This case involves a claimant that repeatedly requested house arrest due to disability, but was denied house arrest and held in a prison he claims lacks the infrastructure necessary to maintain his right to health and dignity. Claimant was being held in pretrial detention at a prison complex. With authorization of the court, he underwent …Read more

Members of transgender community sought a legal declaration of their gender identity, instead of the male or female identity assigned to them at the time of their birth, claiming that that non-recognition of their gender identity violated Articles 14 and 21 of the Constitution of India (the “Constitution”). Hijras and eunuchs, who were also members …Read more

The plaintiff, the Health Insurance of the Construction Workers [Obra Social del Personal de la Construcción – OSPECON], filed suit against the National State, Ministry of Health and Social Action and Superintendent of Health Services to liquidate and transfer the corresponding funds from the Fondo Solidario de Distribución [Solidary Distribution Fund] created in law 23.661 to …Read more

The plaintiff filed an appeal to the Supreme Court of Justice of the Province of Buenos Aires [Suprema Corte de la Provincia de Buenos Aires] against the health insurance of the Province of Buenos Aires [I.O.M.A] to obtain comprehensive coverage treatment in a special school [CEPP] for their disabled son that had Down’s syndrome, where he …Read more

The plaintiff, a woman that suffered a hemorrhagic stroke that left her in a coma since 1999, filed a suit against the Provincia Servicios de Salud S.A for breach of contract. The plaintiff signed a contract with the respondent called “Plan Verde” [Green Plan]that stated that in case of hospitalization and surgery hospitalization, the insurance …Read more

The applicants, two prisoners with HIV and an interested non-governmental organization, complain that the policy of denying Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy (“HAART”) to non-citizen inmates is a violation of the rights of such non-citizen prisoners under the Constitution of Botswana. HAART is a drug treatment that helps control HIV mutation and reduces the likelihood of …Read more

The plaintiff filed a guarantee of protection of individual constitutional rights (amparo protection) against the IAPOS (Instituto Autárquico Provincial de Obras Sociales) to provide coverage for all expenditures that could arise from a reproductive assisted treatment and to cover the amounts paid for such treatment. The First Instance Civil and Commercial Court granted the amparo protection. …Read more

Nikolai Valetov, a Russian national, was arrested and charged in June 2001 with murder by Kyrgyzstan authorities while living in Kyrgyzstan. In addition to maintaining that he was framed for this crime by the police, Valetov further claimed that he was tortured by the police so severely while in pre-trial detention that he was permanently …Read more

The United States Leadership against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria Act of 2003 (Leadership Act), 22 U.S.C. §7601 set forth a strategy to globally combat the spread of HIV/AIDS. Congress authorized the appropriation of billions of dollars to fund efforts by nongovernmental organizations working in this area. The Leadership Act’s conditions stated that: (1) No funds …Read more

The applicant was a man suffering from severe paranoid schizophrenia. He was indicted in the United State as a co-conspirator in an effort to establish a jihad training camp in Oregon. At the time of trial, the applicant was detained in a hospital in the UK and was subject to an extradition request made by …Read more