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MENTAL HEALTH (FACILITY)
Foe v. Cuomo

1:75-cv-01029 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: June 27, 1975

Closed Date: 1988

On June 27, 1975, involuntarily committed mental patients at the Brooklyn State Hospital (since renamed the Kingsboro Psychiatric Center) in New York filed a class action lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the State of New York in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York. The plaintiffs asked the district court for declaratory and injunctive relief, alleging that their constitutional rights had been violated by overcrowding, inadequate staffing, poor physical facilities…
INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY (FACILITY)
Ricci v. Okin

1:72-cv-00469 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: July 14, 1972

Closed Date: 2013

On February 7, 1972 a class action lawsuit was filed on behalf of mentally disabled clients of Belchertown State School in Massachusetts against various Commonwealth officials responsible for the operation of the school in the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts. The plaintiffs, filing under the Social Security Act, 42 U.S.C. § 1396(a), asserted that conditions at the school violated residents' statutory and constitutional rights, including the right to minimally adeq…
INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY (FACILITY)
Bonnie S. v. Drew Altman

2:87-03709 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

Filed Date: Sept. 10, 1987

Closed Date: 1989

On September 10, 1987, six women with intellectual disabilities residing at the New Jersey Developmental Center, a state-run mental institution in Totowa, New Jersey, filed this lawsuit against the State on behalf of all New Jersey residents involuntarily confined to institutions, in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey. The plaintiffs, represented by private counsel, alleged that their constitutional and statutory rights under the Fourteenth Amendment and Title XIX of the So…
INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY (FACILITY)
Iasimone v. Garrahy

1:77-cv-00727 | U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island

Filed Date: Dec. 9, 1977

Closed Date: 1994

On December 9, 1977, a group of residents at the Dr. Joseph H. Ladd School, a state facility for intellectually disabled and other handicapped individuals, filed this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island. Represented by private counsel, the plaintiffs brought this action against the Rhode Island Department of Mental Health, Retardation and Hospitals (now the Department of Behavioral Healthcare, Developmental Disabilities and Hospitals) and the Ladd Sc…
MENTAL HEALTH (FACILITY)
Dixon v. Weinberger

1:74-cv-00285 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: April 8, 1986

Closed Date: March 30, 2014

In 1974, patients confined at the Federal Mental Institution (FMI) in the District of Columbia filed this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. The plaintiffs filed under the Hospitalization of the Mentally Ill Act (HMIA), 21 D.C. Code §501, against the District of Columbia. The plaintiffs, represented by the Center for Law and Social Policy and the Mental Health Law Project, asked the court for a declaration of the following: 1) that they had a right to…
PRISON CONDITIONS
T.R. v. South Carolina Department of Corrections

2005-CP-40-02925 | South Carolina state trial court

Filed Date: June 10, 2005

On June 10, 2005, inmates suffering from serious mental illness filed this class action lawsuit in the Fifth Circuit Court of South Carolina, a state trial court, against the South Carolina Department of Corrections. The suit alleged that the defendant violated the South Carolina Constitution's ban on "cruel," "corporal" and "unusual punishment" (Art. I § 15) as well as its duty under the South Carolina Constitution to provide basic care for prisoners (Art. XII § 2, a claim that was eventually …
CHILD WELFARE
Kenny A. v. Perdue

1:02-cv-01686 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: June 19, 2002

The advocacy organization Children's Rights, Inc. filed this lawsuit in June 2002 against the state of Georgia and the Departments of Family and Children Services (DFCS) in Fulton and DeKalb Counties, on behalf of children in foster care in Fulton and DeKalb counties. Plaintiffs alleged violations of the Georgia State Constitution, the First, Ninth, and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution, the Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act of 1980, the Medicaid Act, and the Multi…
CHILD WELFARE
Olivia Y. v. Barbour

3:04-cv-00251 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi

Filed Date: March 30, 2004

On March 30, 2004, children in the custody of the Mississippi Department of Human Service's Division of Family and Children's Services, on behalf of abused and neglected children in the State of Mississippi, filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi. The plaintiffs sued the Department of Human Services (DHS) and the Division of Family and Children's Services (DFCS) under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Represented by private and public counsel, the plaintiffs ask…
CHILD WELFARE
Charlie and Nadine H. v. Corzine

2:99-cv-03678 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

Filed Date: Aug. 4, 1999

Closed Date: April 25, 2023

On August 4, 1999, a group of children in the legal and/or physical custody of the New Jersey Division of Youth and Family Services (DYFS) filed this lawsuit against the State of New Jersey and DYFS in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey. Represented in part by Children's Rights, Inc., the plaintiffs alleged that DYFS failed to protect them from abuse, failed to provide them with services such as medical care, and failed to provide DYFS caseworkers with adequate resources and…

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MENTAL HEALTH (FACILITY)
Streicher v. Prescott

1:83-cv-03295 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Oct. 4, 1990

Closed Date: Feb. 15, 1994

In 1983, a number of patients confined to St. Elizabeths Hospital, a public mental health facility, filed a habeas corpus petition in D.C. Superior Court against the United States. The plaintiffs, represented by the Mental Health Law Project and the Public Defender's office, claimed that they had been committed to the hospital upon a showing of mental illness by a preponderance of the evidence--the standard in force at the time of their confinement--but that the Supreme Court had later held tha…