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CHILD WELFARE
Dwayne B. v. Snyder

2:06-cv-13548 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: Aug. 8, 2006

Case Ongoing

A class of children in foster care custody in Michigan, represented by Children's Rights, filed this class action suit against the state of Michigan and the Michigan Department of Human Services (DHS) in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan on August 8, 2006. They alleged violations of the U.S. Constitution's First, Ninth, and Fourteenth Amendments; federal law including the Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act of 1980, 42 U.S.C. § 670 et seq.; and state law. The compla…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Bell v. City of Boise

1:09-cv-00540 | U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho

Filed Date: Oct. 22, 2009

Closed Date: March 2, 2021

On October 22, 2009, homeless individuals represented by Idaho Legal Services and the National Center on Homelessness and Poverty filed this complaint in the U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho against the City of Boise. The plaintiffs had been cited under a pair of Boise municipal ordinances that made it illegal to sleep or camp in public parks and other public areas, despite the lack of available beds at the city's shelters. The complaint alleged that criminalizing homelessness in t…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
L.R. (Lucas R.) v. Azar

2:18-cv-05741 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: June 29, 2018

Case Ongoing

This class action suit, filed on June 29, 2018, sought to enjoin the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), of which ORR is a component part, from causing grave harm to migrant and asylum-seeking children in its care. 2018 WL 3209193. The plaintiffs--represented by the Center for Human Rights & Constitutional Law, National Center for Youth Law, the Immigration Law Clinic at the UC Davis Law School, and private counsel--were members of th…
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
The City of New York v. Trump

1:25-cv-01510 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Feb. 21, 2025

Case Ongoing

This case challenged the federal government’s February 11, 2025 taking of approximately $80 million in congressionally approved federal grant funds from New York City’s bank account—without prior notice or explanation. (To see the Clearinghouse's collection of spending freeze/cuts-related and other legal challenges to the second Trump administration, click here). Before this lawsuit, on February 4, 2025, the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) paid the City of New York (“the City”) …
CHILD WELFARE
D.S. v. Washington State Department of Children, Youth, and Families

2:21-cv-00113 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: Jan. 28, 2021

Case Ongoing

This is a case about the treatment of children in the care of the Washington State Department of Children, Youth, and Families (DCYF) with behavioral health and/or developmental disabilities. On January 28th, 2021, three children under the care of DCYF brought a class-action suit along with Disability Rights Washington against DCYF in the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington. The case was assigned to Judge Barbara J. Rothstein. Disability Rights Washington argued …
CHILD WELFARE
Sam M. v. Chafee

1:07-cv-00241 | U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island

Filed Date: June 28, 2007

Case Ongoing

On June 28, 2007, ten named minor children in the legal custody of the Rhode Island Department of Children, Youth and Families ("DCYF") filed this putative class action lawsuit (by their Next Friends) in the United States District Court for the District of Rhode Island against the Governor of Rhode Island, Secretary of the Office of Health & Human Services, and Director of DCYF. The named plaintiffs were represented by the advocacy organization Children's Rights, then-Rhode Island Child Advocat…
POLICING
Boyd v. City of San Rafael

3:23-cv-04085 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Aug. 11, 2023

Closed Date: Aug. 7, 2024

Involuntarily unhoused residents of the City of San Rafael, California, filed this lawsuit pro se on August 11, 2023, in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, requested a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction to stop the City of San Rafael from enforcing ordinances that the plaintiffs alleged criminalized homelessness by making “camping” on public property a criminal offense. The plaintiffs were ten unhoused individuals and Camp Integrity, an…
CHILD WELFARE
Michelle H. v. Haley

2:15-cv-00134 | U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina

Filed Date: Jan. 12, 2015

Case Ongoing

On January 12, 2015, eleven named minor children in the legal custody of the South Carolina Department of Social Services ("SCDSS") filed this putative class action lawsuit (by their Next Friends) against the Governor of South Carolina and SCDSS in the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina. The named plaintiffs were represented by two advocacy organizations, Children's Rights and Appleseed, and by private counsel. Plaintiffs intended to seek certification of a class of…
CHILD WELFARE
Charlie and Nadine H. v. Corzine

2:99-cv-03678 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

Filed Date: Aug. 4, 1999

Case Ongoing

On August 4, 1999, a group of children in the legal and/or physical custody of the New Jersey Division of Youth and Family Services (DYFS) filed this lawsuit against the State of New Jersey and DYFS in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey. Represented in part by Children's Rights, Inc., the plaintiffs alleged that DYFS failed to protect them from abuse, failed to provide them with services such as medical care, and failed to provide DYFS caseworkers with adequate resources and…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
United States v. Rhode Island

1:14-cv-00175 | U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island

Filed Date: Jan. 6, 2014

Case Ongoing

On January 6, 2014, the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice sent a findings letter to the attorney general for the State of Rhode Island. The letter reported that the Division's investigation of Rhode Island's educational, vocational, and shelter services for persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD) found that Rhode Island violated Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act, by "unjustifiably" isolating persons with intellectual and developmental …