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Moran v. Landrum-Johnson

2:19-cv-13553 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana

Filed Date: Nov. 11, 2019

Closed Date: April 5, 2021

On November 11, 2019, a pretrial detainee filed this class-action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana alleging that twelve judges of the Orleans Parish Criminal District Court ("OPCDC") unlawfully imposed secured financial conditions of release in an amount that individuals cannot afford, without any inquiry into or findings concerning their ability to pay or alternatives to incarceration. The lawsuit was brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and 28 U.S.C. §§ 2201–…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Tellis v. LeBlanc

5:18-cv-00541 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana

Filed Date: April 19, 2018

Case Ongoing

On February 20, 2018, several individuals incarcerated in extended lockdown at the David Wade Correctional Center (DWCC), represented by the MacArthur Justice Center and Disability Rights Louisiana (the Protection and Advocacy organization in Louisiana), filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana against the DWCC, the Louisiana Department of Corrections (LDOC), and individual employees in their official capacity. The plaintiffs brought this action under the Amer…
POLICING
Williams v. City Of Chicago

1:22-cv-03773 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: July 21, 2022

Case Ongoing

This case is a constitutional challenge to investigatory stops performed on the basis of Chicago’s ShotSpotter system used to detect gunshots. Two plaintiffs filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois on July 21, 2022. Both plaintiffs had been subject to investigatory stops, arrest, and criminal charges as a result of ShotSpotter data. The first plaintiff was an elderly man who was charged with first degree murder and was jailed for over 11 months before the cha…
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…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
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 …
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

Closed Date: Oct. 28, 2020

On July 14, 2016, a person incarcerated 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 plaintiff originally filed on his own, but the ACLU of Missouri and MacArthur Justice Center began representing him and on December 15, 2016, the plaintiff filed an amended complaint seeking to proce…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Robinson v. Martin

16-13597 | Illinois state trial court

Filed Date: Oct. 14, 2016

Two men incarcerated in Cook County, Illinois, filed this class action lawsuit on October 14, 2016, in the Circuit Court of Cook County. The plaintiffs were eligible for release from jail but were detained because they could not afford the required bail. They brought their claims against a group of judges in the Circuit Court of Cook County who had routinely applied Illinois's bail statute to set monetary bail in amounts higher than individuals were able to pay. They also included the Sheriff o…
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…
MENTAL HEALTH (FACILITY)
Cooper v. Kliebert

3:14-cv-00507 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana

Filed Date: Aug. 14, 2014

Case Ongoing

On August 14, 2014, a number of prisoners in Louisiana state prisons filed this class action in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals. The plaintiffs, represented by public interest attorneys, asked the court for declaratory and injunctive relief, claiming that, despite their being found not guilty by reason of insanity of criminal offenses, they were still being incarcerated in Louisiana pris…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Burks v. Scott County

3:14-cv-00745 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi

Filed Date: Sept. 23, 2014

Closed Date: June 27, 2019

On September 23, 2014, two Scott County, Mississippi residents who had been arrested and detained filed this class-action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi. Represented by the ACLU and the MacArthur Justice Center, the plaintiffs sued Scott County, an Eighth Circuit Judge, and Scott County Justice Court judges. The plaintiffs filed on behalf of themselves and sought to certify a class of those similarly situated. They brought this class action suit unde…