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Meza v. Marstiller

3:22-cv-00783 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida

Filed Date: July 17, 2022

Case Ongoing

On July 17, 2022, two low-income adults in Florida with bladder and bowel incontinence, along with Disability Rights Florida—Florida’s federally funded protection and advocacy system—filed this 42 U.S.C. § 1983 putative class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida. The plaintiffs sought to compel the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA) to cover medically necessary incontinence supplies through Florida’s Medicaid program for individuals who …
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
State of Texas v. Brooks-LaSure

6:21-cv-00191 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas

Filed Date: May 14, 2021

Closed Date: May 10, 2022

This is a case about the Biden administration's attempt to rescind a Medicaid waiver granted to the State of Texas. On May 14, 2021, Texas and its Health and Human Services Commission filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas against the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), the Acting Administrator for CMS, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the Secretary of HHS, and the federal government. Texas brought suit under…
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

Closed Date: Sept. 30, 2020

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…
CHILD WELFARE
B.K. v. McKay

2:15-cv-00185 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: Feb. 3, 2015

Case Ongoing

On February 3, 2015, minors in the custody of the Arizona foster care system filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona. The plaintiffs sued the Arizona Department of Child Safety, the Arizona Department of Health Services, and the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and Title XIX of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. § 1396). The plaintiffs, represented by Children’s Rights, Inc., the Arizona Center for Law in the Public Interest, a…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas v. Smith

1:15-cv-01058 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

Filed Date: Nov. 23, 2015

Closed Date: May 13, 2021

On November 23, 2015, five Texas Planned Parenthoods (provider plaintiffs) and ten Medicaid patients of Planned Parenthood (patient plaintiffs) filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas. The plaintiffs sued the Executive Commissioner and the Inspector General of the Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The plaintiffs, represented by the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, asked the court for class action certification; d…
CHILD WELFARE
M.B. v. Colyer

2:18-cv-02617 | U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas

Filed Date: Nov. 16, 2018

Case Ongoing

In 2018, children in the Kansas foster care system filed a class-action suit against the Governor of Kansas, the Kansas Department for Children and Families (DCF), the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, and the Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services. The named plaintiffs allegedly experienced great hardship while involved in the Kansas foster care system, including dozens or even hundreds of moves, night-to-night changes, and starkly inadequate mental and behavioral diagn…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Simmons v. Baker

1:22-cv-11715 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: Oct. 11, 2022

Case Ongoing

This is a case about how the state of Massachusetts allowed thousands of people with disabilities to languish and often deteriorate in nursing facilities, even though they could be living independently. On October 11, 2022, six individuals with disabilities residing in nursing facilities in Massachusetts filed this putative class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court of Massachusetts. The plaintiffs sued Governor Charlie Baker and state officials employed at the Executive Office of Health a…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Waskul v. Washtenaw Community Mental Health.

2:16-cv-10936 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: March 16, 2016

Case Ongoing

A class action lawsuit was filed on March 15, 2016 by Disability Rights Michigan, Legal Services of South-Central Michigan, and The National Center for Law and Economic Justice in the Federal District Court for the District of Michigan  on behalf of individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities and the Washtenaw County Community Advocacy program, challenging Washtenaw County, Michigan’s Community Mental Health Authority’s (WCCMH) 2015 modification to its Medicaid waiver budgeting…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Price v. New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services

1:21-cv-00025 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire

Filed Date: Jan. 11, 2021

Case Ongoing

A group of Medicaid waiver beneficiaries seeking class status filed a lawsuit on January 11, 2021 in the Us District Court, District of New Hampshire against New Hampshire’s Department of Health and Human Services alleging a failure to provide them with the community-based services, available through the waiver and for which they have been found eligible. Specifically, Plaintiffs asserted, that without their assessed level of waiver service need, they were at risk of unnecessary institutionaliz…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Hinkle v. Kent

3:18-cv-06430 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Oct. 22, 2018

Case Ongoing

On October 22, 2018, Disability Rights and co-counsel Disability Rights Advocates and Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund filed a federal class action lawsuit on behalf of the California Council of the Blind and three blind individuals, claiming that blind individuals do not receive accessible notices about Medicaid options and services, in violation of: the ADA Title II, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act, California Government Code Section …