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DISABILITY RIGHTS
Senior and Disability Action v. San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District

3:17-cv-01876 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: April 5, 2017

Case Ongoing

On April 5, 2017, disability rights organizations, Senior and Disability Action and Independent Living Resource Center of San Francisco, and two individuals with disabilities who lived in the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District (“BART”) service area filed a class action lawsuit against BART and the BART general manager. The plaintiffs claimed that BART violated Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”) and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act (“Rehab Act”) as well as th…
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
American Federation of Government Employees, AFL-CIO v. United States Office of Personnel Management

3:25-cv-01780 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Feb. 19, 2025

Case Ongoing

This is one of several cases challenging President Donald J. Trump’s firing of "probationary" employees for pretextual reasons. (To see the Clearinghouse's collection of civil-service-related legal challenges to actions by the second Trump Administration, click here.) On Wednesday, February 19, 2025, four labor organizations--who represent hundreds of thousands of employees within dozens of federal agencies and departments--filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Northern…
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…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Brown v. Lexington County

3:17-cv-01426 | U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina

Filed Date: June 1, 2017

Case Ongoing

On June 1, 2017, nine indigent residents of South Carolina filed this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina. The plaintiffs sued Lexington County, South Carolina, the Chief Judge for Administrative Purposes of the Summary Courts in Lexington County, and the Associate Chief Judge for Administrative Purposes of the Summary Courts in Lexington County, all under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The plaintiffs, represented by the ACLU, sought declaratory, injunctive, an…
POLICING
United States v. City of Seattle

2:12-cv-01282 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: July 27, 2012

Case Ongoing

On March 31, 2011, the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Civil Rights Division opened an investigation of the Seattle Police Department (SPD) pursuant to the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 (then codified at 42 U.S.C. § 14141; then recodified to 34 U.S.C. § 12601), the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968, and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Following a comprehensive investigation, on December 16, 2011, the DOJ announced its findings that SPD engag…
CHILD WELFARE
D.S. v. Washington State Department of Children, Youth, and Families

2:21-cv-00113 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: Jan. 28, 2021

Case Ongoing

This is a case about the treatment of children in the care of the Washington State Department of Children, Youth, and Families (DCYF) with behavioral health and/or developmental disabilities. On January 28th, 2021, three children under the care of DCYF brought a class-action suit along with Disability Rights Washington against DCYF in the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington. The case was assigned to Judge Barbara J. Rothstein. Disability Rights Washington argued …
POLICING
Baerga v. City of New York

1:21-cv-05762 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: July 5, 2021

Case Ongoing

This is a case about how the New York City Police Department (NYPD) must treat people who face mental health challenges. On July 5, 2021, an individual with mental disabilities filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York against New York City and several New York City officials and police officers. Judge Alison Nathan presided at the time of filing. On December 29, 2021, the individual was joined by three additional individual plaintiffs and three non-prof…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Commonwealth of Massachusetts v. E*Trade Access

1:03-cv-11206 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: June 25, 2003

Closed Date: Aug. 21, 2020

This is a class action case about accessibility of bank ATMs for blind people. On June 25, 2003, the state of Massachusetts, the National Federation of the Blind (NFB), and several blind individuals sued E*Trade Access and E*Trade Bank in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, alleging that the defendants' ATMs were not accessible to blind people. The plaintiffs alleged that this violated the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and Massachusetts law, and sought a declarato…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Allen v. Waller County, Texas

4:18-cv-03985 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas

Filed Date: Oct. 12, 2018

Closed Date: April 14, 2022

This case involved allegations that county officials failed to allocate sufficient time for early voting during the 2018 general election cycle to Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU) (a historically Black university) in the State of Texas as compared to the other surrounding areas. Individual students and a student and alumni organization PVAMU, represented by NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund attorneys, filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas Houston Div…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Council v. Ivey

2:23-cv-00712 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama

Filed Date: Dec. 12, 2023

Case Ongoing

This case is about alleged systematic over-detention of people incarcerated by the Alabama Department of Corrections for the purpose of profiting from the practice of “convict leasing.”   On December 12, 2024, ten former and current incarcerated persons, along with three service-worker unions, brought this putative class action lawsuit against a number of Alabama officials and private businesses in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama. Named defendants in the laws…