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PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Carpenter v. Vilsack

0:21-cv-00103 | U.S. District Court for the District of Wyoming

Filed Date: May 24, 2021

Case Ongoing

This case is one of several lawsuits challenging the American Rescue Plan’s (ARP) classification of “socially disadvantaged groups.” Section 1005 of the ARP allows the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Farms Services Agency (FSA) to forgive previously given loans to farmers of “socially disadvantaged groups.” That category is defined elsewhere to mean people who have been "subjected to racial or ethnic prejudice because of their identity as members of a group without regard to their…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
CODING IN PROCESS
P&A System v. Freudenthal

2:05-cv-00014 | U.S. District Court for the District of Wyoming

None
DISABILITY RIGHTS
CODING IN PROCESS
P&A System v. Pruett

2:95-cv-00040 | U.S. District Court for the District of Wyoming

None
JAIL CONDITIONS
Ginest v. Board of County Commissioners

2:86-cv-00310 | U.S. District Court for the District of Wyoming

Filed Date: Sept. 2, 1986

In 1986, inmates at the Carbon County Jail in Wyoming filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of all present and future inmates of the Carbon County Jail in the U.S. District Court for the District of Wyoming. The plaintiffs alleged that their constitutional rights had been violated by inadequacies in the areas of medical care and mental health care. In 1987, the court (Judge Alan B. Johnson) certified the class and entered a consent decree on behalf of plaintiffs that required defendants to c…
INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY (FACILITY)
Weston v. Wyoming State Training School

2:90-cv-00004 | U.S. District Court for the District of Wyoming

Filed Date: Jan. 3, 1990

Closed Date: Dec. 5, 1994

In 1990, prior to the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act, a group of residents of the Wyoming State Training School, an institution that housed individuals with intellectual disabilities, brought this lawsuit. Represented by the Wyoming Protection and Advocacy System, the plaintiffs sought to remedy unconstitutional conditions and statutory violations at the institution and aimed to force Wyoming to create community living options for many of its residents.Though it predated the ADA…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Kersh v. Board of County Commissioners

2:89-01027 | U.S. District Court for the District of Wyoming

Filed Date: May 18, 1989

Closed Date: March 7, 1994

In 1989, plaintiffs filed suit seeking declaratory and injunctive relief from unconstitutional conditions of confinement in the Natrona County Jail. In 1990, the district court for the District of Wyoming (Judge Alan B. Johnson) entered a consent decree, enjoining defendants from violating inmates' rights under the Eighth Amendment with respect to overcrowding, staffing, and recreation. In 1992, plaintiffs filed a motion seeking to hold the county in contempt of the consent decree, which resu…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Bustos v. Herschler

2:76-cv-00143 | U.S. District Court for the District of Wyoming

Filed Date: Aug. 13, 1976

Closed Date: 1982

Prisoners at the Wyoming State Penitentiary filed this class action lawsuit against the Wyoming Department of Corrections (WDOC) in the U.S. District Court for the District of Wyoming. Represented by the ACLU, the plaintiffs alleged that WDOC had violated their due process rights by imprisoning them in poor conditions. Specifically, the plaintiffs alleged that WDOC’s facilities were overcrowded, unsanitary, and unsafe; that WDOC provided inadequate medical care; and that WDOC staff behaved unco…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Courage v. Wyoming

14-182262 | Wyoming state trial court

Filed Date: March 5, 2014

Case Ongoing

On March 5, 2014, four same-sex couples and Wyoming Equality filed a lawsuit in state court in Cheyenne challenging Wyoming's laws that prohibit same-sex couples from marrying and refuse to respect the legal marriages of same-sex couples who married in other states. The complaint argued that the same-sex-marriage ban violated the Wyoming Constitution's guarantees of equal protection and due process.Plaintiffs are represented by private counsel and the National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR).…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Guzzo v. Mead

2:14-cv-00200 | U.S. District Court for the District of Wyoming

Filed Date: Oct. 7, 2014

Closed Date: 2015

On October 7, 2014, four same-sex couples and Wyoming Equality filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Wyoming under 42 U.S.C § 1983 against the State of Wyoming. The four couples live in Wyoming, two seek to get married in the state and the others seek to have their marriages, performed in other jurisdictions, legally recognized in the state. Wyoming Equality is a non-profit organization that works on behalf of LGBT causes in the state. The plaintiffs asked the …
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Diocese of Cheyenne v. Sebelius

2:14-cv-00021 | U.S. District Court for the District of Wyoming

Filed Date: Jan. 30, 2014

Closed Date: Nov. 8, 2017

On Jan. 30, 2014, several Wyoming-based Catholic organizations, filed this lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. §1983, the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, and the Administrative Procedure Act against the federal department of Health and Human Services. The plaintiffs, represented by private counsel, asked the court for declaratory and injunctive relief, claiming that the Affordable Care Act's contraception mandate (including the accommodation offered by the government to some of the plaintiff-organizatio…