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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…
CHILD WELFARE
J.K. v. Eden

4:91-cv-00261 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: May 8, 1991

Closed Date: March 21, 2014

Representing the class of persons under age twenty-one who were eligible for behavioral health services through Medicaid's Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnosis, and Treatment (EPSDT) mandate, 42 U.S.C. § 1396 et seq., the Bazelon Center, Arizona Center for Disability Law, and National Center for Youth Law brought suit in 1991 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona, against the state of Arizona.Both parties sought summary judgment, but in 1993, District Judge John Roll denied …
FAIR HOUSING/LENDING/INSURANCE
United States v. Bank of America

3:12-cv-00605 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina

Filed Date: Sept. 13, 2012

Closed Date: 2016

On September 13, 2012, the United States filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina against Bank of America, alleging violations of the Fair Housing Act and the Equal Credit Opportunity Act. Specifically, the federal government alleged that Bank of America discriminated against disabled mortgage applicants by requiring all disabled applicants to submit a letter from their doctors indicating the amount of the disability income they received. In some cas…
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
Bemke, Brian v. Pechacek, Amy

3:21-cv-00560 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin

Filed Date: Sept. 7, 2021

This case challenges a Wisconsin law that categorically denied unemployment insurance (UI) benefits to people who also received Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI). On September 7, 2021, a group of eight disabled Wisconsin residents filed this class action in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin, arguing that a state law prohibiting them from receiving SSDI benefits unlawfully discriminated against them. The case was assigned to District Judge William M. Conley.…

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