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Kaplan v. Chertoff

2:06-cv-05304 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Dec. 6, 2006

Closed Date: Feb. 5, 2011

The plaintiffs filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania on behalf of some 50,000 aliens, humanitarian refugees, and asylees who had lost or were at risk of losing their Social Security supplemental security income (SSI) benefits as a result of alleged delays in their applications for legal permanent residency status and naturalization. Typical members of the proposed class fled tyrannical oppression and sought sanctuary in the U.S, including Russian Jews w…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Harris v. Eggleston

1:02-cv-02498 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: April 1, 2002

Closed Date: Dec. 27, 2009

According to a news report, in 2002, Urban Justice Center lawyers discovered that the New York City Human Resources Administration (HRA) was illegally terminating the food stamp benefits of thousands of low-income people with disabilities. The discovery led to the April 1, 2002, filing, in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, of a civil complaint pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 by four named plaintiffs on behalf of themselves and a class of similarly-situated persons, al…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
American Council of the Blind v. Astrue

3:05-cv-04696 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Nov. 16, 2005

On November 16, 2005, a group of visually impaired recipients of Supplemental Security Income (SSI) and/or Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI), along with a national nonprofit comprised of the visually impaired, filed this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, under the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and the Due Process clause of the Fifth Amendment under Bivens. The plaintiffs, represented by private counsel, sought declaratory and injunc…
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.…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
United States v. Rhode Island

1:14-cv-00175 | U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island

Filed Date: Jan. 6, 2014

On January 6, 2014, the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice sent a findings letter to the attorney general for the State of Rhode Island. The letter reported that the Division's investigation of Rhode Island's educational, vocational, and shelter services for persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD) found that Rhode Island violated Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act, by "unjustifiably" isolating persons with intellectual and developmental …
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Hart v. Colvin

4:15-cv-00623 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Feb. 9, 2015

On February 9, 2015, three individuals whose disability benefits had allegedly been denied or terminated based on examinations performed by a now-disqualified doctor filed this class-action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. The plaintiffs sued the Acting Commissioner of Social Security for alleged violations of the Social Security Act and the Fifth Amendment. The plaintiffs alleged that the Commissioner wrongfully relied on examinations performed by a p…
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…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Campos v. Kijakazi

1:21-cv-05143 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: Sept. 15, 2021

Closed Date: Nov. 20, 2023

On September 15, 2020, the plaintiffs filed this putative class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, where it was assigned to Judge Rachel P. Kovner. The plaintiffs, represented by two public interest groups and one private law firm, sued the Acting Commissioner of Social Security on behalf of current and future recipients of Supplemental Security Income who were harmed by a rule change at the Social Security Administration (the administration) during …