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This case was originally brought in August 1998, on behalf of 13 current and former foster children seeking damages for injuries plaintiffs suffered as a result of state agency’s practice of shuttling them from one foster home and facility to another.
A class action lawsuit filed in August 2006, against Nevada Gov. Kenneth C. Guinn, state Health and Human Services Director Michael Willden, and Clark County officials for failing to protect the health and safety of children in Clark County's child welfare system.
David C. (formerly David C. v. Leavitt) is a child welfare reform class action brought in 1993, on behalf of all foster children and children reported as abused or neglected in the state of Utah. NCYL and Utah officials signed an agreement to end the case in May 2007. The system is now regarded as a national model.
NCYL won a major case in California, securing fair and equal treatment of foster youth who play high school sports. This victory could potentially affect thousands of foster youth in the state.
NCYL is co-counsel, seeking a writ of mandate directing DSS to administer the Adoption Assistance Program in accordance with the law and directing Respondent Dennis Boyle, Director of the California Department of Social Services, to withdraw his department’s approval of the Modified Specialized Care Program.
Lawyers representing Arizona’s Medicaid-eligible children filed J.K. v. Dillenberg, now J.K. v. Eden, a class action lawsuit seeking improved access to behavioral health care.
NCYL is co-counsel in this child welfare reform class action against the California Department of Health Services, Los Angeles County’s Department of Children and Family Services, and the California Department of Social Services, seeking the establishment and implementation of a community-based mental health service delivery system for California’s children in state foster care or at imminent risk of out-of-home placement.
The state’s largest and most influential groups advocating for homeless individuals with mental illness have sued Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to restore a highly effective program they say is vital to their clients’ safety and well-being.
This writ of habeas corpus filed on January 29, 2010 on behalf of Sara Kruzan challenges her sentence of life without possibility of parole for a shooting she committed in 1994 when she was 16 years old. Her victim, the 33 year-old pimp who sexually abused her since she was 11 and trafficked her since age 13, was shot as he was preparing to instigate sex with Ms. Kruzan.
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