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SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
303 Creative LLC v. Elenis

1:16-cv-02372 | U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado

Filed Date: Sept. 20, 2016

Case Ongoing

On September 20, 2016, the owner of 303 Creative, LLC—a company that specializes in graphic and web design—filed this suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado against the Colorado Attorney General, the director of the Colorado Civil Rights Division, and members of the Colorado Civil Rights Commission. The plaintiff argued that her Christian beliefs prevented her from designing wedding websites that promote same-sex couples, which would violate two provisions of the Colorado …
PRISON CONDITIONS
Center for Legal Advocacy v. Colorado Department of Corrections

1:21-cv-07792 | U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado

Filed Date: March 18, 2021

Case Ongoing

On March 18, 2021, the Center for Legal Advocacy, d/b/a Disability Law Colorado (“DLC”), a federally mandated protection and advocacy (“P&A”) organization for the State of Colorado, filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado. DLC sued the Colorado Department of Corrections (“CDOC”) under the Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”) and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, seeking injunctive relief. DLC brought suit in its representative capacity on behalf of and…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Out of Court Settlement between the United States and Ready to Work, LLC

No Court

On March 17, 2022, the U.S. Department of Justice signed an out of court settlement agreement with Ready to Work, LLC, a Colorado homeless services provider, to resolve allegations that Ready to Work had discriminated against a program participant who took medication to manage her opioid use disorder. The Department’s Civil Rights Division opened this investigation after receiving a complaint that in 2019 Ready to Work had refused its services to a potential participant because she used suboxon…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Lawrence v. City of Englewood, Colorado

1:12-cv-01423 | U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado

Filed Date: May 31, 2012

Closed Date: March 8, 2016

On August 13, 2011, a deaf individual who communicated primarily through American Sign Language (ASL) was arrested by officers in the Englewood Police Department (EPD) who deprived him of access to critical medication for diabetes and auxiliary aids or services for effective communication. Throughout the process of the individual’s arrest, booking, and intake, his hearing disability was readily apparent and documented. The EPD failed to provide interpretive services or access to the individual’…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Rabinkov v. Colorado Department of Corrections

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

Filed Date: Nov. 14, 2018

Closed Date: May 3, 2022

On November 14, 2018, a group of deaf prisoners in custody at the Colorado Department of Corrections (CDOC) filed a putative class action against the CDOC alleging violations of the ADA and the Rehabilitation Act. Specifically, plaintiffs alleged that CDOC had failed to provide deaf inmates with functioning TTYs, videophones, or other communication assistance technology. On November 20, 2018, plaintiffs moved to consolidate from the plaintiffs in Rogers v. Colorado Department of Corrections, an…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Montoya v. Colorado Department of Corrections

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

Filed Date: Nov. 9, 2020

Case Ongoing

On November 9, 2020, a blind woman incarcerated in the custody of the Colorado Department of Corrections (CDOC) filed this pro se lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado. The plaintiff sued CDOC, its Executive Director, and thirteen other staff members. She alleged that defendants violated the ADA, the Rehabilitation Act, CRIPA, CDOC Administrative Regulations as well as her constitutional rights to due process under the Fourteenth Amendment and against cruel and unusual…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Hagig v. Trump

1:17-cv-00289 | U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado

Filed Date: Jan. 31, 2017

Closed Date: May 3, 2019

This lawsuit, filed on January 31, 2017, challenged President Trump’s January 27, 2017, Executive Order (EO-1) that banned non-U.S. citizen nationals of Iraq, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen from being admitted to the U.S. The complaint was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado (in Denver) on behalf of a Libyan citizen who attended university in the U.S.  Represented by private counsel, the plaintiff argued that the threat of being detained or barred from re…
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 complaints challenged Frontier’s discriminatory policies and practices of penalizing pregnancy-related absences, refusing to provide accommodations to pregnant and breastfeeding pilots and f…
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…