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PRISON CONDITIONS
Doe v. Delaware County

5:22-cv-01405 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: April 8, 2022

Closed Date: March 5, 2024

This is a case about the exclusion of an inmate from programs due to his HIV positive status.  On April 8, 2022, a named plaintiff, represented by LAMBDA Legal and the AIDS Law Project of Pennsylvania, filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. The plaintiff filed suit against Delaware County, the GEO Group, a private for-profit correctional management company that operates George W. Hill Correctional Facility (GWHC), and multiple staff members at GWHC inclu…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Dunsmore v. State of California

3:20-cv-00406 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California

Filed Date: March 2, 2020

Case Ongoing

This class action lawsuit alleged that the San Diego County Jail denied proper health accommodations to detainees. On March 2, 2020, a jail detainee filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California. The plaintiff sued the State of California, San Diego County, the San Diego Sheriff's Department, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, the San Diego County Sheriff, and the Attorney General of California. Proceeding pro se and in forma pau…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
DOJ Investigation of Tennessee's Aggravated Prostitution Statute

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On December 1, 2023, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Civil Rights Division announced its finding that Tennessee residents living with HIV face harsher criminal penalties solely because of their HIV status, violating Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). A major focus of the investigation was enforcement of the state's aggravated prostitution statute, which was commonly applied to people living with HIV regardless of any actual risk of harm. The DOJ found that much of the d…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Duvall v. Glendening (Duvall v. Hogan)

1:94-cv-02541 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: Sept. 14, 1994

Case Ongoing

This case was brought in 1976 in the federal district court for the District of Maryland under Section 1983 by inmates at the Baltimore City Jail against both state and city officials of the Baltimore, Maryland prison system. The plaintiffs complained of overcrowding and conditions of confinement at the Baltimore City Jail, which resulted in a consent agreement setting capacity limitations, eliminating double celling and providing other services. In April 1981, the case was consolidated with Co…
HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Braidwood Management Inc. v. Becerra

4:20-cv-00283 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas

Filed Date: March 29, 2020

Case Ongoing

On June 11, 2019 — more than nine years after the Affordable Care Act was signed into law—the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommended that health insurance cover preexposure prophylaxis (PrEP) drugs without any cost-sharing arrangements such as co-payments or deductibles. On March 29, 2020, in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas, Plaintiffs filed a complaint, challenging the PrEP mandate as well as a prior contraception mandate. Plaintiffs, individuals an…
PRISON CONDITIONS
V.C. v. District of Columbia

1:23-cv-01139 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: April 24, 2023

Case Ongoing

This is a case about whether the District of Columbia Department of Corrections (DOC) failed to provide constitutionally adequate health care to inmates in its detention facilities. On April 24, 2023, three individuals currently held in the Central Detention Facility and the Correctional Treatment Facility (“the Jail”) brought a putative class action lawsuit against the District of Columbia in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. The case was assigned to Judge Colleen Kollar-Ko…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Simmons v. Baker

1:22-cv-11715 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: Oct. 11, 2022

Case Ongoing

This is a case about how the state of Massachusetts allowed thousands of people with disabilities to languish and often deteriorate in nursing facilities, even though they could be living independently. On October 11, 2022, six individuals with disabilities residing in nursing facilities in Massachusetts filed this putative class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court of Massachusetts. The plaintiffs sued Governor Charlie Baker and state officials employed at the Executive Office of Health a…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
United States v. State of Tennessee

2:24-cv-02101 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Tennessee

Filed Date: Feb. 15, 2024

Case Ongoing

On February 15, 2024, the United States filed a lawsuit against the State of Tennessee and the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation in the United States District Court for the Western District of Tennessee to enforce Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), 42 U.S.C. §§ 12131-12134, and its implementing regulation, 28 C.F.R. Part 35. The federal government alleged that Tennessee unlawfully discriminates against people with HIV in their maintenance and enforcement of their aggravated …
HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Aid for Women v. Foulston

6:03-cv-01353 | U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas

Filed Date: Oct. 3, 2003

Closed Date: Oct. 16, 2008

Individual licensed professionals, including healthcare providers and social workers, joined Aid for Women, a gynecological medical practice in Kansas City, to bring this putative class action lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas, against district attorneys in Kansas and (in an amended complaint) the state attorney general. They filed the case on October 3, 2003, after the attorney general of Kansas issued a 2003 advisory opinion, interpreting the state’s child abuse report…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Barnett v. Tony

0:20-cv-61113 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida

Filed Date: June 5, 2020

Case Ongoing

This is a class-action lawsuit about the sufficiency of COVID-19 safety protocols at Broward County Jails, administered by the Broward Sheriff's Office (BSO). On June 5, 2020, thirteen named plaintiffs and a local NGO, Disability Rights Florida, represented by the ACLU, filed the case seeking a writ of habeas corpus and injunctive and declaratory relief. Plaintiffs alleged that the BSO knowingly failed to adopt and implement adequate policies and procedures to mitigate the spread of COVID-19. T…