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PRISON CONDITIONS
Coleman v. Brown

2:90-cv-00520 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California

Filed Date: April 23, 1990

Case Ongoing

COVID-19 Summary: This is a class action for California prisoners with mental illness. After a three-judge court denied a motion for a prisoner release order as premature, plaintiffs sought relief before a single district judge. Relief has been achieved to an extent. The defendants have continued to comply with the broader injunction while staying mindful of the public health demands of the pandemic. In particular, the parties have been able to reach agreements concerning quarantine and isolati…
INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY (FACILITY)
Judge Rotenburg Center v. Food and Drug Administration

20-01087 | U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit

Filed Date: March 27, 2020

Case Ongoing

This case concerns the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) ability to ban the use of electrical stimulation devices to treat self-injurious or aggressive behavior. The petitioners are the Judge Rotenburg Center (“the Center”), a facility in Massachusetts that provides treatment and education to people with serious mental disabilities, like autism, and a group of parents of patients at the Center. The Center is the only place in the country where electrical stimulation is used to prevent self-h…
INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY (FACILITY)
Judge Rotenberg Educational Center, Inc. v. Commissioner of the Department of Mental Retardation

86E-0018-G1 | Massachusetts state trial court

Filed Date: 1986

The Judge Rotenberg Educational Center (JRC), formerly known as the Behavioral Research Institute, is a Massachusetts-based residential care facility for children and young adults with severe autism, mental impairments, and mental illnesses associated with behavioral problems. JRC is known for its use of aversive treatments, especially electric shock therapies, to disincentivize undesirable behaviors. As a result of its use of aversive treatments, JRC has been controversial and the subject of s…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Braggs v. Dunn

2:14-cv-00601 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama

Filed Date: June 17, 2014

Case Ongoing

This case concerns alleged systemic failures to provide mental and physical healthcare in Alabama prisons. On June 17, 2014, prisoners and the Alabama Disabilities Advocacy Program (“ADAP”) filed this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama. The plaintiffs sued the Alabama Department of Corrections (“ADOC”) under the Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”), § 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, and 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Represented by the Southern Poverty Law C…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Oldaker v. Giles

7:20-cv-00224 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia

Filed Date: Nov. 9, 2020

Case Ongoing

This federal class action lawsuit sought injunctive, declaratory, and monetary relief for over 60 immigrant women who were detained in ICE custody at the Irwin County Detention Center in Ocilla, Georgia. The plaintiffs claimed that they were subjected to medical abuse while in ICE custody including nonconsensual hysterectomies, overly aggressive gynecological care, and medically unnecessary procedures. In addition to the medical abuse itself, the plaintiffs sought relief against federal officia…
HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Relf v. Weinberger

73-cv-01557 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: July 17, 1973

Closed Date: Sept. 13, 1977

On July 17, 1973, a group of private plaintiffs who were victims of sterilization abuse, represented by the Southern Poverty Law Center, brought a class action lawsuit against the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare (now the Department of Health and Human Services), and the Director of the Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO). The complaint, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, took issue with sterilization abuse against women that was fun…
HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Bella Health and Wellness v. Weiser

1:23-cv-00939 | U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado

Filed Date: April 14, 2023

Case Ongoing

On April 14, 2023, plaintiffs — a Catholic medical center and its founders and healthcare practitioners — filed a complaint against the Attorney General of Colorado, the Colorado Medical Board, the State Board of Nursing, and various District Attorneys in the state in the U.S. District Court for Colorado. The complaint took issue with a Colorado law, SB 23-190, that aimed to stop deceptive trade practices and unprofessional conduct with respect to the provision of abortion services and medicati…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
DOJ Investigation of the Glenwood Resource Center

4:22-cv-00398 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa

Filed Date: Dec. 1, 2022

Case Ongoing

This was an out of court matter initiated by the United States Department of Justice Civil Rights Division (DOJ). The investigation examined conditions at the Glenwood Resource Center (Glenwood), an institution for individuals with intellectual disabilities operated by the State of Iowa in Glenwood, Iowa. The DOJ initiated the investigation in November 2019 under the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act (CRIPA), as well as Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). In a pos…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Gray v. County of Riverside

5:13-cv-00444 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: May 8, 2013

Case Ongoing

COVID-19 Summary: This class action about medical care in the Riverside County jails settled in 2015. On April 4, 2020, plaintiffs brought a motion to enforce the consent decree, seeking implementation of expert-endorsed coronavirus-related protocols including social distancing. On April 16, the Court agreed, requiring planning and potentially prisoner transfers. A formal COVID-19 plan was approved in July 2020 and revised in October 2020 and June 2022, then terminated in June 2023. On July 10,…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
C.P.X. v. Garcia

4:17-cv-00417 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa

Filed Date: Nov. 27, 2017

Case Ongoing

On November 27, 2017, three individuals seeking to represent a class of all persons confined to the Boys State Training School in Eldora, Iowa (the “School”), then or in the future, and who had a significant mental illness or emotional impairment, filed this suit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa.  The School housed young boys incarcerated after adjudication as “juvenile delinquents” in state civil proceedings. The plaintiffs sued the Director of the Iowa Department o…