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Advocacy Inc. v. Tarrant County Hospital District

4:01-cv-00062 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas

Filed Date: Jan. 16, 2001

Closed Date: Oct. 23, 2001

This is a case about a Protection and Advocacy (P&A) agency’s records access authority. On January 16, 2001, Advocacy, Inc., Texas’s P&A, filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas.  Advocacy, Inc. filed this lawsuit against Tarrant County Hospital (Tarrant), a hospital system with an inpatient psychiatric unit, under the Protection and Advocacy for Individuals with Mental Illness (PAIMI) Act. Represented by itself, Advocacy Inc. sought a permanent injuncti…
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
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 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.). …
DISABILITY RIGHTS
CODING IN PROCESS
Disabiltiy Rights North Carolina v. Frye

5:13-cv-00102 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina

Filed Date: July 22, 2013

Closed Date: Dec. 14, 2014

This is a case about whether a Protection and Advocacy (P&A) agency can use its records access authority to receive peer review and internal investigation records regarding a deceased psychiatric facility resident. On July 22, 2013, Disability Rights North Carolina (Disability Rights NC) filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina. Disability Rights NC filed this lawsuit against Frye Regional Medical Center (Frye), a medical center with an inpatient …
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Disability Law Center v. Discovery Academy

2:07-cv-00511 | U.S. District Court for the District of Utah

Filed Date: July 12, 2007

Closed Date: Jan. 6, 2010

This is a case about the scope of a Protection and Advocacy agency’s (P&A) facilities access and investigations authority. On July 12, 2007, Disability Law Center (DLC), Utah’s P&A, filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah. DLC filed this lawsuit against Discovery Academy, a therapeutic boarding school under the Protection and Advocacy for Individuals with Mental Illness Act (PAIMI Act). Represented by itself and private counsel, Disability Law Center sought declar…
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.…
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…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
CODING IN PROCESS
Disability Rights Iowa v. Rabiner Treatment Center

3:16-cv-03010 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa

Filed Date: Feb. 10, 2016

Closed Date: May 26, 2016

This is a case about a Protection and Advocacy agency’s (P&A) records and residents access authority. On February 10, 2016, Disability Rights Iowa (DRI), Iowa’s P&A, filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa. DRI filed this lawsuit against Rabiner Treatment Center (Rabiner), a youth psychiatric residential treatment center, under the Protection and Advocacy for Individuals with Mental Illness (PAIMI) Act. Represented by itself, DRI sought declarative and in…
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…