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People v. Stovall

No. 92-0334-01 | Michigan state trial court

Filed Date: June 29, 2017

Closed Date: 2022

This action arose from a successive motion for relief for judgment filed by the defendant in this criminal case on June 29, 2017 in Michigan state trial court (Third Circuit Court, case no. 92-0334-01). The defendant pleaded guilty in 1992 to second degree murder; the plea deal included a sentence agreement for life in prison with the possibility of parole, or parolable life.  In the motion at issue here, the defendant argued that his plea was illusory and that his sentence violated the Eighth …
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Bonilla v. Iowa Board of Parole

No. CVCV052692 | Iowa state trial court

Filed Date: July 9, 2018

Closed Date: June 28, 2019

This is a lawsuit challenging the adequacy of Iowa's parole processes and procedures for a person serving a life sentence for a crime committed under the age of 18.  Petitioner in this lawsuit was convicted of kidnapping in the first degree in 2005 and sentenced to life in prison without parole.  After the U.S. Supreme Court eliminated life without parole sentences for non-homicide crimes committed under age 18, petitioner was resentenced, in 2011, to life with the possibility of parole.  In 20…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Howard v. Coonrod

6:21-cv-00062 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida

Filed Date: Jan. 8, 2021

Case Ongoing

This is a challenge to Florida's parole procedures for people sentenced in the state to life with parole for crimes committed under the age of 18.    On January 8, 2021, the four named plaintiffs filed this action in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida, seeking to represent a class of the more than 100 people serving life with parole sentences in Florida for crimes committed under the age of 18.  They argued that Florida's parole procedures failed to comply with the U.S. …
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
J.J. v. Litscher

3:17-cv-00047 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin

Filed Date: Jan. 23, 2017

Case Ongoing

On January 23, 2017, four minor children confined to the state juvenile facilities Copper Lake School for Girls and the Lincoln Hills School for Boys filed this class action in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin. The plaintiffs sued various state officials responsible for the facility under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The plaintiffs alleged that the defendants had violated their Eighth and Fourteenth Amendment rights by wrongfully and unlawfully imposing solitary confinement, m…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Pennington v. Taylor

2:19-cv-00695 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama

Filed Date: Sept. 19, 2019

On September 19, 2019, attorneys from the Juvenile Law Center and Southern Poverty Law Center––representing plaintiffs who, as children, were tried and convicted as adults––filed this lawsuit against Alabama's Attorney General, the Secretary of Alabama Law Enforcement Agency, and others in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama. Plaintiffs alleged that the state's Sex Offender Registration and Community Notification Act (SORNA) was an unconstitutional violation of the Eighth…
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
N.H. ex rel J.H. v. Edwards

3:20-cv-00293 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana

Filed Date: May 14, 2020

Closed Date: Feb. 11, 2021

COVID-19 Summary: This is a joint class action lawsuit and habeas petition brought on behalf of children confined in four secure care facilities operated by the Louisiana Office of Juvenile Justice, seeking release and mitigation in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. The plaintiffs alleged that children are at-risk for contracting and transmitting COVID-19 and that they may be vulnerable to life-threatening complications both during and after the infection itself appears to have resolved. The plai…
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
Wallace v. Powell/H.T. v. Ciavarella

3:09-cv-00286 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Feb. 13, 2009

Case Ongoing

This case grew out of the criminal misconduct of two state court juvenile judges who sent hundreds of children to juvenile detention facilities because of bribes paid by the companies that ran those detention facilities. On February 13, 2009, the plaintiffs--children who had been adjudicated delinquent found to have violated their probation and parents of those children--brought this class action lawsuit against the judges. The plaintiffs, represented by multiple firms, sought damages against t…
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
In re: the Petition of C.Z., A.O., and Z.S.-W., on behalf of all similarly situated individuals

24 EM 2020 | Pennsylvania state supreme court

Filed Date: April 1, 2020

Closed Date: May 26, 2020

COVID-19 Summary: The Juvenile Law Center, the Youth Sentencing & Reentry Project, and DLA Piper filed a petition to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court requesting that they take immediate action to reduce the population of youth detentions in Pennsylvania. While the petition was denied, the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania directed the Pennsylvania judiciary to limit the detention of new juveniles and to consider individual juveniles for release. On April 1, 2020, the Juvenile Law Center, the Youth S…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Ms. L. v. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

3:18-cv-00428 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California

Filed Date: Feb. 26, 2018

Case Ongoing

On February 26, 2018, an asylum seeker from the Democratic Republic of Congo (Ms. L.) filed this lawsuit and a writ for habeas corpus in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California. 2018 WL 1310160. The plaintiff sued the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and its parent agency, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and several other government entities all under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, federal asylum statutes, and the Administrative Procedure Act (APA). Repr…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
T.M. v. City of Philadelphia

2:89-cv-04630 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: May 23, 1989

Closed Date: 1996

Five children, represented by attorneys from the Juvenile Law Center and the ACLU of Philadelphia, filed this class action on May 23, 1989 seeking appointment of counsel for all children in Philadelphia County dependency proceedings. Filed under § 1983, the complaint noted that three quarters of children in dependency proceedings in the Juvenile Court of Philadelphia were not represented by counsel. The plaintiffs alleged that the right to counsel was guaranteed by state law and the U.S. Consti…