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DISABILITY RIGHTS
J.S. v. New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision

1:20-cv-00297 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York

Filed Date: March 11, 2020

Closed Date: Aug. 3, 2023

In August 2016, Plaintiff student, who was incarcerated and 20 years old, prevailed in an Individuals with Disabilities Education Act due process administrative hearing against Defendant New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (“DOCCS”). On March 11, 2020, the plaintiff, represented by Disability Rights New York, New York's Protection and Advocacy Agency, filed a lawsuit against DOCCS under the IDEA to recover $71,542.00 in fees and $988.72 in costs as the IDEA prevai…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Meyer & NFB v. Indiana Family and Social Services Admin & Indiana DiBlind and Visual Impairments of Family Resources

1:19-cv-03311 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana

Filed Date: Aug. 6, 2019

Closed Date: Aug. 31, 2021

On Aug. 6, 2019, Plaintiffs Christopher Meyer, Sarah Meyer, and the National Federation of the Blind, Inc. filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District Of Indiana.  The suit alleged systemic violations of the civil rights of blind Indiana residents that denied them equally effective access to all print and website communications created or distributed by Defendants and their contractors concerning government benefits.  Plaintiffs alleged that these communications violated Tit…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
United States v. Rhode Island Department of Corrections

1:14-cv-00078 | U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island

Filed Date: Feb. 10, 2014

Closed Date: Sept. 14, 2022

On February 10, 2014, the United States filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Rhode Island under 42 U.S.C. § 2000e-6 ("Title VII"). The United States (the Employment Litigation Section of the Department of Justice Civil Rights Division) brought suit against the Rhode Island Department of Corrections seeking an injunction to prevent the defendant from engaging in future discrimination and back-pay damages to “make whole” those who had been harmed by the alleg…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Dehart v. Stevens-Henager College

1:05-cv-00118 | U.S. District Court for the District of Utah

Filed Date: Sept. 22, 2005

Closed Date: March 28, 2008

This is a case about gender-based employment discrimination. This case was brought on September 22, 2005, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah by a former employee of Stevens-Henager College who alleged that she was paid a lower salary because of her gender, in violation of the Equal Pay Act ("EPA") and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (prohibiting employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin). In her complaint, the plaintiff also all…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Galvez v. Jaddou

2:19-cv-00321 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: March 5, 2019

Closed Date: Sept. 5, 2024

On March 5, 2019, plaintiffs—immigrant youth under the age of 21 who applied for Special Immigrant Juvenile status (“SIJ”)—filed a class action lawsuit in the Western District of Washington on behalf of themselves and those similarly situated to challenge the Trump Administration’s policy of refusing to adjudicate their SIJ petitions in accordance with the Immigration and Nationality Act (“INA”). The complaint was filed on behalf of the following proposed class:  “All individuals who have been …

Injunction Granted

Affirmed

PRISON CONDITIONS
McBride v. Michigan Department of Corrections

2:15-cv-11222 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: March 31, 2015

Closed Date: Dec. 12, 2023

On March 31, 2015, three incarcerated people filed this putative class action lawsuit against the Michigan Department of Corrections (MDOC), alleging that MDOC was discriminating against them and other deaf and hard of hearing prisoners. The case was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, and was assigned to Judge Sean Cox. The plaintiffs were represented by Michigan Protection and Advocacy, the Washington Lawyers’ Committee and private counsel. The plaintiffs al…
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
J.J. v. Litscher

3:17-cv-00047 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin

Filed Date: Jan. 23, 2017

Case Ongoing

On January 23, 2017, four minor children confined to the state juvenile facilities Copper Lake School for Girls and Lincoln Hills School for Boys filed this class action in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin. The plaintiffs sued various state officials responsible for the facility under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The plaintiffs alleged that the defendants had violated their Eighth and Fourteenth Amendment rights by wrongfully and unlawfully imposing solitary confinement, mecha…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Holman v. Vilsack

1:21-cv-01085 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Tennessee

Filed Date: June 2, 2021

Case Ongoing

This case is one of several challenging the American Rescue Plan’s (ARP) and U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) classification of “socially disadvantaged groups.” In March 2021, during the early months of the Biden Administration, Congress passed the American Reuse Plan Act (ARPA). ARPA was a large package of government programs aimed at combatting COVID-19 and stimulating the economy. Sections 1005 and 1006 of the ARPA directed the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Farm Servic…

Affirmed

PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
AIDS Vaccine Advocacy Coalition v. United States Department of State

1:25-cv-00400 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Feb. 10, 2025

Case Ongoing

This case challenged the Trump Administration's authority to suspend nearly all congressionally-appropriated foreign assistance funding and dismantle the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). On February 10, 2025, the AIDS Vaccine Advocacy Coalition and the Journalism Development Network filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia against President Donald J. Trump, the U.S. State Department of State, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), and USAI…

Administrative Stay Granted

Appeal Pending

PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
United States v. Adams

1:24-cr-00556 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Sept. 24, 2024

Closed Date: April 2, 2025

The U.S. Attorney's Office in the Southern District of New indicted New York City Mayor Eric Adams for alleged corruption in September 2024, but after President Trump took office, his Department of Justice directed that charges be dropped.  Acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove said the prosecution “unduly restricted” the mayor’s ability to “devote full attention and resources to the illegal immigration and violent crime that has escalated under the policies of the prior Administration.”  Se…

Case Dismissed (Involuntary)