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7 Jan 2021, 11:26 am by Emanuela Tala
In March 2018, a Philadelphia Inquirer reporter alerted the City’s Department of Human Services (“Department”) that two of the foster care agencies with which it contracts – including Catholic Social Services (“CSS”) – refused to work with same-sex foster parents. [read post]
1 Oct 2020, 7:11 am by DONALD SCARINCI
In March 2018, a reporter from the Philadelphia Inquirer informed the City of Philadelphia’s Department of Human Services that CSS and another agency would not work with same-sex couples as foster parents. [read post]
22 Mar 2022, 4:15 am by Howard Friedman
Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, (ED MI, March 21, 2022), a Michigan federal district court approved a settlement agreement under which the state of Michigan will allow Catholic Charities, operating under contracts with the state, to refuse to place children for adoption or foster care with same-sex or unmarried couples and refuse to conduct home evaluations for same-sex or unmarried couples. [read post]
17 Apr 2018, 7:30 am
In 2010, the ACLU of Pennsylvania sued the city because the Philadelphia Police Department’s use of stop-and-frisk was discriminatory. [read post]
2 Apr 2010, 6:02 am by Rosenbaum & Associates
Department of Health and Human Services is investigating rampant fraud and abuse in Medicare billing for "high-end services" at nursing homes. [read post]
17 Jun 2021, 10:04 am by Amy Howe
The case began in 2018, after Philadelphia’s city council passed a resolution that condemned “discrimination that occurs under the guise of religious freedom” and instructed the city’s Department of Human Services, which is responsible for finding homes for foster children, to change its contracting practices. [read post]
18 Jun 2021, 1:37 pm by Andrea Picciotti-Bayer
When the city of Philadelphia severed ties with Catholic Social Services, a church-run foster-care program, it was the equivalent of hanging a “Catholics Need Not Apply” sign outside of its Department of Human Services. [read post]
18 Jul 2018, 9:00 am
As the court said, “[Department of Human Services] and Philadelphia have a legitimate interest in ensuring that when they employ contractors to provide governmental services, the services are accessible to all Philadelphians who are qualified for the services. [read post]
The plaintiff feels that if the Department of Human Services had adequately trained their workers in terms of child placements, the victim would have never been forced to suffer in her aunt’s home. [read post]
3 Nov 2020, 11:39 pm by Marty Lederman
  Under Pennsylvania law, this family-certification function is assigned in the first instance to a different government actor: the Pennsylvania Department of Human Services. [read post]
4 Nov 2022, 9:05 pm by Caroline Hackley
Miller of Florida Atlantic University explore the discussion surrounding safe injection sites, specifically in the city of Philadelphia. [read post]
The plaintiff feels that if the Department of Human Services had adequately trained their workers in terms of child placements, the victim would have never been forced to suffer in her aunt’s home. [read post]
30 Aug 2018, 1:07 pm by Amy Howe
The events giving rise to the lawsuit began last spring, when the city’s department of human services suspended new placements of foster children in CSS’ foster-care program because the agency refused to certify same-sex couples who wanted to be foster parents. [read post]
3 Oct 2021, 9:18 pm by Josh Blackman
The City of Philadelphia, the Department of Human Services, the Commission on Human Relations, their agents and employees, and all those acting in concert with any of them are PROHIBTED from refusing "to contract with CSS for the provision of foster care services unless [CSS] agrees to certify same-sex [or unmarried] couples as foster parents. [read post]
1 May 2020, 5:00 am by Geoffrey Block
After the enactment of Executive Order 13527, the departments of Health and Human Services, Defense, and Justice and the USPS cooperatively produced a National Postal Model for the Delivery of Medical Countermeasures. [read post]
26 May 2019, 2:16 pm by Kelly Phillips Erb
” According to data taken from the Office of the Medical Examiner, Philadelphia Department of Public Health, since 2009, overdose deaths in the city have risen by nearly 200%. [read post]
20 Mar 2015, 10:02 am by By Harold Jordan, ACLU of Pennsylvania
Eligible students will have the option of completing a program sponsored by the Philadelphia Department of Human Services rather than receiving a mark on their record that could hurt their chances of getting into college or getting a good job. [read post]
5 Jan 2022, 10:07 am by Emanuela Tala
 Fulton considered whether a City’s Department of Human Services could stop referring foster children to a foster care agency, Catholic Social Services (“CSS”), because CSS refused to work with same-sex foster parents. [read post]
3 Oct 2023, 4:15 am by Howard Friedman
Department of Health & Human Services, (D SC, Sept. 29, 2023), plaintiff was rejected by Miracle Hill because she did not share its evangelical-Christian beliefs and could not affirm its statement of faith. [read post]
29 Jul 2020, 6:09 am by Nelson Tebbe
   The need for foster care typically arises when the government—in this instance, Philadelphia’s Department of Human Services (DHS)—initiates the removal of a child from its home in the face of abuse or neglect. [read post]