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CHILD WELFARE
M.D. v. Abbott

2:11-cv-00084 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas

Filed Date: March 29, 2011

Case Ongoing

This class action (previously, M.D. v. Perry) involving long-term foster care in Texas was filed on March 29, 2011, in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas. The plaintiff class of children in long-term foster care was represented by private counsel and Children's Rights, Inc.; they sought declaratory and injunctive relief, claiming that the state failed to protect foster children from systemic harm. The complaint alleged that defendants' frequent moves of the foster care c…
POLICING
United States v. City of Ferguson

4:16-cv-00180 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri

Filed Date: Feb. 10, 2016

Case Ongoing

On August 9, 2014, Michael Brown, an 18-year-old black man, was fatally shot by Darren Wilson, a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, a majority-Black city in the St. Louis metro area. The shooting sparked nationwide protests and attention to police use of force and police relations Black residents. The Prosecuting Attorney for St. Louis County, Missouri, brought the case in front of a grand jury to determine whether there was probable cause to indict Wilson for his actions. But on Novem…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
American Council of the Blind of Metropolitan Chicago v. Chicago

1:19-cv-06322 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Sept. 23, 2019

Case Ongoing

This class action lawsuit alleged that the City of Chicago’s failure to equip signalized street intersections with accessible pedestrian signals (ASPs) constituted illegal discrimination against Chicago’s blind residents and visitors. ASPs are used by blind pedestrians to travel safely at intersections. In municipalities which have installed ASPs, blind pedestrians can receive information and warnings about oncoming traffic by listening to the sounds played by the signal (e.g. “Walk sign is on”…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
West Virginia v. Department of Homeland Security

2:21-cv-00022 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of West Virginia

Filed Date: Aug. 19, 2021

Case Ongoing

In this case, the state of West Virginia challenged the Biden administration's attempt to repeal the Migrant Protections Protocol (MPP) policy, which required asylum applicants to return to Mexico while their claims were being processed instead of being held in detention or paroled in the United States. West Virginia sued the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas on August 19, 2021, alleging that its termination of the “Remain in Mex…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
City of Providence v. Sessions

1:18-cv-00437 | U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island

Filed Date: Aug. 9, 2018

Case Ongoing

On August 9, 2018, two Rhode Island cities filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island, challenging the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) policy of conditioning federal funding on compliance with immigration-related conditions. The cities argued that the new conditions forced them to make an impossible choice: accept unlawful conditions that undermined their ability to protect their communities or forfeit funding crucial to protecting their communities. Accor…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Libertarian Party of Illinois v. Pritzker

1:20-cv-02112 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: April 2, 2020

Closed Date: July 8, 2021

This case was about Illinois election law (candidate nomination and signature gathering procedures) during the COVID-19 pandemic and 2020 election. The Libertarian Party of Illinois, the Green Party of Illinois, and several independent candidates filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois on April 2, 2020. Defendants were various members of the Illinois State Board of Elections. Plaintiffs challenged signature-gathering requirements for ballot qualification duri…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Ohio Legal Rights Service v. Buckeye Ranch

2:04-cv-00384 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio

Filed Date: May 14, 2004

Closed Date: May 10, 2005

This is a case regarding a protection and advocacy agency's (P&A) access to individual records and a facility-wide restraint and seclusion log under its records access authority. On May 14, 2004, Ohio Legal Rights Service (OLRS), Ohio’s P&A, filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio. OLRS filed this lawsuit against Buckeye Ranch, a youth residential mental health facility, under the Protection and Advocacy for Individuals With Mental Illness (PAIMI) Act and…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Michigan Protection and Advocacy Service v. Evans

2:09-cv-12224 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: June 9, 2009

Closed Date: Dec. 27, 2010

This is a case about a Protection and Advocacy agency’s records access authority concerning deceased individuals in correctional facility settings. On June 9, 2009, Michigan Protection and Advocacy Services (Michigan P&A) filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan against Warren C. Evans in his official capacity as Sheriff of Wayne County. Michigan P&A filed this lawsuit under the Developmental Disabilities Assistance and Bill of Rights Act (DD Act), the …
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
United States v. Texas

5:21-cv-01085 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

Filed Date: Nov. 4, 2021

Closed Date: Feb. 1, 2022

This is a case about Texas legislation Senate Bill 1 (SB 1), which restricts eligible voters’ ability to cast a ballot and have that ballot counted. The law bans drive-thru voting or casting a ballot from inside a vehicle unless participating in curbside voting due to sickness or a disability. It also prohibits 24-hour and overnight voting at early voting poll sites, restricting their hours of operation from 6am to 10 pm. Further, Texans who vote by mail will have to include a driver's license …
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
United States v. State of Wisconsin, Department of Military Affairs

3:23-cv-00060 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin

Filed Date: Jan. 26, 2023

Case Ongoing

This is a case regarding equal employment and gender discrimination. On January 26th, 2023, the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”) sued the State of Wisconsin on behalf of a former employee  of the Wisconsin Department of Military Affairs (“WDMA”) in the U.S. District Court for Western District of Wisconsin. Represented by the DOJ, the plaintiff alleged discrimination on the basis of sex in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act. She claimed that the WDMA hi…