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American Civil Liberties Union of Kansas and Western Missouri v. Praeger

2:11-cv-02462 | U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas

Filed Date: Aug. 16, 2011

Closed Date: Jan. 23, 2013

(This summary is temporary, while we research the case.)In August 2011, the American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Kansas and Western Missouri filed a lawsuit challenging a Kansas law that prohibited insurance companies from including coverage for abortion in their comprehensive plans.
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Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri v. Brownback

2:11-cv-02357 | U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas

Filed Date: June 27, 2011

Closed Date: May 9, 2014

(This summary is temporary, while we research the case.)In September 2011, the ACLU and the ACLU of Kansas and Western-Missouri filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas, against a Kansas state law restricting Title X funding allegedly in violation of the Supremacy Clause of the U.S. Constitution.
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Aid for Women v. Foulston

6:03-cv-01353 | U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas

Filed Date: Oct. 3, 2003

Closed Date: Oct. 16, 2008

Individual licensed professionals, including healthcare providers and social workers, joined Aid for Women, a gynecological medical practice in Kansas City, to bring this putative class action lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas, against district attorneys in Kansas and (in an amended complaint) the state attorney general. They filed the case on October 3, 2003, after the attorney general of Kansas issued a 2003 advisory opinion, interpreting the state’s child abuse report…
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Progeny v. City of Wichita

6:21-cv-01100 | U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas

Filed Date: April 15, 2021

Case Ongoing

This is a case challenging the Wichita Police Department’s (WPD) usage of gang lists, alleging that they imposed a disparate impact on Black and Latinx residents and that they were unconstitutional in their implementation. The plaintiffs, Progeny (a community based organization seeking to prevent the incarceration of young people) and private individuals within Wichita who had been impacted by these policies, were represented by Kansas Appleseed Center for Law & Justice and the ACLU of Kansas. …
CHILD WELFARE
M.B. v. Colyer

2:18-cv-02617 | U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas

Filed Date: Nov. 16, 2018

Case Ongoing

In 2018, children in the Kansas foster care system filed a class-action suit against the Governor of Kansas, the Kansas Department for Children and Families (DCF), the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, and the Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services. The named plaintiffs allegedly experienced great hardship while involved in the Kansas foster care system, including dozens or even hundreds of moves, night-to-night changes, and starkly inadequate mental and behavioral diagn…
CHILD WELFARE
Sheila A. v. Finney

Kansas state trial court

Filed Date: 1989

Case Ongoing

In January 1989, a local attorney seeking additional foster care beds for Shawnee County children field this lawsuit in Shawnee County District Court. The Children's Rights Project of the ACLU filed an amended petition on February 1990 and made the suit a class action, which contended that the Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services of Kansas was not in compliance with state and federal law and was violating the constitutional rights of Kansas children. They described numerous instanc…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Arney v. Bennett

3:77-cv-03045 | U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas

Filed Date: Feb. 23, 1977

Case Ongoing

On February 23, 1977, inmates of state prisons in Lansing and Hutchinson, Kansas filed a class action lawsuit pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the State of Kansas in the United States District Court for the District of Kansas. The plaintiffs, represented by the Washburn University School of Law Legal Clinic and Legal Services for Prisoners, alleged that prison overcrowding violated their constitutional rights. The prisoners claimed that double-celling, outdoor dormitories, the conditions …
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Hodes & Nauser, MDs, P.A. et al. v. Robert Moser, M.D et al.

2011-CV-001298 | Kansas state trial court

Filed Date: Nov. 9, 2011

(This is a temporary summary, while we research the case.) This case challenged a regulatory scheme that would have gone into effect on November 14, 2011. If enforced, the scheme would have prevented the provision of abortion services in any medical establishment not licensed as an abortion facility.
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Trust Women Foundation Inc. v. Bennett

19-121693-A | Kansas state trial court

Filed Date: 2018

(This is a temporary summary, while we research the case.) The Center filed a challenge in state court on November 8, 2018, challenging a law that would ban the provision of abortion care via telemedicine.
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Hodes & Nauser MDs, P.A. v. Schmidt

2015-CV-000490 | Kansas state trial court

Filed Date: 2015

(This is a temporary summary, while we research the case.) This lawsuit, filed on June 1, 2015 by the Center for Reproductive Rights, challenges a Kansas law (SB95) banning the most commonly used method of ending a pregnancy in the second trimester.