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DISABILITY RIGHTS
Cummings v. Premier Rehab, P.L.L.C.

4:18-cv-00649 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas

Filed Date: Aug. 7, 2018

Closed Date: April 28, 2022

An individual plaintiff brought this suit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas on August 7, 2018, against a physical therapy provider who declined to provide the plaintiff with an ASL interpreter. The complaint alleged violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the Rehabilitation Act, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), and the Texas Human Resources Code. The plaintiff sought injunctive relief and damages for the emotional distress she ex…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Ruiz v. Estelle

4:78-cv-00987 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas

Filed Date: June 1, 1972

Closed Date: June 17, 2002

This was a prisoner led class action which broadly challenged conditions and practices within the Texas state prison system. Issues covered included overcrowding, inadequate healthcare, unsafe working conditions, inadequate access to the justice system, and severe and arbitrary disciplinary procedures. The plaintiff’s 1980 trial victory was followed by over two decades of appeals and negotiations which culminated in numerous consent decrees. As one of the longest running prisoners' lawsuit in U…
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
State of Texas v. Biden

3:21-cv-00309 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas

Filed Date: Oct. 29, 2021

Case Ongoing

This is a case challenging President Biden's Executive Order (EO 14042) requiring employees of federal contractors to receive the COVID-19 vaccine. On October 29, 2021, the Attorney General of Texas, on behalf of the State of Texas, (“the State)” filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas. The State sued President Biden and the following federal offices (or officials associated with those offices) seeking declaratory relief: the Safer Federal Workforce Task…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
State of Texas v. Brooks-LaSure

6:21-cv-00191 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas

Filed Date: May 14, 2021

Closed Date: May 10, 2022

This is a case about the Biden administration's attempt to rescind a Medicaid waiver granted to the State of Texas. On May 14, 2021, Texas and its Health and Human Services Commission filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas against the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), the Acting Administrator for CMS, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the Secretary of HHS, and the federal government. Texas brought suit under…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Bush v. Biden

7:21-cv-00272 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas

Filed Date: July 13, 2021

Case Ongoing

The General Land Office of the State of Texas and its then-commissioner, George P. Bush (collectively, “GLO”) sued President Biden, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and the Secretary of DHS on July 13, 2021, in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas. GLO challenged Proclamation 10142 (“the Proclamation”), which ordered DHS to stop construction of the southern U.S. border wall for which Congress had appropriated money. GLO alleged that the Proclamation and DHS’s obs…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Ulloa Lujan v. U.S. Department of Education

3:22-cv-00159 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

Filed Date: May 3, 2022

Case Ongoing

On May 3, 2022, two individuals who applied for Fulbright programs filed this suit in the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas. The plaintiffs, represented by the New Civil Liberties Alliance, sued the U.S. Department of Education (DOE), its Secretary, and its Assistant Secretary for Postsecondary Education, alleging that the language-proficiency criterion for Fulbright-Hays Fellowships impermissibly discriminated based on national heritageThe plaintiffs alleged that t…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
United States of America v. Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc.

2:21-CV-00022 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas

Filed Date: Feb. 5, 2021

Case Ongoing

On February 5, 2021 an anonymous Plaintiff, “Relator Alex Doe,” brought this civil fraud action on behalf of the United States, Texas, and Louisiana against Defendants Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc., and other Planned Parenthood affiliates. Plaintiff sought to recover damages and civil penalties they alleged were owed to the United States, Texas, and Louisiana as a result of Planned Parenthood having presented “false or fraudulent claims for payment of approval under the Medicai…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Reed-Veal v. Encinia

4:15-cv-02232 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas

Filed Date: Aug. 4, 2015

Closed Date: Nov. 1, 2016

This is the litigation that came out of the death of Sandra Bland in jail in Waller County after a routine traffic stop led to her arrest. Although the Clearinghouse does not focus on damage actions like this one, because of the widespread interest in this case, we've posted the key documents in the case for use by the public. On August 4, 2015, the mother of Sandra Bland filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas. The plaintiff sued the Texas Department of…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. U.S. Food and Drug Administration

2:22-cv-00223 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas

Filed Date: Nov. 18, 2022

Case Ongoing

On November 18, 2022, four national medical associations and four doctors with alleged experience in caring for pregnant and post-abortive patients sued the United States Food & Drug Administration (FDA), seeking to overturn the agency’s decades-old authorization of mifepristone, a pill that induces abortions. Represented by Alliance Defending Freedom and a private law firm, Plaintiffs brought suit in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas. Plaintiffs brought suit u…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Braidwood Management Inc. v. Becerra

4:20-cv-00283 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas

Filed Date: March 29, 2020

Case Ongoing

On June 11, 2019 — more than nine years after the Affordable Care Act was signed into law—the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommended that health insurance cover preexposure prophylaxis (PrEP) drugs without any cost-sharing arrangements such as co-payments or deductibles. On March 29, 2020, in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas, Plaintiffs filed a complaint, challenging the PrEP mandate as well as a prior contraception mandate. Plaintiffs, individuals an…