Drinker Biddle, the Mississippi Center for Justice, and ABA Death Penalty Representation Project under the auspices of the Barbara McDowell High Impact Pro Bono Project brought an action in the Mississippi Chancery Court on behalf of 16 inmates on death row against the state of Mississippi seeking to enforce the inmates’ right to competent counsel and access to the courts during their state post-conviction proceeding in order to remedy the denial of those rights in past proceedings while requesting a stay of execution for all of the inmates.

Working with the law firm of Drinker Biddle & Reath as a project of the firm’s Barbara McDowell High Impact Pro Bono Initiative, Legal Aid sued DHS and DDOE at the Office of Administrative Hearings when the District of Columbia failed to implement the Food Stamps Expansion Act of 2009 on the date on which it became effective. A settlement was reached whereby the District agreed to recalculate Food Stamps benefits for all current and former beneficiaries who were receiving benefits.

The American Immigration Council (AIC) represented by Drinker Biddle sued in 2016, to force the CBP to turn over information to it about complaints for misconduct for abusive behavior during immigration processing against agency personnel nine months after seeking these records through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request. 

Systemic litigation was brought by Drinker Biddle and Disability Rights North Carolina to address the failure of the State of North Carolina to provide appropriate behavioral health services to citizens with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities (I/DD).