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DISABILITY RIGHTS
CODING IN PROCESS
Galpern v. City of Berkeley

3:10-cv-04689 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Oct. 18, 2010

Closed Date: Oct. 14, 2011

(This summary is temporary, while we research the case.) Plaintiff sued city of Berkeley under ADA, seeking to enjoin the city into removing physical barriers to people with disabilities' mobility needs around the city.
PRISON CONDITIONS
Goodman v. Davis

2:12-cv-00166 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas

Filed Date: May 21, 2012

Case Ongoing

On May 21, 2012, a Native American prisoner incarcerated at the McConnell Unit of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) filed this lawsuit, pro se, in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas. The plaintiff sued five TDCJ employees under 42 U.S.C. § 1983: the Director of TDCJ, the Director of Chaplaincy Department, two chaplains, and the Deputy Director of Prison and Jail Operations. He claimed that TDCJ policies violated his rights under RLUIPA and the First Amendme…
EDUCATION
Bonner v. Colby College

1:03-cv-00103 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maine

Filed Date: June 6, 2003

On June 6, 2003, four female students filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Maine under Title IX of the Education Amendment of 1972 and the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment against Colby College. The plaintiffs, represented by private counsel, claimed that the College violated their rights to participate in athletics based on their sex. Specifically, the plaintiffs claimed that Colby College provided male athletes with more funding, newer equ…
EDUCATION
Gwinn v. Tulsa School District 9

4:01-cv-00460 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma

Filed Date: June 27, 2001

Closed Date: March 26, 2002

Parents, as next of friend of their minor daughters, filed suit on June 27, 2001 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma against Independent School District #9 of Tulsa County, also known as Union Public Schools, seeking declaratory and injunctive relief. The complaint alleged that the school district had violated Title IX of the Education Amendment of 1972, 20 U.S.C. § 1681 by denying female students, specifically female softball players equal access to interscholastic…
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Honeyfund.com, Inc. v. DeSantis

4:22-cv-00227 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida

Filed Date: June 22, 2022

Case Ongoing

This is a case about legislation impacting private employers' ability to offer DEI trainings. This case was filed on June 22, 2022, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida against Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, the Florida attorney general, the senior chair of the Florida Commission on Human Relations, the vice chair, and nine commissioners of the commission. It was initially assigned to Judge Allen Winsor. The plaintiffs, private employers with DEI programs in Florida, …
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Stephen C. v. Bureau of Indian Education

3:17-cv-08004 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: Jan. 23, 2017

Case Ongoing

On January 23, 2017, several former and current students at Havasupai Elementary School, a Bureau of Indian Education school located on the Havasupai Reservation in Arizona, and Native American Disability Law Center (“NADLC”), filed this lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona alleging that they were denied educational opportunities guaranteed to them by federal law. The plaintiffs, who proceeded individually, were represented by attorneys from NADLC, Public Counsel, the ACLU…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Disability Rights Pennsylvania v. School District of Philadelphia

2:17-cv-04858 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Oct. 31, 2017

Closed Date: Oct. 24, 2019

This case is about a Protection and Advocacy agency’s request to obtain contact information for the guardians of public-school students who were on a waiting list for special education services. Disability Rights Pennsylvania (DRP) requested this information from the School District of Philadelphia citing both the Developmental Disabilities Assistance and Bill of Rights Act (42 U.S.C. §§ 15041 et seq.) and Protection and Advocacy for Individuals with Mental Illness Act (42 U.S.C. § 10801 et seq…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Reclaim Idaho v. Little

1:20-cv-00268 | U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho

Filed Date: June 6, 2020

Closed Date: Dec. 11, 2020

On June 6, 2020, Reclaim Idaho, an Idaho political action committee, filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho. Represented by a private law firm, the plaintiff sued the Governor and Secretary of State of Idaho under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and the federal Declaratory Judgment Act. The complaint alleged that the State’s strict enforcement of in-person signature and deadline requirements for ballot initiatives during the COVID-19 pandemic violated voters’ rights under the …
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Lovely H. v. Eggleston

1:05-cv-06920 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Aug. 3, 2005

Case Ongoing

On August 3, 2005, a group of people with disabilities filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York against the New York Human Resources Administration (NYHRA). The complaint was brought under the Americans with Disabilities Act, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, and 42 U.S.C. §1983, alleging violation of these Acts, as well as the Due Process Clauses of the U.S. and New York Constitutions and the New York State and City civil rights statutes and regul…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Hamama v. Adducci

2:17-cv-11910 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: June 15, 2017

Case Ongoing

Petitioners in this class action/habeas petition are Iraqi nationals—many, perhaps most, Chaldean Christian—who have resided in the United States for many years. They have been subject to final orders of removal for years, but the U.S. government permitted them to reside in the community under orders of supervision. In early 2017, political negotiation by the Trump administration with Iraq (related to Iraq's desire to be taken off the Trump Executive Order travel-ban list) led to Iraq’s agreeme…