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Carpenter v. Vilsack

2:21-cv-00103 | U.S. District Court for the District of Wyoming

Filed Date: May 24, 2021

Closed Date: May 13, 2024

This case is one of several lawsuits challenging the American Rescue Plan’s (ARP) classification of “socially disadvantaged groups.” Section 1005 of the ARP allows the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Farms Services Agency (FSA) to forgive previously given loans to farmers of “socially disadvantaged groups.” That category is defined elsewhere to mean people who have been "subjected to racial or ethnic prejudice because of their identity as members of a group without regard to their…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Tiegs v. Vilsack

3:21-cv-00147 | U.S. District Court for the District of North Dakota

Filed Date: July 6, 2021

Closed Date: Sept. 8, 2022

On July 6, 2021, the plaintiffs filed this complaint in the U.S. District Court for the District of North Dakota against the Secretary of Agriculture and the Administrator of the Farm Service Agency ("the defendants"). The plaintiffs, white farmers and/or borrowers on a farm loan, claimed that the defendants violated the Fifth Amendment and the Administrative Procedure Act. Specifically, the plaintiffs argued that under Section 1005 of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 ("Section 1005"), they…
FAIR HOUSING/LENDING/INSURANCE
U.S. ex rel. Anti-Discrimination Center of Metro New York, Inc. v. Westchester Co.

1:06-cv-02860 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: April 12, 2006

Closed Date: July 30, 2021

On April 12, 2006, the Anti-Discrimination Center of Metro New York ("ADC") filed this lawsuit under the False Claims Act against Westchester County in the United States District Court, Southern District of New York. In False Claims Act cases, sometimes called "qui tam" actions, the private instigator of the case is called the "relator"; the plaintiff is the United States, and the relator seeks damages because of harm caused to the United States; by statute, those damages go mostly the federal …

False Claims Act Complaint and Demand for Jury Trial

United States of America ex rel. Anti-Discrimination Center of Metro New York, Inc. vs. Westchester Co., New York

April 12, 2006

Opinion and Order

United States of America ex rel. Anti-Discrimination Center of Metro New York, Inc. vs. Westchester Co., New York

July 13, 2007

Defendant's Memorandum in Support of Motion of Summary Judgment

United States of America ex rel. Anti-Discrimination Center of Metro New York, Inc. vs. Westchester Co., New York

Sept. 30, 2008

Plaintiff's Memorandum in Support of Motion For Partial Summary Judgment

United States of America ex rel. Anti-Discrimination Center of Metro New York, Inc. vs. Westchester Co., New York

Oct. 17, 2008

Opinion & Order

United States of America ex rel. Anti-Discrimination Center of Metro New York, Inc. vs. Westchester Co., New York

Feb. 24, 2009

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DISABILITY RIGHTS
DOJ Investigation of Utah Sheltered Workshops

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This case entry summarizes a DOJ investigation into Utah’s services for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities.  In March 2021, the Department of Justice Civil Rights Division opened an investigation into the State of Utah’s employment and day services for youth and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD). The DOJ assessed if the State of Utah’s employment and day services for youth and adults with I/DD were in violation of Title II of the Americans …
HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Planned Parenthood Southwest Ohio Region v. Hodges

1:15-cv-00568 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio

Filed Date: Sept. 1, 2015

Case Ongoing

Two individual healthcare providers, represented by attorneys at the ACLU, Planned Parenthood, and Gerhardstein & Branch, brought this § 1983 suit in September 2015 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio to challenge new state regulations that imposed restrictions on abortion clinics. Plaintiffs in this case were the last two health clinics in southwest Ohio offering abortion procedures: Planned Parenthood of Southwest Ohio (PPSWO) and Women’s Medical Group Professional Co…
HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Hodes & Nauser, MDs, P.A. v. Robert Moser, M.D

2011-CV-001298 | Kansas state trial court

Filed Date: Nov. 9, 2011

Case Ongoing

This is a state court case challenging abortion restrictions in Kansas. Plaintiffs originally challenged the restrictions in federal court (more details here), but voluntarily dismissed that suit to pursue the matter in this state court case instead. Plaintiffs—a team of physicians and the private OB-GYN practice they own and operate—challenged a regulatory scheme (the “Challenged Laws”) comprising the Kansas House Substitute for Senate Bill No. 36 (2011) (the “Act”), codified as K.S.A. § 65-4a…
HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Preterm-Cleveland v. Himes

1:18-cv-00109 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio

Filed Date: Feb. 15, 2018

Closed Date: Feb. 9, 2024

Ohio House Bill 214 (“the Act”) was signed into law on December 22, 2017. The Act criminalized performing abortions if the provider knew that one reason for the decision to terminate the pregnancy was a fetal indication of Down syndrome. Three nonprofits, including Planned Parenthood; the owner and operator of a women’s medical center; and a licensed physician (“the plaintiffs”) brought this case in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio on February 15, 2018, alleging that th…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Butler v. Suffolk County

2:11-cv-02602 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: May 27, 2011

Case Ongoing

On May 27, 2011, twenty persons then confined in the Suffolk County Correctional Facility (SCCF), which consists of the Riverhead Correctional Facility (a medium/maximum security jail) and the Yaphank Correctional Facility (a minimum security jail), filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, pursuant to 42 U.S.C. §1983. The lawsuit was filed pro se as a class action, on behalf of those individuals and all others similarly situated. The plaintiffs sought …
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Davis v. General Mills Operations, LLC

1:24-cv-02409 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: June 2, 2024

Case Ongoing

This is a lawsuit alleging race discrimination at a Georgia General Mills plant. The plaintiffs are eight current and former employees of General Mills who currently worked, or previously worked within the last four years, at a General Mills’ manufacturing facility in Covington, Georgia. On June 2, 2024, the plaintiffs filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia alleging that there was a fraternity of white men operating in leadership positions at the Covingt…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Briskin v. City of New York

1:24-cv-03557 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: May 9, 2024

Case Ongoing

[This summary is temporary while we research the case.] In this lawsuit, filed on May 9, 2024, in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, plaintiffs sued the City of New York and various city officials arguing that the City's health plan discriminated against gay male couples by denying coverage of in vitro fertilization (IVF) benefits. The plaintiffs were two gay men, in a couple, who were denied coverage for IVF benefits by the health insurance provided by the City. The pla…