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American Hospital Association v. Heckler (later Bowen v. Am. Hosp. Ass'n)

83-cv-02638 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: April 6, 1983

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PRISON CONDITIONS
Barfield v. Cook

3:18-cv-01198 | U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

Filed Date: July 19, 2018

Case Ongoing

Plaintiffs, persons in the custody of the Connecticut Department of Correction suffering from the Hepatitis C Virus (HCV), filed this putative class action lawsuit against the Department on July 19, 2018 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut. U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea was assigned. Plaintiffs, represented by private counsel, sought to represent a class of all people who are or will be prisoners in the custody of the Connecticut Department of Corrections, and who…
PRISON CONDITIONS
B.E. v. Teeter

2:16-cv-00227 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: Feb. 16, 2016

Closed Date: April 10, 2020

On February 16, 2016, Washington Medicaid enrollees filed this putative class action against the Washington State Health Care Authority (WHCA) under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington. The plaintiffs alleged that WHCA’s Hepatitis C (HCV) treatment policy violated Title XIX of the Social Security Act (also known as the “Medicaid Act”) by excluding qualified Medicaid recipients from medically necessary treatment, discriminating among similarly situa…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Abu-Jamal v. Kerestes

3:15-cv-00967 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: May 18, 2015

Case Ongoing

On May 18, 2015, a prisoner at the Mahanoy State Correctional Institute filed this complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania. The complaint arose out of the plaintiff’s hospitalization for Hepatitis C. The plaintiff sued the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections (DOC) and the Bureau of Health Care Services of the DOC. The initial complaint claimed violations of First, Fifth, and Fourteenth Amendment rights. The plaintiff claimed that, while hospitalized, the …
PRISON CONDITIONS
Chimenti v. Pennsylvania Department of Corrections

2:15-cv-03333 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: June 12, 2015

Case Ongoing

On June 12, 2015, three individuals incarcerated and suffering from complications due to Hepatitis C viral infections filed this class action suit in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. The plaintiffs sued the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, claiming violations of the Eighth Amendment, and of Article I § 13 of the Pennsylvania Constitution. Represented by private counsel and the PA Institutional Law Project, the plaintiffs alleged that th…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Graham v. Parker

3:16-cv-01954 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee

Filed Date: July 25, 2016

Case Ongoing

On July 25, 2016, prisoners at the Tennessee Department of Corrections filed this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee. Plaintiffs sued the Commissioner and the Medical Director of the Tennessee Department of Corrections under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Plaintiffs claimed that defendants violated their Eighth Amendment right to be free from cruel and unusual punishment by failing to provide medically acceptable care to prisoners with the Hepatitis C Viru…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Anstett v. State of Oregon

3:01-cv-01619 | U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon

Filed Date: Nov. 1, 2001

Closed Date: 2007

On November 1, 2001, plaintiffs, current and former inmates of the Oregon Department of Corrections (ODOC) filed a class action complaint in the United States District Court for the District of Oregon, challenging the defendants' procedures and policies for testing and treating the Hepatitic C Virus (HCV) in the Oregon inmate population. The plaintiffs brought a number of federal and state law claims, including a claim that the ODOC's HCV treatment policies violated the Eighth Amendment's prohi…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Corris v. Koenigsmann

9:15-cv-01205 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York

Filed Date: Oct. 7, 2015

Closed Date: 2016

On October 7th, 2015, an inmate with Hepatitis C filed a civil rights action against the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (DOCCS). The lawsuit was filed pursuant to 42 U.S.C. §1983 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York. The complaint asserted defendants' deliberate indifference to plaintiff’s serious medical needs violated his 8th and 14th Amendment rights. The plaintiff alleged that the defendants failed to provide appropriate care a…
PRISON CONDITIONS
McKenna v. Wright

1:01-cv-06571 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: July 19, 2001

Closed Date: 2005

In 1999, plaintiff, a New York state prisoner, was diagnosed by prison medical staff as having Hepatitis C virus ("HCV"). Based on prison policies, treatment of the condition was denied him at least twice--first, because prison officials thought he was to be released within a year (he was not, however) and, then, because he was not enrolled in a prison substance abuse program. (A third denial resulted from his liver condition.) In late 2002, he enrolled in a prison substance abuse program an…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Hilton v. Wright

9:05-cv-01038 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York

Filed Date: Aug. 17, 2005

Closed Date: 2013

On August 17, 2005, two New York state prisoners filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York under 42 U.S.C. §1983 (the Civil Rights Act of 1871), 42 U.S.C. § 12132 (the Americans with Disabilities Act, or ADA), and 29 U.S.C. § 794 (the Rehabilitation Act, Section 504) against New York's Department of Correctional Services (DOCS) and its chief medical officer. The plaintiff, represented by private counsel, asked the court for declaratory relief, injunctive r…