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PRISON CONDITIONS
DiMarco v. Wyoming Department of Corrections

1:03-cv-01006 | U.S. District Court for the District of Wyoming

Filed Date: Jan. 24, 2003

Closed Date: Jan. 24, 2007

This is a case about a woman with intersex traits challenging her confinement in isolation while incarcerated. Even though the plaintiff had lived her entire life as a woman, prison staff determined she had genitalia outside of the typical male/female binary when they physically examined her upon her arrival at the Wyoming Women’s Center. Prison officials assigned the plaintiff to the maximum security ward to allegedly ensure the safety of both her and her fellow inmates. Previously, the ward h…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
C.B. v. Moreno Valley Unified School District

5:21-cv-00194 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: Feb. 2, 2021

Case Ongoing

On February 2, 2021, an eleven-year-old child with a disability filed suit through his parents, alleging that school police officers used excessive force and discriminated against him based on his disability and race when they violently handcuffed him multiple times while at school. The plaintiff also alleged that Defendants’ actions, inactions, policies, practices, customs, and procedures violated and continue to violate his rights under the U.S. and California Constitutions, the Americans wit…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Immigrant Defenders Law Center v. Wolf

2:20-cv-09893 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: Oct. 28, 2020

Case Ongoing

This is a case about the rights of asylum seekers who were subjected to the Trump administration's Migrant Protection Protocols. On October 28, 2020, the Immigrant Defenders Law Center, Jewish Family Service of San Diego, and twenty individuals who were subjected to the protocols filed a putative class action lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Central District of California. Represented by the Southern Poverty Law Center, National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Gui…
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Sacred Heart of Jesus Parish, Grand Rapids v. Nessel

1:22-cv-01214 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan

Filed Date: Dec. 22, 2022

Case Ongoing

This is a case about whether Michigan’s Elliot-Larsen Civil Rights Act, which, in 2022, the Michigan Supreme Court interpreted to prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity, unconstitutionally infringed on religious liberty.  On December 22, 2022, Sacred Heart of Jesus Parish filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan. Sacred Heart, alongside its school, Sacred Heart Academy, and several individual Sacred Heart members …
PRISON CONDITIONS
Roe v. Sims

3:06-cv-03034 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of Illinois

Filed Date: Feb. 14, 2006

Closed Date: March 24, 2009

This is a case about prison officials' deliberate indifference toward the medical needs of incarcerated persons who suffered from hepatitis C. On September 20, 2005, four individuals who were or had been incarcerated at the Illinois Lincoln Correctional Center ("Lincoln") filed this putative class action lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Central District of Illinois. Judge Harold A. Baker was assigned to the case. Represented by private counsel, the plaintiffs sued Lincoln's w…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. H.T. Hackney Co.

5:03-cv-00038 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky

Filed Date: Feb. 21, 2003

Closed Date: Aug. 22, 2005

In February 2003, the Louisville Area Office of the EEOC brought this lawsuit against H.T. Hackney Company in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky alleging discrimination on the basis of sex in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. We do not have a copy of the complaint; therefore, the exact allegations involved are unknown. After the date for jury trial had been set, the parties settled the lawsuit in June 2003 through a consent decree. The two-year de…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Georgia Advocacy Office v. Camp

5:96-cv-00483 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia

Filed Date: Dec. 16, 1996

Closed Date: June 9, 1999

This is a case about a Protection and Advocacy agency’s (P&A) facilities access authority. On December 16, 1996, Georgia Advocacy Office (GAO), Georgia’s P&A, filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia. GAO filed this lawsuit against the Director of the Jasper County Department of Family and Children Services under the Protection and Advocacy for Individuals with Mental Illness (PAIMI) Act, with respect to a Jasper County youth facility. Represented by itse…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Iowa Protection and Advocacy Services v. Tanager Place

1:04-cv-00069 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa

Filed Date: June 3, 4

Closed Date: March 9, 2006

This case is about a Protection and Advocacy agency’s (P&A) access authority to interview relevant parties during an investigation. Iowa Protection and Advocacy Services (Iowa P&A) filed this lawsuit on June 3, 2004, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa. Iowa P&A filed this lawsuit against Tanager, Inc., a private facility offering youth inpatient psychiatric services, under the Protection and Advocacy for Individuals with Mental Illness (PAIMI) Act. Represented by a pri…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Calvin R. v. Peters

1:82-cv-01955 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: April 1, 1982

This case alleged that Illinois prison officials failed to address violence among their facility's prison population. It culminated in a settlement in 1990. Unfortunately, the publicly available information on this case is limited. Numerous incarcerated persons at Illinois' Stateville Correctional Facility filed this class action suit on April 1, 1982, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. Defendants included various officials from the Illinois Department of Correcti…
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…