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DISABILITY RIGHTS
Day v. District of Columbia

1:10-cv-02250 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Dec. 23, 2010

The plaintiffs, institutionalized individuals in the District of Columbia with disabilities, filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on December 23, 2010. The complaint alleged that the District of Columbia had policies and procedures that force the unnecessary institutionalization of people with disabilities who could live in the community with appropriate services. The plaintiffs claimed that these policies, which erected barriers to receiving long-term care…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
United States v. State of Rhode Island

1:24-cv-00531 | U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island

Filed Date: Dec. 19, 2024

This is a case about community-based services for children with disabilities. On December 19, 2024, the United States of America (“United States”) sued the State of Rhode Island under Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act in the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island. The US alleged that Rhode Island failed to sufficiently provide community-based services for children with disabilities and caused them to be unnecessarily hospital…
EDUCATION
Charles H. v. District of Columbia

1:21-cv-00997 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: April 9, 2021

This is a case about the District of Columbia's alleged failure to provide special education and related services to incarcerated students during the COVID-19 pandemic.  D.C. Public Schools was the service provider for certain high school students with disabilities and special education needs, who were enrolled in the D.C. Jail's on-site school through the Inspiring Youth Program (IYP).  IYP Classes for were suspended on March 13, 2020.  For over a year, however, IYP students alleged that instr…

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L.R. (Lucas R.) v. Azar

2:18-cv-05741 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: June 29, 2018

This class action suit, filed on June 29, 2018, sought to enjoin the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), of which ORR is a component part, from causing grave harm to migrant and asylum-seeking children in its care. 2018 WL 3209193. The plaintiffs--represented by the Center for Human Rights & Constitutional Law, National Center for Youth Law, the Immigration Law Clinic at the UC Davis Law School, and private counsel--were members of th…

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DISABILITY RIGHTS
Endrew F. v. Douglas County School District RE-1

1:12-cv-02620 | U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado

Filed Date: Oct. 2, 2012

Closed Date: May 8, 2018

On October 10, 2012, a child with autism and Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and his parents sued the Douglas County School District Re 1 in the United States District Court for the District of Colorado. The complaint alleged that the School District’s proposed individualized education program (IEP) violated the Individuals With Disabilities Act (IDEA), 20 U.S.C. § 1401(3), and Colorado’s Exceptional Children’s Educational Act (ECEA), Colo. Rev. Stat. § 22-20-103(5)(a)(I) by fai…
CHILD WELFARE
D.S. v. Washington State Department of Children, Youth, and Families

2:21-cv-00113 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: Jan. 28, 2021

This is a case about the treatment of children in the care of the Washington State Department of Children, Youth, and Families (DCYF) with behavioral health and/or developmental disabilities. On January 28th, 2021, three children under the care of DCYF brought a class-action suit along with Disability Rights Washington against DCYF in the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington. The case was assigned to Judge Barbara J. Rothstein. Disability Rights Washington argued …
CHILD WELFARE
J.E.L. v. Charest

1:24-cv-00471 | U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island

Filed Date: Nov. 13, 2024

This is a case about healthcare access for Medicaid-eligible youth in Rhode Island. On November 13, 2024, ten Medicaid-eligible minors brought a class action suit, filed in the U.S. District Court in Rhode Island, against the Director of the Rhode Island Department of Children, Youth, and Families, as well as the Executive Office of Health and Human Services, for failure to provide adequate treatment for Medicaid-eligible children and youth in Rhode Island with significant behavioral health nee…
EDUCATION
D.R. ex rel. Richardson v. Michigan Department of Education

5:16-cv-13694 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: Oct. 18, 2016

On October 18, 2016, families in Flint, Michigan filed this putative class-action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. The case was assigned to Judge Arthur J. Tarnow. The plaintiffs sued the Michigan Department of Education (MDE), Flint Community Schools (FCS), and the Genesee Intermediate School District (GISD) under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, 20 U.S.C. § 1400, § 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, and Title II of the Americans with…
CHILD WELFARE
Sam M. v. Chafee

1:07-cv-00241 | U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island

Filed Date: June 28, 2007

On June 28, 2007, ten named minor children in the legal custody of the Rhode Island Department of Children, Youth and Families ("DCYF") filed this putative class action lawsuit (by their Next Friends) in the United States District Court for the District of Rhode Island against the Governor of Rhode Island, Secretary of the Office of Health & Human Services, and Director of DCYF. The named plaintiffs were represented by the advocacy organization Children's Rights, then-Rhode Island Child Advocat…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
DOJ Investigation into Michigan's State Psychiatric Hospitals

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On November 13, 2024, the U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division announced it had opened an investigation into whether Michigan's state psychiatric hospitals unnecessarily institutionalized adults with severe mental illnesses. The Division also planned to investigate whether the state failed to provide the necessary mental health services to allow people to transition out of the psychiatric services and remain out. Under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), people with disabilit…