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PRISON CONDITIONS
Human Rights Defense Center v. Inch

9:21-cv-81391 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida

Filed Date: Aug. 10, 2021

Closed Date: March 31, 2023

The Human Rights Defense Center, a non-profit organization dedicated to protecting human rights in U.S. detention facilities, filed this lawsuit on August 10, 2021. The plaintiff filed suit in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida against the Florida Department of Corrections (Department of Corrections) and the warden of the Everglades Correctional Institution (Everglades). The presiding judge was Judge Donald M. Middlebrooks. The plaintiff alleged that Departmen…
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
G.H. v. Marstiller

4:19-cv-00431 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida

Filed Date: Sept. 4, 2019

Closed Date: Sept. 8, 2022

On September 4, 2019, three minors—through their legal guardians—filed a complaint against the Florida Department of Juvenile Justice (DJJ) in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida. The plaintiffs, represented by lawyers from the Southern Poverty Law Center, Florida Justice Institute, and Florida Legal Services, sought class action certification to represent several thousand juveniles (and several hundred in a subclass of juveniles with disabilities) who were or would be …
JAIL CONDITIONS
U.S. CRIPA investigation of Orange County (CA) Jail

No Court

On March 14, 2014, the Special Litigation Section of the DOJ Civil Rights Division notified the Orange County Jail on December 23, 2008 that it would be initiating an investigation. The investigation focused on protection from harm; use of force; unlawful searches; discriminatory treatment based on race, color, or national origin; medical and mental health care; and environmental conditions. During the Division’s initial round of inspections, it reported serious issues including excessive use o…
EDUCATION
Students and Parents for Privacy v. United States Department of Education

1:16-cv-04945 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: May 4, 2016

Closed Date: April 15, 2019

This is a case about whether cisgender students' privacy rights were violated by a public school district's policy of allowing transgender students to use the locker rooms and restrooms that align with their gender identities. Prior to this litigation, in 2013, a complaint was filed with the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights (OCR) alleging that Township High School District 211 was discriminating against a transgender student (Student A) on the basis of her sex by refusing u…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Unified School Dist 259 v. Kansas Advocacy & Protective Services

6:04-cv-01279 | U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas

Filed Date: Aug. 24, 2004

Closed Date: Jan. 11, 2006

This is a case about a protection and advocacy agency’s (P&A) records access authority. On August 24, 2004, Unified School District No. 259 (District) filed this lawsuit against Disability Rights Center of Kansas (DRC), Kansas’s P&A in the U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas. The District sought declaratory relief that the Protection and Advocacy for Individuals with Mental Illness Act (PAIMI Act), Developmental Disabilities Assistance and Bill of Rights Act (DD Act), and Protection …
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Disability Rights Washington v. Rolfe

3:12-cv-05004 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: Jan. 5, 2012

Closed Date: May 30, 2012

This is a case about a Protection and Advocacy (P&A) agency’s records access authority. On January 5, 2012, Disability Rights Washington, Washington’s P&A, filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington against Linda Rolfe in her official capacity as Washington’s Director of Division of Developmental Disabilities (DDD). Represented by itself, Disability Rights Washington alleged that defendants violated the Developmental Disabilities Assistance and Bill of …
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Bonilla v. Iowa Board of Parole

No. CVCV052692 | Iowa state trial court

Filed Date: July 9, 2018

Closed Date: June 28, 2019

This is a lawsuit challenging the adequacy of Iowa's parole processes and procedures for a person serving a life sentence for a crime committed under the age of 18.  Petitioner in this lawsuit was convicted of kidnapping in the first degree in 2005 and sentenced to life in prison without parole.  After the U.S. Supreme Court eliminated life without parole sentences for non-homicide crimes committed under age 18, petitioner was resentenced, in 2011, to life with the possibility of parole.  In 20…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Texas v. United States

6:21-cv-00016 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas

Filed Date: April 6, 2021

Case Ongoing

This is a case challenging the Biden Administration's efforts to use systemic prosecutorial discretion in immigration enforcement. On April 6, 2021, the states of Texas and Louisiana filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas. The plaintiffs sued the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) under the Immigration and Nation…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Crawford v. Uber Technologies, Inc.

3:17-cv-02664 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: May 9, 2017

Case Ongoing

On May 9, 2017, two individuals from Jackson, Mississippi who use electric wheelchairs to travel filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California against Uber Technologies, Inc and its subsidiary, Rasier LLC (Collectively, “Uber”). The case was assigned to District Judge Richard Seeborg. Represented by private counsel, the plaintiffs alleged that Uber violated its legal obligations under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the California Disabled Perso…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Namisnak v. Uber Technologies, Inc.

3:17-cv-06124 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Oct. 26, 2017

Case Ongoing

On October 26, 2017, three individuals from New Orleans, represented by private counsel, filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California against Uber Technologies, Inc. and its subsidiary, Rasier LLC (Collectively, “Uber”). The plaintiffs alleged that Uber violated its legal obligations under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the California Disabled Persons Act (CDPA), and California’s Unfair Competition Law (UCL) by failing to provide wheelchair-ac…