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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
A.P. v. Pasadena Unified School District

2:19-cv-07965 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: Sept. 13, 2019

Closed Date: Nov. 17, 2021

A student with disabilities sued the Pasadena School District in federal district court, Central District of California, for denial of a free appropriate public education under the IDEA, appealing the decision of a hearing officer that had ruled in the school's favor.  The case was assigned to Judge Michael W. Fitzgerald.  Per the complaint, the school was slow in ordering a special education evaluation, did not assess her in all areas of suspected disability, and failed to provide transition s…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Carr v. Becerra

3:22-cv-00988 | U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

Filed Date: Aug. 3, 2022

Case Ongoing

This case concerns the effects of an agency rule change on Medicaid benefits provided by the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA). In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the federal government passed the FFCRA on March 18th, 2020. Among other things, the bill increased federal funding of Medicaid if certain provisions were met. One of these provisions was an extension of benefits through the end of the declared public health emergency. States could not terminate the benefit extension;…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Yang v. Kellner

1:20-cv-03325 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: April 28, 2020

Closed Date: May 5, 2020

In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, on April 27, 2020, the New York State Board of Elections (BOE) by unanimous vote and in spite of executive orders from the New York governor, adopted a resolution to cancel the New York presidential primary election that was slated for June 23, 2020, while still allowing down-ballot federal congressional and state elections to continue. BOE's rationale was that this was in line with larger goals of avoiding unnecessary social contact, and that there was no…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Garcia v. Johnson

2:09-cv-01747 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: April 24, 2009

On April 24, 2009, a class action suit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. The suit alleged that the defendants violated the Social Security Act, federal regulations, and the Due Process Clause. The plaintiffs consisted of two elderly Pennsylvanians who were Medicare recipients, as well as two nonprofit organizations, Arc of Pennsylvania and Center for Advocacy for the Rights and Interests of the Elderly (CARIE). They were represented by two non-profit…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Bryant v. Woodall

1:16-cv-01368 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina

Filed Date: Nov. 30, 2016

Closed Date: Aug. 17, 2022

On November 30, 2016, the ACLU, Planned Parenthood, and the Center for Reproductive Rights filed a federal lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina to overturn a North Carolina law that prevented doctors from providing pre-viability abortions after the twentieth week of pregnancy except in narrowly defined medical emergencies. Plaintiffs based their argument on established United States Supreme Court precedent, now overruled, prohibiting a ban on abortion pri…
POLICING
United States v. City of Cleveland

1:15-cv-01046 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio

Filed Date: May 25, 2015

Case Ongoing

In March 2013, following a series of highly-publicized use-of-force incidents involving the Cleveland Division of Police (CDP), the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) opened an investigation pursuant to the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, 42 U.S.C. § 14141, that focused on the CDP's use of force, including deadly force. This was the second investigation conducted by the DOJ into the CDP's practices in a little over ten years, as the DOJ had prev…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Mi Familia Vota v. Hobbs

2:20-cv-01903 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: Sept. 30, 2020

Closed Date: Oct. 5, 2020

The Plaintiff organizations filed a Complaint seeking a declarator y judgment and Emergency Motion for a TRO against AZ Secretary of State seeking to extend the voter registration deadline to October 27, 2020. Without the extension tens of thousands of voters would not be able to register. The Plaintiffs' were successful in extending the voting registration deadline to October 2023, 2020.
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Benavidez v. Irving Independent School District (Texas)

3:08-cv-00924 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas

Filed Date: June 2, 2008

Closed Date: June 18, 2010

This is a case about an independent school district's at-large system of electing members to its Board of Trustees which allegedly denied Hispanic voters the opportunity to participate meaningfully in the electoral process. On June 2, 2008, a Hispanic candidate for the Irvine Independent School District Board of Trustees filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas. The plaintiff sued the Irving Independent School District and the Board trustees in their offi…
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…