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DISABILITY RIGHTS
Charlson v. Galvin

SJ-2020-0588 | Massachusetts state supreme court

Filed Date: Aug. 21, 2020

Closed Date: Sept. 1, 2020

This case involved voting accommodations for the 2020 Massachusetts primary election that was set to take place on September 1, 2020. On August 21, 2020, the Disability Law Center (DLC) (Massachusetts’s Protection and Advocacy agency) filed an emergency petition for relief on behalf of the Bay State Council of the Blind, the Boston Center for Independent Living, and six individual voters with disabilities against the Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (“Secretary”) in his official c…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Lopez v. Massachusetts Division of Human Resources

0984-CV-00576 | Massachusetts state trial court

Filed Date: Feb. 11, 2009

Case Ongoing

In this class action lawsuit filed in Suffolk County Superior Court, several minority police officers employed throughout Massachusetts claimed that the Massachusetts Human Resources Division (HRD) engaged in unlawful disparate impact discrimination under state law in its administration of promotional exams for police sergeants.  This case followed a separate lawsuit ((Lopez v. Lawrence, U.S. Dist. Ct., No. 07-11693 (D. Mass. September 5, 2014), aff'd, 823 F.3d 102 (1st Cir. 2016), cert. denied…
EDUCATION
DOJ Investigation of New Bedford Public Schools

No Court

After receiving a complaint in 2020 from K’iché-speaking students and families, the Department of Justice opened an investigation into the New Bedford Public Schools to see how the Massachusetts school district was addressing the needs of people of indigenous Mayan descent. Complainants alleged that the district was in violation of the Equal Educational Opportunities Act of 1974, 20 U.S.C. §& 1701 et seq., which requires schools to take “appropriate action to overcome language barriers that imp…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Alianza Americas v. DeSantis

1:22-cv-11550 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: Sept. 20, 2022

Case Ongoing

This is a case about the relocation of about fifty immigrants from Texas to Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, by chartered planes. The plaintiffs alleged that the defendants—Florida officials and unidentified individuals—induced the immigrants to board two planes with promises of employment, housing, and educational opportunities at their destination, but that once the planes landed in Martha's Vineyard, the immigrants were left without any assistance and the defendants were unreachable.  On Se…
EDUCATION
Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard

1:14-cv-14176 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: Nov. 17, 2014

Case Ongoing

On November 17, 2014, Students for Fair Admissions Inc. filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts under the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. § 2000d against Harvard College. The plaintiff, represented by private counsel, asked the court for declaratory and injunctive relief to prohibit the consideration of race in college admissions, claiming that Harvard's admissions policy discriminated against Asian American applicants. Specifically, the plainti…
POLICING
Graham v. District Attorney for Hampden County

SJ-2021-0129 | Massachusetts state supreme court

Filed Date: April 6, 2021

Case Ongoing

The ACLU of Massachusetts, the Committee for Public Counsel Services, and private counsel filed this lawsuit in the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court on April 6, 2021, representing people and groups affected by policing failures. This group comprised individuals who have been prosecuted in Hampden County, criminal defense lawyers, CPCS itself, and a bar advocate organization. The plaintiffs called for an investigation into Springfield police violence and misconduct, and sought assurances tha…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Rivero v. Galvin

1:20-cv-11808 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: Oct. 2, 2020

Closed Date: Oct. 13, 2020

On October 2, 2020, the Disability Law Center (Massachusetts’s Protection and Advocacy agency) filed this to challenge Massachusetts’ Accessible Vote by Mail (AVBM) program on behalf of four individual plaintiffs, the Boston Center for Independent Living, and Bay State Council of the Blind. The case was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, where it was assigned to District Judge Douglas P. Woodlock and named the commonwealth’s Secretary of State as a defendant. Th…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Out of Court Settlement between the United States and the Massachusetts Trial Court

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On March 24, 2022, the U.S. Department of Justice signed an out of court settlement agreement with the Massachusetts Trial Court to ensure that the Commonwealth's drug courts did not discriminate against people taking medication to manage opioid use disorder.  After receiving a complaint that some drug courts in Massachusetts had prevented participants from using prescription medications like buprenorphine or methadone to manage opioid use disorder, the Department's Civil Rights Division opened…
POLICING
United States v. Springfield Police Department

3:22-cv-30043 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: April 13, 2022

Case Ongoing

On April 13, 2022, the U.S. Department of Justice brought this case against the Springfield Police Department and the City of Springfield in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, proceeding under the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994. The federal government alleged that the defendants, specifically the Springfield Police Department Narcotics Bureau, engaged in a pattern or practice of excessive force that violated the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constit…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts v. Leavitt

1:09-cv-10038 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: Jan. 12, 2009

Closed Date: Jan. 16, 2013

The ACLU of Massachusetts brought this suit against the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on January 12, 2009 in the District of Massachusetts; Judge Richard G. Stearns heard the case. Represented by its national and Massachusetts in-house legal teams, the ACLU alleged that the Department violated the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment by allocating grant funding to a religious organization that imposed religiously-based restrictions on sub-grants. The ACLU specifically chal…