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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 …
POLICING
Buchanan v. Trump

1:20-cv-01542 | U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

Filed Date: June 11, 2020

Case Ongoing

This lawsuit was brought in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on June 11, 2020. The suit was in response to President Trump's June 1, 2020, decision to use chemical weapons against peaceful protesters in Lafayette Square Park, protesting the police killing of George Floyd. In order to clear the path for President Trump to walk to St. John's Church, the military and military police used tear gas, pepper balls, pepper spray, and other weapons to disperse the peaceful protesters…
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…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Commonwealth v. Trump

2:17-cv-04540 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Oct. 11, 2017

Case Ongoing

On October 11, 2017, the Attorney General of Pennsylvania brought this suit in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. The case is a challenge to administrative rules promulgated by the federal government that interpret the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in a way that gives employers broad discretion to deny women access to contraceptives. As such, the suit was brought against the President of the United States, acting Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Secretary of the U.S…
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Pernell v. Florida Board of Governors of the State University System

4:22-cv-00304 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida

Filed Date: Aug. 18, 2022

Case Ongoing

A group of Florida educators and students, including a constitutional law professor and several professors of race and gender studies, filed this complaint against Florida and various Boards of Governors, trustees, and commissioners of Florida public colleges and universities. Plaintiffs filed suit on August 18, 2022 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida, Tallahassee Division, and were represented by the ACLU, ACLU of Florida, NAACP Legal Defense Fund, and a private la…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Bender v. Regier

4:01-cv-04151 | U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota

Filed Date: July 2, 2001

Closed Date: Nov. 18, 2004

On July 2, 2001, plaintiff filed this action pro se in the U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota.  The case was assigned to Judge Lawrence L. Piersol. Plaintiff had been diagnosed with Hepatitis C virus (HCV) while in the custody of the South Dakota Department of Corrections in 1998, and, in the intervening years, was evaluated on numerous occasions by Department medical staff but never provided interferon-based treatment.  In his complaint and in an amended complaint filed on Se…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
National Veterans Legal Services Program v. United States

1:16-cv-00745 | U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

Filed Date: April 21, 2016

Case Ongoing

This is a case challenging the fees required by the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts (AO) to access records through its Public Access to Court Electronic Records system, also known as PACER. On April 1, 2016, three national nonprofit organizations that have downloaded public records from PACER filed this class action against the United States in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, challenging these fees on the grounds that they greatly exceeded the costs associated wit…
EDUCATION
Ohlensehlen v. The University of Iowa

3:20-cv-00080 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa

Filed Date: Sept. 25, 2020

Closed Date: Oct. 7, 2021

On September 25, 2020, four members of the University of Iowa women's swimming and diving team filed a class action suit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa against UI after it announced it was cutting the program. In October, plaintiffs amended the complaint adding two new named plaintiffs. Plaintiffs alleged that UI violated its obligation under Title IX by failing to provide female students with an equal opportunity to participate in athletics as compared to the oppo…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Trowbridge v. Institute for Basic Research in Developmental Disabilities

1:98-cv-03529 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: May 11, 1998

Closed Date: March 30, 2004

On May 11, 1998, seven people who were formerly employed by the Institute for Basic Research in Developmental Disabilities (IBR), represented by private counsel, filed a putative class action lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York. The case was initially assigned to Judge Sterling Johnson Jr. and Magistrate Cheryl L. Pollak. The plaintiffs sued IBR, the Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities, the New York State Department of Mental …
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Betancourt-Colon v. City of San Juan

3:19-cv-01837 | U.S. District Court for the District of Puerto Rico

Filed Date: Sept. 6, 2019

Case Ongoing

This is a case about a lack of accessible curb ramps in the City of San Juan for people with mobility disabilities. On September 6, 2019, four individuals seeking to represent a class of people with mobility disabilities who used or would use the pedestrian right of way in San Juan filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico. The plaintiffs sued the City of San Juan under the Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”) and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation…