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INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY (FACILITY)
Evans v. Fenty

1:76-cv-00293 | U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

Filed Date: Feb. 23, 1976

Closed Date: 2017

On February 23, 1976, six residents of Forest Haven, an institution operated by the District of Columbia for developmentally disabled persons, filed this lawsuit against the District's mayor and its Department of Human Resources. The lawsuit was filed in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia under the First, Fourth, Fifth, and Eighth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution; the Developmentally Disabled Assistance and Bill of Rights Act (42 U.S.C. § 6001 et seq.); and 32 D.C.…
INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY (FACILITY)
Kentucky ARC v. Conn.

3:78-00157 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky

Filed Date: May 16, 1977

Closed Date: 1983

On May 16, 1977 the Kentucky Association for Retarded Citizens and residents of Outwood, a residential treatment facility in rural Kentucky for persons with intellectual disabilities, filed a class action lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Western District of Kentucky against the Secretary of the Kentucky Department for Human Resources, state officials, and others. Outwood was operated by defendant Excepticon, Inc., a private corporation under contract with the Department for …
MENTAL HEALTH (FACILITY)
Alabama Disabilities Advocacy Program v. SafetyNet Youth, Inc.

2:13-cv-00519 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Alabama

Filed Date: Oct. 25, 2013

Closed Date: 2015

On October 25, 2013, the Alabama Disabilities Advocacy Program (ADAP) filed this lawsuit in the District Court for the Southern District of Alabama. The plaintiff, which served as Alabama’s designated protection and advocacy program for people with disabilities, sued SafetyNet Youthcare, Inc. (SafetyNet) under the Protection and Advocacy for Individuals with Mental Illness Act of 1986 (PAIMI), the Developmental Disabilities Assistance and Bill of Rights Act of 2000 (PADD Act), and the Protectio…
CHILD WELFARE
Timmy S. v. Stumbo

6:80-cv-00024 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky

Filed Date: Feb. 19, 1980

Closed Date: May 2, 1994

on February 19, 1980, the mother of a mentally disabled boy and his fosters parents filed this class-action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky. The child was autistic and suffered from epileptic seizures. The plaintiffs filed this case to protest the Kentucky Department for Human Resources violation of the Constitution and various state and federal statutes in the course of their administration of federally funded programs which provided benefits and servic…
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
Alabama Disabilities Advocacy Program v. Wood

2:07-cv-00434 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama

Filed Date: May 16, 2007

Closed Date: 2009

On May 16, 2007, Alabama Disabilities Advocacy Program (the Protection and Advocacy organization for Alabama) filed suit in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama against Alabama Department of Youth Services. Though plaintiff later amended the complaint to include greater detail of the parties' conduct throughout the course of litigation, the plaintiff's allegation remained that defendant's refusal to disclose records and to allow plaintiff to privately speak with r…
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
Disability Rights Mississippi v. Forrest County, Miss.

2:11-cv-00053 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi

Filed Date: March 27, 2011

Case Ongoing

On March 27, 2011, Disability Rights Mississippi (the Protection and Advocacy organization for Mississippi) filed suit against Forrest County in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi. Plaintiff, represented by counsel from the Southern Poverty Law Center in Jackson, brought action for alleged violations of three separate Protection and Advocacy acts: the Developmental Disabilities Assistance and Bill of Rights Act, the Individuals with Mental Illness Act, and…
MENTAL HEALTH (FACILITY)
Jeff D. v. Kempthorne

4:80-cv-04091 | U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho

Filed Date: Aug. 4, 1980

Case Ongoing

In 1980, a civil complaint relying upon 42 U.S.C. § 1983 was filed by private counsel in the U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho on behalf of four emotionally and mentally handicapped, institutionalized children, and the parties eventually, on September 7, 1982, stipulated to class certification. The complaint alleged that the defendants, state officials, had violated the class members' rights under the U.S. Constitution's Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments, the Idaho Constitution, and f…
INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY (FACILITY)
Halderman v. Pennhurst

2:74-cv-01345 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: May 30, 1974

Closed Date: 1998

On May 30, 1974, in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, plaintiffs filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of former and present residents of Pennhurst School and Hospital ("Pennhurst"), a state institution for persons with intellectual disabilities. Pennhurst was thirty miles north of Philadelphia. The defendants were (after later amendments) Pennhurst, officials of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and county and institutional officials responsible for Philadelp…
MENTAL HEALTH (FACILITY)
Protection & Advocacy for Persons with Disabilities v. Hartford Board of Education

3:04-cv-01338 | U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

Filed Date: Aug. 11, 2004

Closed Date: 2006

On August 11, 2004, Protection and Advocacy for Persons with Disabilities of the State of Connecticut (OPA) filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut against the Hartford Board of Education and the Hartford Public Schools. The lawsuit challenged the refusal of the Board of Education to release identifying information for the parents and guardians of students attending the Hartford Transitional Learning Academy (HTLA), a school for seriously emotionally…
INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY (FACILITY)
Medley v. Ginsberg

2:78-cv-02099 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia

Filed Date: April 21, 1978

Closed Date: 2001

On April 21, 1978, the Executive Director of the, Kanawha Putnam Association for Retarded Children and an individual plaintiff, represented by Mountain State Justice, Inc., filed this lawsuit pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia (Charleston) to redress alleged deprivation of the constitutional rights of all children and young adults with intellectual disabilities institutionalized by the State of West Virginia.Plaintiffs alleged depr…