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Soos v. Cuomo

1:20-cv-00651 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York

Filed Date: June 10, 2020

Closed Date: Aug. 16, 2021

As part of New York’s ban on gatherings during the COVID-19 pandemic, attendance at houses of worship and outdoor religious gatherings was strictly limited. In June 2020, state and city officials allowed mass gatherings protesting the death of George Floyd, but continued to actively enforce prohibitions against congregational worship. On June 10, 2020, two Catholic priests and three Orthodox Jews filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York. They alleged that Gove…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Disability Rights Center-NH v. Hanks

1:18-cv-00160 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire

Filed Date: Feb. 20, 2018

Closed Date: Aug. 29, 2018

This is a case about a Protection and Advocacy (P&A) agency’s records access authority after a facility resident’s death. On February 20, 2018, Disability Rights Center-New Hampshire (Disability Rights Center), New Hampshire’s P&A, filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire. Disability Rights Center filed this lawsuit against New Hampshire’s Department of Corrections Commissioner and the warden for New Hampshire’s State Prison for Men in their official capac…
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
CODING IN PROCESS
Occupy Nashville v. Haslam

3:11-cv-01037 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee

Filed Date: Oct. 31, 2011

Closed Date: Oct. 30, 2014

On October 31, 2011, a group of individuals who gathered to protest the disparities in wealth and power in the United States filed this lawsuit against various Tennessee state officials in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee. The plaintiffs sued pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983, alleging violations of their First, Fourth, Fifth, and Fourteenth Amendment rights under the U.S. Constitution, as well as their rights under the Constitution of the State of Tennessee. They alleged…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Lucero-Gonzalez v. Kline

2:20-cv-00901 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: May 8, 2020

Case Ongoing

COVID-19 Summary: This is a class-action brought by five prisoners with high-risk medical issues held at the federal Central Arizona Florence Correctional Complex against the U.S. Marshals Service and the Bureau of Prisons. The plaintiffs alleged that the defendant’s failure to implement basic social distancing and hygiene measures violated their Eighth and Fifth Amendment rights. The court denied the plaintiffs’ motion for injunctive relief, finding that the plaintiffs had failed to show delib…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
King v. City of Colorado Springs

1:19-cv-00829 | U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado

Filed Date: March 20, 2019

Closed Date: Oct. 1, 2019

In February 2016, two individuals with mobility disabilities notified the City of Colorado Springs that the City’s policy regarding pedestrian right-of-ways discriminated against people with disabilities by denying them access to the right-of-ways and other public programs and services accessible through the right-of-ways. On August 4, 2016, the plaintiffs and the City entered into a structured negotiations agreement that tolled the statute of limitations on the plaintiffs’ claims. The parties …
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Boston Alliance of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Youth (BAGLY) v. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

1:20-cv-11297 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: July 9, 2020

Case Ongoing

This case is about a regulation promulgated by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) affecting protections against discrimination in healthcare on the basis of sex. In 2010, Congress passed the Affordable Care Act (ACA) to increase the number of Americans with health insurance and to decrease the cost of healthcare. One provision in the law, Section 1557, aimed to protect against various forms of discrimination in healthcare and health insurance, including discrimination on the…
POLICING
Melendres v. Arpaio

2:07-cv-02513 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: Dec. 12, 2007

Case Ongoing

On December 12, 2007, a group of plaintiffs filed this lawsuit in United States District Court for the District of Arizona against the County of Maricopa and the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office (MCSO), as well as Sheriff Joe Arpaio. The plaintiffs sought to represent a class of Latino persons who have been or will be stopped, detained, interrogated, or searched by the Sheriff or his agents in moving or parked vehicles in Maricopa County. They alleged claims under the Fourth Amendment (search a…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Coleman-Bey v. United States

1:06-cv-01855 | U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

Filed Date: Oct. 31, 2006

Closed Date: Sept. 11, 2007

Petitioner, a person in the custody of the Federal Bureau of Prisons incarcerated at the United States Penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana, originally filed this pro se petition for a writ of mandamus in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia on October 13, 2006.  The action was removed to the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on October 31, 2006 and assigned to U.S. District Judge John D. Bates.  Petitioner, who had Hepatitis C virus (HCV), alleged that the federal gove…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Harrison v. Young

3:18-cv-01730 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas

Filed Date: July 2, 2018

Closed Date: Aug. 30, 2018

Plaintiff seeks to access General Revenue funds to meet her needs for 24-hour nursing that extends beyond the Medicaid HCBS waiver cost cap. During an Administrative Hearing, the hearing officer denied her request for additional hours beyond the Waiver cap and did not address the availability of additional State funding, On July 2, 2018, Disability Rights Texas filed a lawsuit to challenge the hearing office decision in the District Court for the Northern District of Texas against Defendant, Te…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
National Federation of the Blind v. Lamone

1:14-cv-01631 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: May 19, 2014

Closed Date: Sept. 12, 2016

The State of Maryland developed an online ballot marking tool, which was used in the 2012 election, and modified to be more accessible for people with disabilities with the input of the National Federation of the Blind (NFB). By 2014, however, in response to concerns about the security of this method, the legislature passed a requirement that such tools must be certified by the Board of Elections, which the Board failed to do. This left Maryland voters with disabilities without an accessible me…