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PRISON CONDITIONS
Armstrong v. Newsom

4:94-cv-02307 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: June 29, 1994

On June 29, 1994, eleven California state prisoners and parolees with disabilities filed this lawsuit against the California Department of Corrections—now the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (“CDCR”)—in the U.S. District Court of the Northern District of California. Represented by the Prison Law Office, the Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund, and private counsel, the plaintiffs alleged that the CDCR had discriminated against them and all others similarly situat…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Williams v. Illinois Department of Corrections

1:97-cv-03475 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: May 7, 1997

Closed Date: 2000

On May 7, 1997, an inmate of the Joliet Correctional Center sued the Illinois Department of Corrections in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois for alleged violations of 42 USC 1983, the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Rehabilitation Act. Specifically, the plaintiff, who had been declared legally blind since incarceration, alleged that the defendants had denied him access to the Center's library, as it contained no books on tape, Braille materials, or …
DISABILITY RIGHTS
American Council of the Blind v. O'Neill

1:02-cv-00864 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: May 3, 2002

In 2002, the American Council of the Blind and two individuals with visual impairments filed this suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. The plaintiffs sued the Secretary of the Treasury and the Treasurer of the United States under § 504 of the Rehabilitation Act. Represented by private counsel, the plaintiffs challenged the Treasury Department's failure to make paper banknotes that are independently usable by persons who are blind or visually impaired and sought declarat…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Chandler v. City of Dallas

3:85-cv-02580 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas

Filed Date: Dec. 20, 1985

Closed Date: March 28, 1994

On December 20,1985 two plaintiffs filed this action on behalf of a putative class in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas against the City of Dallas and individual municipal officials. The plaintiffs alleged that the City’s Driver Safety Program, which excluded insulin-dependent diabetics and people with certain vision impairments from holding jobs as primary drivers, violated the Rehabilitation Act and the Due Process and Equal Protection clauses of the Fourteenth Amendm…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Montez v. Owens

1:92-cv-00870 | U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado

Filed Date: May 5, 1992

Closed Date: May 15, 2018

This federal lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado, in 1992, by six incarcerated individuals with disabilities who alleged that Colorado's prisons did not comply with the federal Americans with Disabilities Act, the Rehabilitation Act, and 42 U.S.C. § 1983. In 1996, the case became certified as a class-action lawsuit on behalf of all incarcerated individuals with disabilities.In 2003, the state Department of Corrections agreed in a multimillion-dollar settle…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Californians for Disability Rights, Inc. v. California Department of Transportation

4:06-cv-05125 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Aug. 23, 2006

On August 23, 2006, the disability rights group Californians for Disability Rights, Inc. and two individuals with disabilities acting on behalf of themselves and all others similarly situated sued the California Department of Transportation ("Caltrans") and its director in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, seeking to remedy an alleged "systematic pattern and practice of discrimination being committed by Caltrans against people with mobility and vision disabilities…

Class Action Complaint for Violation of Civil Rights: Americans with Disabilities Act; Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act; Cal. Civ. Code § 54, Et seq.; Cal. Civ. Code § 51, Et Seq.; Cal. Civ. Code § 4450, Et Seq.; Cal. Gov’t. Code 11135, Etseq.

Californians for Disability Rights, Inc. v. California Dept. of Transportation

Aug. 23, 2006

Amended Class Action Complaint

Californians for Disability Rights, Inc. v. Calfornia Department of Transportation

Sept. 19, 2006

Order

Californians for Disability Rights, Inc. v. California Deptartment of Transportation

March 13, 2008

Order Denying Summary Judgment

Californians for Disability Rights v. California Department of Transportation

Aug. 4, 2009

Press Release

Californians for Disability Rights, Inc. v. California Department of Transportation

Dec. 22, 2009

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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…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Peralez v. Washington State Department of Corrections

3:06-cv-05625 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: Oct. 26, 2006

Closed Date: 2010

On October 26, 2006, Plaintiff, a disabled former prisoner in the Washington State Department of Corrections, filed a complaint in the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington under the Americans With Disabilities Act , the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, and 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the Washington State Department of Corrections (DOC). The Plaintiff, represented by private counsel, asked the Court for damages and for class certification for all similarly situated disabl…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Staples Accessible Web Site and Point of Sale Settlement Agreement

NA | No Court

Filed Date: 2009

Closed Date: 2010

During 2008, public interest attorneys representing the American Council of the Blind (ACB), the American Foundation for the Blind (AFB), the California Council of the Blind (CCB), and the Bay State Council of the Blind (BSCB) used structured negotiation to establish a settlement agreement with the publicly traded office supply company Staples. Under the settlement, Staples agreed to install tactile point of sale devices at all of its California stores by December 31, 2009, and in all of the r…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Cobbs v. Pramstaller

1:07-cv-14644 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: Oct. 30, 2007

Closed Date: Sept. 21, 2012

On October 30, 2007, a state prison inmate filed a §1983 lawsuit against the Chief Medical Officer of the Michigan Department of Corrections' Bureau of Health Care Services and three unnamed individual members of the Medical Services Advisory Committee (MSAC). The plaintiff, who originally filed pro se but was later represented by the University of Michigan Law School General Clinic, sought declarative, monetary, and injunctive relief, claiming that the defendants acted with deliberate indiffe…