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EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Krueger v. New York Telephone Co.

1:93-cv-00178 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Jan. 13, 1993

Closed Date: Oct. 1, 2018

On January 13, 1993, a group of former employees of New York Telephone Company age 40 or older filed a lawsuit under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act ("the ADEA"), the New York Human Rights Law ("the HRL"), and the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 ("ERISA") against defendants New York Telephone Company ("NYT") and NYNEX Corporation in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, Foley Square Division. The plaintiffs, represented by private counsel, asked…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Hinton v. District of Columbia

1:21-cv-01295 | U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

Filed Date: May 11, 2021

Closed Date: June 23, 2022

This is a class action lawsuit about transgender individuals in District of Columbia Department of Corrections (DOC) custody being assigned housing based solely on anatomy, instead of based on vulnerability and safety needs. On May 11, 2021, the plaintiff filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on behalf of herself and a class of similarly situated transgender individuals who currently reside in a DOC housing unit that does not accord with their gender identit…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Fund for Empowerment v. City of Phoenix

2:22-cv-02041 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: Nov. 30, 2022

Case Ongoing

This is a challenge to Phoenix’s policies policing homelessness and the City’s treatment of unsheltered individuals concerning unreasonable seizure and destruction of property during “homeless sweeps.” On November 30, 2023, the Fund for Empowerment (FFE) and two individual plaintiffs filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District court for the District of Arizona. Defendants included the City of Phoenix and police officials in their official capacities. Represented by the ACLU of Arizona, plaintiffs s…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Kerrigan v. Philadelphia Board of Elections

2:07-cv-00687 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Feb. 21, 2007

Closed Date: Oct. 2, 2015

On February 21, 2007, Disability Rights Pennsylvania (the Pennsylvania protection and advocacy agency) and private co-counsel filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of registered voters with mobility disabilities to challenge inaccessibility of polling locations throughout the City of Philadelphia. The case was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and assigned to Judge John R. Pavoda. Defendants included officials and entities responsible for elections in th…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Disability Rights Mississippi v. Hinds County

3:11-cv-00327 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi

Filed Date: June 1, 2011

Case Ongoing

This is a case about whether a Protection and Advocacy (P&A) agency can communicate with all individuals in a juvenile detention facility where some individuals with disabilities reside, as well as the substantive conditions in a juvenile detention facility. On June 1, 2011, Disability Rights Mississippi, Mississippi’s P&A, and a putative class of juvenile detention facility residents filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi. They filed this lawsuit…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Sonnenberg v. Disability Rights Idaho

1:14-cv-00369 | U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho

Filed Date: Sept. 17, 2014

Closed Date: March 7, 2016

This case is about whether a Protection and Advocacy agency’s (P&A) record access authority includes death investigation records from a county coroner’s office for an individual who died while involuntarily committed at a psychiatric facility. The Ada County Coroner, in his official capacity, and Ada County initially filed this lawsuit in the Idaho District Court of the Fourth Judicial Circuit against Disability Rights Idaho- Idaho’s P&A. On September 17, 2014, Disability Rights Idaho removed t…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
National Veterans Legal Services Program v. United States

1:16-cv-00745 | U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

Filed Date: April 21, 2016

Case Ongoing

This is a case challenging the fees required by the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts (AO) to access records through its Public Access to Court Electronic Records system, also known as PACER. On April 1, 2016, three national nonprofit organizations that have downloaded public records from PACER filed this class action against the United States in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, challenging these fees on the grounds that they greatly exceeded the costs associated wit…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Sinner v. Jaeger

3:20-cv-00076 | U.S. District Court for the District of North Dakota

Filed Date: May 6, 2020

Closed Date: June 24, 2020

This is a case about whether the U.S. Constitution was violated by the combined pressures of the COVID-19 pandemic and North Dakota's in-person signature gathering requirements for ballot initiative petitions. On May 6, 2020, the North Dakota Secretary of State was sued in the U.S. District Court for the District of North Dakota by four individual voters and North Dakota Voters First (NDVF), the sponsoring committee for a proposed state constitutional amendment related to election procedures an…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Lloyd Jones v. The City of New York

1:17-cv-07577 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Oct. 4, 2017

Case Ongoing

Three New York City residents filed this putative class action lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York on October 4, 2017. The plaintiffs–represented by private counsel–sued the City of New York (“the City”) over the City’s process for paying bail. They requested declaratory relief and compensatory damages under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for violations of the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments and under a theory of common law false imprisonment. The plaintiffs als…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt

1:14-cv-00284 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

Filed Date: April 2, 2014

Case Ongoing

This is a case challenging a 2013 Texas law requiring (1) a physician providing abortion services to obtain admitting privileges at a local hospital no farther than 30 miles from the clinic and (2) abortion clinics to meet the building specifications of ambulatory surgical centers. On April 2, 2014, a group of Texas abortion clinics and physicians filed this lawsuit on behalf of themselves and their patients in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas. The plaintiffs sued the c…