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JAIL CONDITIONS
Disability Rights California Investigation of Orange County Jail

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This investigation concerns the conditions and treatment of incarcerated individuals in the Orange County Jail system. On March 22, 2018, Disability Rights California (DRC), an organization representing and advocating for these individuals, notified the County of its intent to monitor the jail facilities in keeping with DRC's monitoring authority as a protection & advocacy agency. In 2019, following DRC's urging, the County engaged Sabot Consulting, an expert team, to assess the jail system. Th…
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…
EDUCATION
Foote v. Ludlow School Committee

3:22-cv-30041 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: April 12, 2022

This case involved four parents who believed local public school officials overreached when they chose not to disclose their children’s decision to establish a new gender identity at school. On April 12, 2022, two sets of parents filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts. The parents sued the school district and various officials, administrators, and teachers in their official capacity under 42 U.S.C. 1983. Represented by public interest attorneys for the Massachus…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Sheffield v. U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs

1:23-cv-11757 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: Aug. 2, 2023

This case involved Section 234 of the Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act of 2021 (“2021 Appropriations Act”), which gave the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (“VA”) the authority to provide in-vitro fertilization (“IVF”) services to veterans. The 2022 Appropriations Act was, in pertinent part, identical. Section 234 of the 2021 Appropriations Act authorized “fertility counseling and treatment using assisted reproductive technology to a covered ve…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
National Organization for Women-New York City v. United States Department of Defense

1:23-cv-06750 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Aug. 2, 2023

This case involved the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs 2019 Regulations (“VA 2019 Regulations”), which permitted the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs (“VA”) to provide in vitro fertilization (“IVF”) services to a veteran and the spouse of that veteran when clinically appropriate if the veteran has a “service-connected disability that results in the inability of the veteran to procreate without the use of fertility treatment.” 38 C.F.R. § 17.380(a)(1). The VA provided a memo that addressed …
HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Loe v. Texas

D-1-GN-23-003616 | Texas state trial court

Filed Date: July 12, 2023

Closed Date: Nov. 22, 2024

In this case challenging Texas Senate Bill 14 (SB14), a statute categorically banning healthcare professionals from providing gender-affirming care to minors and barring state funding for medical treatment of gender dysphoria, the Texas Supreme Court upheld the statute under the Texas Constitution.  On June 2, 2023, the Governor of Texas signed SB14 into law. It was scheduled to take effect on September 1, 2023.  On July 12, 2023, five Texas families with transgender children, three medical pro…
EDUCATION
Hecox v. Little

1:20-cv-00184 | U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho

Filed Date: April 15, 2020

This case centers around Idaho’s HB 500, which bans women and girls who are transgender and many women and girls who are intersex from participating in sports by requiring them to present proof of “biological sex.” On April 15, 2020, the plaintiffs in this case—a transgender college athlete at Boise State University (BSU) and a cisgender high school athlete who has been described by her classmates as “masculine”—brought this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Idaho …
EDUCATION
State of Louisiana v. U.S. Dept of Education

3:24-cv-00563 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana

Filed Date: April 29, 2024

In this case, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, and Idaho challenged the U.S. Department of Education’s regulation (the “Rule”) which interpreted Title IX’s definition of sex discrimination to include discrimination against gender identity, expanded the definition of harassment, and incorporated a de minimis harm standard for determining sex discrimination. The Rule went into effect on August 1, 2024, but has been enjoined from enforcement in several states due to this case and Tennessee v. Card…
EDUCATION
State of Tennessee v. Cardona

2:24-cv-00072 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky

Filed Date: April 30, 2024

In this case, Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, Virginia and West Virginia challenged the U.S. Department of Education’s regulation (the “Rule”) which interpreted Title IX’s definition of sex discrimination to include discrimination based on gender identity, expanded the definition of harassment, and incorporated a de minimis harm standard for determining sex discrimination. The Rule went into effect on August 1, 2024, but has been enjoined from enforcement in several states due to this case …
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
State of Texas v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

2:24-cv-00173 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas

Filed Date: Aug. 15, 2024

Closed Date: May 15, 2025

This case is a follow-up to a case brought by Texas against the EEOC about its similar 2022 workplace harassment guidance regarding transgender employees; in that case, District Judge Matthew J. Kacsmaryk ruled that the EEOC exceeded its statutory rulemaking by “...conflat[ing] protected class status with all correlated conduct.” Texas v. EEOC, 2022 WL 4835346 at *13 (N.D. Tex. 2022). This case challenges the EEOC’s April 2024 guidance under Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act about workplac…

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