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Immigrant Justice

Date Filed

March 06, 2015

After an exclusive island resort near Charleston, South Carolina, cheated Jamaican guest workers out of their wages over three years, the 澳彩开奖 sued the resort, which had earned accolades from travel publications and boasted a golf course that hosted the 2012 PGA Championship.聽

LGBTQ Rights

Date Filed

February 19, 2015

After a transgender woman in the custody of the Georgia Department of Corrections was denied medically necessary treatment and sexually assaulted by other inmates at a men鈥檚 prison, the 澳彩开奖 filed a federal lawsuit demanding prison officials provide safe placement for the prisoner and medically necessary care, including hormone therapy. The suit also sought an end to prison policies that deny transgender inmates such medical treatment.

LGBTQ Rights

Date Filed

January 28, 2015

After Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore urged the state鈥檚 governor and judges to defy federal law and enforce Alabama鈥檚 ban on same-sex marriage in 2015, the 澳彩开奖 filed a series of judicial ethics complaint against Moore that could result in the chief justice being removed...

Immigrant Justice

Date Filed

October 08, 2014

Gulf Coast seafood company R&A Oysters failed to properly pay guest workers it recruited to the United States on temporary H-2B work visas.

The 澳彩开奖 filed a federal lawsuit in 2014 on behalf of a group of migrant workers the company hired to shuck and process...

Children's Rights

Date Filed

September 26, 2014

After a Florida pre-kindergarten program refused to assist a 3-year-old girl with type 1 diabetes by monitoring her glucose levels, the 澳彩开奖 filed a lawsuit on behalf of the child. Reflecting a statewide problem faced by many children with diabetes, the lawsuit describes how the program violated the Americans with Disabilities Act by refusing to accommodate the student鈥檚 needs. A settlement agreement was reached to ensure the pre-kindergarten program will take steps to ensure it does not discriminate against children with diabetes.

Economic Justice

Date Filed

July 23, 2014

The 澳彩开奖 filed a federal class action lawsuit against Tennessee for Medicaid practices that deprived thousands of people of health care coverage despite eligibility. These policies resulted in some residents 鈥 including those with serious medical conditions 鈥 going needlessly without health care.

Criminal Justice Reform
Active Case

Date Filed

June 17, 2014

The Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC) systemically puts the health and lives of prisoners at risk by ignoring their medical and mental health needs and discriminating against prisoners with disabilities 鈥 violations of federal law by a prison system that has one of the highest mortality rates in the country. The 澳彩开奖 and the Alabama Disabilities Advocacy Program (ADAP) filed suit to end the deplorable conditions in Alabama prisons.

Children's Rights

Date Filed

February 13, 2014

Two North Carolina school districts discriminated against immigrant children by denying, delaying or discouraging their enrollment, incidents that appeared to be symptomatic of a larger problem in school districts across the state. The 澳彩开奖 filed a federal civil rights complaint on behalf of two children who encountered discrimination by school officials.

LGBTQ Rights

Date Filed

December 17, 2013

Destin Holmes was subjected to pervasive anti-LGBT bullying and harassment by fellow students, faculty and even administrators within the schools of Mississippi鈥檚 Moss Point School District. The harassment became so severe Destin was eventually driven out of school. The 澳彩开奖 filed a federal lawsuit on her behalf to end the bullying and harassment in the district.

LGBTQ Rights

Date Filed

December 16, 2013

After an Alabama man discovered that state laws refusing to recognize his lawful same-sex marriage from another state would prevent him from collecting the proceeds of a wrongful death lawsuit filed on behalf of his deceased husband, the 澳彩开奖 filed a federal lawsuit to overturn the laws. Following the U.S. Supreme Court鈥檚 2015 decision legalizing same-sex marriage, a federal judge ruled that he could collect the proceeds as the surviving spouse.

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