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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
Advocacy Inc. v. Tarrant County Hospital District

4:01-cv-00062 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas

Filed Date: Jan. 16, 2001

Closed Date: Oct. 23, 2001

This is a case about a Protection and Advocacy (P&A) agency’s records access authority. On January 16, 2001, Advocacy, Inc., Texas’s P&A, filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas.  Advocacy, Inc. filed this lawsuit against Tarrant County Hospital (Tarrant), a hospital system with an inpatient psychiatric unit, under the Protection and Advocacy for Individuals with Mental Illness (PAIMI) Act. Represented by itself, Advocacy Inc. sought a permanent injuncti…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Iowa Protection and Advocacy Services v. Tanager Place

1:04-cv-00069 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa

Filed Date: June 3, 4

Closed Date: March 9, 2006

This case is about a Protection and Advocacy agency’s (P&A) access authority to interview relevant parties during an investigation. Iowa Protection and Advocacy Services (Iowa P&A) filed this lawsuit on June 3, 2004, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa. Iowa P&A filed this lawsuit against Tanager, Inc., a private facility offering youth inpatient psychiatric services, under the Protection and Advocacy for Individuals with Mental Illness (PAIMI) Act. Represented by a pri…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
E.T. v. Governor Greg Abbott

1:21-cv-00717 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

Filed Date: Aug. 17, 2021

Closed Date: Aug. 22, 2022

On August 17, 2021, Disability Rights Texas filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas challenging Governor Abbott's issuing of Executive Order GA-38 ("GA-38"), which prohibited school districts from instituting mask mandates in response to COVID-19. In addition to Governor Abbott, defendants included the Commissioner of the Texas Education Agency ("TEA") and the TEA. Disability Rights filed the suit on behalf of students with disabilities with compromised immu…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Driver v. Marion County Sheriff

1:14-cv-02076 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana

Filed Date: Dec. 19, 2014

Closed Date: Aug. 8, 2022

On December 19, 2014, individuals who were incarcerated in the Marion County correctional system filed this class-action lawsuit in the US District Court for the Southern District of Indiana. The plaintiffs sued the Marion County Sheriff and the Consolidated City of Indianapolis and Marion County under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Represented by private counsel, the plaintiffs sought money damages for a class of individuals who were incarcerated in the Marion County correctional system for unreasonable pe…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Davis v. Jones

3:17-cv-00820 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida

Filed Date: July 19, 2017

Case Ongoing

On July 19, 2017, death-row inmates in Florida filed this lawsuit alleging that the practice of placing death-row inmates in solitary confinement indefinitely violated their Eighth and Fourteenth Amendment rights. Specifically, they claimed that the permanent solitary confinement posed a serious risk of harm to the health and safety of the plaintiffs. The plaintiffs filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida against employees of the Florida Department of Co…
POLICING
Williams v. City Of Chicago

1:22-cv-03773 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: July 21, 2022

Case Ongoing

This case is a constitutional challenge to investigatory stops performed on the basis of Chicago’s ShotSpotter system used to detect gunshots. Two plaintiffs filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois on July 21, 2022. Both plaintiffs had been subject to investigatory stops, arrest, and criminal charges as a result of ShotSpotter data. The first plaintiff was an elderly man who was charged with first degree murder and was jailed for over 11 months before the cha…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
League of Women Voters of Arizona v. Reagan

2:18-cv-02620 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: Aug. 18, 2018

Closed Date: Jan. 8, 2020

Section 5 of the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA) provides that when a registered voter changes their address with a state motor vehicle agency, the corresponding voter registration address must be automatically updated. This led three civic organizations to sue the Arizona Secretary of State (SOS) on August 18, 2018, for allegedly violating the NVRA. The suit was brought to the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona. The plaintiffs alleged that the SOS did not update voter regis…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Texas LULAC v. Abbott

1:20-cv-01006 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

Filed Date: Oct. 1, 2020

Closed Date: March 24, 2021

This is a case about access to absentee ballot drop-off locations in Texas during the 2020 election, which took place during the COVID-19 pandemic. On October 1, 2020, the Texas League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), the League of Women Voters of Texas, and two individuals who vote in Texas filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas. The defendants included Texas Governor Greg Abbott, Secretary of State Ruth Hughs, and the elections officials of fo…
POLICING
Strunk v. Martin

1:10-cv-00023 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana

Filed Date: Jan. 21, 2010

Closed Date: Aug. 22, 2018

This is a case alleging infringement of two individuals' Fourth Amendment rights when they were arrested without warrants and not brought before a judge within 48 hours. On January 21, 2010, two individuals who were arrested and booked into LaGrange County Jail filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Indiana. The plaintiffs sued the LaGrange County Sheriff under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Represented by private counsel, the plaintiffs sought compensatory and d…