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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
Kerrigan v. Philadelphia Board of Elections

2:07-cv-00687 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Feb. 21, 2007

Closed Date: Oct. 2, 2015

On February 21, 2007, Disability Rights Pennsylvania (the Pennsylvania protection and advocacy agency) and private co-counsel filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of registered voters with mobility disabilities to challenge inaccessibility of polling locations throughout the City of Philadelphia. The case was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and assigned to Judge John R. Pavoda. Defendants included officials and entities responsible for elections in th…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Maple Heights School District Board of Education v. A.C., Individually and on behalf of A.W., a Minor

1:14-cv-01033 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio

Filed Date: May 12, 2014

Closed Date: June 27, 2016

This case involves the educational deprivation of an IDEA eligible student who had been expelled and placed on home bound instruction by defendant Maple Heights School District.  The plaintiff filed the lawsuit on May 12, 2014 alleging violations of IDEA  and seeking compensatory education  The case was assigned to Judge Christopher A. Boyko of the United States District Court, Northern District of Ohio.  On June 27, 2016, the court issued a ruling that affirmed decisions of the State Level Rev…
LABOR RIGHTS
Associated Builders and Contractors of Southest Texas v. Rung

1:16-cv-00425 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas

Filed Date: Oct. 7, 2016

Closed Date: Dec. 21, 2017

This case addressed President Obama's Executive Order 13673, “Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces,” under which the Department of Labor and the Federal Acquisition Council required government contractors and subcontractors to report regularly on workplace law violations found by administrative agencies, the courts, and arbitrators. The Order explained that the federal government would take an employer’s record of violations into account when deciding whether to award future contracts, cancel existing …
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Manderson v. New York City Department of Education

1:21-cv-02047 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: March 10, 2021

Closed Date: Nov. 30, 2021

This lawsuit, commenced on March 10, 2021, followed a Charge of Discrimination filed by the Disability Rights Advocates with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission against the New York City Department of Education (NYCDOE) on May 6, 2020. The subsequent lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York on behalf of a public school teacher who alleged that the NYCDOE failed to provide her with necessary and reasonable accommodations. Specifically, the plaintiff allege…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Gainesville Woman Care, LLC v. Florida

2015-CA-1323 | Florida state trial court

Filed Date: June 11, 2015

Case Ongoing

This is a state court case challenging an abortion restriction in the state of Florida. According to the plaintiffs, House Bill 633 (the Mandatory Delay Law) sought to restrict women’s access to abortion services in Florida by imposing a minimum 24-hour delay between receiving state-mandated information about the nature and risks of abortion and the abortion procedure. Florida Statutes § 390.0111 required physicians to provide the information in-person (an earlier case challenging that provisio…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Gohmert v. Pence

6:20-cv-00660 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas

Filed Date: Dec. 27, 2020

Closed Date: Jan. 1, 2021

On December 27, 2020, the U.S. Representative for the 1st District of Texas, along with multiple Republican U.S. Representatives from Arizona, filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas against then-vice president, Mike Pence. Represented by private counsel, the plaintiffs sought expedited declaratory and emergency injunctive relief, alleging that two parts of the U.S. Constitution, the Electors Clause and Twelfth Amendment, were violated.  The plaintiffs ar…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Carey v. Wisconsin Elections Commission

3:22-cv-00402 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin

Filed Date: July 22, 2022

Case Ongoing

On July 8, 2022, the Wisconsin Supreme Court reversed a decades-old precedent that allowed people with disabilities to receive assistance from family members and caregivers in submitting their ballot. In Teigen v. Wisconsin Elections Commission, the court construed Wisconsin statute § 6.87(4)(b)1 to mandate that voters with disabilities return their ballot by mail, or in person themselves. The court expressly refused to consider whether voters with disabilities were entitled to assistance when …
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Stuart v. Huff

1:11-cv-00804 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina

Filed Date: Sept. 29, 2011

This case has to do with the “Woman’s Right to Know Act” (the Act), which was enacted on July 28, 2011 after the legislature overrode a veto by the Governor of North Carolina. This case was brought by the ACLU, Planned Parenthood, Center for Reproductive Rights, and A Woman’s Choice of Raleigh, Inc., on behalf of various physicians, licensed to practice medicine in the State of North Carolina and other various clinics providing reproductive health care services in North Carolina. The case was b…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
F.V. v. Barron

1:17-cv-00170 | U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho

Filed Date: April 18, 2017

Case Ongoing

This is a lawsuit about Idaho transgender people's ability to change their birth certificate sex listings, and to do so without having to disclose on their birth certificates that they are transgender. On April 18, 2017, a transgender woman born in Idaho brought a lawsuit against the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare (IDHW). The plaintiff brought the lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho and was represented by both a private law firm and by Lambda Legal Defense and E…