskiyou

2:22-cv-01378 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California

Filed Date: Aug. 3, 2022

Case Ongoing

On August 3, 2022, four plaintiffs seeking to represent the thousands of Hmong and Asian residents of Siskiyou County, California, filed a putative class action lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California. They were represented by the ACLU of Northern California, the Asian Americans Advancing Justice — Asian Law Caucus, and private counsel. Magistrate Judge Deborah Barnes was assigned to the case.  The plaintiffs sued Siskiyou County and its sheriff under …