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Indiana Protection and Advocacy Services Commission v. Indiana Secretary of State

4:16-cv-00029 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana

Filed Date: Feb. 25, 2016

Closed Date: April 14, 2016

This 2016 class action lawsuit challenged the constitutionality of Indiana Code § 3-5-5-17, which provided that persons who are committed to a psychiatric institution did not gain residency for voting purposes in the precinct where the institution is located, and raised claims that the statute burdens and discriminates against persons with disabilities in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act. The case was filed on February 25, 2016 in the So…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
T.W. v. Jacobo

4:13-cv-00457 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida

Filed Date: Aug. 15, 2013

This is a state-wide class action brought on behalf of over 300 individuals with psychiatric disabilities segregated in Florida state psychiatric treatment facilities. Plaintiff prisoners and the Protection and Advocacy agency, Disability Rights Florida, alleged that by failing to provide adequate community placements, Defendants created a situation in which individuals with psychiatric disabilities are segregated in large state facilities in violation of Title II of the Americans with Disabili…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
S.D. v. Pasadena Unified School District

2:16-cv-00984 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: Feb. 11, 2016

Case Ongoing

A class action complaint filed on February 11, 2016 in federal court, Central District of California and assigned to District Judge Beverly Reid O'Connell and Magistrate Judge Gail J. Standish, alleged that the placement of a class of children violated the Americans with Disabilities Act and state disability rights laws, by unnecessarily segregating them from students without disabilities, and denying them educational opportunities available to other students at the district’s campuses. The com…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
National Federation of the Blind v. Lamone

1:14-cv-01631 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: May 19, 2014

Closed Date: Sept. 12, 2016

The State of Maryland developed an online ballot marking tool, which was used in the 2012 election, and modified to be more accessible for people with disabilities with the input of the National Federation of the Blind (NFB). By 2014, however, in response to concerns about the security of this method, the legislature passed a requirement that such tools must be certified by the Board of Elections, which the Board failed to do. This left Maryland voters with disabilities without an accessible me…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Iowa Protection and Advocacy Services v. Tanager Place

1:04-cv-00069 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa

Filed Date: June 3, 4

Closed Date: March 9, 2006

This case is about a Protection and Advocacy agency’s (P&A) access authority to interview relevant parties during an investigation. Iowa Protection and Advocacy Services (Iowa P&A) filed this lawsuit on June 3, 2004, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa. Iowa P&A filed this lawsuit against Tanager, Inc., a private facility offering youth inpatient psychiatric services, under the Protection and Advocacy for Individuals with Mental Illness (PAIMI) Act. Represented by a pri…
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 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…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. H.T. Hackney Co.

5:03-cv-00038 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky

Filed Date: Feb. 21, 2003

Closed Date: Aug. 22, 2005

In February 2003, the Louisville Area Office of the EEOC brought this lawsuit against H.T. Hackney Company in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky alleging discrimination on the basis of sex in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. We do not have a copy of the complaint; therefore, the exact allegations involved are unknown. After the date for jury trial had been set, the parties settled the lawsuit in June 2003 through a consent decree. The two-year de…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Indiana Disability Rights v. NeuroPsychiatric Hospitals

1:18-cv-02106 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana

Filed Date: July 11, 2018

Closed Date: Jan. 23, 2019

This case is about a Protection and Advocacy agency’s (P&A) ability to monitor psychiatric facilities. On July 11, 2018, Indiana Disability Rights- Indiana’s P&A- filed this lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana. Indiana Disability Rights filed this lawsuit against Neuropsychiatric Hospitals under the Protection and Advocacy for Individuals with Mental Illness Act (PAIMI Act). Represented by itself, Indiana Disability Rights sought declaratory and injunctive relief…
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Disability Rights Mississippi v. Hinds County

3:11-cv-00327 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi

Filed Date: June 1, 2011

Case Ongoing

This is a case about whether a Protection and Advocacy (P&A) agency can communicate with all individuals in a juvenile detention facility where some individuals with disabilities reside, as well as the substantive conditions in a juvenile detention facility. On June 1, 2011, Disability Rights Mississippi, Mississippi’s P&A, and a putative class of juvenile detention facility residents filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi. They filed this lawsuit…