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CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Beatty v. Lamont

3:22-cv-00380 | U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

Filed Date: March 14, 2022

Case Ongoing

Connecticut General Statute §§18-85a-c required current and formerly incarcerated people to pay $249 per day incarcerated. This debt resulted in the state frequently collecting against formerly incarcerated people's property.  On March 14, 2022, two plaintiffs, represented by the ACLU, filed suit against Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont, responsible for overseeing the Department of Corrections, and Attorney General William Tong, vested with authority to file collections against people owing pris…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
A.R. v. Connecticut State Board of Education

3:16-cv-01197 | U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

Filed Date: July 15, 2016

Case Ongoing

Under state law, Conn. Gen. Stat. § 10-76d(b), Connecticut was required to provide education to individuals with disabilities only until they attained a high school diploma or turned 21, whichever occurred first. No comparable Connecticut law or regulation imposed a maximum age limit for entitlement to public education for non-special education students. In this case, the named plaintiff – a 22-year-old with a developmental disability, acting through his mother – filed a class action suit on be…
EDUCATION
Soule v. Connecticut Association of Schools, Inc.

3:20-cv-00201 | U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

Filed Date: Feb. 12, 2020

Case Ongoing

The four plaintiffs in this case are high school track athletes who alleged that having to compete against transgender female peers (consistently referred to as "biological males" in their briefs) has caused the plaintiffs to lose out on significant opportunities to win competitions and further advance in their track careers. They filed suit on February 12, 2020 in the District Court for the District of Connecticut against their school districts and the Connecticut Interschool Athletic Conferen…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Manker v. Spencer

3:18-cv-00372 | U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

Filed Date: March 2, 2018

Case Ongoing

Thousands of United States Sailors and Marines are deployed to combat zones across the globe, and return home suffering from the invisible wounds of war, including Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) or traumatic brain injury (TBI). Sometimes these mental health issues indirectly lead to less-than-Honorable discharges, resulting in permanent stigma and preventing veterans from accessing essential benefits like the GI bill and much-needed mental health care. The Naval Discharge Review Board ad…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Connecticut Criminal Defense Lawyers Association v. Lamont

20-cv-6126477 | Connecticut state trial court

Filed Date: April 3, 2020

Closed Date: June 8, 2020

COVID-19 summary: The ACLU of Connecticut filed this suit on April 3, 2020 asking the court to intervene and force the Governor of Connecticut and the state's Correction Commissioner to reduce the number of individuals incarcerated in the state's jails and prisons during the COVID-19 pandemic. The trial court dismissed the case for lack of jurisdiction, and the plaintiffs appealed, however they withdrew the appeal on June 6, 2020. On April 3, 2020, the Connecticut Criminal Defense Lawyers Assoc…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Barfield v. Cook

3:18-cv-01198 | U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

Filed Date: July 19, 2018

Case Ongoing

Plaintiffs, persons in the custody of the Connecticut Department of Correction suffering from the Hepatitis C Virus (HCV), filed this putative class action lawsuit against the Department on July 19, 2018 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut. U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea was assigned. Plaintiffs, represented by private counsel, sought to represent a class of all people who are or will be prisoners in the custody of the Connecticut Department of Corrections, and who…
PUBLIC HOUSING
Christian Community Action v. Cisneros

3:91-cv-00296 | U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

Filed Date: June 3, 1991

Closed Date: Jan. 28, 2008

On June 3, 1991, plaintiffs brought this action under the Fair Housing Act. Plaintiffs alleged a housing demolition and replacement plan for the former Elm Haven high-rises in New Haven was being carried out in violation of the Fair Housing Act and HUD siting requirements, as the local housing authority began to locate replacement housing in segregated neighborhoods. The Court approved the parties' settlement agreement in July 1995. The settlement consisted of two primary elements: 1) a scatte…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Bagnall v. Sebelius

3:11-cv-01703 | U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

Filed Date: Nov. 3, 2011

Case Ongoing

On November 3, 2011, seven Medicare beneficiaries who were denied Medicare benefits filed this lawsuit on behalf of themselves and a class of similarly situated persons in the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut. The plaintiffs sued the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) (the Secretary) under the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) and the Freedom of Information Act. Represented by the Center for Medicare Advocacy, Justice in Aging, the National Senior Citizens…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Disability Rights Connecticut v. Connecticut Department of Correction

3:21-cv-00146 | U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

Filed Date: Feb. 4, 2021

Case Ongoing

This lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut challenged prolonged isolation and in-cell shackling imposed on people with mental illness in the custody of the Connecticut Department of Correction. Disability Rights Connecticut, a private, nonprofit corporation that is the authorized protection and advocacy system for the State of Connecticut—with statutory authority to pursue legal, administrative, and other appropriate remedies to protect individuals with mental illn…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Connecticut v. Department of Homeland Security

3:19-cv-01597 | U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

Filed Date: Oct. 10, 2019

Case Ongoing

This is a case regarding the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) interpretation of the Pardon Waiver Clause of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA)(8 U.S.C. §1227). The clause provided that that a noncitizen will not be deportable for certain criminal convictions “if [the noncitizen] . . . has been granted a full and unconditional pardon by the President of the United States or by the Governor of any of the several States.” Connecticut granted pardons via a Board of Pardons and Paroles…