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INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY (FACILITY)
Richard S. v. Dept. of Developmental Services of California

8:97-cv-00219 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: March 20, 1997

Closed Date: 2005

On March 20, 1997, Richard S. filed a class-action lawsuit and an application for a temporary restraining order in the United States District Court for the Central District of California against the Department of Developmental Services for the State of California and Fairview Developmental Center. Richard S. was a resident of Fairview and was represented by a private attorney. William Cable, M.D. served as guardian ad litem for the class members, developmentally disabled clients without conserv…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Watson v. Ray

4:78-cv-00106 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa

Filed Date: April 17, 1978

Closed Date: Sept. 29, 1999

Present and future general prison population inmates at the Iowa State Penitentiary in Fort Madison, Iowa, filed a class action lawsuit on April 17, 1978 under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa, alleging that the totality of conditions of confinement violated the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments. The plaintiffs were represented by legal interns at the University of Iowa College of Law Legal Clinic. Americans United for Separation of Church and State r…
PUBLIC HOUSING
Gautreaux v. Chicago Housing Authority

1:66-cv-01459 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Aug. 9, 1966

Filed in 1966 and still ongoing as of 2022, this is one of the most significant housing desegregation cases ever, leading to the nation's first desegregative housing mobility voucher program. In collaboration with BPI, the Chicago public interest organization that has for decades represented the plaintiffs in this case, the Clearinghouse has acquired and posted the full litigation record—over 2100 documents, all told.  About 230 "core" documents are set to display here; if you click on "show mo…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Moeller v. Taco Bell

4:02-cv-05849 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Dec. 17, 2002

Closed Date: Sept. 29, 2014

On December 17, 2002 plaintiffs, California residents with disabilities that required them to rely on wheelchairs or scooters for mobility, filed a class action complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California (Judge Phyllis J. Hamilton) against Taco Bell Corporation. Plaintiffs, represented by the Impact Fund and private counsel, claimed the Defendant denied them, on the basis of disability, full and equal enjoyment of the goods, services, facilities, privileges, ad…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Martin v. Ohio Governor

2:89-cv-00362 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio

Filed Date: April 27, 1989

Closed Date: 2007

On April 27, 1989, a lawsuit was filed on behalf of individuals with developmental disabilities under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the Rehabilitation Act against various Ohio state officials in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio. Plaintiffs, represented by legal services, asked the Court for declaratory and injunctive relief, claiming that the state was providing appropriate community-based services.On March 21, 1990, the Court certified a class…
POLICING
Melendres v. Arpaio

2:07-cv-02513 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: Dec. 12, 2007

This case concerns racial profiling by the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office (“MCSO”) in Arizona. On December 12, 2007, Latino motorists filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Arizona against the County of Maricopa, MCSO, and Sheriff Joe Arpaio. The plaintiffs sued under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and 28 U.S.C. § 2201. They 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 …
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Northeast Ohio Coalition for the Homeless v. Husted

2:06-cv-00896 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio

Filed Date: Oct. 24, 2006

Closed Date: March 28, 2018

On October 24, 2006, the Northeast Ohio Coalition for the Homeless ("NEOCH") and Service Employees International Union ("SEIU") filed this lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio against the State of Ohio. The plaintiffs, represented by private counsel, sought preliminary and permanent injunctive relief and declaratory relief challenging numerous aspects of Ohio's comprehensive voter-identification law set forth in Ohio's House Bill 3. The pla…
CHILD WELFARE
S.W. v. City of New York

1:09-cv-01777 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: April 29, 2009

Closed Date: 2017

On April 29, 2009, ten former foster children with special needs sued the City of New York and four private foster care agencies in the US District Court for the Eastern District of New York. The plaintiffs asserted a § 1983 claim for violation of their substantive due process rights and asserted a state law claim for negligence for allowing a foster parent family to fraudulently obtain foster care custody of children, adopt them, and subject them to abuse, neglect, torture, imprisonment, and d…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Lacy v. Dart

1:14-cv-06259 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Aug. 14, 2014

Closed Date: Feb. 18, 2020

On August 14, 2014, a detainee in the Cook County jail who used a wheelchair filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. The plaintiff sued Cook County, Illinois under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the Rehabilitation Act, and two Cook County correctional officers in their individual capacities under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Represented by private counsel, the plaintiff claimed the County deprived him of rights secured under the ADA and the Reha…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Feldman v. Arizona Secretary of State

2:16-cv-01065 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: April 15, 2016

NOTE: This case is being tracked in close to real time by the Stanford/MIT Healthy Elections Project. So for information, see their tracker. This case is about the legality and constitutionality of voting procedures in Arizona. The plaintiffs, which included several individual voters, Kirkpatrick for U.S. Senate, the national and senatorial Democratic Party committees, and the former chairman of the Navajo Nation filed this action in the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona on Apri…