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DISABILITY RIGHTS/PUBLIC ACCOMMODATIONS
K.O. by and through his parent and guardian J.O. v. Heather Mueller, Commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Education

0:21-cv-01837 | U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota

Filed Date: Aug. 12, 2021

Case Ongoing

On August 12, 2021, the Minnesota P&A (the Minnesota Disability Law Center), filed this class action lawsuit in Minnesota federal district court against the State of Minnesota and its State Department of Education challenging Minnesota’s special education statute that ends special education eligibility on July 1 of the year a student turns 21.  Jason Kim, of Schneider Wallace Cottrell Konecky LLP,  is pro bono co-counsel with the P&A. The class action plaintiffs contend that the state statute o…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Williams v. California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation

4:21-cv-09586 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Dec. 10, 2021

Case Ongoing

This is a case challenging a raid against approximately 200 black incarcerated people at the Correctional Training Facility, as well as the policies and practices by which incarcerated persons in the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) are “validated” as suspects, associates, or members of Security Threat Groups.    On December 13, 2021, two incarcerated individuals filed this putative class-action lawsuit on behalf of themselves and similarly situated Black incarcera…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Ross v. Blount

2:19-cv-11076 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: April 14, 2019

Case Ongoing

This is a case challenging the constitutionality of Wayne County, Michigan's cash bail system. On April 14, 2019, several pre-trial detainees in Wayne County Jail filed this class-action lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. The plaintiffs sued the 36th District Court in Detroit, the Wayne County Sheriff's Office (WCSO), the Chief Judge, and five Magistrates of the 26th District Court in their official capacities under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The plaintiffs…
DISABILITY RIGHTS/PUBLIC ACCOMMODATIONS
CODING IN PROCESS
Goodall v. New York State Dept. of Corrections and Community Supervision (DOCCS)

9:19-cv-01359 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York

Filed Date: Jan. 23, 2019

Case Ongoing

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PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
CODING IN PROCESS
Walters v. Flint

5:17-cv-10164 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: Jan. 18, 2017

Case Ongoing

(This summary is temporary, while we research the case.) This is part of the greater Flint water litigation. Please see our special collection for more information about these cases. This particular case is a class action lawsuit against several engineering companies hired by the City of Flint. These defendants did not join the global settlement between the plaintiffs and various state entities. (See Waid v. Snyder) Litigation over the engineering companies' liability continues - the court held…
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
Meehan v. State of New Hampshire

New Hampshire state trial court

Filed Date: Jan. 11, 2020

Case Ongoing

This class action civil rights lawsuit alleged abuses at a New Hampshire youth detention center, the Youth Detention Center (YDC), in the 1990s. An alleged victim of that abuse filed this suit on January 11, 2021 against the New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services, YDC, the state Division of Juvenile Services, the state Division of Children, Youth, and Families, and hundreds of individual defendants. The plaintiff was represented by the private law firm Rilee & Associates and the …
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
United States v. Unified Judicial System of Pennsylvania

2:22-cv-00709 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Feb. 24, 2022

Case Ongoing

The Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice brought this suit on February 24, 2022 against Pennsylvania's judicial system in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. DOJ alleged violations of the ADA by discriminating against individuals with opioid use disorder (OUD) in its court supervision programs. According to the DOJ, the Pennsylvania judicial system prohibited or limited the use of OUD medication by individuals in “treatment court” programs…
DISABILITY RIGHTS/PUBLIC ACCOMMODATIONS
DOJ ADA Investigation of Colorado's Long-Term Care System

No Court

Filed Date: March 3, 2022

Case Ongoing

This case concerned a DOJ investigation into Colorado's use of nursing homes to provide long-term care for persons with physical disabilities. Specifically, the investigation looked into the state’s compliance with the ADA as interpreted by the Supreme Court in Olmstead v. L.C., 527 U.S. 581 (1999), which required public entities to administer services to individuals with disabilities in the most integrated setting appropriate to their needs. The DOJ opened its investigation on November 20, 201…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Cheek v. Massachusetts Parole Board

SJ-2021-0430 | Massachusetts state supreme court

Filed Date: Nov. 29, 2021

Case Ongoing

In 2021, ten people on parole sued the Massachusetts Parole Board, alleging that the board violated state law by denying termination of parole in virtually all cases. As a result, people were arbitrarily kept on parole for years or, in some cases, decades. Plaintiffs filed their complaint in the Supreme Judicial Court for Suffolk County and were represented by Prison Legal Services and Swomley & Tennen, LLP. In 1955, Massachusetts passed GL c 127 § 130A, allowing the state to terminate an indiv…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Braid v. Stilley

1:21-cv-05283 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Oct. 5, 2021

Case Ongoing

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 …