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Brown v. City of Corinth

1:17-cv-00204 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi

Filed Date: Dec. 5, 2017

Closed Date: July 6, 2021

This was a case about excessive fines and fees. Plaintiffs were private citizens of Corinth, MS bringing a class action complaint against the City of Corinth and Municipal Court Judge John C. Ross. The action was brought in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi on December 5, 2017. Plaintiffs are represented by Southern Poverty Law Center and MacArthur Justice Center. The action was brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and 28 U.S.C. § 2201 (The Declaratory Relief Act), and …
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Caliste v. Cantrell

2:17-cv-06197 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana

Filed Date: June 27, 2017

Case Ongoing

On June 27, 2017, pre-trial detainees at the Orleans Parish Sheriff’s office filed this putative class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana under 42 U.S.C. §1983 against the magistrate judge of the Criminal District Court alleging unlawful bail setting practices. Plaintiffs claimed that defendant violated the Fourteenth Amendment Equal Protection Clause by keeping them in jail post-arrest when they could not afford the bail set by defendant. Plaintiffs…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Swenson v. Bostelmann

3:20-cv-00459 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin

Filed Date: May 18, 2020

Closed Date: Jan. 20, 2021

NOTE: This case is being tracked in close to real time by the Stanford/MIT Healthy Elections Project. So for information, see their tracker. According to their summary as of December 20, 2020, Action by group of citizens alleging denial of right to vote in 4/7/20 Wisconsin Presidential Primary and Spring Election. Complaint seeks damages and injunctive and declaratory relief to establish reasonable, disability accessible, and constitutionally sufficient voting procedures (including mail voting…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Weatherspoon v. Oldham; Tennessee v. Weatherspoon

2:17-cv-02535 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Tennessee

Filed Date: Jan. 1, 2017

Closed Date: Dec. 13, 2018

In this case, a Memphis criminal defendant challenged the constitutionality of Tennessee’s cash bail system. In early of 2017, the defendant and, later, petitioner, was charged with attempted first degree murder. The Tennessee trial court set bail at $200,000, which he could not pay, leading to his incarceration while his criminal case was pending. The defendant was initially represented by the Shelby County Public Defender. He claimed that the trial court set a high bail amount with the goal o…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Brown v. Precythe

2:17-cv-04082 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri

Filed Date: May 18, 2017

Case Ongoing

This class-action litigation was filed on May 18, 2017, in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri. An amended complaint was filed on June 8, 2017. In the lawsuit, four named plaintiffs challenged the Missouri Department of Corrections’ (MDOC) parole procedures for juveniles sentenced to life without parole before the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Miller v. Alabama, 567 U.S. 460 (2012), which held that mandatory life sentences for juvenile offenders without the possibility…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Porter v. Pennsylvania Department of Corrections

2:17-cv-00763 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: July 5, 2017

Case Ongoing

This is a case about a prisoner who has been kept in solitary confinement on death row for thirty-three years. On June 12, 2017, a prisoner at the State Correctional Institution in Greene County, Pennsylvania, filed this lawsuit in the Western District of Pennsylvania. The plaintiff sued the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections (DOC) under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Represented by the public interest organizations Abolitionist Law Center and MacArthur Justice Center, the plaintiff sought declaratory a…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Postawko v. Missouri Department of Corrections

2:16-cv-04219 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri

Filed Date: July 14, 2016

Case Ongoing

On July 14, 2016, an inmate at the Missouri Department of Corrections (MDOC) filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri, alleging that he had received inadequate medical care from the MDOC for a chronic Hepatitis C (HCV) viral infection. The inmate originally filed on his own, but the ACLU of Missouri and MacArthur Justice Center began representing this inmate and on December 15, 2016, the plaintiff filed an amended complaint seeking to proceed as a…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Waddell v. Taylor

3:20-cv-00340 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi

Filed Date: May 14, 2020

Case Ongoing

COVID-19 Summary: This is a class action lawsuit brought on behalf of 6,000 incarcerated individuals to challenge the inadequate response to the COVID-19 outbreak at Mississippi's two largest prisons, alleging that the Mississippi Department of Corrections' response to the pandemic violates the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Rehabilitation Act and the Constitution. Plaintiffs sought declaratory and injunctive relief, including an order requiring defendants to implement remedial measure…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Ryan v. Smith

3:20-cv-00843 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana

Filed Date: Dec. 14, 2020

Case Ongoing

COVID Summary: This is a class action suit regarding the legality of detention orders that are holding detainees at East Baton Rouge Parish Prison for up to years and detrimental to life during the COVID-19 pandemic. The plaintiffs moved for a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction on December 14, 2020, but withdrew the request for a temporary restraining order in January 2021. A settlement conference is scheduled for March 11, and a joint status report is due on March 21. This …
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
George v. Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections

3:14-cv-00338 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana

Filed Date: May 28, 2014

Closed Date: 2017

On May 28, 2014, a private plaintiff with mental disabilities filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana. The plaintiff sued the Louisiana Department of Safety and Corrections and the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals under the American Disabilities Act, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, and 42 U.S.C. § 1983, alleging that the defendants violated his rights under those statutes and the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. The pl…