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DISABILITY RIGHTS
Seaman v. The Commonwealth of Virginia

3:22-cv-00006 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia

Filed Date: Feb. 1, 2022

Closed Date: Dec. 16, 2022

This suit was filed in the Charlottesville Division of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia on February 1, 2022. The plaintiffs, a group of parents representing their children, brought this action against the Commonwealth of Virginia, Governor Glenn Youngkin, the Virginia attorney general, the Virginia superintendent of public instruction, and the acting Virginia health commissioner. They argued that Governor Youngkin's signing of Executive Order 2, which prevented state…
JAIL CONDITIONS
U.S. v. State of Hawaii [Oahu Correctional Center]

1:08-cv-00585 | U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaii

Filed Date: Dec. 29, 2008

Closed Date: June 25, 2015

On June 16, 2005, the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, acting pursuant to the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act (CRIPA), 42 U.S.C. § 1997, commenced an investigation into mental health care conditions and practices at the Oahu Community Correctional Center in Honolulu, Hawaii. Based on its investigation, the DOJ concluded that the conditions and practices at the Jail violated the constitutional rights of convicted incarcerated persons and pre-trial detained p…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. Gamman's Architectural d/b/a Skylights International, Inc.

3:05-cv-00097 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: Sept. 30, 2005

Closed Date: Oct. 25, 2013

The Atlanta District Office of the EEOC brought this Title VII suit against Gammans Architectural (doing business as Skyline International, Inc.) and Gammans Architectural Products in September 2005 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. The complaint, filed on September 30, 2005, alleged that complainants were terminated because of their race. More specifically, the complainants alleged that the defendant terminated the complainants (the two most tenured and experienc…
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…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Priorities USA v. Nessel

4:19-cv-13341 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: Nov. 12, 2019

Case Ongoing

This lawsuit was filed on November 12, 2019 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. The plaintiff, a left-wing advocacy group called Priorities USA, sued Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel in her official capacity. They were represented by private counsel. The group claimed that two Michigan laws, the "Voter Transportation Ban" and the "Absentee Ballot Organizing Ban," violated the U.S. Constitution. The Voter Transportation Ban prohibited the hiring of vehicles to b…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Muehe v. City of Boston

1:21-cv-11080 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: June 2, 2021

Case Ongoing

On June 2, 2021 four individuals with mobility disabilities filed a class action complaint against the City of Boston to redress the City’s systemic failure to provide full and equal access to its pedestrian right of way to plaintiffs and similarly situated individuals with mobility disabilities. The complaint was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts and assigned to Judge Richard G. Stearns. It alleged that the City failed to install and maintain curb ramps when it…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Disability Law Center v. Discovery Academy

2:07-cv-00511 | U.S. District Court for the District of Utah

Filed Date: July 12, 2007

Closed Date: Jan. 6, 2010

This is a case about the scope of a Protection and Advocacy agency’s (P&A) facilities access and investigations authority. On July 12, 2007, Disability Law Center (DLC), Utah’s P&A, filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah. DLC filed this lawsuit against Discovery Academy, a therapeutic boarding school under the Protection and Advocacy for Individuals with Mental Illness Act (PAIMI Act). Represented by itself and private counsel, Disability Law Center sought declar…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Braid v. Stilley

1:21-cv-05283 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Oct. 5, 2021

Closed Date: Dec. 7, 2022

The Center for Reproductive Rights and private counsel filed this suit on October 5, 2021 on behalf of a physician who violated S.B. 8, the Texas law banning abortion care at approximately six weeks of pregnancy, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. The suit was an interpleader action brought under the Declaratory Judgment Act and sought a declaration that S.B. 8 was unconstitutional. The case was assigned to Judge Jorge Alonso.  The interpleader action was brought …
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…
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Falls v. DeSantis

4:22-cv-00166 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida

Filed Date: April 22, 2022

Case Ongoing

This is a case about legislation suppressing Florida's teachers and employers from encouraging discourse regarding critical race theory (“CRT”) and sex. CRT was a concept that encompassed a wide range of ideas and concepts, and it generally focused on the idea that racism is inherent in U.S. legal systems in a way that create and maintain social, economic, and political inequities. On April 22, 2022, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed into law a ban on CRT,  known as the Stop Wrongs Against O…