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CHILD WELFARE
Katie A. v. Bonta

2:02-cv-05662 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: July 18, 2002

Case Ongoing

This lawsuit was filed in the Central District of California on July 18, 2002, by the class of children and young adults who (a) are in the custody of Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services; (b) have a behavioral, emotional, or psychiatric impairment; and (c) need individualized mental health services. The suit is against County and State agencies for neglecting their responsibilities to provide mental health care services to foster children in California. Plaintiffs soug…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Williams v. Quinn

1:05-cv-04673 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Aug. 15, 2005

Case Ongoing

On August 15, 2005, residents of an intermediate care facility (IMD) with mental illness filed a lawsuit under the Supreme Court's decision in Olmstead, the Americans with Disabilities Act and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act against various Illinois state officials in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. Plaintiffs, represented by private counsel and legal services, asked the court for declaratory and injunctive relief, claiming that they were needlessly…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Disability Rights Maryland, Inc. v. Scott

1:25-cv-00070 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: Jan. 9, 2025

Case Ongoing

On January 9, 2025, Disability Rights Maryland (“DRM”) filed this lawsuit on behalf of detainees determined to be incompetent to stand trial against the Maryland Department of Health (“MDH”) and its Secretary in the United States District Court for the District of Maryland. Under Maryland's Criminal Procedure Code, state courts could order the MDH to conduct an examination on criminal defendants to determine whether they were "incompetent to stand trial" due to mental disability or some other c…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
State of Texas v. Becerra

5:24-cv-00225 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas

Filed Date: Sept. 26, 2024

Case Ongoing

This is a federal lawsuit brought by Republican state attorneys general against the Biden Administration's updated disability discrimination regulation, challenging two aspects of that rule--one potentially allowing discrimination protections for transgender individuals and the other setting out parameters for application of the statutory "integration mandate." The states claimed that these two aspects of the rule violated the Administrative Procedures Act and that they, and the entirety of Sec…

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PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Emily Q. v. Bonta

2:98-cv-04181 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: May 27, 1998

Closed Date: Sept. 15, 2011

On May 27, 1998 a group of seven children with intensive mental health needs who were eligible for Medi-Cal benefits filed suit against the California Department of Health Services in the Federal District Court for the Central District of California alleging violations of the Medicaid Act. They contended they were entitled under federal law to mental health benefits that were being denied to them, specifically Therapeutic Behavioral Services (TBS). They sought injunctive relief requiring that t…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Day v. District of Columbia

1:10-cv-02250 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Dec. 23, 2010

Case Ongoing

The plaintiffs, institutionalized individuals in the District of Columbia with disabilities, filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on December 23, 2010. The complaint alleged that the District of Columbia had policies and procedures that force the unnecessary institutionalization of people with disabilities who could live in the community with appropriate services. The plaintiffs claimed that these policies, which erected barriers to receiving long-term care…
MENTAL HEALTH (FACILITY)
United States v. South Carolina

3:24-cv-07125 | U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina

Filed Date: Dec. 9, 2024

Case Ongoing

This federal law suit arose from a Department of Justice (DOJ) investigation into South Carolina's treatment of adults with serious mental illness (SMI). The investigation found that there was reasonable cause to believe that South Carolina violated Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) by failing to provide services to individuals with SMI in the most integrated setting appropriate to their needs. The investigation called for collaboration with the state; however, the DOJ retai…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
United States v. State of Colorado

1:23-cv-02538 | U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado

Filed Date: Sept. 29, 2023

Case Ongoing

This case was about the rights of disabled Coloradans who receive Medicaid assistance to live in their own communities rather than in institutional settings like nursing homes.  On September 29, 2023, the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) filed this lawsuit against the state of Colorado in the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado. The case was initially assigned to Magistrate Judge Scott T. Varholak. The DOJ brought this lawsuit after issuing a letter of findings of civil ri…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Jennings v. Wolf

3:20-cv-00148 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Jan. 29, 2020

Closed Date: May 1, 2023

This case, filed January 29, 2020, objected to the closure of two Pennsylvania intermediate care facilities for individuals with intellectual disabilities (ICF/IID) (the Polk Center and the White Haven Center) and the rights of the individuals residing in those facilities. It is what some describe as a "reverse-Olmstead" lawsuit. (See Olmstead v. L.C., 527 U.S. 581 (1999) (ADA guarantees the right to receive disability-related services in the community, where appropriate). The complaint was fil…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
CRIPA Investigation of Alameda County

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Filed Date: Nov. 7, 2023

Case Ongoing

On April 22, 2021, the U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division notified Alameda County, California, the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office, and Alameda Health System that there was reasonable cause to believe that the County’s use of institutional settings to provide mental health services to adults with mental health disabilities violated the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), and that the conditions at Santa Rita Jail violated the Constitution and the ADA. Specifically, the Departme…