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EDUCATION
Cohen v. Brown University

1:92-cv-00197 | U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island

Filed Date: April 9, 1992

Case Ongoing

In 1991, Brown University announced that it was going to eliminate four sports: women’s volleyball, women’s gymnastics, men’s golf, and men’s water polo. Brown explained that the teams could still compete as club sports, but it was no longer able to provide university funding for financial reasons. At that time, Brown’s student body was 52 percent male and 48 percent female, but 63 percent of its athletes were male.On April 9, 1992, affected women students filed this class action lawsuit, claim…
EDUCATION
CODING IN PROCESS
Cook v. McKee

1:18-cv-00645 | U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island

Filed Date: Nov. 28, 2018

Case Ongoing

(This summary is temporary, while we research the case.) In this case, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island, was a class action suit against the State of Rhode Island in which plaintiffs alleged that the State violated the United States Constitution by failing to provide them with an education adequate to prepare them to become capable citizens. They lost in District Court and on appeal in the First Circuit.   In June 2022, plaintiffs agreed not to seek Supreme Cour…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Palmigiano v. Baxter

1:72-cv-05053 | U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island

Filed Date: Nov. 15, 1972

Closed Date: 1976

In 1973, a prison inmate brought suit seeking damages and declaratory and injunctive relief under 42 USC § 1983 challenging due process violations in prison disciplinary procedures at Rhode Island's Adult Correctional Institutions (A.C.I.). The inmate had been charged with inciting a disturbance, and though told that the charge might result in an additional prosecution in state courts, was not allowed to have an attorney present at the disciplinary hearing. He was also advised that his silence …
DISABILITY RIGHTS
CODING IN PROCESS
DOJ Investigation of CVS Pharmacy, Inc.

No Court

(This summary is temporary while we research the investigation) On April 11, 2022, the U.S. Department of Justice announced that it had reached a settlement agreement with CVS, the country's largest retail pharmacy, under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). 
PRISON CONDITIONS
Paiva v. Rhode Island Department of Corrections

1:17-mc-00014 | U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island

Filed Date: Jan. 16, 2017

Case Ongoing

On January 16, 2017, Plaintiff petitioned the district court for the District of Rhode Island to enforce the Morris Rules, established by the court in 1972 in Morris v. Travisono.  In that case, inmates at the Adult Correctional Institution (ACI) in Rhode Island had filed a lawsuit against the Rhode Island Department of Corrections (RIDOC) under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 challenging their conditions of confinement under the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution. The Morris Rules repr…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
United States v. Rhode Island Department of Corrections

1:14-cv-00078 | U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island

Filed Date: Feb. 10, 2014

Case Ongoing

On February 10, 2014, the United States filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Rhode Island under 42 U.S.C. § 2000e-6 ("Title VII"). The United States (the Employment Litigation Section of the Department of Justice Civil Rights Division) brought suit against the Rhode Island Department of Corrections seeking an injunction to prevent the defendant from engaging in future discrimination and back-pay damages to “make whole” those who had been harmed by the alleg…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Morris v. Travisono

1:69-cv-04192 | U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island

Filed Date: Oct. 11, 1969

Case Ongoing

On October 11, 1969, inmates at the Adult Correctional Institution (ACI) in Rhode Island filed a lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. 1983 against the Rhode Island Department of Corrections in the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island. The plaintiffs, represented by Rhode Island Legal Services and the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, asked the court for a temporary restraining order, alleging that the defendants had discriminatorily segregated them from the general prison population and placed them…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Common Cause Rhode Island v. Gorbea

1:20-cv-00318 | U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island

Filed Date: July 23, 2020

Closed Date: Aug. 24, 2021

Rhode Island state law required mail voters to have either two lay witnesses or one notary sign their mail-in ballot envelopes. On July 23, 2020, the League of Women Voters, Common Cause Rhode Island, and three Rhode Island residents concerned about their heightened risk of contracting COVID-19 ("the plaintiffs") filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island challenging this state law as applied to 2020 elections in Rhode Island. The plaintiffs, represented by c…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Goldin v. Restrepo

1:20-cv-00262 | U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island

Filed Date: June 16, 2020

Closed Date: Sept. 1, 2020

This case arose out of the 2020 election in Rhode Island. On June 16, 2020, candidates for the Rhode Island Senate ("the plaintiffs") filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island alleging that Rhode Island state law that required potential candidates to engage in-person solicitation and receipt of signatures and an in-person witness violated the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. The plaintiffs sued…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Liberty v. Rhode Island Department of Corrections

1:19-cv-00573 | U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island

Filed Date: Oct. 25, 2019

Case Ongoing

On October 25, 2019, detainees with serious and persistent mental illness who were held in solitary confinement—many for prolonged periods of time—filed this lawsuit along with Disability Rights Rhode Island, the state Protection and Advocacy Agency, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island. The plaintiffs sued the Rhode Island Department of Corrections and its officers under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, the Americans with Disabilities Act, and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act. The…