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DISABILITY RIGHTS
LoGerfo v. City of New York

2:17-cv-00010 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: Jan. 3, 2017

This is a case about access to 911 services for individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing. On Jan. 3, 2017, Dupree and LoGerfo, two individuals with disabilities, filed suit in United States District Court, Eastern District of New York. They filed pursuant to Title II of the ADA, 42 U.S.C. § 12131 et seq., and Section 504, 29 U.S.C. § 794 et seq., seeking declaratory and injunctive relief. They sought relief that would facilitate the ability for deaf and hard of hearing individuals to communi…
POLICING
People of New York v. New York

1:21-cv-00322 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Jan. 14, 2021

On behalf of the residents of New York, New York Attorney General Letitia James brought this lawsuit against the New York City Police Department on January 14, 2021 in the Southern District of New York. The complaint alleged that NYPD officers regularly used excessive force against and falsely arrested peaceful protesters exercising their First Amendment rights during the widespread racial justice protests that took place from May 28, 2020 to December 11, 2020. The plaintiff sued all defendants…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Minnis v. Johnson

1:10-cv-00096 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

Filed Date: Jan. 29, 2010

Closed Date: March 30, 2016

On January 29, 2010, prisoners in the Virginia Department of Corrections (VDOC) who were deaf or hard of hearing filed this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia under the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Rehabilitation Act, the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000, and Virginia state law against Virginia state agencies, departments, and employees thereof. The plaintiffs, represented by the Washington Lawyers Committee a…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Talbott v. Trump

1:25-cv-00240 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Jan. 28, 2025

This is one of several cases challenging President Donald J. Trump’s January 27, 2025 executive order banning openly transgender people from serving in the military, which reversed the U.S. Armed Forces’ policy of permitting transgender people who meet military standards to serve. (To see the Clearinghouse's collection of transgender rights-related legal challenges to actions by the second Trump Administration, click here.) On January 27, 2025, President Trump signed an executive order directin…

Preliminary Injunction Granted

Appellate Stay of Trial Court Relief Granted

ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE
United States v. Denka Performance Elastomer, LLC

2:23-00735 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana

Filed Date: Feb. 28, 2023

Closed Date: March 7, 2025

This case challenges the carcinogenic chloroprene emissions from Denka Performance Elastomer, LLC’s (Denka’s) neoprene manufacturing facility at the Pontchartrain Works Site in St. John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana, as being unacceptably high under EPA regulations. Denka's facility produced neoprene, a synthetic rubber, emitting chloroprene—a chemical classified by the EPA in 2010 as likely carcinogenic to humans. Air monitoring near the facility reportedly detected chloroprene concentrations …

Case Dismissed (Involuntary)

PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Does 1-26 v. Musk

8:25-cv-00462 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: Feb. 13, 2025

This case challenged Elon Musk’s role in the Trump Administration as well as the creation of the Department of Government Efficiency (“DOGE”). On February 13, 2025, twenty-six current and former employees of the U.S. Agency for International Development filed this lawsuit in the District Court for the District of Maryland against DOGE and U.S. DOGE Services, seeking relief under Ex Parte Young. Represented by the State Democracy Defenders Fund and private counsel, the plaintiffs alleged that th…

Administrative Stay Granted

Appeal Pending

HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Planned Parenthood South Atlantic v. Baker

3:18-cv-02078 | U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina

Filed Date: July 27, 2018

This case arose after South Carolina cut Planned Parenthood's Medicaid funding because Planned Parenthood provides abortions outside of what is funded by Medicaid.  In May, 2018, South Carolina's Governor ordered the South Carolina Department of Health and Human Services to terminate Planned Parenthood's status as a qualified Medicaid provider. On July 27, 2018, Planned Parenthood of South Atlantic filed suit against Joshua Baker in his official capacity as South Carolina's Director of Health a…
PRISON CONDITIONS
McBride v. Michigan Department of Corrections

2:15-cv-11222 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: March 31, 2015

Closed Date: Dec. 12, 2023

On March 31, 2015, three incarcerated people filed this putative class action lawsuit against the Michigan Department of Corrections (MDOC), alleging that MDOC was discriminating against them and other deaf and hard of hearing prisoners. The case was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, and was assigned to Judge Sean Cox. The plaintiffs were represented by Michigan Protection and Advocacy, the Washington Lawyers’ Committee and private counsel. The plaintiffs al…
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
J.J. v. Litscher

3:17-cv-00047 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin

Filed Date: Jan. 23, 2017

On January 23, 2017, four minor children confined to the state juvenile facilities Copper Lake School for Girls and Lincoln Hills School for Boys filed this class action in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin. The plaintiffs sued various state officials responsible for the facility under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The plaintiffs alleged that the defendants had violated their Eighth and Fourteenth Amendment rights by wrongfully and unlawfully imposing solitary confinement, mecha…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Turney v. Atencio

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

Filed Date: Jan. 3, 2018

Closed Date: Nov. 2, 2023

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…