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Boston Alliance of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Youth (BAGLY) v. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

1:20-cv-11297 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: July 9, 2020

Case Ongoing

This case is about a regulation promulgated by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) affecting protections against discrimination in healthcare on the basis of sex. In 2010, Congress passed the Affordable Care Act (ACA) to increase the number of Americans with health insurance and to decrease the cost of healthcare. One provision in the law, Section 1557, aimed to protect against various forms of discrimination in healthcare and health insurance, including discrimination on the…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Kosilek v. Spencer

1:00-cv-12455 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: Dec. 12, 2000

Closed Date: Oct. 14, 2022

On December 12, 2000, a transgender person who was incarcerated at the Massachusetts Correction Institute in Norfolk filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts. Filing pro se, the plaintiff sued the Massachusetts Department of Corrections (the "DOC"), the Correctional Medical Services, and the University of Massachusetts Medical School under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The incarcerated person sought injunctive relief and damages to be determined by the jury, alleging …
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Dracut School Committee v. Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education

1:09-cv-10966 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: June 8, 2009

Closed Date: April 27, 2011

Plaintiff Dracut School Committee (“Dracut”) sought judicial review of two decisions of the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education’s (“DESE’s”) Bureau of Special Education Appeals (“BSEA”) pursuant to the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (“IDEA”), 20 U.S.C. §§ 1400-1482. In the Initial Decision, issued on March 13, 2009, a BSEA Hearing Officer found that Dracut had failed to provide the student, C.A., who suffers from Asperger’s Syndrome, Attention Deficit Hyp…
EDUCATION
Foote v. Ludlow School Committee

3:22-cv-30041 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: April 12, 2022

Case Ongoing

This case involved four parents who believed local public school officials overreached when they chose not to disclose their childrens’ decision to establish a new gender identity at school. On April 12, 2022, two sets of parents filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts. The parents sued the school district and various officials, administrators, and teachers in their official capacity under 42 U.S.C. 1983. Represented by public interest attorneys for the Massachus…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Blake v. Hall

1:78-cv-03051 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: Nov. 21, 1978

This case was an ultimately successful Eighth Amendment challenge of the conditions at a Massachusetts prison. The housing sections were horrendously filthy and the subterranean protective custody unit, where inhabitants had no out-of-cell time, was likened to a medieval dungeon. In 1978, six incarcerated persons filed a class action suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts. They alleged there were horrid conditions at the then 23-year-old maximum-security Massachusetts…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Muehe v. City of Boston

1:21-cv-11080 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: June 2, 2021

Case Ongoing

On June 2, 2021 four individuals with mobility disabilities filed a class action complaint against the City of Boston to redress the City’s systemic failure to provide full and equal access to its pedestrian right of way to plaintiffs and similarly situated individuals with mobility disabilities. The complaint was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts and assigned to Judge Richard G. Stearns. It alleged that the City failed to install and maintain curb ramps when it…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Foxworth v. Commissioner of Correction

03-00895 | Massachusetts state trial court

Filed Date: Feb. 25, 2003

Closed Date: Feb. 10, 2009

The plaintiffs in this case were incarcerated with the Massachusetts Department of Corrections (MDOC), who sued the MDOC over certain policies that applied to inmates in a “special management unit” (SMU) at MCI-Cedar Junction. They filed this suit pro se on February 25, 2003, in Massachusetts Superior Court, seeking injunctive relief and damages under state law, Section 1983, and the U.S. Constitution. The case was assigned to Justice Margot Botsford. Among other reasons, MDOC officials used SM…
POLICING
DOJ Investigation of Worcester Police Department

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On November 15, 2022, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that they would be opening an investigation into the Worcester Police Department. The investigation intended to assess whether the Worcester Police Department engaged in a pattern or practice of using excessive force and whether their policing was discriminatory on the basis of race or sex. The Justice Department was given information that the DOJ believed indicated the Worcester Police Department may be acting in an unconstitution…
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…