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CODING IN PROCESS
Women's Health Center of West Virginia v. Miller

22-C-556 | West Virginia state trial court

Filed Date: June 29, 2022

(This summary is temporary while we research the case.) On June 29, 2022, the Women's Health Center of West Virginia filed this lawsuit to challenge the enforceability of West Virginia's criminal abortion ban. 
CHILD WELFARE
Jonathan R. v. Justice

3:19-cv-00710 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia

Filed Date: Sept. 30, 2019

Case Ongoing

This is a case about the administration of child welfare.  On September 30, 2019, twelve named plaintiffs, all children in the custody of West Virginia's Department of Health and Human Resources (DHHR), brought a class action complaint against the Governor of West Virginia Jim Justice, as well as the Cabinet Secretary for the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), the Deputy Secretary for the West Virginia DHHS, and the Commissioner for Bureau of Children and Families (BC…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
G.T. v. Board of Education of Kanawha

2:20-cv-00057 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia

Filed Date: Jan. 24, 2020

Case Ongoing

This is a case challenging the legality of the Kanawha County Schools (KCS) treatment of students with disabilities. On January 24, 2020, a plaintiff who was a third-grade student in the Kanawha County School district, filed this class-action suit against the school district and its superintendent. The Arc of West Virginia, an advocacy organization that supports students with disabilities, also joined as a plaintiff. The student had autism and ADHD. The plaintiff had been denied effective behav…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Women's Health Center of West Virginia v. Morrisey

2:20-cv-00293 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia

Filed Date: April 24, 2020

Closed Date: May 7, 2020

COVID-19 Summary: On March 31, 2020, the Women’s Health Center of West Virginia and its patients brought this suit against West Virginia to enjoin the state enforcing the Governor's Executive Order which prevents people from obtaining abortion care during COVID-19. The plaintiffs sought preliminary injunction and a temporary restraining order. On April 28, the defendant announced a new Executive Order which allowed the plaintiffs to resume its operations. With the new order, the plaintiffs volu…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Baxley v. Jividen

3:18-cv-01526 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia

Filed Date: Dec. 18, 2018

Case Ongoing

COVID-19 Summary: The plaintiffs in this West Virginia jail conditions class-action case filed an emergency motion for relief on March 25, 2020, seeking an order to require the defendants to develop, disclose, and implement a plan to take appropriate actions to protect the plaintiff class from COVID-19. The court denied the motion because it found that the plaintiffs were unlikely to succeed on the merits of their claim. On December 18, 2018, the plaintiff, a pretrial detainee at West Virginia'…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Michael T. v. Bowling

2:15-cv-09655 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia

Filed Date: July 9, 2015

Closed Date: Aug. 21, 2019

On July 9, 2015, West Virginia residents with intellectual and developmental disabilities who participate in West Virginia's I/DD Waiver Program filed this class action lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia. The plaintiffs sued the West Virginia Department of Heath and Human Resources (DHHR) under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act, and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act. The plaintiffs, represented by Mountain S…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
McGee v. Cole

3:13-cv-24068 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia

Filed Date: Oct. 1, 2013

Closed Date: 2015

On October 1, 2013, three same-sex couples and the minor child of one of the couples filed a lawsuit against Kanawha County, West Virginia in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia. The plaintiffs, represented by Lambda Legal Defense & Education Fund, asked the court to declare unconstitutional any West Virginia laws banning same-sex marriage, to enjoin West Virginia from refusing to recognize same-sex marriages undertaken in other states, and to award the plaintiffs…
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Holland v. Sebelius

2:13-cv-15487 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia

Filed Date: June 24, 2013

Closed Date: 2015

On June 24, 2013, a for-profit company filed a lawsuit in the Southern District of West Virginia under 42 U.S.C. §1983, the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, and the Administrative Procedure Act against the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The plaintiff, represented by the public interest firm Liberty Institute, sought an exception to the Affordable Care Act (ACA) mandate requiring employers to provide health insurance coverage of contraception. Specifically, the plaintiff claim…
EDUCATION
Doe v. Wood County Board of Education

6:12-cv-04355 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia

Filed Date: Aug. 15, 2012

Closed Date: Aug. 6, 2013

On August 15, 2012, a mother and her three minor daughters filed a complaint under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, 20 U.S.C. § 1681 against the Wood County Board of Education and Van Devender Middle School. The plaintiffs, represented by the ACLU and private counsel, sought declaratory, injunctive and monetary relief. They alleged that the School's single-sex education program approved by the Board violated the Equal Protection Clause of the United States Cons…
FAIR HOUSING/LENDING/INSURANCE
United States v. Wheeling Housing Authority

5:11-cv-00009 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of West Virginia

Filed Date: Jan. 14, 2011

Closed Date: 2015

On January 14, 2011, the Department of Justice filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of West Virginia under the Fair Housing Act against the Wheeling Housing Authority. The Department of Justice, on behalf of African-American residents of the Hil-Dar apartment complex, sought declaratory, injunctive, and monetary relief, claiming that the Wheeling Housing Authority failed to take appropriate action when informed of racial harassment directed some African-Americ…