civil rights

TPM specializes in complex civil rights litigation and has represented individuals and groups denied free appropriate public education, public benefits, fair housing, voting rights, and disability rights.

Contact Patrick Sheldon at 202-204-8469 or psheldon@tpmlaw.com if you have a potential case or questions regarding TPM’s civil rights practice.


 

Our firm has been successful in:

 

  • Securing the right to a free appropriate public education for a class of students with disabilities aged 18-22 who were incarcerated at the District of Columbia jail

 

  • Securing the right to a free appropriate public education for a class of children with disabilities aged 3-5 whom the District of Columbia had failed to identify as needing special education and had failed to provide with education services

 

  • Enforcing the Medicaid statute and the Due Process Clause of the U.S. Constitution for a class of District of Columbia Medicaid beneficiaries to ensure their rights to prompt processing of applications, recertifications, notice about and delivery of comprehensive child health services, and reimbursement of out-of-pocket expenses if Medicaid failed to pay a bill

 

  • Challenging discriminatory employment practices of the U.S. State Department on behalf of a class of female Foreign Service Officers and female applicants for Foreign Service positions

 

  • Obtaining monetary relief for individuals who were discriminated against under the Fair Housing Act, in employment, and in public accommodations

In the area of voting rights, we represented a group of Florida voters in their challenge to the results in the 2000 Presidential Election. We litigated the case from the district court to the Supreme Court in a matter of days and filed an amicus brief before the Supreme Court in Bush v. Gore.