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DISABILITY RIGHTS
Disability Rights Center-NH v. Hanks

1:18-cv-00160 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire

Filed Date: Feb. 20, 2018

Closed Date: Aug. 29, 2018

This is a case about a Protection and Advocacy (P&A) agency’s records access authority after a facility resident’s death. On February 20, 2018, Disability Rights Center-New Hampshire (Disability Rights Center), New Hampshire’s P&A, filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire. Disability Rights Center filed this lawsuit against New Hampshire’s Department of Corrections Commissioner and the warden for New Hampshire’s State Prison for Men in their official capac…
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Local 8027, AFT-New Hampshire, AFL-CIO v. NH Department of Education, Commissioner

1:21-cv-01077 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire

Filed Date: Dec. 20, 2021

Case Ongoing

This is a case about enforcement of the “Banned Concepts Act” (also known as the “Divisive Concepts Act”) in New Hampshire schools. The plaintiffs in this case were New Hampshire teachers and diversity, equity, and inclusion school administrators as well as the National Education Association’s New Hampshire branch. They filed suit on December 20, 2021 in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire against the New Hampshire Department of Education, the New Hampshire Commission for …
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Price v. New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services

1:21-cv-00025 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire

Filed Date: Jan. 11, 2021

Case Ongoing

A group of Medicaid waiver beneficiaries seeking class status filed a lawsuit on January 11, 2021 in the Us District Court, District of New Hampshire against New Hampshire’s Department of Health and Human Services alleging a failure to provide them with the community-based services, available through the waiver and for which they have been found eligible. Specifically, Plaintiffs asserted, that without their assessed level of waiver service need, they were at risk of unnecessary institutionaliz…
EDUCATION
Rapuano v. Trustees of Dartmouth College

1:18-cv-01070 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire

Filed Date: Nov. 15, 2018

Case Ongoing

On November 15, 2018, seven female students in Dartmouth's Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences filed this putative class action suit against the Trustees of Dartmouth College under Title IX and New Hampshire common law in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire. The plaintiffs claimed a hostile educational environment, gender discrimination, quid pro quo sexual harassment, and retaliation in violation of Title IX. Additionally, the plaintiff class claimed that the T…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Libertarian Party of New Hampshire v. Sununu

1:20-cv-00688 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire

Filed Date: June 8, 2020

Closed Date: Sept. 4, 2020

The Libertarian Party of New Hampshire and several of its hopeful candidates in the 2020 elections brought this suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire on June 8, 2020. Plaintiffs brought their case against New Hampshire's Governor and Secretary of State. Plaintiffs alleged that their would-be nominees could not safely be placed on the ballot due to COVID-19 mitigation orders issued by the state. In New Hampshire, third-party candidates must secure nomination papers fr…
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Frese v. MacDonald

1:18-cv-01180 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire

Filed Date: Dec. 18, 2018

Case Ongoing

A person twice convicted under New Hampshire's criminal defamation law, N.H. Rev. Stat. § 644:11, sued New Hampshire's attorney general to challenge that law. The suit was filed on December 18, 2018, in the United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire and was assigned to Judge Joseph N. Laplante. The plaintiff asserted that the criminal defamation law violated the First Amendment because it was excessively vague. The plaintiff sought declaratory relief, a permanent injunction …
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
Meehan v. State of New Hampshire

New Hampshire state trial court

Filed Date: Jan. 11, 2020

Case Ongoing

This class action civil rights lawsuit alleged abuses at a New Hampshire youth detention center, the Youth Detention Center (YDC), in the 1990s. An alleged victim of that abuse filed this suit on January 11, 2021 against the New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services, YDC, the state Division of Juvenile Services, the state Division of Children, Youth, and Families, and hundreds of individual defendants. The plaintiff was represented by the private law firm Rilee & Associates and the …
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Frye v. Gardner

1:20-cv-00751 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire

Filed Date: July 7, 2020

Case Ongoing

This case is about equal access to voting for print-disabled voters. On July 7, 2020, the National Federation of the Blind, Inc.; the National Federation of the Blind of New Hampshire, Inc.; Granite State Independent Living; and three individuals, two who identify as blind and one with a muscle-weakness disability, filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire. The plaintiffs sued the state of New Hampshire under Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act …
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Casey v. Gardner

1:19-cv-00149 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire

Filed Date: Feb. 13, 2019

Closed Date: May 22, 2020

This is a case about voting rights—particularly those of college students—in New Hampshire. On February 13, 2019, two college students filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire. The plaintiffs sued the state’s Secretary of State and Attorney General, alleging violations of the First, Fourteenth, Twenty-Fourth, and Twenty-Sixth Amendments. Represented by the ACLU of New Hampshire, the plaintiffs sought an injunction prohibiting New Hampshire from implementin…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Drewniak v. C.B.P.

1:20-cv-00852 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire

Filed Date: Aug. 11, 2020

Case Ongoing

After being stopped and detained without a warrant at a U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) checkpoint 90 miles from the Canadian border, the plaintiff brought this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire on August 11, 2020, challenging CBP's practice of using checkpoints for general crime control. The plaintiff sued CBP, U.S. Border Patrol, the Deputy Chief Border Patrol Agent for the Swanton Sector (which policed some counties of New Hampshire), and the two a…