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EDUCATION
Wadley v. University of Iowa

4:20-cv-00366 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa

Filed Date: Nov. 12, 2020

Closed Date: March 30, 2023

This is a case about racial discrimination and race-based threats on the University of Iowa football team. On November 12, 2020, a group of thirteen Black former and current Iowa football players filed this lawsuit in the Iowa District Court for the State of Iowa, Polk County (a state trial court). However, shortly after, on December 1, 2020, the defendants successfully removed the case to a federal court, the United States District Court for the Southern District of Iowa, Central Division. The…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Disability Rights Iowa v. Rabiner Treatment Center

3:16-cv-03010 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa

Filed Date: Feb. 10, 2016

Closed Date: May 26, 2016

This is a case about a Protection and Advocacy agency’s (P&A) records and residents access authority. On February 10, 2016, Disability Rights Iowa (DRI), Iowa’s P&A, filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa. DRI filed this lawsuit against Rabiner Treatment Center (Rabiner), a youth psychiatric residential treatment center, under the Protection and Advocacy for Individuals with Mental Illness (PAIMI) Act. Represented by itself, DRI sought declarative and in…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Iowa Protection and Advocacy Services v. Gerard Treatment Programs

1:01-cv-03013 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa

Filed Date: Feb. 16, 2001

Closed Date: Aug. 4, 2003

This is a case about a Protection and Advocacy agency’s (P&A) authority to access a minor’s records during an investigation over the objection of parents or guardians. On February 16, 2001, Iowa Protection and Advocacy Services (Iowa P&A), filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa. Iowa P&A sued Gerard Treatment Programs (Gerard), a youth residential psychiatric treatment setting, under the Protection and Advocacy for Individuals with Mental Illness (PAIMI)…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Disability Rights Iowa v. White

4:14-cv-00092 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa

Filed Date: March 12, 2014

Closed Date: July 1, 2014

This is a case about a Protection and Advocacy agency’s (P&A) records and residents access authority during an investigation. On March 12, 2014, Disability Rights Iowa (DRI), Iowa’s P&A, filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa against Muscatine County Sheriff’s Office and the Sheriff in his personal capacity. DRI asserted the defendants violated the PAIMI Act when they refused to provide DRI records and let DRI interview staff surrounding an incident wher…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Iowa Protection and Advocacy Services v. Tanager Place

1:04-cv-00069 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa

Filed Date: June 3, 4

Closed Date: March 9, 2006

This case is about a Protection and Advocacy agency’s (P&A) access authority to interview relevant parties during an investigation. Iowa Protection and Advocacy Services (Iowa P&A) filed this lawsuit on June 3, 2004, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa. Iowa P&A filed this lawsuit against Tanager, Inc., a private facility offering youth inpatient psychiatric services, under the Protection and Advocacy for Individuals with Mental Illness (PAIMI) Act. Represented by a pri…
EDUCATION
Ohlensehlen v. The University of Iowa

3:20-cv-00080 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa

Filed Date: Sept. 25, 2020

Closed Date: Oct. 7, 2021

On September 25, 2020, four members of the University of Iowa women's swimming and diving team filed a class action suit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa against UI after it announced it was cutting the program. In October, plaintiffs amended the complaint adding two new named plaintiffs. Plaintiffs alleged that UI violated its obligation under Title IX by failing to provide female students with an equal opportunity to participate in athletics as compared to the oppo…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
United States and Cedar Rapids Agreement

Not filed | No Court

This settlement agreement arose from an investigation of the City of Cedar Rapids, Iowa by the U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Iowa. The federal government conducted a review of Cedar Rapids’ compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act. That investigation resulted in a settlement, which was finalized on September 1, 2015. Because the settlement is the only public …
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Morrissey v. Brewer

4:69-20468 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa

Filed Date: Sept. 12, 1969

Closed Date: June 29, 1972

This is an older case about whether due process rights are violated when a parole board revokes someone's parole without a hearing. Two petitions for habeas corpus were filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa: Booher v. Lee County, filed on March 11, 1970 (docket number 70-20478); and Morrissey v. Brewer, filed on Sept. 12, 1969 (docket number 69-20468).The petitioners, Morrissey and Booher, were individually convicted in the U.S. District Court for the Southern Distr…
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Dordt College v. Sebelius

5:13-cv-04100 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa

Filed Date: Oct. 23, 2013

Closed Date: June 12, 2018

On October 23, 2013, a non-profit organization filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa under the First Amendment, Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA), and the Administrative Procedure Act against the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The plaintiff, represented by the Alliance Defending Freedom, asked the court to rule that the Affordable Care Act's (ACA) contraception insurance mandate, even with the accommodation for non-profit religious or…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Pargo v. Elliott

4:92-cv-20781 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa

Filed Date: Nov. 19, 1992

Closed Date: Oct. 7, 1996

On November 19, 1992, women incarcerated at Iowa Correctional Institute for Women (“ICIW”) filed this class-action lawsuit in the Southern District of Iowa. Represented by Legal Services of Iowa, the plaintiffs (suing on behalf of a class of all women at ICIW) sued Iowa Department of Corrections officials under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 alleging that the defendants violated the Fourteenth Amendment Equal Protection Clause by maintaining policies, programs, and facilities that were not “substantially equ…