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PRISON CONDITIONS
DOJ ADA Investigation of Vermont Department of Corrections

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The Disability Rights Section of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division (“DOJ”) initiated an investigation into the Vermont Department of Corrections (“VDOC”) following complaints that VDOC failed to provide accessible facilities for incarcerated individuals with mobility disabilities and did not ensure effective communication for individuals with hearing disabilities, contrary to the requirements of Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Individuals with mobilit…
PRISON CONDITIONS
West v. Gobeille

2:19-cv-00081 | U.S. District Court for the District of Vermont

Filed Date: May 21, 2019

Case Ongoing

On May 21, 2019, incarcerated individuals in Vermont with chronic hepatitis C (HCV) filed a class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Vermont, and Judge William K. Sessions III presided. The plaintiffs alleged that the Vermont Department of Corrections, its leadership, and its medical contractors violated the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution by withholding treatment from incarcerated individuals wit…
PRISON CONDITIONS
McGee v. Pallito

5:04-cv-00335 | U.S. District Court for the District of Vermont

Filed Date: Dec. 9, 2004

Closed Date: July 14, 2017

On December 9, 2004, an inmate in the Vermont Department of Corrections filed this lawsuit pro se in the U.S. District Court District of Vermont. The plaintiff sued the Commissioner of the Vermont Department of Corrections and the Superintendents of Southern State Correctional Facility and Northern State Correctional Facility under 42 U.S.C. §1983. The pro se plaintiff sought declaratory relief stating the defendants’ actions were unlawful and violated the plaintiff’s rights, along with an inju…
MENTAL HEALTH (FACILITY)
Hargrave v. Vermont

2:99-cv-00128 | U.S. District Court for the District of Vermont

Filed Date: April 27, 1999

Closed Date: 2005

On April 27, 1999, a Vermont resident who had been diagnosed with mental illness filed a class action lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and the Americans with Disabilities Act, 42 U.S.C. § 12111 et seq., against the Vermont Department of Developmental and Mental Health Services. The plaintiffs, represented by private counsel and the Connecticut Legal Rights Project, brought the suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Vermont, alleging that Vermont's statutes concerning individuals who…
MENTAL HEALTH (FACILITY)
J.L. v. Miller

418-84 | Vermont state trial court

Filed Date: 1984

Closed Date: Oct. 18, 2002

In 1984, individuals with mental illness confined at the Vermont State Hospital (VSH) in Waterbury, Vermont, filed a class action lawsuit in the Superior Court for the State of Vermont for Washington County against Vermont's Commissioner of Mental Health and Mental Retardation and various VSH officials. The plaintiffs, represented by Vermont Legal Aid, sought equitable relief for alleged violations of their Fourteenth Amendment Due Process rights. Specifically, the plaintiffs claimed that VSH…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Shoreham Cooperative Apple Producers v. Donovan

2:83-cv-00326 | U.S. District Court for the District of Vermont

Filed Date: Sept. 7, 1983

Closed Date: June 13, 1985

In 1984, a coalition of apple growers filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Vermont, challenging a regulation, 20 C.F.R. § 655.207(b) (1984), adopted by the U.S. Department of Labor for the determination of annual wage rate increases for temporary foreign workers under the "H-2 Program." Under the "H-2 Program," aliens were granted temporary visas to work in the United States. Workers were certified under the program upon an employer's agreement to pay both foreign and dome…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Migrant Justice v. Nielsen

5:18-cv-00192 | U.S. District Court for the District of Vermont

Filed Date: Nov. 14, 2018

Case Ongoing

On November 14, 2018, Migrant Justice, Inc. and four individual members of the organization filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Vermont. The plaintiffs sued the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the Vermont Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV), and the United States under 42 U.S.C. §1983 and Ex parte Young, 209 U.S. 123 (1908). The plaintiffs, represented by the various public interest organiz…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
CODING IN PROCESS
Vermont Protection and Advocacy v. Hoffman

2:04-cv-00245 | U.S. District Court for the District of Vermont

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PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Baker v. Vermont

97-01009 | Vermont state trial court

Filed Date: 1997

Closed Date: 1999

In 1997, three same-sex couples filed suit against the state of Vermont and their respective town governments after they attempted to obtain marriage licenses and were denied based on the fact that they were not of different sexes than their partners. They alleged violations of the state constitution, ch. 1 art. 7, the Common Benefits clause, which predates by nearly a century but is substantially similar in content to the federal Equal Protection clause, although more expansive. The trial cour…
PUBLIC ACCOMMODATIONS/CONTRACTING
Baker v. Wildflower Inn

11-01837 | Vermont state trial court

Filed Date: 2011

Closed Date: Aug. 23, 2012

In 2011, two women denied the opportunity to host their wedding reception at a particular private hotel due to their sexual orientation brought suit against that hotel to obtain a court order that the hotel's no-gay-receptions policy violated state law (Vermont's State Housing and Public Accommodations Act) and to prohibit future discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation. The couple was represented by the ACLU, and the Vermont Human Rights Commission intervened on their behalf after d…