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Kenny v. Wilson

2:16-cv-02794 | U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina

Filed Date: Aug. 11, 2016

Case Ongoing

On August 11, 2016, the non-profit, Girls Rock, and four students of South Carolina public schools, filed this lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina. The plaintiffs sued the Attorney General of South Carolina and the heads of twelve South Carolina Police Departments under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The plaintiffs, represented by the American Civil Liberties Union, asked the court for a declaratory judgement that two South Carolina codes, commonly referred to as the "Disturbin…
MENTAL HEALTH (FACILITY)
Alabama Disabilities Advocacy Program v. SafetyNet Youth, Inc.

2:13-cv-00519 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Alabama

Filed Date: Oct. 25, 2013

Closed Date: 2015

On October 25, 2013, the Alabama Disabilities Advocacy Program (ADAP) filed this lawsuit in the District Court for the Southern District of Alabama. The plaintiff, which served as Alabama’s designated protection and advocacy program for people with disabilities, sued SafetyNet Youthcare, Inc. (SafetyNet) under the Protection and Advocacy for Individuals with Mental Illness Act of 1986 (PAIMI), the Developmental Disabilities Assistance and Bill of Rights Act of 2000 (PADD Act), and the Protectio…
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
V.W. v. Conway

9:16-cv-01150 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York

Filed Date: Sept. 21, 2016

Closed Date: 2019

On September 21, 2016, six named plaintiffs filed this class action lawsuit against Onondaga County in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York. Represented by the New York Civil Liberties Union Foundation and Legal Services of Central New York, the plaintiffs challenged the isolation of juveniles in solitary confinement at the County Justice Center. This practice, they alleged, violated the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments of the Constitution. In addition to exposing them …
MENTAL HEALTH (FACILITY)
Disability Rights Mississippi v. Mississippi Children's Home Services

3:13-cv-00547 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi

Filed Date: Sept. 6, 2013

Closed Date: Sept. 28, 2015

Plaintiff, Disability Rights Mississippi ("DRMS"), filed this lawsuit against CARES, Inc. (initially identified in Complaint as Mississippi Children's Home Services) on September 6, 2013, in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi. Defendant, a non-profit organization, operated CARES Center, a residential treatment facility for children with severe emotional or behavioral disabilities. Plaintiff asserted that, as Mississippi's designated Protection & Advocacy organizati…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Ali v. Thaler

9:09-cv-00052 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas

Filed Date: March 29, 2009

On March 29, 2009, a Muslim prisoner at the Gib Lewis Unit in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas. The plaintiff, bringing the case pro se, sued the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ). He sought a declaratory judgment that TDCJ's enforcement of grooming standards violated his First and Fourteenth amendment rights and the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA). He also sought a pr…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Smith v. Department of Public Welfare of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

2:13-cv-05670 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Sept. 27, 2013

Closed Date: June 11, 2015

Plaintiff, a man with cerebral palsy, filed this class-action lawsuit against the Department of Public Welfare of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (DPW) in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania on September 27, 2013. As a person with a physical disability, plaintiff was eligible for in-home services under the State's Act 150 Program, a program aimed at allowing individuals with disabilities to live as independently as possible in their communities. However, plaintiff …
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Thomas v. Kent

2:14-cv-08013 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: Oct. 16, 2014

Closed Date: Nov. 22, 2019

On October 16, 2014, three individuals with significant physical disabilities requiring substantial medical care filed this lawsuit against the California Department of Health Care Services (“DHCS”) in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. The plaintiffs alleged that the state had violated Section II of the Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”) and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, which require public entities to provide services to persons with disabilities in…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Methelus v. School Board of Collier County, Florida

2:16-cv-00379 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida

Filed Date: May 18, 2016

On May 18, 2016, a group of parents and guardians of noncitizen children who had recently arrived in the United States filed this class action suit against the School Board of Collier County, Florida and the Superintendent of the Collier County Public Schools. The claim was filed in the U.S. District Court Middle District of Florida. In September 2016, the United States issued a Statement of Interest in support of the plaintiffs' claim.The litigation arose out of the defendants' implementation …
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Stinnie v. Holcomb

3:16-cv-00044 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia

Filed Date: July 6, 2016

Case Ongoing

On July 6, 2016, indigent Virginia residents brought this class action in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia because they had suffered indefinite suspension of their driver's licenses for failure to pay court costs and fines that they could not afford. The plaintiffs sued the Commissioner of the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Represented by private attorneys, the plaintiffs sought declaratory and injunctive relief, and class certification…
MENTAL HEALTH (FACILITY)
Sonnenberg v. Disability Rights Idaho, Inc.

1:14-cv-00369 | U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho

Filed Date: Aug. 29, 2014

Closed Date: March 7, 2016

On August 29, 2014 Ada County and the Ada County Coroner filed a complaint in the Fourth Judicial District of Idaho. They sued Disability Rights Idaho (“DRI”) under Idaho Code § 10-1201 et seq., (Uniform Declaratory Judgment Act), and Idaho Rule of Civil Procedure 57. At the request of the defendant, Disability Rights Idaho, Inc. (DRI), the case was removed to the United States District Court for the District of Idaho on September 8, 2014. On September 18, 2014 DRI filed a counterclaim under th…