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DISABILITY RIGHTS
Day v. District of Columbia

1:10-cv-02250 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Dec. 23, 2010

The plaintiffs, institutionalized individuals in the District of Columbia with disabilities, filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on December 23, 2010. The complaint alleged that the District of Columbia had policies and procedures that force the unnecessary institutionalization of people with disabilities who could live in the community with appropriate services. The plaintiffs claimed that these policies, which erected barriers to receiving long-term care…
HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc. v. Kennedy

1:25-cv-11913 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: July 7, 2025

Except under narrow circumstances, federal funds (such as Medicaid reimbursements) may not be used to provide abortions. The "Defund Provision" denies Medicaid funds to certain prohibited entities entirely, including organizations that provide abortions and entities receiving more than $800,000 in Medicaid funds in the 2023 fiscal year. The Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) claims the law was drafted to target member organizations, including those that do not provide abortions. On…

Preliminary Injunction Granted

Appellate Stay of Trial Court Relief Granted

IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
State of New Jersey v. Trump

1:25-cv-10139 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: Jan. 21, 2025

This case is one of several challenging President Trump's effort to narrow birthright citizenship--the Fourteenth Amendment right to U.S. citizenship to individuals born on U.S. soil and "subject to the jurisdiction thereof." You can see all these cases here.  President Trump was sworn in to his second term as President on January 20, 2025, and immediately issued a number of Executive Orders--including Executive Order 14160, which proclaimed that birthright citizenship under the Fourteenth Amen…

Preliminary Injunction Granted

Supreme Court Stay of Trial Court Relief Granted

CHILD WELFARE
Katie A. v. Bonta

2:02-cv-05662 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: July 18, 2002

This lawsuit was filed in the Central District of California on July 18, 2002, by the class of children and young adults who (a) are in the custody of Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services; (b) have a behavioral, emotional, or psychiatric impairment; and (c) need individualized mental health services. The suit is against County and State agencies for neglecting their responsibilities to provide mental health care services to foster children in California. Plaintiffs soug…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Williams v. Quinn

1:05-cv-04673 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Aug. 15, 2005

On August 15, 2005, residents of an intermediate care facility (IMD) with mental illness filed a lawsuit under the Supreme Court's decision in Olmstead, the Americans with Disabilities Act and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act against various Illinois state officials in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. Plaintiffs, represented by private counsel and legal services, asked the court for declaratory and injunctive relief, claiming that they were needlessly…
HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
United States of America v. Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc.

2:21-cv-00022 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas

Filed Date: Feb. 5, 2021

On February 5, 2021 an anonymous plaintiff, “Relator Alex Doe,” brought this civil fraud action on behalf of the United States, Texas, and Louisiana against Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc., and other Planned Parenthood affiliates in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas Amarillo Division. The plaintiff sought to recover damages and civil penalties they alleged were owed to the United States, Texas, and Louisiana as a result of Planned Parenthood having presen…
HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
M.H. v. Jeppesen

1:22-cv-00409 | U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho

Filed Date: Sept. 29, 2022

In 2022, plaintiffs, transgender and nonbinary Idahoans on Medicaid, sued the state, alleging Idaho Medicaid had an unwritten policy of denying or delaying gender-affirming care.  On September 29, 2022, two private transgender Medicaid plaintiffs (collectively, “Plaintiffs”), represented by Idaho Legal Aid Services, sued the Director of the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare (“DDHW”), the Medical Director of the Idaho Division of Medicaid (“MDI”), and the Idaho Department of Health and Welf…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Casa de Maryland v. Trump

8:19-cv-02715 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: Sept. 16, 2019

Closed Date: Jan. 26, 2023

This case is one of several brought nationwide by States, counties, and nonprofit organizations challenging the Trump administration's revised, final public charge rule, which expands the types of programs that the federal government will consider in public charge determinations to now also include previously excluded health, nutrition, and housing programs. District court judges from across the country granted preliminary injunctions enjoining the government from implementing the public charge…

Case Dismissed (Involuntary)

PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Emily Q. v. Bonta

2:98-cv-04181 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: May 27, 1998

Closed Date: Sept. 15, 2011

On May 27, 1998 a group of seven children with intensive mental health needs who were eligible for Medi-Cal benefits filed suit against the California Department of Health Services in the Federal District Court for the Central District of California alleging violations of the Medicaid Act. They contended they were entitled under federal law to mental health benefits that were being denied to them, specifically Therapeutic Behavioral Services (TBS). They sought injunctive relief requiring that t…
CHILD WELFARE
Kevin S. v. Jacobson

1:18-cv-00896 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico

Filed Date: Sept. 22, 2018

Closed Date: March 26, 2020

This is a case about administration of child welfare. Plaintiffs were private citizens of New Mexico and non-profit organizations Disability Rights New Mexico and Native American Disability Law Center, bringing a class action complaint against Secretary for the Children, Youth, and Families Department (CYFD) Monique Jacobson and Secretary for the Human Services Department (HSD) Brent Earnest. The action was brought in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico on December 28, 2018. …