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DISABILITY RIGHTS
American Council of the Blind of Indiana v. Indiana Election Commission

1:20-cv-03118 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana

Filed Date: Dec. 31, 2020

Case Ongoing

In a lawsuit filed December 3, 2020 in the U.S. District court for the Southern District of Indiana, several individual plaintiffs, joined by Indiana Disability Rights and the American Council of the Blind of Indiana, asserted that the Indiana Election Commission and the Secretary of State discriminated against voters who are blind or have low vision by not offering the necessary accommodations that these voters need to vote privately and independently when using the absentee vote-by-mail progr…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Stafford v. Carter

1:17-cv-00289 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana

Filed Date: Jan. 27, 2017

Case Ongoing

This class action suit challenged the medical care provided to Indiana prisoners with the Hepatitis C Virus (HCV). On January 27, 2017, three prisoners with HCV at Pendleton Correctional Facility filed this class-action suit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana. Judge Jane Magnus-Stinson was assigned. Plaintiffs were represented by private counsel and a professor from the Indiana University School of Law. Defendants included the Indiana Department of Corrections (IDOC…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Huerta v. Ewing

2:16-cv-00397 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana

Filed Date: Oct. 13, 2016

Case Ongoing

On October 13, 2016, pretrial detainees in the Vigo County jail filed this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana. The plaintiffs, represented by the ACLU of Indiana and private counsel, sued the sheriff and other officials of Vigo County under 42 U.S.C. §1983. They sought a declaratory judgment, preliminary and permanent injunction, and damages, claiming violations of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment Due Process clause and Fourteenth Amendment Eq…
PRISON CONDITIONS
CODING IN PROCESS
Kadamovas v. Federal Bureau of Prisons

2:23-cv-00022 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana

Filed Date: Jan. 12, 2023

Case Ongoing

This is a lawsuit challenging solitary confinement conditions for individuals on death row in the United States Penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana. When this suit was filed, the U.S. Penitentiary in Terre Haute operated the only unit in the United States Bureau of Prisons that exclusively held men sentenced to death by federal courts. Referred to as the Special Confinement Unit, individuals incarcerated in the unit were only permitted to leave their single cells a few hours each week. Even wh…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Whole Woman's Health Alliance v. Rokita

1:18-cv-01904 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana

Filed Date: June 21, 2018

Closed Date: Oct. 21, 2022

This is a case challenging Indiana laws regulating abortion. On June 21, 2018, a group of abortion providers and nonprofit organizations filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana. The plaintiffs, represented by The Lawyering Project and a private firm, sued Indiana under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, seeking injunctive and declaratory relief and attorney's fees. They claimed Indiana’s abortion laws violated the free speech clause of the First Amendment and the due p…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Frederick v. Lawson

1:19-cv-01959 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana

Filed Date: May 16, 2019

Closed Date: Dec. 3, 2020

This is a case about the disenfranchisement of Indiana absentee voters due to unconstitutional signature verification procedures. On May 16, 2019, in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana, five Indiana voters and Common Cause Indiana sued the Indiana Secretary of State, a county election board (representing a putative class of all 92 Indiana county election boards), and three members of that board. Per Indiana statute, the state's absentee voting procedure required a sign…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Indiana Protection and Advocacy Services Commission v. Indiana Secretary of State

4:16-cv-00029 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana

Filed Date: Feb. 25, 2016

Closed Date: April 14, 2016

This 2016 class action lawsuit challenged the constitutionality of Indiana Code § 3-5-5-17, which provided that persons who are committed to a psychiatric institution did not gain residency for voting purposes in the precinct where the institution is located, and raised claims that the statute burdens and discriminates against persons with disabilities in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act. The case was filed on February 25, 2016 in the So…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Indiana Protection & Advocacy Services v. Indiana Family and Social Services Admininistration

1:06-cv-01816 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana

Filed Date: Dec. 22, 2006

Closed Date: May 27, 2010

This case considered whether a psychiatric hospital could refuse or ignore a Protection and Advocacy agency’s (P&A) request for death investigation records of a former hospital patient who did not have a guardian, conservator, or legal representative. On December 22, 2006, Indiana P&A Services (Indiana P&A), filed this lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana. Indiana P&A filed this lawsuit against Indiana Family and Social Services Administration, as well the Indiana…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Indiana Disability Rights v. NeuroPsychiatric Hospitals

1:18-cv-02106 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana

Filed Date: July 11, 2018

Closed Date: Jan. 23, 2019

This case is about a Protection and Advocacy agency’s (P&A) ability to monitor psychiatric facilities. On July 11, 2018, Indiana Disability Rights- Indiana’s P&A- filed this lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana. Indiana Disability Rights filed this lawsuit against Neuropsychiatric Hospitals under the Protection and Advocacy for Individuals with Mental Illness Act (PAIMI Act). Represented by itself, Indiana Disability Rights sought declaratory and injunctive relief…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Ashley W. et. al. v. Holcomb, et al.

3:19-cv-00129 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana

Filed Date: June 25, 2019

Closed Date: June 23, 2022

This case, filed on June 25, 2019, addresses the large-scale failures of the State of Indiana’s child welfare system to protect and meet the needs of children in its custody. The named plaintiffs are children in foster care who brought a class action seeking declaratory and injunctive relief against the state. Plaintiffs sought certification of a class consisting of all children who are now, or will be, in the custody of DCS. Plaintiffs allege that DCS failed to “provide safe and appropriate fo…