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NAACP v. Lee

3:20-cv-01039 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee

Filed Date: Dec. 3, 2020

Case Ongoing

 The following was a case that challenged Tennessee’s voting rights restoration process for those convicted of felonies. On December 3, 2020, this class action suit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee. It challenged the state's statutory scheme for restoring the voting rights of people with felony convictions. The plaintiffs included the NAACP and several individuals who had been convicted of felonies. Defendants included Tennessee’s governor, the Commissio…
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Evenson-Childs v. Ravalli County Sheriff's Office

9:21-cv-00089 | U.S. District Court for the District of Montana

Filed Date: Aug. 9, 2021

Case Ongoing

Plaintiff, a homeless resident of the state of Montana, filed this putative class action against Ravalli County Sheriff’s Office in the U.S. District Court for the District of Montana on August 9, 2021. She challenged the Office’s practice of charging pre-trial arrestees released on bail for various forms of pre-trial supervision, such as ankle monitors and breathalyzers, and of requiring pre-trial arrestees to sign a contract stating that they can be criminally charged with felony theft and cr…
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Fant v. City of Ferguson

4:15-cv-00253 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri

Filed Date: Feb. 8, 2015

Case Ongoing

On February 8, 2015, persons jailed for failing to pay fines imposed by the City of Ferguson that they could not afford filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri. They alleged that (1) the City failed to conduct an inquiry into whether the plaintiffs were able to pay their fines before jailing them, in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment’s Equal Protection and Due Process Clauses; (2) the City failed to provide the plaintiffs with legal counsel during …
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Huggins v. ABK Tracking, Inc.

3:22-cv-00135 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana

Filed Date: Aug. 30, 2022

Case Ongoing

Three private for-profit organizations—ABK Tracking, Inc., ABK Alarms, Inc., and ABK Remote Drug Testing, Inc., (ABK)—charged exorbitant fees for drug/alcohol testing and electronic monitoring. A circuit court judge in Vanderburgh County, Indiana, jailed individuals that could not pay this extremely high fee. These two parties (ABK and the judge) collaborated with one another in these actions to gain profit. On August 30, 2022, two individuals impacted by the exorbitant fees filed this putative…
FAIR HOUSING/LENDING/INSURANCE
Kilpatrick v. City of Newark

1:18-cv-00053 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas

Filed Date: July 16, 2018

Closed Date: March 3, 2020

This lawsuit, in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas, challenged a Newark city ordinance that prohibited manufactured homes worth below $35,000 from existing within city limits. The ordinance stated that violations would be punished by fines up to $500 per day for living in a mobile home with an insufficient value. On July 16, 2018, potential renters and homeowners that sought to be part of the Newark community brought this suit under 42 U.S.C. 1983, alleging that the ord…
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Easley v. Howell

6:21-cv-06125 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Arkansas

Filed Date: Sept. 2, 2021

Case Ongoing

Arkansas was the only state in the country that provided landlords the option of a criminal eviction process when tenants failed to pay rent on time. Criminal charges could be brought against a tenant if three elements were met: (1) a landlord alleged that a tenant was behind on rent, regardless of the truth of the allegation and even if the tenant was only one day late; (2) the landlord notified the tenant in writing that they must leave their home because they were behind on rent; and (3) the…
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E.B. v. Landry

3:19-cv-00862 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana

Filed Date: Dec. 13, 2019

Case Ongoing

Plaintiffs, three persons seeking to expunge various criminal records in Louisiana, filed this putative class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana on December 13, 2019, challenging Louisiana’s expungement fees. In particular, the plaintiffs challenged the $550 fee per expungement “event”—that is, per record per date per jurisdiction—as wealth-based discrimination in violation of fundamental fairness, procedural due process, and equal protection. They …
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Onosamba-Ohindo v. Barr

1:20-cv-00290 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York

Filed Date: March 10, 2020

Case Ongoing

This is a class action suit about bond hearings for detainees under the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA). The issue is whether due process under the Fifth Amendment allows the government to place the burden of proof for whether the person being detained poses a flight risk (and therefore shouldn't be released) on the detainee themselves. Another issue is whether Immigration Judges are required by the INA or Department of Justice regulations to consider the detainee's ability to pay bond an…
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Powell v. City of St. Ann

4:15-cv-00840 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri

Filed Date: May 27, 2015

Case Ongoing

On May 27, 2015, this lawsuit was brought in the United States for the Eastern District of Missouri by a person arrested by the City of St. Ann (the City), Missouri, who was jailed for a prolonged period after he was unable to pay the fee demanded for his release under the city’s “secured bail” policy. Under that policy, persons arrested for ordinance violations were required to post a bail from $150-350 or spend upwards of 3 days in jail, without any consideration of the person’s ability to pa…
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Cain v. New Orleans

2:15-cv-04479 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana

Filed Date: Sept. 17, 2015

Case Ongoing

On September 17, 2015, indigent former criminal defendants filed this putative class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana. The plaintiffs sued the City of New Orleans, the Orleans Parish Criminal District Court (OPCDC), the court’s judges, judicial administrators, and the city’s sheriff department, all under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The plaintiffs, represented by the Civil Rights Corps and private counsel, sought declaratory, injunctive, and monetary relief, …