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PRISON CONDITIONS
Brash v. Wexford Health Source, Inc.

2:02-cv-14331 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida

Filed Date: Dec. 6, 2002

On December 6, 2002, a prisoner in Florida's Okeechobee Correctional Institution (OCI), represented by counsel from the Florida Justice Institute, sued in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 1983, alleging that his Eighth Amendment right to be free from cruel and unusual punishment was being violated by the defendants' failure to provide him appropriate medical care. The lead defendant was Florida's contract medical service provider for OCI; als…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Disability Law Center v. North Star Behavioral Health System

3:07-cv-00062 | U.S. District Court for the District of Alaska

Filed Date: April 26, 2007

Closed Date: Aug. 15, 2008

This is a case about a protection and advocacy agency’s peer review records access authority. On April 26, 2007, Disability Law Center Alaska (DLC Alaska) filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Alaska against North Star Behavioral Health System (North Star), which operated an acute care facility. DLC Alaska alleged that North Star violated the Protection and Advocacy for Individuals with Mental Illness Act (PAIMI Act) when they refused to provide them with internal in…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Disability Law Center v. Matanuska-Susitna School District

3:06-cv-00216 | U.S. District Court for the District of Alaska

Filed Date: Sept. 14, 2006

Closed Date: Aug. 15, 2007

This is a case about a protection and advocacy (P&A) agency’s records access authority.  On September 13, 2006, Disability Law Center (DLC), Alaska’s P&A, filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Alaska against the Matanuska-Susitna Borough School District (the District) under the Developmental Disabilities Assistance and Bill of Rights Act (DD Act). Represented by itself, DLC alleged that the District violated the DD Act when they refused to provide DLC with a teacher’…
POLICING
Shaw v. Schulte

6:19-cv-01343 | U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas

Filed Date: Dec. 19, 2019

Case Ongoing

This case involved an alleged unconstitutional policy of the Kansas Highway Patrol (KHP) whereby they stopped motorists with out of state plates who were driving the I-70 corridor to or from the state of Colorado. On December 19, 2019, the three named plaintiffs on behalf of a class filed this lawsuit pro se in the District of Kansas. The plaintiffs sued the Kansas Highway Patrol superintendent and two named officers in their official capacity for the alleged unconstitutional stops and seizures…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Meza v. Marstiller

3:22-cv-00783 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida

Filed Date: July 17, 2022

Case Ongoing

On July 17, 2022, two low-income adults in Florida with bladder and bowel incontinence, along with Disability Rights Florida—Florida’s federally funded protection and advocacy system—filed this 42 U.S.C. § 1983 putative class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida. The plaintiffs sought to compel the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA) to cover medically necessary incontinence supplies through Florida’s Medicaid program for individuals who …
JAIL CONDITIONS
Lucero-Gonzalez v. Kline

2:20-cv-00901 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: May 8, 2020

Case Ongoing

COVID-19 Summary: This is a class-action brought by five prisoners with high-risk medical issues held at the federal Central Arizona Florence Correctional Complex against the U.S. Marshals Service and the Bureau of Prisons. The plaintiffs alleged that the defendant’s failure to implement basic social distancing and hygiene measures violated their Eighth and Fifth Amendment rights. The court denied the plaintiffs’ motion for injunctive relief, finding that the plaintiffs had failed to show delib…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Pratt v. Ott

1:20-cv-00171 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Jan. 31, 2020

Closed Date: Nov. 22, 2021

On February 4, 2020, a person in pretrial detention at the Lebanon County Correctional Facility (LCCF) in Pennsylvania filed a lawsuit pro se in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania against LCCF personnel and Lebanon County. The plaintiff alleged that he was placed in administrative segregation for refusing to cut off his dreadlocks in accordance with his Rastafarian faith. The case was initially assigned to Judge Jennifer P. Wilson, and was reassigned to Chief Judge …
EDUCATION
Simpson-Vlach v. Michigan Department of Education

5:21-cv-11532 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: June 30, 2021

Case Ongoing

This is a putative class action suit brought by and on behalf of children with disabilities who alleged that they did not get their educational needs met by their schools due to online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. On June 30, 2021, the plaintiffs—children with disabilities and their parents—filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. The plaintiffs sued the Michigan Department of Education (MDE), Ann Arbor Public Schools (AAPS), and Washtenaw In…
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
Green v. Hooks

6:14-cv-00046 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Georgia

Filed Date: May 17, 2014

Closed Date: Oct. 5, 2020

This case is the consolidation of two separate civil actions filed by the same plaintiff, a transgender woman housed at Rogers State Prison in Georgia, a single sex men's facility. The plaintiff was sexually assaulted several times by another prisoner while in both general population and protective custody. On May 17, 2014, she filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Georgia under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 alleging that the Warden, Deputy Warden, and Lieutenant of the prison w…