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MENTAL HEALTH (FACILITY)
U.S. v. California

2:06-cv-02667 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: May 2, 2006

Closed Date: 2013

On May 2, 2006, the United States Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California against California and state officials responsible for operation of two California mental hospitals: the Metropolitan State Hospital and the Napa State Hospital. The United States sued under the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act ("CRIPA"), 42 U.S.C. § 1997, and the Americans with Disabilities Act, 42 U.S.C § 12101. The U…
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
U.S. v. Oklahoma

4:06-cv-00673 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma

Filed Date: Dec. 15, 2006

Closed Date: Nov. 18, 2011

On December 15, 2006, the United States filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma seeking declaratory and injunctive relief against the state of Oklahoma and its officials and subgroups responsible for operation of the L.E. Rader Center ("Rader") juvenile detention facility. The complaint, as amended on May 4, 2007, alleged that the defendants (1) denied Rader's residents their rights to protection from harm from staff, from other residents, and from imp…
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
U.S. v. Mississippi

3:03-cv-01354 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi

Filed Date: Dec. 18, 2003

Closed Date: Aug. 19, 2014

In 2002, the U.S. Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division ("DOJ") conducted investigations, aided by expert consultants in juvenile justice administration, psychology, medicine, education, and sanitation, at two military-style juvenile facilities ("Oakley" and "Columbia") operated by the state of Mississippi. In June 2003, DOJ notified the state in a findings letter that the investigations revealed that the facilities deprived the resident juveniles of rights under the First, Eighth and F…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
E.H. v. Mississippi Department of Education

3:12-cv-00474 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi

Filed Date: July 10, 2012

Closed Date: 2015

On July 10, 2012, a class action lawsuit was filed in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi, against the Mississippi Department of Education (MDE), under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act of 2004 (IDEA), 20 U.S.C. § 1400 et seq. The proposed plaintiff class, represented by a named plaintiff, consists of disabled students in the Jackson Public School District (JPS). The complaint alleged individual and systemic violations of IDEA by …
CHILD WELFARE
Felix v. Lingle

1:93-cv-00367 | U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaii

Filed Date: May 4, 1993

Closed Date: June 1, 2005

In May 1993, a class of over 13,000 children with disabilities residing in Hawaii sued the state, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaii, for failing to provide educational and mental health services to students. The plaintiffs were represented by the Hawaii Disability Rights Center and private counsel. On May 24, 1994 U.S. District Court Judge Ezra found the State liable for its failure to provide services to plaintiff class under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Ac…
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 …
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Department of Fair Employment & Housing v. Law School Admissions Council (LSAC)

3:12-cv-01830 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: March 15, 2012

Closed Date: May 20, 2020

In March 2012, the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing (DFEH) filed a complaint in the Alameda County Superior Court (San Francisco, CA) alleging that the Law School Admissions Council (LSAC) discriminated against and routinely failed to grant appropriate accommodations for test takers with disabilities on the Law School Admissions Test (LSAT). DFEH claimed that LSAC violated the federal Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), and the California Unruh Civil Rights Act, which inc…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Lovely H. v. Eggleston

1:05-cv-06920 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Aug. 3, 2005

On August 3, 2005, a group of people with disabilities filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York against the New York Human Resources Administration (NYHRA). The complaint was brought under the Americans with Disabilities Act, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, and 42 U.S.C. §1983, alleging violation of these Acts, the Due Process Clauses of the U.S. and New York Constitutions, and New York State and City civil rights statutes and regulations. Repres…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Law School Admissions Council v. California

13-34201300 | California state trial court

Filed Date: Jan. 10, 2013

On January 10, 2013, the Law School Admissions Council (LSAC) filed a lawsuit in the Superior Court of Sacramento County against the State of California. The plaintiff alleged that Section 99161.5 of the California Education Code, which required the plaintiff, and no other testing entity, to accommodate individuals with disabilities and create of a process to appeal adverse accommodations decisions, violated the California Constitution's Equal Protection Clause (Article I § 7 Subdivision a) and…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Jones v. National Conference of Bar Examiners

5:11-cv-00174 | U.S. District Court for the District of Vermont

Filed Date: July 1, 2011

Closed Date: 2012

On July 1, 2011, a law student who was legally blind and learning disabled filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Vermont against the National Conference of Bar Examiners and the ACT, which administrated the Multistate Professional Responsibility Examination (MPRE). The complaint alleged that the defendants violated the ADA by refusing to allow the plaintiff to take an electronic version of MPRE with screen reading and magnification software she had used for all of her p…