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JAIL CONDITIONS
Lucero-Gonzalez v. Kline

2:20-cv-00901 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: May 8, 2020

Case Ongoing

COVID-19 Summary: This is a class-action brought by five prisoners with high-risk medical issues held at the federal Central Arizona Florence Correctional Complex against the U.S. Marshals Service and the Bureau of Prisons. The plaintiffs alleged that the defendant’s failure to implement basic social distancing and hygiene measures violated their Eighth and Fifth Amendment rights. The court denied the plaintiffs’ motion for injunctive relief, finding that the plaintiffs had failed to show delib…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Bennett v. Dart

1:18-cv-04268 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: June 20, 2018

Case Ongoing

This is a case alleging a lack of fixtures in Cook County Jail (CCJ) needed for safe use of the facilities by individuals with mobility disorders, in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the Rehabilitation Act.  On June 20, 2018, a disabled individual incarcerated at CCJ in Chicago filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. The plaintiff sued Cook County and its Sheriff under the ADA and the Rehabilitation Act. Represented by private couns…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
United States v. Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction

1:22-cv-02307 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio

Filed Date: Dec. 22, 2022

Case Ongoing

On December 22, 2022, the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio to resolve allegations that the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction (ODRC) violated Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Title I of the ADA requires that employers provide reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities, including adjusting employee schedules, when it would not pose an undue hardship…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Libertarian Party of Illinois v. Pritzker

1:20-cv-02112 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: April 2, 2020

Closed Date: July 8, 2021

This case was about Illinois election law (candidate nomination and signature gathering procedures) during the COVID-19 pandemic and 2020 election. The Libertarian Party of Illinois, the Green Party of Illinois, and several independent candidates filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois on April 2, 2020. Defendants were various members of the Illinois State Board of Elections. Plaintiffs challenged signature-gathering requirements for ballot qualification duri…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Michigan Protection and Advocacy Service v. Evans

2:09-cv-12224 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: June 9, 2009

Closed Date: Dec. 27, 2010

This is a case about a Protection and Advocacy agency’s records access authority concerning deceased individuals in correctional facility settings. On June 9, 2009, Michigan Protection and Advocacy Services (Michigan P&A) filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan against Warren C. Evans in his official capacity as Sheriff of Wayne County. Michigan P&A filed this lawsuit under the Developmental Disabilities Assistance and Bill of Rights Act (DD Act), the …
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
EMW Women's Surgical Center, P.S.C. v. Meier

3:18-cv-00224 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky

Filed Date: April 10, 2018

Closed Date: Aug. 17, 2022

This is a case about abortion rights in Kentucky. On April 10, 2018, abortion providers filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky. They sued Kentucky’s Attorney General, the interim secretary of the Cabinet for Health and Family Services, the Executive Director of the Kentucky Board of Medical Licensure, and the Attorney for the 30th Judicial Circuit of Kentucky under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Represented by the ACLU of Kentucky and the ACLU, the abortion provid…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Disability Rights Pennsylvania v. School District of Philadelphia

2:17-cv-04858 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Oct. 31, 2017

Closed Date: Oct. 24, 2019

This case is about a Protection and Advocacy agency’s request to obtain contact information for the guardians of public school students who were on a waitlist for special education services. Disability Rights Pennsylvania (DRP) requested this information from the School District of Philadelphia citing both the Developmental Disabilities Assistance and Bill of Rights Act (42 U.S.C. §§ 15041 et seq.) and Protection and Advocacy for Individuals with Mental Illness Act (42 U.S.C. § 10801 et seq.). …
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
United States v. Lorain County

1:11-cv-02122 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio

Filed Date: Oct. 6, 2011

Closed Date: March 28, 2014

This is a case about the protection of voting rights of Spanish-speakers in Ohio who have limited English proficiency. The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) filed this action in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio on October 6, 2011, against the Lorain County Board of Elections (BOE). The government alleged violations of Section 4(e) of the Voting Rights Act because the BOE failed to provide ballot and voting information in Spanish and did not hire bilingual poll w…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Charlson v. Galvin

SJ-2020-0588 | Massachusetts state supreme court

Filed Date: Aug. 21, 2020

Closed Date: Sept. 1, 2020

This case involved voting accommodations for the 2020 Massachusetts primary election that was set to take place on September 1, 2020. On August 21, 2020, the Disability Law Center (DLC) (Massachusetts’s Protection and Advocacy agency) filed an emergency petition for relief on behalf of the Bay State Council of the Blind, the Boston Center for Independent Living, and six individual voters with disabilities against the Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (“Secretary”) in his official c…