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DISABILITY RIGHTS
T.W. v. Jacobo

4:13-cv-00457 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida

Filed Date: Aug. 15, 2013

This is a state-wide class action brought on behalf of over 300 individuals with psychiatric disabilities segregated in Florida state psychiatric treatment facilities. Plaintiff prisoners and the Protection and Advocacy agency, Disability Rights Florida, alleged that by failing to provide adequate community placements, Defendants created a situation in which individuals with psychiatric disabilities are segregated in large state facilities in violation of Title II of the Americans with Disabili…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Georgia Advocacy Office v. Georgia

1:17-cv-03999 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: Oct. 11, 2017

Case Ongoing

On October 11, 2017, parents of children with disabilities, the ARC of the United States and the Georgia Advocacy Office filed a class action lawsuit in federal court alleging that the State of Georgia has discriminated against thousands of public school students with disabilities by providing them with a separate and unequal education in the State’s Georgia Network for Educational and Therapeutic Supports Program (GNETS) and that in so doing, the State, violates the Americans with Disabilities…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Indiana Protection and Advocacy Services Commission v. Indiana Secretary of State

4:16-cv-00029 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana

Filed Date: Feb. 25, 2016

Closed Date: April 14, 2016

This 2016 class action lawsuit challenged the constitutionality of Indiana Code § 3-5-5-17, which provided that persons who are committed to a psychiatric institution did not gain residency for voting purposes in the precinct where the institution is located, and raised claims that the statute burdens and discriminates against persons with disabilities in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act. The case was filed on February 25, 2016 in the So…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
National Federation of the Blind v. Lamone

1:14-cv-01631 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: May 19, 2014

Closed Date: Sept. 12, 2016

The State of Maryland developed an online ballot marking tool, which was used in the 2012 election, and modified to be more accessible for people with disabilities with the input of the National Federation of the Blind (NFB). By 2014, however, in response to concerns about the security of this method, the legislature passed a requirement that such tools must be certified by the Board of Elections, which the Board failed to do. This left Maryland voters with disabilities without an accessible me…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
S.D. v. Pasadena Unified School District

2:16-cv-00984 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: Feb. 11, 2016

Case Ongoing

A class action complaint filed on February 11, 2016 in federal court, Central District of California and assigned to District Judge Beverly Reid O'Connell and Magistrate Judge Gail J. Standish, alleged that the placement of a class of children violated the Americans with Disabilities Act and state disability rights laws, by unnecessarily segregating them from students without disabilities, and denying them educational opportunities available to other students at the district’s campuses. The com…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Roe v. Sims

3:06-cv-03034 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of Illinois

Filed Date: Feb. 14, 2006

Closed Date: March 24, 2009

This is a case about prison officials' deliberate indifference toward the medical needs of incarcerated persons who suffered from hepatitis C. On September 20, 2005, four individuals who were or had been incarcerated at the Illinois Lincoln Correctional Center ("Lincoln") filed this putative class action lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Central District of Illinois. Judge Harold A. Baker was assigned to the case. Represented by private counsel, the plaintiffs sued Lincoln's w…
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Sacred Heart of Jesus Parish, Grand Rapids v. Nessel

1:22-cv-01214 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan

Filed Date: Dec. 22, 2022

Case Ongoing

This is a case about whether Michigan’s Elliot-Larsen Civil Rights Act, which, in 2022, the Michigan Supreme Court interpreted to prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity, unconstitutionally infringed on religious liberty.  On December 22, 2022, Sacred Heart of Jesus Parish filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan. Sacred Heart, alongside its school, Sacred Heart Academy, and several individual Sacred Heart members …
DISABILITY RIGHTS
C.B. v. Moreno Valley Unified School District

5:21-cv-00194 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: Feb. 2, 2021

Case Ongoing

On February 2, 2021, an eleven-year-old child with a disability filed suit through his parents, alleging that school police officers used excessive force and discriminated against him based on his disability and race when they violently handcuffed him multiple times while at school. The plaintiff also alleged that Defendants’ actions, inactions, policies, practices, customs, and procedures violated and continue to violate his rights under the U.S. and California Constitutions, the Americans wit…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Immigrant Defenders Law Center v. Wolf

2:20-cv-09893 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: Oct. 28, 2020

Case Ongoing

This is a case about the rights of asylum seekers who were subjected to the Trump administration's Migrant Protection Protocols. On October 28, 2020, the Immigrant Defenders Law Center, Jewish Family Service of San Diego, and twenty individuals who were subjected to the protocols filed a putative class action lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Central District of California. Represented by the Southern Poverty Law Center, National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Gui…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Equip for Equality v. Ingalls Memorial Hospital

1:03-cv-00797 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Feb. 3, 2003

This case is about the scope of a Protection and Advocacy agency’s (P&A) facilities and patient access authority. On February 3, 2003, Equip for Equality, Inc., Illinois’s P&A, filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. Equip for Equality filed this lawsuit against Ingalls Memorial Hospital (Ingalls), a private hospital offering outpatient and inpatient psychiatric services. This case arose because Equip for Equality were denied entry to monitor Ingalls…