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DOJ Investigation of Tennessee's Aggravated Prostitution Statute

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On December 1, 2023, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Civil Rights Division announced its finding that Tennessee residents living with HIV face harsher criminal penalties solely because of their HIV status, violating Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). A major focus of the investigation was enforcement of the state's aggravated prostitution statute, which was commonly applied to people living with HIV regardless of any actual risk of harm. The DOJ found that much of the d…
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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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Doe v. Wasden

1:20-cv-00452 | U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho

Filed Date: Sept. 23, 2020

Closed Date: Nov. 10, 2022

This case was about whether the state of Idaho could force people who had oral or anal sex to register in its sex offender registry, despite the fact that laws criminalizing such acts were declared unconstitutional in the 2003 Supreme Court decision Lawrence v. Texas.  On September 23, 2020, an anonymous private plaintiff—who was criminally convicted in another state of engaging in oral sex before Lawrence v. Texas made the criminalization of such acts unconstitutional—brought this lawsuit in t…
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Beatty v. Lamont

3:22-cv-00380 | U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

Filed Date: March 14, 2022

Closed Date: Oct. 16, 2024

Connecticut General Statute §§18-85a-c required current and formerly incarcerated people to pay $249 per day incarcerated as a so-called “pay-to-stay” law. This law resulted in debt that the state frequently collected against formerly incarcerated people's property. On March 14, 2022, two plaintiffs, represented by the ACLU, filed suit against Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont, responsible for overseeing the Department of Corrections, and Attorney General William Tong, vested with authority to fi…
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LeBlanc v. Mathena

2:12-cv-00340 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

Filed Date: June 19, 2012

Closed Date: April 24, 2018

On June 19, 2012, a prisoner incarcerated at the Red Onion State Prison in Pound, Virginia, petitioned for a writ of habeas corpus in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. The plaintiff, represented by private counsel and Equal Justice Initiative, sought relief from his sentence under the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act, 28 U.S.C. § 2254. The plaintiff claimed that denial of relief by the Virginia courts ran contrary to federal law clearly established by Su…
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Arroyo v. Eischen

1:21-cv-01687 | U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado

Filed Date: June 18, 2021

Case Ongoing

This is a case about the alleged excessive use of force by United States Bureau of Prisons ("BOP") employees during a training exercise. On June 8, 2021, several employees of the BOP Business Office filed suit in the U.S. District Court of Colorado against fellow BOP employees who are members of the Special Operations Response Team (“SORT”) for alleged violation of their Fourth Amendment rights, intentional infliction of emotional distress (“IIED”), and Civil Conspiracy. The case was assigned t…
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Blake v. City of Grants Pass

1:18-cv-01823 | U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon

Filed Date: Oct. 15, 2018

Closed Date: Oct. 7, 2024

On October 15, 2018, individuals without secure housing filed this class-action lawsuit suing the city of Grants Pass, Oregon (the “City”) in the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Represented by the Oregon Law Center, the plaintiffs challenged the City’s enforcement of Grants Pass’s anti-sleeping ordinance, anti-camping ordinance, park exclusion ordinance, and criminal trespass laws stemming from violations of these ordinances as unconstitutional under the E…
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Betances v. Fischer

1:11-cv-03200 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: May 11, 2011

Case Ongoing

On May 11, 2011, three individuals given extrajudicial sentences of post-release supervision filed this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The named defendants were the New York State Department of Correctional Services (DOCS) and the New York State Division of Parole (DOP). They claimed that the defendants administratively assigned sentences of post-release supervision (PRS) and that only a judge could impose an additio…
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Does, 1-104 v. Wasden

1:16-cv-00429 | U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho

Filed Date: Sept. 22, 2016

Case Ongoing

On September 22, 2016, this complaint was filed under 42 U.S.C. §1983 on behalf of 104 unnamed sexual offenders, identified as John or Jane Does, in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Idaho against the Idaho Attorney General, the Idaho Department of Corrections, and the Idaho State Police Force. The plaintiffs alleged that Idaho’s Sexual Offender Registration Notification and Community Right-to-Know Act (“SORA”) was unconstitutionally vague in violation of the Due Process and …
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Roberts v. Thompson

6:24-cv-02024 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa

Filed Date: May 13, 2024

Case Ongoing

This is a due process case related to jail fees. On May 13, 2024, the plaintiff, represented by the ACLU of Iowa, Public Justice, and private counsel, filed this putative class action lawsuit against the Black Hawk County Sheriff and Black Hawk County in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa. The plaintiff brought suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, alleging that the Black Hawk County Sheriff was collecting jail fees through an unconstitutional procedure. Specifically, the plaintif…