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CHILD WELFARE
Marisol A. v. Giuliani

1:95-cv-10533 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Dec. 13, 1995

Closed Date: Aug. 6, 2018

This federal class action was brought by children in the custody of the New York City Child Welfare Administration ("CWA"), and children who, while not in the custody of CWA, are or will be at risk of abuse or neglect and whose status is known or should be known to CWA. It was filed on December 13, 1995 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. The plaintiffs, represented by Children's Rights Inc., Lawyers for Children, and private counsel, sought class certification, …
INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY (FACILITY)
United States v. Colorado

1:86-cv-01470 | U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado

Filed Date: July 10, 1986

On July 10, 1986, the U.S. Department of Justice filed a lawsuit against the State of Colorado under the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act (CRIPA), 42 U.S.C. § 1997 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado. The government asked the court for injunctive relief, alleging that the conditions of confinement at Wheat Ridge Regional Center, a mental institution in Denver, Colorado, violated the residents' constitutional rights. Specifically, the State failed to provide re…
INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY (FACILITY)
U.S. v. Connecticut

3:86-cv-00252 | U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

Filed Date: July 25, 1986

Closed Date: 2009

On May 1, 1984, the United States Department of Justice Civil Rights Division informed the Governor of Connecticut that it would investigate the living conditions at Southbury Training School, an institutional care facility for people with intellectual disabilities (ICF/MR) in Southbury, Connecticut, pursuant to the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act (CRIPA), 42 U.S.C. § 1997 et seq. On September 11, 1985, the Department of Justice announced its findings. Three lawsuits, including th…
INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY (FACILITY)
CRIPA Investigation, Landmark Learning Center, Opa-Locka (FL)

No Court

On May 17, 1995, the United States Department of Justice Civil Rights Division sent letters to the governor of Florida, the Secretary of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, and the Secretary of the United States Department of Education informing them of the DOJ's intent to investigate conditions at Landmark Learning Center and G. Pierce Wood Memorial Hospital pursuant to the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act (CRIPA), 42 U.S.C. § 1997 et seq. The DOJ indicate…
INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY (FACILITY)
U.S. v. Illinois

1:92-cv-00694 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Jan. 28, 1992

Closed Date: Feb. 14, 1996

On January 28, 1992, the United States Department of Justice Civil Rights Division filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of residents at the W.A. Howe Developmental Center pursuant to the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act (CRIPA), 42 U.S.C. § 1997 et seq. against the State of Illinois and W.A. Howe Developmental Center in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. The DOJ alleged that the defendants deprived residents of the facility of their constitut…
INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY (FACILITY)
CRIPA Investigation, Pineville (LA)

3:04-cv-00015 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana

Filed Date: Jan. 12, 2004

Closed Date: 2007

On September 19, 1994, the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) instituted an investigation into the conditions of confinement at the Pinecrest Developmental Center in Pineville, Louisiana, pursuant to the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act (CRIPA), 42 U.S.C. § 1997. The investigation was instituted due to concerns that the constitutional rights of the residents at Pinecrest were being violated by abuse, neglect, inadequate medical care, inadequate psychiatric care, and failure…
INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY (FACILITY)
CRIPA Investigation, Hammond (LA)

N/A | No Court

On December 20, 1996, the U.S. Department of Justice notified the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services of its intention to investigate the Hammond Developmental Center, a state-run facility for individuals with developmental disabilities, in Hammond, Louisiana, pursuant to the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act (CRIPA), 42 U.S.C. Sec. 1997 et seq. The Department of Justice suspected that the conditions of confinement at Hammond violated the residents' constitutional rights, …
INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY (FACILITY)
Ricci v. Okin

1:72-cv-00469 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: July 14, 1972

Closed Date: 2013

On February 7, 1972 a class action lawsuit was filed on behalf of mentally disabled clients of Belchertown State School in Massachusetts against various Commonwealth officials responsible for the operation of the school in the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts. The plaintiffs, filing under the Social Security Act, 42 U.S.C. § 1396(a), asserted that conditions at the school violated residents' statutory and constitutional rights, including the right to minimally adeq…
INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY (FACILITY)
Hunt v. Meszaros

2:91-cv-02564 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: Sept. 6, 1991

Closed Date: 1999

On September 6, 1991, Mary Hunt, a resident of the Great Oaks Center for developmentally disabled persons in Silver Springs, Maryland, filed a class-action lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland against the State of Maryland, the administrator of Great Oaks Center, and both the Secretary and Director of the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. The plaintiffs, including all persons then or who may in the future be confined at Great Oaks Center,…
INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY (FACILITY)
U.S. v. Maryland

1:85-00227 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: Jan. 17, 1985

Closed Date: 1992

On November 7, 1980, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) initiated an investigation into the conditions at the Rosewood Center in Owings Mill, Maryland, pursuant to 42 U.S.C. §1997, the Civil Rights for Institutionalized Persons Act (CRIPA). On February 19, 1982, after the investigation, the DOJ issued a findings letter detailing the conditions that they believed to be unconstitutional. They found inadequacies in the areas of programming, staffing, abuse and neglect, environmental conditions…