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PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Emily Q. v. Bonta

2:98-cv-04181 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: May 27, 1998

Closed Date: Sept. 15, 2011

On May 27, 1998 a group of seven children with intensive mental health needs who were eligible for Medi-Cal benefits filed suit against the California Department of Health Services in the Federal District Court for the Central District of California alleging violations of the Medicaid Act. They contended they were entitled under federal law to mental health benefits that were being denied to them, specifically Therapeutic Behavioral Services (TBS). They sought injunctive relief requiring that t…
CHILD WELFARE
Roe v. Staples

1:83-cv-01704 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio

Filed Date: Oct. 20, 1983

Closed Date: June 27, 2016

Plaintiff, a child in foster care represented by a legal aid attorney, brought suit in 1983 in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio against the Hamilton County Department of Human Services (HCDHS) and the Ohio Department of Human Services (ODHS) alleging violations of the Fourteenth Amendment and the Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act of 1980, 42 U.S.C. § 670 et seq. The complaint claimed that children in foster care and their parents did not receive proper pre-removal a…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Diffenderfer v. Gomez-Colon

3:08-cv-01918 | U.S. District Court for the District of Puerto Rico

Filed Date: Aug. 19, 2008

Closed Date: Dec. 23, 2009

Longtime residents of Puerto Rico, who only spoke, read, and understood English, filed this class action suit on behalf of similarly situated individuals against members of the electoral commission for its decision to issue ballots in the November 2008 Puerto Rican elections only in Spanish. On August 19, 2008, the plaintiffs filed a putative class action suit against members of the Puerto Rico electoral commission in the U.S. District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, arguing that the com…
INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY (FACILITY)
Judge Rotenberg Educational Center, Inc. v. Commissioner of the Department of Mental Retardation

86E-0018-G1 | Massachusetts state trial court

Filed Date: 1986

The Judge Rotenberg Educational Center (JRC), formerly known as the Behavioral Research Institute, is a Massachusetts-based residential care facility for children and young adults with severe autism, mental impairments, and mental illnesses associated with behavioral problems. JRC is known for its use of aversive treatments, especially electric shock therapies, to disincentivize undesirable behaviors. As a result of its use of aversive treatments, JRC has been controversial and the subject of s…
POLICING
Winston v. Salt Lake City Police Department

2:12-cv-01134 | U.S. District Court for the District of Utah

Filed Date: Dec. 13, 2012

Closed Date: April 11, 2016

This is a racial profiling and illegal seizure case about a gang task force of about 16 police officers who raided West High School in the Salt Lake City School District on December 16, 2010 to round up students for detention, interrogation, and inclusion in a gang database. The police officers detained Latinx, Black, and Pacific Islander students regardless of whether they had actual gang membership, and they targeted no white students. On December 13, 2012, the plaintiff, represented by the A…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Reynolds v. Giuliani

1:98-cv-08877 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Dec. 16, 1998

Closed Date: July 22, 2011

New York City implemented an overhaul to its welfare system in order to meet federal and state welfare requirements, which were revised in the mid-1990s. Under the city’s program, “income support centers” (locations where public assistance benefits were applied for and distributed, sometimes during the initial visit by an applicant) were to be converted to “job centers.” These job centers put greater emphasis on making sure those receiving public assistance obtained employment from the private …
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Northeast Ohio Coalition for the Homeless v. Husted

2:06-cv-00896 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio

Filed Date: Oct. 24, 2006

Closed Date: March 28, 2018

On October 24, 2006, the Northeast Ohio Coalition for the Homeless ("NEOCH") and Service Employees International Union ("SEIU") filed this lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio against the State of Ohio. The plaintiffs, represented by private counsel, sought preliminary and permanent injunctive relief and declaratory relief challenging numerous aspects of Ohio's comprehensive voter-identification law set forth in Ohio's House Bill 3. The pla…
NATIONAL SECURITY
United States v. Aws Mohammed Younis Al-Jayab

1:16-cr-00181 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: March 17, 2016

Closed Date: Oct. 31, 2019

This is the eighth time the Justice Department has notified a criminal defendant that evidence being used against him came from a FISA warrantless wiretap, a move that is expected at some point to set up a Supreme Court test of whether such eavesdropping is constitutional. (As explained below, however, this case was resolved by guilty plea and will not be that test case.) All the cases are available in the Foreign Targeting (702, 703, 704) special collection. On January 7, 2016, Aws Mohammed Yo…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Prison Legal News v. Sullivan County

2:13-cv-00266 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee

Filed Date: Oct. 10, 2013

Closed Date: Aug. 11, 2016

On October 10, 2013, Prison Legal News (“PLN”) filed this lawsuit on behalf of itself and Sullivan County Jail prisoners in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee. The plaintiff sued Sullivan County under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The plaintiff, represented by both private and public interest legal counsel, sought declaratory, injunctive, and monetary relief, claiming violations of the First Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment’s Due Process Clause. The plaintiff claimed t…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Westefer v. Snyder

3:00-cv-00162 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois

Filed Date: March 7, 2000

Closed Date: 2016

On March 7, 2000, prisoners in Illinois' supermax prison, Tamms Correctional Center, brought this action in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois. The prisoners sued the Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC) under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and state law, alleging that their selection by prison officials for transfer to and continued confinement at Tamms violated their rights to petition the government, to due process, and to freedom of association, as well as the ex-post fact…