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REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Tummino v. Von Eschenbach

1:05-cv-00366 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: Jan. 21, 2005

Closed Date: April 5, 2013

This is a case about the Food and Drug Administration’s rules surrounding access to Plan B emergency contraceptives (“ECs”). On January 21, 2005, the plaintiffs—including numerous individual members of the Morning-After-Pill (“MAP”) Conspiracy, a non-profit coalition of feminist organizations leading grassroots efforts to ensure that ECs are available over-the-counter (“OTC”)—sued the FDA in the Eastern District of New York. Represented by the Center for Reproductive Rights, they requested decl…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Heyer v. United States Bureau of Prisons

5:11-ct-03118 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina

Filed Date: June 20, 2011

Case Ongoing

On June 20, 2011, two deaf prisoners filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Western District of North Carolina against the federal Bureau of Prisons. Represented by private counsel and the Washington Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights, the plaintiffs filed their lawsuit under Bivens and claimed violations of the Rehabilitation Act and the Religious Freedom Restoration Act. In addition, the plaintiffs alleged violations of their Fifth Amendment due process rights, First …
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Benjamin H. v. Walker

3:99-cv-00338 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia

Filed Date: April 30, 1999

Closed Date: April 8, 2009

On April 30, 1999, developmentally disabled individuals eligible for Medicaid benefits filed a lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, the Social Security Act, the Medicaid Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act, and the Due Process Clause of the Constitution, against West Virginia's Secretary of Health and Human Resources in the United States District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia. Plaintiffs, represented by public interest attorneys, asked the court for declaratory and injunctiv…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Rose v. Saginaw County

2:01-cv-10337 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: Oct. 9, 2001

On October 9, 2001, a group of pre-trial detainees represented by private counsel filed a class action civil rights pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, challenging the naked confinement policy of the Saginaw County Jail. Plaintiffs alleged that, under the policy, the County Sheriff and deputies placed detainees they found to be uncooperative or disruptive in administrative segregation cells, after being stripped naked. Plainti…
FAIR HOUSING/LENDING/INSURANCE
Balvage v. Ryderwood Improvement and Service Association

3:09-cv-05409 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: July 8, 2009

Closed Date: 2014

On July 8, 2009, a class made up of owners and residents of Ryderwood, an area of Cowlitz County, Washington filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court of Western Washington against Ryderwood Improvement and Service Association, Inc. (RISA), alleging that RISA violated the Federal Fair Housing Act, 42 U.S.C. § 3601 et seq. The FHA prohibits discrimination based on "familial status," which refers to families having one or more persons who have not attained the age of 18 years. Ryderwood cons…
MENTAL HEALTH (FACILITY)
Canupp v. Liberty Behavioral Health Corporation

2:04-cv-00260 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida

Filed Date: May 7, 2004

Closed Date: 2009

On May 7, 2004, individuals in the custody of the Florida Department of Children and Families (DCF) filed a civil rights suit pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida, challenging the conditions of their confinement at the Florida Civil Commitment Center (FCCC) in Arcadia, Florida. Plaintiffs were all involuntarily civilly confined at the FCCC pursuant to Sexually Violent Predator Act §§ 394.910, et seq. Fla. Stat. (2003). Plaintiffs alleged viola…
EDUCATION
Cruz v. Alhambra School District

2:04-cv-01460 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: March 4, 2004

On March 4, 2004, parents, as next friends of their minor daughters, individually and on behalf of all those similarly situated, filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Central District of California under state law and under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, 20 U.S.C. §§ 1681 et seq. against Alhambra Unified School District (AUSD) and individual District Board members and employees and the City of Alhambra. Plaintiffs, represented by attor…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Dominguez v. Schwarzenegger

4:09-cv-02306 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: May 26, 2009

Closed Date: 2014

On May 26, 2009, recipients of In-Home Service Support (IHSS) care filed a lawsuit under the Supremacy Clause against Arnold Schwarzenegger and other government officials in the Northern District Court of California. The Plaintiffs, represented by private counsel, asked the court for injunctive and declaratory relief, claiming that in enacting Section 12306. 1 (d)(6), the California Legislature failed to consider the required factors of efficiency, economy, quality of care, and access to servic…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Californians for Disability Rights, Inc. v. California Department of Transportation

4:06-cv-05125 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Aug. 23, 2006

Case Ongoing

On August 23, 2006, the disability rights group Californians for Disability Rights, Inc. and two individuals with disabilities acting on behalf of themselves and all others similarly situated sued the California Department of Transportation ("Caltrans") and its director in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, seeking to remedy an alleged "systematic pattern and practice of discrimination being committed by Caltrans against people with mobility and vision disabilities…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
California v. Ross

3:18-cv-01865 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: March 26, 2018

Closed Date: Dec. 31, 2020

On March 26, 2018, the State of California filed this claim against the Secretary of Commerce and the U.S. Census Bureau in the U.S. District Court of Northern California. It challenged the defendants' plans to add a citizenship question to the 2020 U.S. Census. California alleged that this question will undermine the defendants' duty to collect an "actual enumeration" of the U.S. population mandated by the Enumeration Clause, Article I of the Constitution. In addition, California claims that t…