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DISABILITY RIGHTS
Unified School Dist 259 v. Kansas Advocacy & Protective Services

6:04-cv-01279 | U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas

Filed Date: Aug. 24, 2004

Closed Date: Jan. 11, 2006

This is a case about a protection and advocacy agency’s (P&A) records access authority. On August 24, 2004, Unified School District No. 259 (District) filed this lawsuit against Disability Rights Center of Kansas (DRC), Kansas’s P&A in the U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas. The District sought declaratory relief that the Protection and Advocacy for Individuals with Mental Illness Act (PAIMI Act), Developmental Disabilities Assistance and Bill of Rights Act (DD Act), and Protection …
POLICING
Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle v. Baltimore Police Department

1:20-cv-00929 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: April 9, 2020

Case Ongoing

On April 1, 2020, the Baltimore Board of Estimates approved a contract between the Baltimore Police Department (BPD) and Persistent Surveillance Systems, LLC (PSS) for an “Aerial Investigation Research” (AIR) pilot program in Baltimore, Maryland. The pilot program was to take place for six months, during which PSS would fly planes over the city for approximately twelve hours per day. While in flight, the planes would use advanced wide-angle camera systems to collect images of the city that woul…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Vinyard v. IL Dept. Human Svc.

2:21-cv-02043 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of Illinois

Filed Date: March 5, 2021

Closed Date: June 2, 2023

Plaintiff in this case is a young man with a physical disability who had received support services, through the State Medicaid waiver program since 1990. These services enabled him to live independently in the community, but on March 2019, his home care provider told him his services would be terminated on March 22, 2019. He received no notice from the Illinois Department of Human Services (IDHS) that ran the waiver program.   On April 11, 2019 he requested an administrative hearing. The hearin…
POLICING
Overbey v. Mayor & City Council of Baltimore

1:17-cv-01793 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: June 29, 2017

Closed Date: July 19, 2021

On June 29, 2017, the Baltimore Brew (a media organization) and an individual who had previously settled a suit against the Baltimore Police filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland. They sued the City of Baltimore and its police under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and state law. Represented by the ACLU of Maryland and private counsel, the plaintiffs sought an injunction, declaratory relief, and damages, claiming that the City’s use of gag orders in police brutality settlem…
POLICING
United States v. City of Portland

3:12-cv-02265 | U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon

Filed Date: Dec. 17, 2012

Case Ongoing

On December 17, 2012, the United States of America filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon under the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, 42 U.S.C. § 14141, against the City of Portland ("the City") based on the conduct of the Portland Police Bureau ("PPB"). The United States, represented by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Oregon and the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice ("DOJ"), sought injunctive and declarato…
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
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…
PUBLIC HOUSING
LA Alliance for Human Rights v. City of Los Angeles

2:20-cv-02291 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: March 10, 2020

Case Ongoing

This case is a follow-up to Mitchell v. City of Los Angeles, in which advocates for unhoused people successfully pushed the City of Los Angeles to limit its removal of property in encampments in the Skid Row area of the city. LA Alliance for Human Rights, a community group that primarily represents the interests of business owners, homeowners, and property renters, unsuccessfully attempted to intervene in Mitchell and brought this case after that settlement was reached. LA Alliance filed this a…
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…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Casa De Maryland v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security

8:17-cv-02942 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: Oct. 5, 2017

Case Ongoing

This lawsuit, brought on October 5, 2017, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland, challenged President Trump's revocation of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. The plaintiffs were a group of nonprofit organizations and DACA recipients who sought to enjoin the federal government from ending the program. Not only did the plaintiffs stand to lose benefits and security they had relied upon, but the plaintiffs argued that the rescission was motivated by discr…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Lambertz-Brinkman v. Reisch

3:07-cv-03040 | U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota

Filed Date: Nov. 21, 2007

On November 21, 2007, three female inmates in South Dakota Women's Prison filed a class action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court of South Dakota, alleging that they were denied medication and treatment for their mental illnesses in violation of the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments. The plaintiffs alleged that they and other inmates were routinely denied medication that had been prescribed by their treating physicians on the orders of prison staff who were not doctors and not aut…