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Jennings v. Wolf

3:20-cv-00148 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Jan. 29, 2020

Closed Date: May 1, 2023

This case, filed January 29, 2020, objected to the closure of two Pennsylvania intermediate care facilities for individuals with intellectual disabilities (ICF/IID) (the Polk Center and the White Haven Center) and the rights of the individuals residing in those facilities. It is what some describe as a "reverse-Olmstead" lawsuit. (See Olmstead v. L.C., 527 U.S. 581 (1999) (ADA guarantees the right to receive disability-related services in the community, where appropriate). The complaint was fil…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Postawko v. Missouri Department of Corrections

2:16-cv-04219 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri

Filed Date: July 14, 2016

Closed Date: Oct. 28, 2020

On July 14, 2016, a person incarcerated at the Missouri Department of Corrections (MDOC) filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri, alleging that he had received inadequate medical care from the MDOC for a chronic Hepatitis C (HCV) viral infection. The plaintiff originally filed on his own, but the ACLU of Missouri and MacArthur Justice Center began representing him and on December 15, 2016, the plaintiff filed an amended complaint seeking to proce…
INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY (FACILITY)
Sciarrillo ex rel. St. Amand v. Christie

2:13-cv-03478 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

Filed Date: June 5, 2013

Closed Date: 2014

On June 5, 2013, thirty-five adult individuals with disabilities filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey under the Americans with Disabilities Act ("ADA"), the Rehabilitation Act ("RA"), and the Social Security Act (Medicaid) - as well as a § 1983 constitutional due process claim against the State of New Jersey. The plaintiffs, represented through their legal guardians by private counsel, asked the court for declaratory and injunctive relief to prevent the clos…
INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY (FACILITY)
Weston v. Wyoming State Training School

2:90-cv-00004 | U.S. District Court for the District of Wyoming

Filed Date: Jan. 3, 1990

Closed Date: Dec. 5, 1994

In 1990, prior to the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act, a group of residents of the Wyoming State Training School, an institution that housed individuals with intellectual disabilities, brought this lawsuit. Represented by the Wyoming Protection and Advocacy System, the plaintiffs sought to remedy unconstitutional conditions and statutory violations at the institution and aimed to force Wyoming to create community living options for many of its residents.Though it predated the ADA…
INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY (FACILITY)
U.S. v. Oregon

3:86-cv-00961 | U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon

Filed Date: July 28, 1986

Closed Date: 2000

On May 13, 1983, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) began in investigation pursuant to the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act, 42 U.S.C. §1997 (CRIPA), into conditions at the Fairview Training Center in Salem, Oregon. The results of the investigation were detailed in a letter of the DOJ's findings, issued on March 19, 1986. The DOJ determined that the conditions at Fairview were unconstitutional and included:1. A lack of minimally adequate training for those residents in need of…
INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY (FACILITY)
People First of Wash. v. Rainer RHC

3:96-cv-05906 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: Oct. 21, 1996

Closed Date: 1999

On October 21, 1996, four advocacy groups, the People First of Washington, the Arc of Washington State, the Autism Society of Washington, and the Washington Protection and Advocacy System (WPAS), and several individuals filed a class action civil rights lawsuit pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington, challenging the dangerous conditions at Rainier School, Washington's largest state-operated residential habilitation center for people with i…
INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY (FACILITY)
U.S. v. Pennsylvania

2:93-cv-02094 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: April 21, 1993

Closed Date: Jan. 5, 2005

On September 1986, the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice [DOJ] notified the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania [State], pursuant to the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act (CRIPA), 42 U.S.C. §1997, that it was commencing an investigation into conditions at the Embreeville Center in Coatesville, Pennsylvania. Embreeville was a State operated facility that provided care and treatment for residents with intellectual disabilities.The investigation included tours of the fac…
INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY (FACILITY)
Nelson v. Snider

2:94-cv-00440 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Jan. 24, 1994

Closed Date: 2005

On January 24, 1994, individual plaintiffs, the Pennsylvania Protection Advocacy, Inc. and Arc-Pennsylvania filed this class action civil rights lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, challenging the care, conditions of confinement and habilitation of residents of Embreeville Center, a facility for the developmentally disabled in Pennsylvania. Plaintiffs alleged violation of their rights under Title XIX of the Social Security Act; the Rehabilitati…
INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY (FACILITY)
Nicoletti v. Brown

1:87-cv-01456 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio

Filed Date: June 12, 1987

Closed Date: 1993

On June 12, 1987, several involuntarily committed persons with intellectual disabilities residing at the Cleveland Developmental Center [CDC] filed a class action lawsuit pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio, challenging conditions at the CDC. The complaint named as defendants the Ohio Department of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities (ODMR/DD) and CDC officials. The Ohio Department of Human Services (ODHS) and its director, and ot…