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DISABILITY RIGHTS
Georgia Advocacy Office v. Camp

5:96-cv-00483 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia

Filed Date: Dec. 16, 1996

Closed Date: June 9, 1999

This is a case about a Protection and Advocacy agency’s (P&A) facilities access authority. On December 16, 1996, Georgia Advocacy Office (GAO), Georgia’s P&A, filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia. GAO filed this lawsuit against the Director of the Jasper County Department of Family and Children Services under the Protection and Advocacy for Individuals with Mental Illness (PAIMI) Act, with respect to a Jasper County youth facility. Represented by itse…
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…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
E.T. v. Governor Greg Abbott

1:21-cv-00717 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

Filed Date: Aug. 17, 2021

Closed Date: Aug. 22, 2022

On August 17, 2021, Disability Rights Texas filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas challenging Governor Abbott's issuing of Executive Order GA-38 ("GA-38"), which prohibited school districts from instituting mask mandates in response to COVID-19. In addition to Governor Abbott, defendants included the Commissioner of the Texas Education Agency ("TEA") and the TEA. Disability Rights filed the suit on behalf of students with disabilities with compromised immu…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Wolf v. General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

No. 73 MM 2022 | Pennsylvania state supreme court

Filed Date: July 28, 2022

Closed Date: Oct. 4, 2022

This is a case about reproductive rights in Pennsylvania. This lawsuit was filed on July 28, 2022, in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. The governor of Pennsylvania and the state’s acting secretary of the commonwealth, as both officials and private citizens, sued the state’s legislative body, the General Assembly. The plaintiffs, who were represented by the state’s Office of General Counsel and a private law firm, requested that the Court use its King’s Bench power, which would let the case be…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Nova Health Systems v. Cline

cv-2015-1838 | Oklahoma state trial court

Filed Date: Oct. 2, 2015

Case Ongoing

On October 2, 2015, NOVA Health Systems (NOVA, a reproductive services health care clinic that provides abortions), represented by the Center for Reproductive Rights, filed a lawsuit in the District Court of Oklahoma County (Oklahoma state trial court). The lawsuit challenged recently enacted state laws H.B. 1721 and H.B. 1409, which banned the most common method of second-trimester abortion, “dilation and evacuation,” and increased the state’s mandatory waiting period from 24 to 72 hours, resp…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Whole Woman's Health v. Smith

1:16-cv-01300 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

Filed Date: Dec. 12, 2016

Closed Date: Aug. 23, 2022

Whole Woman's Health and several other reproductive healthcare providers filed this lawsuit against the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas on December 12, 2016. Plaintiffs were represented by the Center for Reproductive Rights as well as private counsel. The suit challenged proposed regulations published by the Texas Department of State Health Services. These proposed regulations would require embryonic and fetal tissue …
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
South Wind Women's Center v. Hunter

CV-2019-2506 | Oklahoma state trial court

Filed Date: Nov. 8, 2019

Closed Date: Feb. 23, 2021

On November 8, 2019, South Wind Women's Center and Trust Women Oklahoma City (two reproductive healthcare facilities), the medical director of the Trust Women clinics, and a nurse practitioner of Trust Women filed this lawsuit. Represented by the Center for Reproductive Rights, the plaintiffs challenged two Oklahoma statutes, 63 O.S. § 1-729.1 (“Physician-In Person Law”) and 63 O.S. § 1-731(A) (”Physician-Only Law”). The Physician-In Person Law prohibited the administration of medication aborti…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Ashley W. et. al. v. Holcomb, et al.

3:19-cv-00129 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana

Filed Date: June 25, 2019

Closed Date: June 23, 2022

This case, filed on June 25, 2019, addresses the large-scale failures of the State of Indiana’s child welfare system to protect and meet the needs of children in its custody. The named plaintiffs are children in foster care who brought a class action seeking declaratory and injunctive relief against the state. Plaintiffs sought certification of a class consisting of all children who are now, or will be, in the custody of DCS. Plaintiffs allege that DCS failed to “provide safe and appropriate fo…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Bryan v. Abramson, Jr.

1:10-cv-00079 | District Court of the Virgin Islands

Filed Date: Aug. 17, 2010

Closed Date: Aug. 31, 2010

Plaintiff Adelbert Bryan, a resident of St. Croix of the U.S. Virgin Islands, filed suit against John Abramson, Jr. as Supervisor of Elections, the Joint Board of Elections and Government of the Virgin Islands ("Defendants") seeking a preliminary injunction and temporary restraining order against Defendants to enjoin them from requiring voters who elect not to use electronic voting machines to use provisional ballots instead of paper ballots in the upcoming primary and general elections of 2010…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Family Planning Association of Maine v. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

1:19-cv-00100 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maine

Filed Date: March 6, 2019

Closed Date: Oct. 15, 2021

This is a case about the Trump Administration's Compliance with Statutory Program Integrity Requirements, 84 Fed. Reg. 7,714 (the “Rule”), published by the United States Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) on March 4, 2019, and its deleterious effect on Maine reproductive health care organizations. Maine Family Planning was the largest reproductive health care organization in the state and its sole Title X family planning program grantee. Since the middle of the twenty-first century…