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ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Democracy North Carolina v. North Carolina Board of Elections

1:20-cv-00457 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina

Filed Date: May 22, 2020

Closed Date: March 28, 2023

NOTE: This case is being tracked in close to real time by the Stanford/MIT Healthy Elections Project. So for more current information, see their tracker. COVID-19 Summary: This suit was filed on May 22, 2020, by two non-profit organizations and six individual plaintiffs against the state of North Carolina to challenge various election laws in light of COVID-19. The plaintiffs sought declaratory and injunctive relief. No outcome yet. On May 22, 2020, Democracy North Carolina, the League of Wom…
PUBLIC ACCOMMODATIONS/CONTRACTING
Berger v. United States Department of Justice

5:16-cv-00240 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina

Filed Date: May 9, 2016

Closed Date: July 18, 2016

This is one of several federal lawsuits addressing North Carolina Session Law 2016-3, House Bill 2 (“H.B. 2”), which was passed in March 23, 2016. For the others, see related cases section, below. On February 22, 2016, the Charlotte City Council passed Ordinance 7056, which prohibited discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity in public accommodations, passenger vehicle for hire, and city contractors. The city ordinance was set to take effect on April 1, 2016. In respo…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Disability Rights of North Carolina v. Sprouse

1:17-cv-00197 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina

Filed Date: July 21, 2017

Closed Date: Aug. 9, 2018

This is a case about a Protection and Advocacy agency’s records access authority for investigations conducted by a government agency into a private facility. On July 21, 2017, Disability Rights North Carolina (Disability Rights NC), North Carolina’s P&A, filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina. Disability Rights North Carolina filed this lawsuit against Lisa Sprouse, Director of McDowell County’s Department of Social Services (Department), in her…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
B. v. Kinsley

1:22-cv-01046 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina

Filed Date: Dec. 6, 2022

Case Ongoing

On December 6, 2022, Disability Rights North Carolina (DRNC), the NAACP, and Children's Rights filed suit on behalf of a class of North Carolina youth in foster care with mental and behavioral health. Plaintiffs filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina against the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS). The Plaintiffs asserted that Defendants actions violated the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and Section 504 of the Rehabilita…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Bryant v. Stein

1:23-cv-00077 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina

Filed Date: Jan. 25, 2023

Case Ongoing

This is a case about medication abortion in North Carolina. This lawsuit was filed on January 25, 2023, in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina. The plaintiff, a North Carolina physician, sued North Carolina, alleging that it was unconstitutional for the state to regulate mifepristone, an abortion medication, because the federal government already did so through the FDA and the federal regulations should preempt those imposed by the state. The plaintiff, represented…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Z.S. v. Durham County

1:21-cv-00663 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina

Filed Date: Aug. 24, 2021

Closed Date: Feb. 14, 2023

This lawsuit to challenged the institutionalization of toddler in the care of Durham County, North Carolina in a facility 100 miles away from parents’ home. The case was filed on August 24, 2021 in the the U.S. District Court, Middle District of North Carolina, where it was assigned to District Judge William L. Osteen, Jr.. The plaintiff, represented by Disability Rights North Carolina, alleged that the county failed to provide appropriate Medicaid services or home-based foster care in violatio…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Disabiltiy Rights North Carolina v. Frye

5:13-cv-00102 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina

Filed Date: July 22, 2013

Closed Date: Dec. 14, 2014

This is a case about whether a Protection and Advocacy (P&A) agency can use its records access authority to receive peer review and internal investigation records regarding a deceased psychiatric facility resident. On July 22, 2013, Disability Rights North Carolina (Disability Rights NC) filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina. Disability Rights NC filed this lawsuit against Frye Regional Medical Center (Frye), a medical center with an inpatient …
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Disability Rights North Carolina v. Moses Cone Health Systems

1:11-cv-00812 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina

Filed Date: Sept. 30, 2011

Closed Date: Sept. 11, 2013

This is a case about whether a Protection and Advocacy (P&A) agency can use its access authority to receive peer review and internal investigation records regarding a deceased psychiatric facility resident. On September 30, 2011 Disability Rights North Carolina (Disability Rights NC) filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina. DR North Carolina filed this lawsuit against Moses Cone Health Systems (Moses Cone), a medical center with an inpatient psych…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Disability Rights NC v. Brajer

1:16-cv-00137 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina

Filed Date: Oct. 14, 2016

Closed Date: Dec. 20, 2016

Action filed on October,14, 2016, in the Federal District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina by plaintiff, Disability Rights North Carolina (DRNC), against the Secretary of the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS). DRNC brought this action, in their own right, in the interests of Medicaid eligible children under the age of 21 who have both complex behavioral health and Developmental disabilities and are unnecessarily institutionalized because of DHHS’ fail…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Farm Labor Organizing Committee v. Roy Cooper

1:17-cv-01037 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina

Filed Date: Nov. 15, 2017

Case Ongoing

The Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC) and several private parties filed this action November 15, 2017, in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina. They named North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper and Administrative Office of the Courts Director Marion R. Warren as defendants. The ACLU, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), and a private practitioner served as plaintiffs’ counsel. At issue was a North Carolina state law which limited the ability of farmworkers to or…