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DISABILITY RIGHTS
Connecticut Office of Protection and Advocacy v. Hartford Board of Education

3:04-cv-01338 | U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

Filed Date: Aug. 11, 2004

Closed Date: Oct. 18, 2006

This is a case about whether a Protection and Advocacy agency (P&A) can access the grounds, students, and student records of a non-residential therapeutic school. On August 11, 2004, Connecticut Office of Protection and Advocacy (OPA), Connecticut’s P&A, filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut. OPA filed this lawsuit against the Hartford Board of Education (Hartford), which operated the non-residential therapeutic school, under the Developmental Disabilitie…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Carr v. Becerra

3:22-cv-00988 | U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

Filed Date: Aug. 3, 2022

Case Ongoing

This case concerns the effects of an agency rule change on Medicaid benefits provided by the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA). In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the federal government passed the FFCRA on March 18th, 2020. Among other things, the bill increased federal funding of Medicaid if certain provisions were met. One of these provisions was an extension of benefits through the end of the declared public health emergency. States could not terminate the benefit extension;…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Connecticut State Conference of NAACP Branches v. Merrill

3:20-cv-00909 | U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

Filed Date: July 2, 2020

Closed Date: Sept. 25, 2020

This is a case about how Connecticut's restrictions on eligibility for mail-in ballot voting during the COVID-19 pandemic threatened voters' constitutional and statutory rights. On July 2, 2020, a complaint was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut by the Connecticut State Conference of NAACP Branches, the League of Women Voters of Connecticut ("the League"), and an individual member of the League whose age made her susceptible to serious complications of COVID-19. Th…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Monk v. United States

3:22-cv-01503 | U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

Filed Date: Nov. 28, 2022

Case Ongoing

On November 28, 2022, a black veteran filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut against the United States of America for the acts of its employees under the Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA) and state law. The case was assigned to Judge Janet Bond Arterton. Represented by Yale Law School's Veterans Legal Services Clinic at the Jerome N. Frank Legal Services Organization, the plaintiff alleged that the Department of Veteran Affairs and its predecessor, t…
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…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Barfield v. Cook

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

Filed Date: July 19, 2018

Closed Date: Aug. 1, 2022

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 Correction, and who ha…
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…