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DISABILITY RIGHTS
Missouri Protection & Advocacy Services v. Missouri Department of Mental Health

2:04-cv-04064 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri

Filed Date: April 5, 2004

Closed Date: May 10, 2006

This is a case about a Protection and Advocacy (P&A) agency’s records access authority for peer review records in a death investigation. On April 5, 2004, Missouri P&A Services filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri. Missouri P&A filed this lawsuit against the Missouri Department of Mental Health under the Protection and Advocacy for Individuals with Mental Illness (PAIMI) Act. Represented by itself, Missouri P&A sought declarative and injunctive reli…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Reynoldson v. City of Seattle

2:15-cv-01608 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: Oct. 8, 2015

Case Ongoing

On October 8, 2015, Plaintiffs, a group of individuals with mobility disabilities filed this lawsuit, on behalf of themselves and a class, in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington. Represented by Disability Rights Washington, Plaintiffs alleged that the City of Seattle unlawfully discriminated against those with mobility disabilities by failing to comply with state and federal regulations addressing accessibility for people with disabilities in its construction, and mai…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Hinton v. District of Columbia

1:21-cv-01295 | U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

Filed Date: May 11, 2021

Closed Date: June 23, 2022

This is a class action lawsuit about transgender individuals in District of Columbia Department of Corrections (DOC) custody being assigned housing based solely on anatomy, instead of based on vulnerability and safety needs. On May 11, 2021, the plaintiff filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on behalf of herself and a class of similarly situated transgender individuals who currently reside in a DOC housing unit that does not accord with their gender identit…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Priorities USA v. Nessel

4:19-cv-13341 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: Nov. 12, 2019

Case Ongoing

This lawsuit was filed on November 12, 2019 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. The plaintiff, a left-wing advocacy group called Priorities USA, sued Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel in her official capacity. They were represented by private counsel. The group claimed that two Michigan laws, the "Voter Transportation Ban" and the "Absentee Ballot Organizing Ban," violated the U.S. Constitution. The Voter Transportation Ban prohibited the hiring of vehicles to b…
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Multi-Ethnic Immigrant Workers Organizing Network v. City of Los Angeles

2:07-cv-03072 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: May 9, 2007

Closed Date: June 24, 2013

On May 9, 2007 organizations and individuals present at a May 1st immigration rally in MacArthur Park in Los Angeles, CA filed suit against the City of Los Angeles and the Los Angeles Police Department in U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. The plaintiffs, represented by private counsel and the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund, included the Multi-ethnic Immigrant Workers Organizing Network, the Korean Immigrant Workers Alliance, the Coalition for Humane …
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Chen v. GEO

3:17-cv-05769 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: Sept. 26, 2017

Case Ongoing

On September 26, 2017, a former immigrant detainee of the Northwest Detention Center filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington. The case was assigned to Judge Robert J. Bryan. The plaintiff sued The GEO Group, Inc. (GEO), the for-profit corporation that operated the detention center, under state law, claiming that GEO’s policy of paying immigrant detainees involved in the federal Voluntary Work Program only $1 per day for their labor violated the Washi…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Michigan Protection and Advocacy Service v. Evans

2:09-cv-12224 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: June 9, 2009

Closed Date: Dec. 27, 2010

This is a case about a Protection and Advocacy agency’s records access authority concerning deceased individuals in correctional facility settings. On June 9, 2009, Michigan Protection and Advocacy Services (Michigan P&A) filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan against Warren C. Evans in his official capacity as Sheriff of Wayne County. Michigan P&A filed this lawsuit under the Developmental Disabilities Assistance and Bill of Rights Act (DD Act), the …
DISABILITY RIGHTS
M.C. v. Los Angeles Unified School District

2:20-cv-09127 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: Oct. 5, 2020

Case Ongoing

Student plaintiff filed a lawsuit on October 5, 2020 against the California Department of Education (CDE) claiming disability discrimination against students who require special education services during the summer period, or extended school year (“ESY”). The case was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California and assigned to District Judge Consuelo B. Marshall and Magistrate Judge Charles F. Eick. Plaintiff alleged violations of a state regulation, Cal. Code of Reg…
EDUCATION
Balow v. Michigan State University

1:21-cv-00044 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan

Filed Date: Jan. 15, 2021

Closed Date: Jan. 23, 2023

This is an ongoing Title IX case about Michigan State University's attempt to eliminate its varsity aquatics program. In October 2020, MSU –– a NCAA Division 1 school –– announced it would discontinue its women's and men's varsity swimming and diving programs at the end of the 2020-2021 season due to budget cuts. Eleven women on the team then hired private counsel to sue the University, president, its board of trustees, and its director of athletics. Their January 15, 2021 complaint, filed in t…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Reininger v. State of Oklahoma

5:16-cv-01241 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma

Filed Date: Oct. 31, 2016

Closed Date: Jan. 17, 2019

On October 31, 2016, plaintiff, a deaf individual, filed a complaint against the State of Oklahoma, the Oklahoma Legislature, the Oklahoma Senate and Oklahoma House of Representatives along with the President Pro Tempore of the Senate and Speaker of the House in their official capacities alleging they violated Title II of the ADA and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act. The suit was filed in federal court, Western District of Oklahoma, and assigned to Judge Timothy D. DeGiusti. The case was l…