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SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Lutrario v. City of Hollywood, Florida

0:23-cv-60806 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida

Filed Date: May 2, 2023

Closed Date: Nov. 30, 2023

This case is a constitutional challenge to anti-panhandling statutes. The plaintiff, represented by the Florida Justice Institute, sued the city of Hollywood, Florida in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida on May 2, 2023. The plaintiff sued under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, alleging that the city's ordinance imposing various restrictions on panhandling, including a permit requirement, violated his right to free speech under the First Amendment. The plaintiff sought declaratory an…

Settled: Case Closed

SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
The Cosac Foundation, Inc. v. Columbia County, Florida

3:23-cv-01499 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida

Filed Date: Dec. 21, 2023

Closed Date: Oct. 24, 2024

The Cosac Foundation, Inc. (Plaintiff), a non-profit charitable corporation dedicated to helping the homeless, brought this lawsuit on December 21, 2023 against Columbia County, Florida (defendant) in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida. The plaintiff challenged Columbia County Ordinance NO. 2022-03 (the ordinance), which prohibited solicitation and loitering within or upon any county building or the curtilage of those buildings. Specifically, the plaintiff claimed that t…

Case Dismissed (Involuntary)

SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Younce v. City of Jacksonville

3:22-cv-00931 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida

Filed Date: Aug. 26, 2022

Closed Date: May 16, 2023

This lawsuit challenged a law of the City of Jacksonville that imposed obligations and restrictions on residents who are registered sexual offenders or predators under Florida law. Plaintiffs, two registered sexual offenders, claimed that Sections 685.104(a)(3)(ii) and (iv) of the Municipal Code of Jacksonville, which required Plaintiffs to post signs not allowing trick-or-treating on Halloween and prohibited them to put up elaborate holiday displays that could attract children (“the Ordinance”…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Wilson v. Dixon

1:24-cv-24253 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida

Filed Date: Oct. 31, 2024

Case Ongoing

This is a putative class action lawsuit about heat-related prison conditions in Florida. A group of people incarcerated at Dade Correctional Institution (DCI) filed this lawsuit on October 31, 2024 in the US District Court for the Southern District of Florida against the Florida Department of Corrections, the Secretary of the Florida Department of Corrections, and the warden of DCI. Represented by the Florida Justice Institute, the plaintiffs alleged that stifling heat at DCI (a concrete prison…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Brash v. Wexford Health Source, Inc.

2:02-cv-14331 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida

Filed Date: Dec. 6, 2002

On December 6, 2002, a prisoner in Florida's Okeechobee Correctional Institution (OCI), represented by counsel from the Florida Justice Institute, sued in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 1983, alleging that his Eighth Amendment right to be free from cruel and unusual punishment was being violated by the defendants' failure to provide him appropriate medical care. The lead defendant was Florida's contract medical service provider for OCI; als…
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Messina v. City of Fort Lauderdale

0:21-cv-60168 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida

Filed Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Case Ongoing

This is a case about a challenge to Sections 16-82 and 25-267 of the Fort Lauderdale Code of Ordinances, which prohibited panhandling in a variety of public places. On January 25, 2021, two men, one living in a public shelter and one without a permanent home, filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida. The plaintiffs sued the City of Fort Lauderdale under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Represented by both the Florida Justice Institute and private counsel, the…
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
McDonald v. City of Pompano Beach

0:20-cv-60297 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida

Filed Date: Feb. 12, 2020

Case Ongoing

This was a challenge to a Pompano Beach city ordinance (“Street Solicitation Ordinance”) that restricted panhandling to specifically regulated hours and locations. On February 12, 2020, a homeless resident filed this lawsuit against the City of Pompano Beach in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida. The plaintiff sued under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for violations of his civil rights, referencing his 2018 arrest, under the First and Fourteenth Amendment. Represented by attorneys f…
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
G.H. v. Marstiller

4:19-cv-00431 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida

Filed Date: Sept. 4, 2019

Closed Date: Sept. 8, 2022

On September 4, 2019, three minors—through their legal guardians—filed a complaint against the Florida Department of Juvenile Justice (DJJ) in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida. The plaintiffs, represented by lawyers from the Southern Poverty Law Center, Florida Justice Institute, and Florida Legal Services, sought class action certification to represent several thousand juveniles (and several hundred in a subclass of juveniles with disabilities) who were or would be …
PRISON CONDITIONS
Demler v. Inch

4:19-cv-00094 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida

Filed Date: Feb. 19, 2019

Case Ongoing

On February 19, 2019, a man serving a life sentence in a Florida prison filed this putative class-action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida. The plaintiff sued the Secretary of the Florida Department of Corrections under 42 U.S.C. §1983 and the Declaratory Judgment Act. The case was ultimately assigned to Judge Robert L. Hinkle. The plaintiff, represented by the Social Justice Law Collective and the Florida Justice Institute, sought a declaration that the De…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Harvard v. Inch

4:19-cv-00212 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida

Filed Date: May 8, 2019

Case Ongoing

Six incarcerated persons with mental or physical disabilities from the Florida Department of Corrections (FDC) filed a class action complaint against the Secretary of the FDC and FDC in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida on May 8, 2019. Plaintiffs alleged that defendants frequently, unnecessarily, and harmfully used solitary confinement against people with physical and mental disabilities. They also alleged that defendants were aware of the heightened risk that solitar…