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PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Martinez v. Astrue

4:08-cv-04735 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Oct. 15, 2008

On October 15, 2008, the Mental Health Project (MHP) teamed up with groups across the country to file this national class action lawsuit against the Social Security Administration (SSA) for revoking the retirement and disability benefits of over 100,000 poor, elderly and disabled Americans under an arbitrary and unlawful benefit suspension policy. The effort is led by the National Senior Citizens Law Center and the pro bono counsel of Munger, Tolles & Olson, and includes Disability Rights Calif…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Clark v. Astrue

1:06-cv-15521 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Dec. 28, 2006

Closed Date: 2012

On December 28, 2006, five individuals represented by private counsel, the Urban Justice Center, and the National Senior Citizens Law Center, filed a class-action complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York alleging that the Social Security Administration's policy of unlawfully suspending or denying benefits to persons who were found to have outstanding warrants for an alleged violation of a probation or parole condition violated the Social Security Act, 42 U.S.C.…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Gill v. Office of Personnel Management

1:09-cv-10309 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: March 3, 2009

Closed Date: 2013

On March 3, 2009, several citizens of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts who were or had been married to same-sex partners under Massachusetts law filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, under the Declaratory Judgment Act, 28 U.S.C. §§ 2201-2202, and the Administrative Procedure Act, 5 U.S.C. §§ 701-706, against several agencies of the federal government. The plaintiffs, represented by public interest and private counsel, asked the court for declaratory and …
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Pedersen v. Office of Personnel Management

3:10-cv-01750 | U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

Filed Date: Nov. 9, 2010

On November 9, 2010, several citizens of Connecticut, Vermont and New Hampshire who were or had been married to partners of the same sex under the law of their states filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut against the Office of Personnel Management, the Social Security Administration, the U.S. Postal Service, the Department of the Treasury, the Department of Labor, the Department of Justice, and the United States. The plaintiffs, represented by Gay and Lesbia…

First Amended Complaint for Declaratory and Injunctive Relief

Pedersen v. Office of Personnel Management

Jan. 14, 2011

Memorandum of Law in Support of [Plaintiffs'] Motion for Summary Judgment

Pedersen v. Office of Personnel Management

July 15, 2011

Memorandum of Law of Intervenor-Defendant the Bipartisan Legal Advisory Group of the U.S. House of Representatives in Support of Its Motion to Dismiss

Pedersen v. Office of Personnel Management

Aug. 15, 2011

Order Denying Intervenor-Defendant's Motion to Stay

Pedersen v. Office of Personnel Management

July 4, 2012

Memorandum of Decision Granting Plaintiffs' Motion for Summary Judgment and Denying Intervenor-Defendant's Motion to Dismiss

Pedersen v. Office of Personnel Management v. Office of Personnel Management

July 31, 2012

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PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Wilson v. Ake

8:04-cv-01680 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida

Filed Date: July 20, 2004

Closed Date: 2005

On July 20, 2004, a lesbian couple living in Florida filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida against the U.S. Attorney General and Clerk for the Circuit and Country Courts of Hillsborough County, Florida, challenging the Federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) and Florida's implementation of the statute. Plaintiffs brought their lawsuit after a clerk in the Circuit Court's Office in Hillsborough Country refused to recognize their Massachusetts marriage lice…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Harris v. Millennium Hotel

S15230 | Alaska state trial court

Filed Date: Sept. 24, 2012

On September 24, 2012, a plaintiff whose same-sex partner was killed in a work-related accident filed Notice of Constitutional Challenge and Request for Final Decision and Order with the Alaska Workers' Compensation Board. The plaintiff argued that Alaska law guaranteeing benefits to "widows" and "widowers" was unconstitutional as state law prevented plaintiff from marrying her same-sex partner. On March 21, 2013, the Alaska Workers' Compensation Board decided that it did not have jurisdiction …
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Tevyaw v. Colvin

1:14-cv-00425 | U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island

Filed Date: Sept. 29, 2014

Closed Date: 2014

On September 29, 2014, the surviving widow of a same-sex marriage filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island against the Social Security Administration (SSA). The plaintiff, represented by the Gay & Lesbian Advocates and Defenders, asked the court to declare that several SSA regulations were invalid and contrary to the governing Social Security statutes, affirm that the plaintiff met the marriage requirements, declare that a person previously married to someone …
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Romero v. Brown

2:14-cv-00325 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana

Filed Date: Sept. 8, 2014

Closed Date: 2014

On September 8, 2014, a same-sex couple filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against a county clerk and the Indiana Department of Health. The plaintiffs, represented by private counsel and the Lambda Legal Defense & Education Fund, asked the court for declaratory and injunctive relief, claiming that the state's ban on same-sex marriages violated their 14th Amendment rights to due process and equal protection.The plaintiffs wer…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Irving v. Berryhill

3:17-cv-01730 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California

Filed Date: Aug. 28, 2021

Several blind social security recipients and the National Federation of the Blind, Inc. (NFB) brought this lawsuit against the Social Security Administration (SSA) in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California. Plaintiffs alleged that the SSA did not provide blind people with accessible kiosks at its offices. In their complaint, Plaintiffs alleged that the SSA was violating blind individuals' civil rights by failing to provide access to check-in kiosks for blind individuals…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. General Motors, LLC

4:25-cv-00010 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana

Filed Date: Jan. 17, 2025

In this case, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) alleged that General Motors and UAW violated the Age Discrimination in Employment Act by negotiating a collective bargaining agreement that unlawfully reduced sickness and accident benefits paid to General Motors employees aged 66 and older. EEOC is a federal agency that enforces workplace discrimination laws, including the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 (ADEA). ADEA forbids age discrimination against people who are …

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