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DISABILITY RIGHTS
Muehe v. City of Boston

1:21-cv-11080 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: June 2, 2021

Case Ongoing

On June 2, 2021 four individuals with mobility disabilities filed a class action complaint against the City of Boston to redress the City’s systemic failure to provide full and equal access to its pedestrian right of way to plaintiffs and similarly situated individuals with mobility disabilities. The complaint was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts and assigned to Judge Richard G. Stearns. It alleged that the City failed to install and maintain curb ramps when it…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Miller v. Vilsack

4:21-cv-00595 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas

Filed Date: April 26, 2021

Closed Date: Aug. 29, 2022

This case is one of several challenging the American Rescue Plan’s (ARP) and U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) classification of “socially disadvantaged groups.” A white rancher from Texas filed a putative class action complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas (Fort Worth) on April 26, 2021. The sole defendant was the secretary of the USDA. The plaintiff challenged Sections 1005 and 1006 of the ARP. These sections provided loan forgiveness to farmers and ranc…
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
Indiana Disability Rights v. NeuroPsychiatric Hospitals

1:18-cv-02106 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana

Filed Date: July 11, 2018

Closed Date: Jan. 23, 2019

This case is about a Protection and Advocacy agency’s (P&A) ability to monitor psychiatric facilities. On July 11, 2018, Indiana Disability Rights- Indiana’s P&A- filed this lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana. Indiana Disability Rights filed this lawsuit against Neuropsychiatric Hospitals under the Protection and Advocacy for Individuals with Mental Illness Act (PAIMI Act). Represented by itself, Indiana Disability Rights sought declaratory and injunctive relief…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Hawkins v. Ziriax

5:20-cv-00687 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma

Filed Date: July 15, 2020

Closed Date: Oct. 1, 2020

This is a case about the special requirements Oklahoma placed on presidential candidates who wanted to be added to the ballot as representatives of a non-mainstream political party. Seven Oklahoma voters and the Green Party's 2020 U.S. presidential candidate filed this lawsuit against the Secretary of the Oklahoma State Election Board in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma on July 15, 2020. Oklahoma officially recognized three political parties: Democrat, Republican, an…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Neese v. Becerra

2:21-cv-00163 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas

Filed Date: Aug. 25, 2021

Closed Date: Nov. 22, 2022

Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) prohibits sex discrimination in health programs or activities that receive federal financial assistance. On May 10, 2021, Secretary Becerra announced that HHS would interpret and enforce this provision to include gender identity and sexual orientation discrimination. On August 25, 2021 two doctors sued Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), Xavier Becerra, and the United States in the U.S.District Court for the Northern District of Texas to e…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Hope v. Doll

1:20-cv-00562 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: April 3, 2020

Case Ongoing

COVID-19 Summary: This is a hybrid putative class action and habeas action filed by a group of medically vulnerable individuals being held in civil detention by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) at York County Prison and Pike County Correctional Facility. The plaintiffs sought safety remedies and release from detention in light of COVID-19. The court granted the plaintiffs’ temporary restraining order on April 7, 2020, a decision the defendants appealed. The Third Circuit vacated the lo…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Betancourt-Colon v. City of San Juan

3:19-cv-01837 | U.S. District Court for the District of Puerto Rico

Filed Date: Sept. 6, 2019

Case Ongoing

This is a case about a lack of accessible curb ramps in the City of San Juan for people with mobility disabilities. On September 6, 2019, four individuals seeking to represent a class of people with mobility disabilities who used or would use the pedestrian right of way in San Juan filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico. The plaintiffs sued the City of San Juan under the Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”) and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Turney v. Atencio

1:18-cv-00001 | U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho

Filed Date: Jan. 3, 2018

Case Ongoing

Plaintiffs, who have Hepatitis C, were incarcerated by the Idaho Department of Corrections (IDOC). On January 3, 2018, they filed a putative class action lawsuit in forma pauperis in the United States District Court for the District of Idaho alleging that IDOC refused to provide treatment required by medical standards of care. Plaintiffs sued IDOC in its official capacity as well as administrators and medical personnel at IDOC. Plaintiffs also sued Corizon, Inc., a for profit company that contr…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Mi Familia Vota v. Hobbs

2:20-cv-01903 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: Sept. 30, 2020

Closed Date: Oct. 5, 2020

The Plaintiff organizations filed a Complaint seeking a declarator y judgment and Emergency Motion for a TRO against AZ Secretary of State seeking to extend the voter registration deadline to October 27, 2020. Without the extension tens of thousands of voters would not be able to register. The Plaintiffs' were successful in extending the voting registration deadline to October 2023, 2020.