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DISABILITY RIGHTS
Disability Law Center v. Anchorage School District

3:07-cv-00131 | U.S. District Court for the District of Alaska

Filed Date: July 16, 2007

Closed Date: Oct. 1, 2009

This is a case about a protection and advocacy (P&A) agency’s records access authority for directory information records. On June 16, 2007, Disability Law Center of Alaska (DLC), Alaska’s P&A, filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Alaska. Represented by itself, DLC alleged that the Anchorage School District violated the Developmental Disabilities Assistance and Bill of Rights Act (DD Act) and the Protection and Advocacy for Individuals with Mental Illness Act (PAIMI …
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Oklahoma Disability Law Center v. Dillon Family and Youth Services

4:94-cv-00532 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma

Filed Date: May 24, 1994

Closed Date: June 21, 1995

This is a case about a P&A’s records access authority. On May 24, 1994, Oklahoma Disability Law Center, Oklahoma’s Protection and Advocacy (P&A) agency filed this lawsuit against Dillon Family and Youth Services (Dillon), a mental health inpatient facility in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma. The plaintiffs alleged that that the facility violated the Protection and Advocacy for Individuals With Mental Illness (PAIMI) Act when they denied Oklahoma Disability Law Cent…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Wisconsin Coalition for Advocacy v. Czaplewski

2:00-cv-01363 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin

Filed Date: Oct. 23, 2000

Closed Date: June 27, 2001

This is a case about a protection and advocacy (P&A) agency’s records access authority. On October 23, 2000, Wisconsin Coalition for Advocacy, Wisconsin’s P&A filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin. The P&A sued the director of a residential healthcare facility under the Developmental Disabilities Assistance and Bill of Rights Act (DD Act), and the Protection and Advocacy for Individuals with Mental Illness Act (PAIMI Act). Represented by itself, the…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Family Equality v. Azar

1:20-cv-02403 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: March 19, 2020

Case Ongoing

On March 19, 2020, Family Equality, True Colors United, and Services & Advocacy for LGBT Elders (SAGE) filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. Plaintiffs sued the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) under the Administrative Procedure Act, challenging the Notice of Nonenforcement of Health and Human Services Grants Regulation. The Notice, issued by HHS in November 2019, announced that HHS would not enforce 45 C.F.R. § 75.300, which pro…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Little Rock Family Planning Services v. Jegley

4:21-cv-00453 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas

Filed Date: May 26, 2021

Case Ongoing

This case is one in a string of challenges to Arkansas’s abortion access restrictions. A few months prior to the filing of this suit, the Eighth Circuit enjoined the state’s pre-viability bans on abortion via Act 493 (criminalizing abortion at 18 weeks) in Little Rock Family Planning Services v. Rutledge.  The present case was filed in response to Act 309 (“Act 309”), signed into law on March 26, 2021, which effectively prohibited abortion in nearly all cases and imposed criminal penalties on d…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Daunt v. Benson

1:19-cv-00614 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan

Filed Date: July 30, 2019

Closed Date: May 27, 2021

On November 6, 2018, Michigan voters approved Proposal 18-2, which amended the Michigan Constitution to create the Michigan Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission (“the Commission”). According to the constitutional amendment, the Commission would retain “exclusive authority to adopt district boundaries for the Michigan Senate, Michigan House of Representatives and U.S. Congress, every 10 years.” On July 30, 2019, Michigan citizens filed this lawsuit against the Michigan Secretary of Stat…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Democracy North Carolina v. North Carolina Board of Elections

1:20-cv-00457 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina

Filed Date: May 22, 2020

Closed Date: March 28, 2023

NOTE: This case is being tracked in close to real time by the Stanford/MIT Healthy Elections Project. So for more current information, see their tracker. COVID-19 Summary: This suit was filed on May 22, 2020, by two non-profit organizations and six individual plaintiffs against the state of North Carolina to challenge various election laws in light of COVID-19. The plaintiffs sought declaratory and injunctive relief. No outcome yet. On May 22, 2020, Democracy North Carolina, the League of Wom…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Disability Rights Ohio v. Buckeye Ranch

2:18-cv-00906 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio

Filed Date: Aug. 17, 2018

Closed Date: Aug. 5, 2019

This is a case about a protection and advocacy agency's (P&A) records and residents access authority for minors where parents or guardians do not consent to the P&A requesting records or interviewing residents.  On August 17, 2018, Buckeye Ranch, a youth residential mental health facility, filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio against Disability Rights Ohio, Ohio’s Protection and Advocacy (P&A) agency. Buckeye Ranch alleged that Disability Rights Ohio e…
JAIL CONDITIONS
United States v. Hinds County

3:16-cv-00489 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi

Filed Date: June 23, 2016

Case Ongoing

On May 21, 2015, the Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) completed an investigation into Hinds County, Mississippi, over conditions at the Hinds County Adult Detention Facility and Work Center in Raymond (RDC) and the Jackson Detention Center in Jackson. The DOJ found that the facilities were chronically understaffed, that staff were not adequately trained or supervised, and that the facilities were poorly designed and ill-maintained. Facility staff in turn fa…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
University Legal Services v. District of Columbia

1:18-cv-00301 | U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

Filed Date: Feb. 9, 2018

Closed Date: June 28, 9

This is a case about whether a Protection and Advocacy (P&A) agency can allege a violation of its records access authority where they can demonstrate pattern of non-compliance. On February 9, 2018, University Legal Services, Washington D.C.’s P&A, filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. University Legal Services alleged that the District of Columbia (D.C.) violated its investigations authority under the Protection and Advocacy for Individuals With Mental Illn…