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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 and officials, all under the federal asylum statute and the Administrative Procedure Act (APA). Repre…
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 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, mecha…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Moore v. Gwathney

2:23-cv-00134 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama

Filed Date: March 9, 2023

Case Ongoing

On March 9, 2023, two individuals serving life with parole sentences for crimes committed as youth in Alabama brought this lawsuit against officials of the Alabama Board of Pardons and Parole [the "Board"] alleging that the state's parole processes and procedures violated the Eighth Amendment.  Plaintiffs had originally been sentenced to life without parole, but, in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court's holding in Miller v. Alabama that mandatory life without parole sentences imposed for crimes …
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
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. …
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

Case Ongoing

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
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

On April 1, 2020, the Juvenile Law Center, the Youth Sentencing & Reentry Project, and DLA Piper filed a petition with the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, requesting that the Court "reduce the numbers of youth in detention, correctional and other residential facilities across the Commonwealth." Petitioners argued that under state law the Supreme Court had legal authority to reduce youth detentions. They also argued that continuing to detain youths raised significant constitutional concerns, specifi…
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…
CHILD WELFARE
Anderson v. Houstoun

2:00-cv-04148 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Aug. 16, 2000

Closed Date: April 1, 2005

This class action involving adult care givers, either relatives of the children or close friends of the children's parents, caring for Pennsylvania children whose parents are unable to provide care was filed on August 16, 2000, in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. The plaintiffs were represented by the Juvenile Law Center and ACLU; they sought declaratory and injunctive relief against the state for failing to provide for the financial needs of these children, cla…