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Adams v. The School Board of St. Johns County, Florida

3:17-cv-00739 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida

Filed Date: June 28, 2017

Case Ongoing

This case involves the practice of separating school bathrooms based on biological sex. On June 28, 2017, a transgender student, who identified as male, filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida. The student, a minor, sued the School Board and Superintendent of Schools of St. Johns County, Florida, as well as the principal of Allen D. Nease High School, under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Represented by Lambda Legal and private counsel, the student sought a declarator…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Blake v. City of Grants Pass

1:18-cv-01823 | U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon

Filed Date: Oct. 15, 2018

Case Ongoing

On October 15, 2018, individuals without secure housing filed this class-action lawsuit suing the city of Grants Pass, Oregon (the “City”) in the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Represented by the Oregon Law Center, the plaintiffs challenged the City’s enforcement of Grants Pass’s anti-sleeping ordinance, anti-camping ordinance, park exclusion ordinance, and criminal trespass laws stemming from violations of these ordinances as unconstitutional under the E…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Waskul v. Washtenaw Community Mental Health.

2:16-cv-10936 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: March 16, 2016

Case Ongoing

A class action lawsuit was filed on March 15, 2016 by Disability Rights Michigan, Legal Services of South-Central Michigan, and The National Center for Law and Economic Justice in the Federal District Court for the District of Michigan  on behalf of individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities and the Washtenaw County Community Advocacy program, challenging Washtenaw County, Michigan’s Community Mental Health Authority’s (WCCMH) 2015 modification to its Medicaid waiver budgeting…
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…
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…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Common Cause v. Rucho

1:16-cv-01026 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina

Filed Date: Aug. 5, 2016

Closed Date: Oct. 18, 2019

The following case alleged that North Carolina’s 2016 redistricting plan was an unconstitutional partisan gerrymander. Ultimately, the U.S. Supreme Court determined that partisan gerrymandering was a non-justiciable political question.  The case was filed on August 5, 2016, in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina. Plaintiffs included an organization advocating for redistricting reform, the North Carolina Democratic Party, and fifteen registered Democrats. Defendants…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
State of Nebraska v. Biden

4:22-cv-01040 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri

Filed Date: Sept. 29, 2022

Case Ongoing

This case involves one of many challenges to President Biden's executive action to cancel specified amounts of federal student debt. On September 29, 2022, the states of South Carolina, Arkansas, Missouri, Iowa, Nebraska and Kansas filed a suit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri against President Biden, Department of Education Secretary Miguel Cardona (the Secretary), and the U.S. Department of Education (DOE). The states alleged that the debt cancellation plan woul…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky v. Commissioner, Indiana State Department of Health

1:16-cv-00763 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana

Filed Date: April 7, 2016

Closed Date: July 18, 2022

This case challenged new abortion restrictions in Indiana. On April 7, 2016, Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky (PPINK) and two medical professionals filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana. The plaintiffs sued the Commissioner of the Indiana State Department of Health, the prosecutors of Marion, Lake, Monroe, and Tippecanoe Counties, and the individual members of the Medical Licensing Board of Indiana, all in their official capacities. Represe…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
United States v. One Boyertown Properties LP

5:20-cv-06249 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Dec. 11, 2020

Case Ongoing

Background This is a case about accessibility for people with disabilities in senior living communities. On December 11, 2020, the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) filed this lawsuit against fifteen companies who had designed, built, and/or owned fifteen buildings that housed independent living, assisted living, and memory care communities. The suit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. The DOJ sued the defendants under the F…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Ramirez v. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

1:18-cv-00508 | U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

Filed Date: March 5, 2018

Case Ongoing

This is a case about Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) policies for detaining immigrants after they turned 18 who had entered the U.S. as unaccompanied minors. On March 5, 2018, two individual plaintiffs filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, where it was assigned to District Judge Rudolph Contreras. They brought suit on behalf of a class of unaccompanied children who had been placed in the custody of the Department of Health and Human Ser…