Recent Litigation

On January 3, 2024, CPR and its co-counsel team filed litigation on behalf of Medicaid-eligible children in Georgia who are being deprived of the mental health services they need to treat their conditions and to remain at home with their families. The children’s mental health system in Georgia is in crisis.  Every day, children with […]

Visit the Bringing People Home website to stay informed on the implementation of the Marsters v. Healey Settlement Agreement! October 1, 2024: Update on the Implementation of the Marsters v. Healey Settlement Agreement – Year 1 On October 1, 2024, CPR, its co-counsel, and a number of state officials met for the first quarterly meeting required […]

CPR, the Disability Rights Center of Kansas (DRCK), the AARP Legal Foundation, and Shook Bacon LLP developed an Olmstead/PASRR case challenging the unnecessary segregation of persons with psychiatric disabilities in specialized mental health nursing facilities.  In July 2021, after several months of negotiations, CPR and their co-counsel reached an agreement with the State of Kansas that […]

In October 2021, CPR and its partners at Disability Rights North Carolina (DRNC) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with State officials from the Department of Human Services that would close admissions to sheltered workshops by July 1, 2022, close all workshops by 2026, and dramatically expand opportunities for persons with IDD to obtain Competitive […]

In 2018, the State of Alabama signed a Settlement Agreement to provide a range of intensive home-based services to thousands of Medicaid-eligible youth with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) or Serious Emotional Disorder (SED).  The Agreement, entered in response to a demand letter and proposed ESDPT class action lawsuit prepared by the Alabama Disabilities Advocacy Program […]

In 2017, parents of children with disabilities, the Center for Public Representation, the Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law, the Georgia Advocacy Office, The Arc, DLA Piper LLP, and the Goodmark Law Firm filed a class action lawsuit in federal court alleging that the State of Georgia has discriminated against thousands of public school students with disabilities by providing them with a separate and […]

The Center for Public Representation (CPR), Disability Rights Ohio (DRO), the law firm of Sidley Austin LLP, and attorney Sam Bagenstos filed the class action lawsuit in March of 2016 along with six named plaintiffs and The Ability Center of Greater Toledo.  The Complaint alleged that Ohio’s provision of services for people with intellectual and […]

Class action alleging the City of Springfield violated the ADA by segregating and denying equal education to hundreds of children with mental health disabilities in the “Public Day School,” where the focus is on behavior control, including physical restraints, arrests and suspensions for minor offenses.  S.S., the lead plaintiff, had been physically restrained and isolated […]

Challenge to state statute that permits the incarceration of women with substance use issues in prison, even though they have not been charged with a crime.  The State amended the statute to forbid the commitment of women to correctional settings and significantly expanded the availability of voluntary, community drug treatment.

This is the first class action in the nation that challenged segregated sheltered workshops as a violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).  Filed in 2012, the case, was brought on behalf of thousands of people with disabilities in Oregon’s sheltered workshop system.  Many of these individuals have spent years, even decades, stuck in […]