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SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Equality Florida v. DeSantis

4:22-cv-00134 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida

Filed Date: March 31, 2022

Closed Date: March 22, 2024

This case, filed on March 31, 2022, challenged Florida House Bill 1557, the Florida statute widely known as the "Don't Say Gay" law. H.B. 1557 banned any school instruction on "sexual orientation and gender identity." Equality Florida and Family Equality, two non-profit, public interest organizations, together with individual students, parents, and a teachers brought this suit against the State of Florida, Florida Department of Education, the Florida Board of Education, state officials in their…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Diggs v. Mici

4:22-cv-40003 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: Jan. 10, 2022

Case Ongoing

This is a case about prison officials who allegedly inflicted weeks of unprovoked violence on prisoners, particularly prisoners of color. On January 10, 2022, nine Black and Latino men incarcerated at Massachusetts' Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center (SBCC) filed this class action suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts against the Massachusetts Department of Corrections. The plaintiffs sued state officials under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for violations of the Eighth Amendmen…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Mackes v. Colorado Department of Corrections

1:21-cv-01100 | U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado

Filed Date: April 21, 2021

Case Ongoing

This lawsuit was filed on April 21, 2021 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado by two blind men in the custody of the Colorado Department of Corrections (CDOC) as well as the National Federation of the Blind of Colorado (“NFB-CO”), on behalf of the two men as well as other members who are or may be in the custody of CDOC. They alleged that CDOC violated their rights under Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act by excluding the…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
CODING IN PROCESS
Jordan v. Dayton Metro Housing Auth.

3:13-cv-00281 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio

Filed Date: Aug. 22, 2013

Closed Date: July 31, 2015

(This summary is temporary, while we research this case.) This case involves the denial of equal access to the Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher Program (“Voucher Program”) by the Greater Dayton Premier Management (“GDPM”) and Dayton Metropolitan Housing Authority (“DMHA”). The plaintiff, a blind individual, represented by Disability Rights Ohio and Advocates for Basic Legal Equality, Inc., filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio on August 22, 2013. The plaintiff …
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Brown v. Lexington County

3:17-cv-01426 | U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina

Filed Date: June 1, 2017

Case Ongoing

On June 1, 2017, nine indigent residents of South Carolina filed this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina. The plaintiffs sued Lexington County, South Carolina, the Chief Judge for Administrative Purposes of the Summary Courts in Lexington County, and the Associate Chief Judge for Administrative Purposes of the Summary Courts in Lexington County, all under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The plaintiffs, represented by the ACLU, sought declaratory, injunctive, an…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
CODING IN PROCESS
Earl Ball and Timothy Hare v. Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania state trial court

Filed Date: 2013

(This summary is temporary, while we research the case.) In 2013, a gay male couple from Easton, Pennsylvania filed this lawsuit challenging a 1996 Pennsylvania law that banned same-sex marriage.
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
CODING IN PROCESS
White v. Sessions

510:12-00077 | No Court

Filed Date: 2012

(This summary is temporary, while we research the case.) The EEOC initiated an investigation into the Bureau of Prisons following complaints from female employees who alleged they were subjected to sexual harassment and retaliation for reporting misconduct.
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Day v. District of Columbia

1:10-cv-02250 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Dec. 23, 2010

Case Ongoing

The plaintiffs, institutionalized individuals in the District of Columbia with disabilities, filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on December 23, 2010. The complaint alleged that the District of Columbia had policies and procedures that force the unnecessary institutionalization of people with disabilities who could live in the community with appropriate services. The plaintiffs claimed that these policies, which erected barriers to receiving long-term care…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Nicholas C. v. Wos

1:14-cv-00072 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina

Filed Date: March 21, 2014

Closed Date: Feb. 27, 2015

(This summary is temporary, while we research the case.) On March 21, 2014, Disability Rights North Carolina ("DRNC") filed this lawsuit on behalf of a resident of an intermediate care facility in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina. DRNC alleged that the resident was subjected to repeated, unnecessary, routine and excessive use of mechanical restraints for behavior that was not dangerous and that the use of these restraints violated the US Constitution’s 14th Ame…
PRISON CONDITIONS
CODING IN PROCESS
Hope v. Harris

9:18-cv-27 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas

Filed Date: Feb. 16, 2018

Case Ongoing

(This summary is temporary while we research this case.) On February 16, 2018, a prisoner in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice Institutional Division filed a pro se lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas. The plaintiff filed suit against the Senior Warden, the Major, and the Deputy Director of Support Operations, the Assistant Director of Classification, and the Chairperson of the State Classification Committee (SCC) of the prison. The plaintiff all…