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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…
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
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
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 …