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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…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
King v. State of Georgia

1:21-cv-03082 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: June 22, 2021

Case Ongoing

A group of private plaintiffs, represented by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and private counsel, filed this putative class action in Georgia state court on June 22, 2021. They alleged that delays in the State of Georgia’s unemployment benefits system during the COVID-19 pandemic violated Georgia state law, the Georgia state constitution, and the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The plaintiffs sought declaratory and injunctive relief as well as compensatory damages. Georgi…
PUBLIC ACCOMMODATIONS/CONTRACTING
State of Texas v. Becerra

2:21-cv-00229 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas

Filed Date: Nov. 15, 2021

Closed Date: Jan. 24, 2022

On November 15, 2021, the State of Texas and the Texas Health and Human Services Commission (collectively, “Texas”) filed this suit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas to challenge an interim final rule published by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS Vaccine Mandate”). The CMS Vaccine Mandate required vaccination against COVID-19 for all “faculty staff” including employees, trainees, students, volunteers, and contractors “who provide any care, treatment…
EDUCATION
Cole v. Montana University System

9:21-cv-00088 | U.S. District Court for the District of Montana

Filed Date: Aug. 4, 2021

Case Ongoing

This is an ongoing Title IX case about the unequal treatment of women employed within the Montana University System (MUS) and specifically at the University of Montana-Missoula (UM). Since Title IX passed in 1972, MUS and UM, despite adopting facially non-discriminatory policies, allegedly fostered a “good ol’ boys club” culture favoring male athletes and employees while excluding women from the same opportunities. In 2013, the U.S. Department of Justice found that UM violated Title IX and fail…
EDUCATION
Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard

1:14-cv-14176 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: Nov. 17, 2014

Case Ongoing

On November 17, 2014, Students for Fair Admissions Inc. filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts under the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. § 2000d against Harvard College. The plaintiff, represented by private counsel, asked the court for declaratory and injunctive relief to prohibit the consideration of race in college admissions, claiming that Harvard's admissions policy discriminated against Asian American applicants. Specifically, the plainti…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Turney v. Atencio

1:18-cv-00001 | U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho

Filed Date: Jan. 3, 2018

Case Ongoing

Plaintiffs, who have Hepatitis C, were incarcerated by the Idaho Department of Corrections (IDOC). On January 3, 2018, they filed a putative class action lawsuit in forma pauperis in the United States District Court for the District of Idaho alleging that IDOC refused to provide treatment required by medical standards of care. Plaintiffs sued IDOC in its official capacity as well as administrators and medical personnel at IDOC. Plaintiffs also sued Corizon, Inc., a for profit company that contr…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Pritchard v. County of Erie

1:04-cv-00534 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York

Filed Date: July 21, 2004

Closed Date: Feb. 22, 2018

On October 31, 2003, three plaintiffs represented by private attorneys with law firms in New York and Washington, D.C., filed this class action civil rights lawsuit pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York. They alleged that the Erie County Sheriff's Department had an unconstitutional blanket policy and/or practice of strip searching all individuals who entered either the Erie County Holding Center (ECHC) or the Erie County Correctional Facili…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
State of Texas v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

2:21-cv-00194 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas

Filed Date: Sept. 20, 2021

Case Ongoing

This is a case about whether Bostock v. Clayton County prevents Texas from maintaining gender-discriminatory employment policies (e.g., on bathrooms and pronouns) and from requiring mandatory reporting of some youth sex-change procedures.  On September 20, 2021, Texas, as the plaintiff, brought a lawsuit against the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) in the U.S. District Court, Northern District of Texas [Amarillo] challenging June 15, 2021 guidance from the EEOC which interpreted e…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Hindel v. Husted

2:15-cv-03061 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio

Filed Date: Dec. 7, 2015

Closed Date: June 11, 2018

On December 12, 2015 Disability Rights Ohio and the law firm of Brown, Goldstein, & Levy, LLP, brought this case against the office of Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted on behalf of three blind Ohio voters and the National Federation of the Blind. It was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio, where it was assigned to District Judge George C. Smith. The case raised claims under the Americans with Disabilities Act. The suit alleged that the plaintiffs faced discrimin…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Hamama v. Adducci

2:17-cv-11910 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: June 15, 2017

Case Ongoing

Petitioners in this class action/habeas petition are Iraqi nationals—many, perhaps most, Chaldean Christian—who have resided in the United States for many years. They have been subject to final orders of removal for years, but the U.S. government permitted them to reside in the community under orders of supervision. In early 2017, political negotiation by the Trump administration with Iraq (related to Iraq's desire to be taken off the Trump Executive Order travel-ban list) led to Iraq’s agreeme…