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18 cases, 19 documents
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IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Lee v. Ashcroft

2:04-cv-00449 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: Feb. 27, 2004

Closed Date: 2009

On February 27, 2004, plaintiffs filed a class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington, challenging the policies and procedures used by the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services to adjudicate applications for naturalization. Plaintiffs alleged that the agency failed to apply the correct standard for determining whether applicants have "good moral character" and failed to adjudicate applications within 120 days as prescribed by law. Plainti…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Engers v. AT&T

2:98-cv-03660 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

Filed Date: Aug. 5, 1998

Closed Date: June 22, 2011

AT&T changed its pension plan in November 1997, which allegedly resulted in younger employees receiving more benefits than older employees previously had, while the pension benefits for older employees were reduced. On August 5, 1998, the plaintiff filed this class-action lawsuit in the District Court of New Jersey bringing 17 claims for relief alleging violations of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA), ERISA, and state law. The complaint sought declaratory and injunctive relief req…
EDUCATION
Flores v. Arizona

4:92-cv-00596 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: Aug. 20, 1992

Closed Date: Aug. 7, 2015

This school funding case was filed on August 20, 1992 in the United States District Court for the District of Arizona. The plaintiffs, several students and their parents, claimed that the state failed to adequately fund programs for English language learners (ELLs). In 2000, the district court found that state's method and level of funding ELL programs was "arbitrary and capricious" and ordered that the level of state funding for ELL programs bear a rational relationship to the cost of those …
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
Wallace v. Powell/H.T. v. Ciavarella

3:09-cv-00286 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Feb. 13, 2009

Closed Date: Aug. 16, 2022

This case grew out of the criminal misconduct of two state court juvenile judges who sent hundreds of children to juvenile detention facilities because of bribes paid by the companies that ran those detention facilities. On February 13, 2009, the plaintiffs--children who had been adjudicated delinquent found to have violated their probation and parents of those children--brought this class action lawsuit against the judges. The plaintiffs, represented by multiple firms, sought damages against t…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Moeller v. Taco Bell

4:02-cv-05849 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Dec. 17, 2002

Closed Date: Sept. 29, 2014

On December 17, 2002 plaintiffs, California residents with disabilities that required them to rely on wheelchairs or scooters for mobility, filed a class action complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California (Judge Phyllis J. Hamilton) against Taco Bell Corporation. Plaintiffs, represented by the Impact Fund and private counsel, claimed the Defendant denied them, on the basis of disability, full and equal enjoyment of the goods, services, facilities, privileges, ad…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Williams v. Quinn

1:05-cv-04673 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Aug. 15, 2005

On August 15, 2005, residents of an intermediate care facility (IMD) with mental illness filed a lawsuit under the Supreme Court's decision in Olmstead, the Americans with Disabilities Act and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act against various Illinois state officials in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. Plaintiffs, represented by private counsel and legal services, asked the court for declaratory and injunctive relief, claiming that they were needlessly…
CHILD WELFARE
Henry A. v. Willden

2:10-cv-00528 | U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada

Filed Date: April 13, 2010

Closed Date: 2015

On April 13, 2010, a group of children in foster care in Clark County (Las Vegas), Nevada filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada. The plaintiffs sued the Nevada Department of Health and Human Services, the Nevada Division of Child and Family Services, Clark County, and lark County Department of Family Services under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and state law. (Previously, NCYL had filed a similar suit on behalf of another group of children, Clark K. v. Willden, in August 2…
POLICING
White v. Jackson

4:14-cv-01490 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri

Filed Date: Aug. 28, 2014

Closed Date: Feb. 8, 2019

On August 28, 2014, six Missouri residents filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and the Fourth Amendment of the United States Constitution against individual police officers of the City of Ferguson, Missouri and the County of St. Louis, Missouri, the City of Ferguson, and the County of St. Louis. The plaintiffs, represented by private and public interest counsel, sought compensatory and punitive damages, alleging that…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Disability Rights Florida v. Crews

1:14-cv-23323 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida

Filed Date: Sept. 9, 2014

Closed Date: Nov. 21, 2018

On September 9, 2014, Disability Rights Florida filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida. This suit was brought against the Florida Department of Corrections (FDC) and Wexford Health Sources, an FDC contractor, under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, 28 U.S.C. § 2201, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the Protection and Advocacy for Individuals with Mental Illness Act (PAIMI), and the Rehabilitation Act. The plaintiff, represented by private and in-house couns…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Frew v. Traylor

3:93-cv-00065 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas

Filed Date: Sept. 1, 1993

On September 1, 1993, two indigent mothers brought this suit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas on behalf of their children, and on behalf of all persons under the age of 21 in the state of Texas who were eligible for the Early, Periodic, Screening, Diagnosis and Treatment Program ("EPSDT" or "the Program"). The Program is a Medicaid program which provides regular physical and mental health screenings to indigent children. The plaintiffs, represented by the Center for …