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PRISON CONDITIONS
Calvin R. v. Peters

1:82-cv-01955 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: April 1, 1982

This case alleged that Illinois prison officials failed to address violence among their facility's prison population. It culminated in a settlement in 1990. Unfortunately, the publicly available information on this case is limited. Numerous incarcerated persons at Illinois' Stateville Correctional Facility filed this class action suit on April 1, 1982, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. Defendants included various officials from the Illinois Department of Correcti…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Moorhead v. Lane

2:86-cv-02020 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of Illinois

Filed Date: Jan. 21, 1986

This case was a civil rights class action against Illinois prison officials. It alleged discrimination against incarcerated women in housing, training, and pay. It culminated in a consent decree which required the construction of an all-women minimum-security prison and a “good faith” effort to reform education and vocational programs for women. Six incarcerated women filed a class action complaint on January 21, 1986, in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of Illinois. Under 42 U.…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Disability Rights Pennsylvania v. School District of Philadelphia

2:17-cv-04858 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Oct. 31, 2017

Closed Date: Oct. 24, 2019

This case is about a Protection and Advocacy agency’s request to obtain contact information for the guardians of public school students who were on a waitlist for special education services. Disability Rights Pennsylvania (DRP) requested this information from the School District of Philadelphia citing both the Developmental Disabilities Assistance and Bill of Rights Act (42 U.S.C. §§ 15041 et seq.) and Protection and Advocacy for Individuals with Mental Illness Act (42 U.S.C. § 10801 et seq.). …
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Braid v. Stilley

1:21-cv-05283 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Oct. 5, 2021

Closed Date: Dec. 7, 2022

The Center for Reproductive Rights and private counsel filed this suit on October 5, 2021 on behalf of a physician who violated S.B. 8, the Texas law banning abortion care at approximately six weeks of pregnancy, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. The suit was an interpleader action brought under the Declaratory Judgment Act and sought a declaration that S.B. 8 was unconstitutional. The case was assigned to Judge Jorge Alonso.  The interpleader action was brought …
DISABILITY RIGHTS
CODING IN PROCESS
Advocacy Center v. Stalder

3:98-cv-00646 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana

Filed Date: July 20, 1998

Closed Date: Oct. 15, 1999

This is a case about records access authority for a Protection and Advocacy agency (P&A). On July 20, 1998, Louisiana Advocacy Center, Louisiana’s P&A, filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana. Louisiana Advocacy Center sued the Secretary of the Louisiana Department of Public Safety Corrections and the Warden of the David Wade Correctional Center in their official capacities under the Protection and Advocacy for Individuals with Mental Illness Act (PAIM…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Disability Rights NC v. Moses Cone Health Systems

1:11-cv-00812 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina

Filed Date: Sept. 30, 2011

Closed Date: Sept. 11, 2013

This is a case about whether a Protection and Advocacy (P&A) agency can use its access authority to receive peer review and internal investigation records regarding a deceased psychiatric facility resident. On September 30, 2011 Disability Rights North Carolina (Disability Rights NC) filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina. DR North Carolina filed this lawsuit against Moses Cone Health Systems (Moses Cone), a medical center with an inpatient psych…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
CODING IN PROCESS
E.T. v. Governor Greg Abbott

1:21-cv-00717 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

Filed Date: Aug. 17, 2021

Closed Date: Aug. 22, 2022

On August 17, 2021, Disability Rights Texas filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas challenging Governor Abbott's issuing of Executive Order GA-38 ("GA-38"), which prohibited school districts from instituting mask mandates in response to COVID-19. In addition to Governor Abbott, defendants included the Commissioner of the Texas Education Agency ("TEA") and the TEA. Disability Rights filed the suit on behalf of students with disabilities with compromised immu…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Connecticut Office of Protection and Advocacy v. Hartford Board of Education

3:04-cv-01338 | U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

Filed Date: Aug. 11, 2004

Closed Date: Oct. 18, 2006

This is a case about whether a Protection and Advocacy agency (P&A) can access the grounds, students, and student records of a non-residential therapeutic school. On August 11, 2004, Connecticut Office of Protection and Advocacy (OPA), Connecticut’s P&A, filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut. OPA filed this lawsuit against the Hartford Board of Education (Hartford), which operated the non-residential therapeutic school, under the Developmental Disabilitie…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Donzel Shepherd v. Opportunities for Ohioans with Disabilities, et al.

2:16-cv-00776 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio

Filed Date: Aug. 9, 2016

Closed Date: Oct. 16, 2017

This case involves a Vocational Rehabilitation Services recipient’s appeal of an adverse Vocational Rehabilitation Act fair hearing decision. The plaintiff, an individual with a spinal cord injury, filed this lawsuit on August 9, 2016 in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio. The plaintiff sued Opportunities for Ohioans with Disabilities as well as the executive and administrative officer of the VR agency, under the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. Represented by counsel…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Equip for Equality v. Christian Women Services

1:03-cv-00796 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Feb. 3, 2003

Closed Date: April 30, 2003

This case is about whether a Protection and Advocacy agency (P&A) can enter a homeless shelter for persons with mental illness under its facilities access authority. Equip for Equality, Illinois’s P&A, filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois on February 3, 2003. Previously, in August 2002, Equip for Equality staff tried entering the shelter but were denied access. The complaint named Christian Women Services, a homeless shelter operator, and alleged v…