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DISABILITY RIGHTS
Alabama Disabilities Advocacy Program v. Safetynet Youthcare Inc.

2:13-cv-00519 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Alabama

Filed Date: Oct. 25, 2013

Closed Date: Feb. 11, 2015

This is a case about a Protection and Advocacy (P&A) agency’s monitoring access authority. On October 25, 2013, Alabama Disabilities Advocacy Program (ADAP) filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Alabama against SafetyNet YouthCare, Inc. (Safetynet), a youth psychiatric facility operator. ADAP alleged that Safetynet violated the Developmental Disabilities Assistance and Bill of Rights Act (DD Act), the Protection and Advocacy of Individual Rights Act (PAIR Act), and …
DISABILITY RIGHTS
American Council of the Blind of Metropolitan Chicago v. Chicago

1:19-cv-06322 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Sept. 23, 2019

Case Ongoing

This class action lawsuit alleged that the City of Chicago’s failure to equip signalized street intersections with accessible pedestrian signals (ASPs) constituted illegal discrimination against Chicago’s blind residents and visitors. ASPs are used by blind pedestrians to travel safely at intersections. In municipalities which have installed ASPs, blind pedestrians can receive information and warnings about oncoming traffic by listening to the sounds played by the signal (e.g. “Walk sign is on”…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Preterm-Cleveland v. Attorney General of Ohio

1:19-cv-00360 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio

Filed Date: May 15, 2019

Closed Date: July 7, 2022

COVID-19 Summary: This is an ongoing lawsuit regarding Ohio state legislation that would criminalize certain abortions that was amended to include a request for relief in light of COVID-19. The plaintiffs sought a temporary restraining order against the Department of Health's order which had banned all "non-essential surgeries and procedures" starting on March 18, 2020. The judge granted the temporary restraining order for a period of 14 days, which was affirmed by the Sixth Circuit on April 6,…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Generation to Generation, Inc. v. Florida

37 2022 CA 000980 | Florida state trial court

Filed Date: June 10, 2022

Case Ongoing

On June 10, 2022, Generation to Generation, a South Florida synagogue, filed this lawsuit in the Second Circuit of the State of Florida in and for Leon County, Florida. Plaintiff sued the state of Florida on state constitutional claims to challenge HB 5, a state law criminalizing the provision of abortion care after fifteen weeks from an individual's last menstrual period. The complaint alleged that this ban on pre-viability abortions violated the Florida Constitution's rights to privacy, relig…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Whitman-Walker Health v. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

1:20-cv-01630 | U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

Filed Date: June 22, 2020

Case Ongoing

This is a case about the Trump Administration's limits on LGBTQ+ protections under the Affordable Care Act. On June 22, 2020, a group of LGBTQ-focused private healthcare providers, organizations providing community services, health professional associations, and individual providers filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. The plaintiffs sued the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), challenging a revised HHS regulation issued under Section 1557 …
EDUCATION
G.G. [Gavin Grimm] v. Gloucester County School Board

4:15-cv-00054 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

Filed Date: June 11, 2015

Closed Date: Aug. 27, 2021

On June 11, 2015, Gavin Grimm, a sixteen-year-old transgender boy filed this lawsuit against the Gloucester County School Board in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. The plaintiff, represented by the national and Virginia ACLU, proceeded under Title IX and 42 U.S.C. § 1983. He sought a preliminary and permanent injunction allowing him to use the boys' restroom at school, claiming that the school board's policy of requiring transgender students to use a private restroo…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
C.K v. Oakland Community Health Network

2:20-cv-13301 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: Dec. 15, 2020

Closed Date: July 29, 2022

This lawsuit, alleging violations of Section 504 and Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act, was filed by Disability Rights Michigan on December 15, 2020 in the Federal District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, seeking to enforce a Settlement Agreement they signed with Defendants in 2018.   District Judge David M. Lawson was assigned to the case.  Plaintiff is a 15 year-old Medicaid beneficiary who seeks to compel the State’s Medicaid managed care contractor (Oakland Communi…
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
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…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Planned Parenthood Association of Utah v. Miner

2:19-cv-00238 | U.S. District Court for the District of Utah

Filed Date: April 10, 2019

Closed Date: June 27, 2022

On April 10th, 2019, Planned Parenthood of Utah sued the State of Utah in the United States District Court for the District of Utah, alleging that the state's 18-week abortion ban was unconstitutional. In the complaint, Planned Parenthood specifically alleged that Utah House Bill 136 violated the Fourteenth Amendment by banning virtually all abortions at 18 weeks of pregnancy, in contravention of the constitutional right to abortion established by the Supreme Court in Roe v. Wade. Planned Paren…