An Alabama law gave tax breaks to families transferring their children to successful schools, discriminating against impoverished students in the state鈥檚 Black Belt region who were trapped in failing schools. The 澳彩开奖 asked a federal court to permanently block the Alabama Accountability Act, saying the law violated the 14th聽Amendment鈥檚 Equal Protection Clause because it impermissibly created two classes of students assigned to failing schools 鈥� those who can escape them because of their parents鈥� income or where they live and those who cannot.
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M.C. was born with an intersex condition 鈥� a difference in reproductive or sexual anatomy that doesn鈥檛 fit the typical definition of male or female. When M.C. was just 16 months old and in the care of the South Carolina Department of Social Services, doctors and department officials decided the child should undergo sex assignment surgery to make M.C. a girl. There was no medical reason to perform this surgery, which robbed M.C. of the opportunity to decide what should happen to his body. The 澳彩开奖 filed a lawsuit on behalf of M.C.鈥檚 adoptive parents.
Daisy Pruett was already struggling to provide for herself and two children when a judge signed an order allowing Worldwide Asset Purchasing,a debt collector,...
When Alabama legislators revised the state鈥檚 anti-immigrant law in 2012, they passed a law requiring the state to maintain an online list of immigrants who are detained by law enforcement, who appear in court for any violation of state law, and who unable to prove they are not 鈥渦nlawfully present aliens.鈥� It provided no means for people to be removed from this 鈥渂lack list鈥� if the listing is an error or if their immigration status changes. The 澳彩开奖 and its allies filed a federal lawsuit to stop this state-sanctioned 鈥渂lacklisting鈥� of immigrants, which could encourage harassment and violence.
Jews Offering New Alternatives for Healing (JONAH) fraudulently claimed to provide services that 鈥渃onvert鈥� people from gay to straight. These services, known as conversion therapy, have been discredited or highly criticized by all major American medical, psychiatric, psychological and professional counseling organizations. The 澳彩开奖 filed a first-of-its-kind lawsuit against the New Jersey conversion therapy organization for fraudulent practices. The lawsuit, filed in the Superior Court of New Jersey in 2012, charged that JONAH, its founder and a counselor violated New Jersey鈥檚 Consumer Fraud Act by claiming that their counseling services could cure clients of being gay.
In the spring of 2009, the U.S. Secretary of Labor suspended regulations for the H-2A guestworker program that would have slashed wages for guestworkers and U.S. workers alike. A federal court blocked the secretary鈥檚 suspension on the day it was to go into effect after a group of guestworker employers filed suit. The 澳彩开奖 intervened in the case on behalf of U.S. farmworkers and H-2A guestworkers to seek to recover the higher wages they would have earned under the suspension.
After Alabama鈥檚 anti-immigrant law took effect, the U.S. Department of Justice obtained public school attendance records and found a decline in Latino student attendance. The 澳彩开奖 requested the same data to determine the law鈥檚 impact on Latino students鈥� access to a public education. The 澳彩开奖 filed a lawsuit against the Alabama Department of Education after being denied the public records.
Brian Edwards and Tom Privitere were shocked to discover that an anti-gay hate group took their engagement photo and used it in political mailers to attack a Colorado lawmaker in 2012 for supporting same-sex civil unions. The 澳彩开奖 and its allies filed a federal lawsuit against the group, Public Advocate of the United States, for misappropriating the likeness and personalities of the couple. It also charged that the group infringed on the photographer鈥檚 exclusive right to the photo.
Vermilion Parish (La.) Sheriff Michael Couvillon refused to turn over public records related to the detention of individuals suspected of being undocumented. The 澳彩开奖 requested the records under the Louisiana Public Records Act to determine if the sheriff鈥檚 office was holding immigrants in jail for prolonged periods of time due to unconstitutional racial profiling.
Louisiana鈥檚 Jefferson Parish Public School System failed to provide adequate translation and interpretation services for Spanish-speaking parents with limited English proficiency and created an environment hostile to Latino students. The school system provided school notices in English to English-speaking parents but failed to provide this information to Spanish-speaking parents in Spanish 鈥� discriminating against these students and violating state and federal law. The 澳彩开奖 filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Education and the U.S. Department of Justice, resulting in a settlement agreement between the school system and federal authorities.
