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CHILD WELFARE
G.L. v. Sherman

4:77-cv-00242 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri

Filed Date: March 25, 1977

Closed Date: Feb. 1, 2006

In 1977 (and thereafter amended a number of times), the foster children of Jackson Missouri, represented by Children's Rights Inc., and Legal Aid of Western Missouri, filed a class action aimed at reforming the state's child welfare system. The federal complaint charges the Missouri Division of Family Services (DFS) with endangering the lives of children in state custody by failing to properly investigate and monitor foster homes that were found to be unsafe, unsanitary and unsupervised. Plaint…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Davis v. California HHS

4:00-cv-02532 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: July 13, 2000

Closed Date: 2007

On July 13, 2000 plaintiffs, a group of nursing care patients at the Laguna Honda Hospital and Rehabilitation Center in San Francisco, filed suit against San Francisco City and County, the California Health and Human Services Agency, the California Department of Social Services, the California Department of Mental Health, the California Department of Health Services, the California Department of Developmental Services, and the California Department of Aging in the United States District Court f…
NURSING HOME CONDITIONS
Valdivia v. California Department of Health Services

2:90-cv-01226 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California

Filed Date: Oct. 1, 1990

Closed Date: March 16, 1999

On Oct. 1, 1990, two residents of California nursing homes filed this class action in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California under the Medicaid Act against the California Department of Health Services. The plaintiffs asked the court for declaratory and injunctive relief, claiming that the state had failed to comply with the recently enacted federal nursing home reform law, 42 U.S.C. §§ 1395i-3(a)-(h) and 1396r(a)-(h). The plaintiffs also requested a preliminary injunctio…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Jimmo v. Sebelius

5:11-cv-00017 | U.S. District Court for the District of Vermont

Filed Date: Jan. 18, 2011

This case concerns the "Improvement Standard," a rule of thumb that required many beneficiaries to show a likelihood of medical or functional improvement before Medicare would pay for skilled nursing and therapy services. As a result, some people were forced into nursing homes or suffered other adverse medical outcomes. This lawsuit was brought against the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) by five individual plaintiffs who were Medicare beneficiaries and five national organization p…
HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Franciscan Alliance, LLC v. Burwell

7:16-cv-00108 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas

Filed Date: Aug. 23, 2016

On August 23, 2016, religiously-affiliated health organizations and five states (Texas, Wisconsin, Nebraska, Kentucky, and Kansas) filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas. The plaintiffs sued the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and its Secretary under the Administrative Procedure Act and the Religious Freedom Restoration Act claiming violations of these Acts, as well as their First, Fifth, Tenth, and Eleventh Amendment rights. The plaintiff…
NURSING HOME CONDITIONS
U.S. v. BREATHITT COUNTY, KENTUCKY

5:04-cv-00076 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky

Filed Date: Feb. 17, 2004

Closed Date: Oct. 30, 2006

Pursuant to the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act ("CRIPA"), 42 U.S.C. § 1997, the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice ("DOJ") conducted an investigation of conditions at the Nim Henson Geriatric Center ("Henson"), a county-operated skilled nursing facility in Jackson, Kentucky. The investigation resulted in a findings letter being sent to Breathitt County's judge executive on March 6, 2003. The letter stated that in June 2002, DOJ and certain of its expert con…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Mayor and City Council of Baltimore v. Trump

1:18-cv-03636 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: Nov. 28, 2018

This case is one of several brought nationwide by States, counties, and nonprofit organizations challenging the Trump administration's revised 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. This case was filed in the fall of 2018, after the State Department made changes to its Foreign Affairs Manual (FAM) that revised the public char…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Bagnall v. Sebelius

3:11-cv-01703 | U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

Filed Date: Nov. 3, 2011

On November 3, 2011, seven Medicare beneficiaries who were denied Medicare benefits filed this lawsuit on behalf of themselves and a class of similarly situated persons in the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut. The plaintiffs sued the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) (the Secretary) under the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) and the Freedom of Information Act. Represented by the Center for Medicare Advocacy, Justice in Aging, the National Senior Citizens…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Texas v. United States of America

4:18-cv-00167 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas

Filed Date: Feb. 26, 2018

On February 26, 2018, The State of Texas and 19 other states filed this action in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas. The complaint named as defendants: the United States of America, the United States Department of Health and Human Services, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, United States Internal Revenue Service, and the Commissioner of Internal Revenue. Represented by various states' attorneys general, the plaintiffs sought declaratory and injunctive…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Make the Road New York v. Pompeo

1:19-cv-11633 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Dec. 19, 2019

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. In the fall of 2019, district court judges from across the country granted preliminary injunctions enjoining the government from implement…