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DISABILITY RIGHTS
Disability Rights NC v. Wake Cnty Board of Education

5:08-cv-00465 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina

Filed Date: Sept. 16, 2008

Closed Date: Nov. 7, 2008

This is a case about a protection and advocacy agency’s (P&A) access authority. On September 16, 2008, Disability Rights North Carolina, North Carolina’s P&A, filed this lawsuit against the Wake County School District (Wake County) in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina. Represented by itself, Disability Rights North Carolina alleged that Wake County violated the Developmental Disabilities Assistance and Bill of Rights of Act (DD Act) and Protection and Advocacy o…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Trust Women Foundation Inc. v. Schmidt

2018-CV-844 | Kansas state trial court

Filed Date: Nov. 8, 2018

On November 8, 2018, the Trust Women Foundation ("Trust Women") challenged a law that would have prohibited the provision of abortion care via telemedicine in Kansas. Trust Women is a reproductive health care clinic in Kansas that has relied on telemedicine to expand its practice and meet patient requests for remote care. The Center for Reproductive Rights and a private attorney represented Trust Women in the lawsuit, which they brought in Kansas' third Judicial District (Shawnee County), in Di…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Mann v. Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections

2:18-cv-01565 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio

Filed Date: Dec. 4, 2018

Closed Date: Feb. 2, 2021

On December 4, 2018, three men with hepatitis C virus (HCV) in the custody of the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections (ODRC), proceeding pro se, filed a motion for class certification in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio.  They sought to certify a class of ODRC prisoners who had undergone unsuccessful Interferon/Ribovirin treatment for Hepatitis C (HCV), at different stages of the disease, and were denied direct acting antiviral drugs.  Plaintiffs …
PRISON CONDITIONS
Johnson v. Peterson

3:18-cv-00331 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio

Filed Date: Feb. 12, 2018

Closed Date: Jan. 23, 2023

Plaintiff, a state prisoner, brought suit on February 12, 2018, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio against the Allen Oakwood Correctional Institution (AOCI) and several of its employees claiming deliberate indifference in violation of the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments. Plaintiff sued AOCI, two of its lead doctors, and a registered nurse for allegedly refusing to provide necessary treatment for his worsening Hepatitis C (HCV). The case was assigned to Judge Jeffrey J…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Innovation Law Lab v. Nielsen

3:19-cv-00807 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Feb. 14, 2019

Case Ongoing

On February 14, 2019, a group of asylum seekers from Central America and several legal organizations filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. The plaintiffs sued the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP). The plaintiffs, represented by the ACLU, the Southern Poverty Law Center, and the Center for Gender & Refugee Studies, sought declaratory and injunctiv…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Merz v. Opportunities for Ohioans with Disabilities, et al.

1:14-cv-00103 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio

Filed Date: Jan. 31, 2014

Closed Date: May 22, 2015

This is a vocational rehabilitation services recipient’s appeal of an adverse Rehabilitation Act fair hearing decision. The plaintiff, a high school student with an intellectual disability, filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio on February 3, 2014, against Opportunities for Ohioans with Disabilities and several of its officers. Represented by counsel from Disability Rights Ohio, the plaintiff sought a reversal of the fair hearing decision that denied him partic…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Ray v. Madison Co., et al

1:20-cv-02973 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana

Filed Date: Nov. 13, 2020

Closed Date: June 23, 2021

On November 21, 2018, the plaintiff, a deaf woman, was arrested by the Anderson Police Department and transported to the Madison County Jail. The plaintiff was handcuffed behind her back while she was detained, preventing her from communicating using American Sign Language (ASL). Her requests for an interpreter were ignored and she was not provided with access to a qualified interpreter or other functional auxiliary aids (at one point, she was given a teletypewriter (TTY) but the facility lacke…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Z.M. v. Baker

3:18-cv-01370 | U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina

Filed Date: May 18, 2018

Closed Date: May 26, 2021

This is a case about whether South Carolina is required to provide proper therapy to children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) on Medicaid. On May 18, 2018, a child diagnosed with ASD and prescribed applied behavioral analytics treatment filed this putative class-action lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina. The plaintiff sued the Director of the South Carolina Department of Health and Human Services under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Represented by private coun…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Eisen v. Cuomo

7:20-cv-05121 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: July 3, 2020

Closed Date: Aug. 12, 2020

An independent candidate for the United States House of Representatives in New York’s 17th congressional district filed a lawsuit on July 3, 2020 in order to declare unconstitutional, enjoin, or modify New York's in-person signature requirements for candidates seeking to qualify for the November 2020 elections due to the difficulties in obtaining these signatures caused by COVID-19. The Governor of New York had issued an Executive Order to suspend the collection of signatures for petitions of c…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Davis v. Jury Commission of Montgomery County

2:66-cv-02479 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama

Filed Date: Nov. 5, 1966

In this case, a Black man charged with a crime in Montgomery County, Alabama, challenged the County's policy of systematically excluding Black people from jury service. On November 5, 1966, the plaintiff filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama, where it was assigned to then-District Judge Frank M. Johnson. Bringing suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and the Declaratory Judgement Act (28 U.S.C. § 2201), the plaintiff claimed that the exclusion of Black …