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Louisiana v. Becerra

3:21-cv-03970 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana

Filed Date: Nov. 15, 2021

Closed Date: Dec. 2, 2022

COVID-19 Summary: In this case, several states sued to block the federal vaccine mandate which required Medicare- and Medicaid-certified providers and suppliers to become vaccinated prior to December 6, 2021 (the CMS mandate). The judge granted the preliminary injunction on November 30,2021, and issued a nationwide injunction prohibiting the CMS mandate. 571 F.Supp.3d 516. The defendants appealed and requested the lower court issue a stay pending appeal, which the court denied the same day. The…
EDUCATION
E.E. v. California

3:21-cv-07585 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Sept. 28, 2021

Closed Date: Aug. 11, 2022

On September 28, 2021, plaintiffs filed a class action lawsuit against the state of California, the California Board of Education, and the California Department of Education. Plaintiffs were students with disabilities and an organization that advocates for disabled students and their families. They were represented by Disability Rights California. They sought to represent a class of "all California students who, now or in the future, have an Individual Education Plan and whose parent, guardian …
PRISON CONDITIONS
Human Rights Defense Center v. Inch

9:21-cv-81391 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida

Filed Date: Aug. 10, 2021

Closed Date: March 31, 2023

The Human Rights Defense Center, a non-profit organization dedicated to protecting human rights in U.S. detention facilities, filed this lawsuit on August 10, 2021. The plaintiff filed suit in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida against the Florida Department of Corrections (Department of Corrections) and the warden of the Everglades Correctional Institution (Everglades). The presiding judge was Judge Donald M. Middlebrooks. The plaintiff alleged that Departmen…
LABOR RIGHTS
Geiser v. The Salvation Army

1:22-cv-01968 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: March 9, 2022

Case Ongoing

This case entry covers three separate class action lawsuits – Geiser v. Salvation Army, Clancy v. Salvation Army, and Alvear v. Salvation Army – that were filed concurrently and share allegations. These cases concern the Salvation Army's alleged violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act because they required persons in rehabilitation programs to engage in "work therapy" as a condition of their admission to those programs. On March 9, 2022, the plaintiffs in each of the cases, represented by pri…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Stafford v. Carter

1:17-cv-00289 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana

Filed Date: Jan. 27, 2017

Case Ongoing

This class action suit challenged the medical care provided to Indiana prisoners with the Hepatitis C Virus (HCV). On January 27, 2017, three prisoners with HCV at Pendleton Correctional Facility filed this class-action suit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana. Judge Jane Magnus-Stinson was assigned. Plaintiffs were represented by private counsel and a professor from the Indiana University School of Law. Defendants included the Indiana Department of Corrections (IDOC…
INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY (FACILITY)
Judge Rotenburg Center v. Food and Drug Administration

1:17-cv-02092 | U. S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit

Filed Date: March 26, 2020

Case Ongoing

This case concerns the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) ability to ban the use of electrical stimulation devices to treat self-injurious or aggressive behavior. The petitioners are the Judge Rotenburg Center (“the Center”), a facility in Massachusetts that provides treatment and education to people with serious mental disabilities, like autism, and a group of parents of patients at the Center. The Center is the only place in the country where electrical stimulation is used to prevent self-h…
FAIR HOUSING/LENDING/INSURANCE
Sinclair v. Meisner

2:18-cv-14042 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: Dec. 26, 2018

Case Ongoing

On December 26, 2018, a Black woman filed this putative class action in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan against the Oakland County, the City of Southfield, and various private entities on behalf of herself and similarly situated persons. The plaintiff alleged that the office circumvented Michigan law by improperly transferring her property and property belonging to other Black homeowners to private corporations in violation of their right to procedural due process. …
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Alabama Disability Advocacy Program v. Wood

2:07-cv-00434 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama

Filed Date: May 16, 2007

Closed Date: Sept. 10, 2008

This is a case about the scope of a Protection and Advocacy (P&A) agency’s records, facilities, and residents access authority under its enabling statutes. On May 16, 2007, Alabama Disabilities Advocacy Project (ADAP), Alabama’s P&A, filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama. ADAP filed this lawsuit against J. Walter Wood, Jr., Executive Director of Alabama Department of Youth Services (DYS), in his official capacity under the Developmental Disabilities As…
POLICING
Melendres v. Arpaio

2:07-cv-02513 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: Dec. 12, 2007

Case Ongoing

On December 12, 2007, a group of plaintiffs filed this lawsuit in United States District Court for the District of Arizona against the County of Maricopa and the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office (MCSO), as well as Sheriff Joe Arpaio. The plaintiffs sought to represent a class of Latino persons who have been or will be stopped, detained, interrogated, or searched by the Sheriff or his agents in moving or parked vehicles in Maricopa County. They alleged claims under the Fourth Amendment (search a…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Jackson Women’s Health Organization v. Dobbs

25CH1:22-CV-00739 | Mississippi state trial court

Filed Date: June 27, 2022

Closed Date: July 19, 2022

On June 27, 2022, three days after the U.S. Supreme Court overruled Roe v. Wade in Jackson Women's Health Organization v. Dobbs, the Jackson Women’s Health Organization and a licensed physician brought this lawsuit in the Chancery Court of Hinds County, Mississippi First Judicial District (Mississippi state trial court) challenging the state’s Trigger Ban (Miss. Code Ann. § 41–41–45) and Six-Week Ban (Miss. Code Ann. § 41–41–34). The Trigger Ban is a near-total ban on abortion with criminal pen…