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CODING IN PROCESS
Lawrence v. City of Englewood, Colorado

12-cv-01423 | U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado

Filed Date: May 31, 2012

Closed Date: April 11, 2013

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EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Hodgkins v. Frontier Airlines, Inc.

1:19-cv-03469 | U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado

Filed Date: Dec. 10, 2019

Case Ongoing

The ACLU, the ACLU of Colorado, and the law firm Holwell Shuster & Goldberg LLP, along with Towards Justice filed two companion lawsuits on behalf of eight pilots and flight attendants employed by Frontier Airlines in Colorado for failing to provide accommodations related to pregnancy and breastfeeding. The complaint challenged Frontier’s discriminatory policies and practices of penalizing pregnancy-related absences, refusing to provide accommodations to pregnant and breastfeeding pilots and fl…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Winston v. Polis

2020CV31823 | Colorado state trial court

Filed Date: May 28, 2020

Case Ongoing

On May 28, 2020, the ACLU of Colorado and the Civil Rights Clinic at the University of Denver School of Law sued the Governor of Colorado and the Executive Director of the Colorado Department of Corrections (CDOC) for failure to protect medically vulnerable people in prison from COVID-19. Five named plaintiffs represented a class of "Medically Vulnerable Prisoners;" the proposed class consisted of current and future persons held by CDOC who were at a high risk of serious illness or death from C…
POLICING
Epps v. City and County of Denver

1:20-cv-01878 | U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado

Filed Date: June 25, 2020

Case Ongoing

This lawsuit was filed on June 25, 2020, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado. The suit responded to police tactics used on protesters in May and June of 2020, after police killed George Floyd. Represented by private counsel (Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer, LLP) and ACLU attorneys, plaintiffs in this case were Black Lives Matter 5280, a Denver-based chapter of Black Lives Matter, and nine individual plaintiffs. They brought this suit against the city and county of Denver, offic…
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…
DISABILITY RIGHTS/PUBLIC ACCOMMODATIONS
In re Colorado Peace Officers Standards and Training Board

DJ# 205-13-19 | No Court

Filed Date: 2008

Closed Date: 2011

A disabled Colorado Peace Officer candidate brought a complaint to the Disability Rights Section of the Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice alleging that the State of Colorado's Peace Officer Standards and Training Board (POST Board) violated Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) by denying him reasonable accommodations on a written exam to certification exam.On March 19, 2008, the United States and the POST Board entered into a three-year settlement…
PRISON CONDITIONS
CODING IN PROCESS
Montoya v. Colorado Department of Corrections

1:20-cv-03345 | U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado

Filed Date: Nov. 9, 2020

(This summary is temporary, while we research the case.) Plaintiff, a blind prisoner at CDOC, filed a lawsuit alleging that CDOC violated the ADA. Specifically, the blind prisoner alleged that CDOC had refused to reasonably modify their policies, procedures, and practices to accommodate her; had refused to provide auxiliary aids and services needed for her to fully and safely participate in CDOC services, programs, and activities; has provided inadequate accommodations and auxiliary aids and se…
PRISON CONDITIONS
CODING IN PROCESS
Rabinkov v. Colorado Department of Corrections

1:18-cv-02926 | U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado

Filed Date: Nov. 14, 2018

(This summary is temporary, while we research the case.) A group of deaf prisoners at the Colorado Department of Corrections (CDOC) filed a putative class action  against CDOC for violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). The complaint was focused on CDOC's failure to provide working TTY or other communication assistance technology.
PRISON CONDITIONS
Rogers v. Colorado Department of Corrections

1:16-cv-02733 | U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado

Filed Date: Nov. 3, 2016

Case Ongoing

On November 3, 2016, a woman incarcerated in the custody of the Denver Women’s Correctional Facility filed this pro se lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado. The plaintiff sued the State of Colorado, the Colorado Department of Corrections, and the Warden of the Denver Women’s Correctional Facility under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and 42 U.S.C. § 1983, seeking damages. She claimed that defendants violated the ADA as well as her constitutional rights to du…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Mackes v. Colorado Department of Corrections

1:21-cv-01100 | U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado

Filed Date: April 21, 2021

Case Ongoing

This lawsuit was filed on April 21, 2021 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado by two blind men in the custody of the Colorado Department of Corrections (CDOC) as well as the National Federation of the Blind of Colorado, on behalf of the two men as well as other members who are or may be in the custody of CDOC. Plaintiffs were represented by the Civil Rights Education and Enforcement Center and private counsel. They alleged that CDOC violated their rights under Title II of t…