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JAIL CONDITIONS
Blackcrow v. Lake County Montana

9:21-cv-00097 | U.S. District Court for the District of Montana

Filed Date: Sept. 3, 2021

Case Ongoing

This is a case about conditions of confinement in the Lake County Jail in Montana. The plaintiff, an incarcerated individual, filed this suit on September 3, 2021, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Montana against Lake County, the Lake County Sheriff, and ten individual law enforcement officers. The plaintiff alleged that he was denied medical care and subjected to unsanitary and unsafe conditions in the jail in violation of the Eighth Amendment. The plaintiff further asserted a Fo…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Federal Defenders of New York, Inc. v. Federal Bureau of Prisons

1:19-cv-00660 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: Feb. 4, 2019

Case Ongoing

This case concerns public defenders’ ability to access their clients at a pretrial detention facility in Brooklyn, New York. On February 4, 2019, Federal Defenders of New York, Inc. (“Federal Defenders”), a nonprofit legal aid organization providing public defense services for indigent clients in the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, filed this suit in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York. Federal Defenders sued the Federal Bureau of Prisons (“BOP”) af…
POLICING
Shaw v. Schulte

6:19-cv-01343 | U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas

Filed Date: Dec. 19, 2019

Case Ongoing

This case involved an alleged unconstitutional policy of the Kansas Highway Patrol (KHP) whereby they stopped motorists with out of state plates who were driving the I-70 corridor to or from the state of Colorado. On December 19, 2019, the three named plaintiffs on behalf of a class filed this lawsuit pro se in the District of Kansas. The plaintiffs sued the Kansas Highway Patrol superintendent and two named officers in their official capacity for the alleged unconstitutional stops and seizures…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Farmer v. Haas

3:89-cv-00524 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin

Filed Date: 1989

Closed Date: Nov. 8, 1993

This case is closely related to Farmer v. Brennan, in which the plaintiff sued prison officials with the Federal Bureau of Prisons under the Eighth Amendment. Litigation in the lower court was identical across Brennan and Haas. Following litigation in Farmer v. Brennan, the Seventh Circuit reversed the district court’s grant of summary judgment for the defendants in an unpublished order submitted on March 10, 1991. The district court conducted a trial which produced a verdict for the defendants…
INDIGENT DEFENSE
Philadelphia Community Bail Fund v. First Judicial District Arraignment Magistrates

21 EM 2019 | Pennsylvania state supreme court

Filed Date: March 12, 2019

Closed Date: July 27, 2020

In Philadelphia, defendants who are arrested and then charged with a crime remain held in a divisional booking center, where they participate via videoconference in preliminary arraignments (also known as “bail hearings'').  Philadelphia Municipal Arraignment Court Magistrates (ACMs) of the First Judicial District conduct these hearings and determine whether to release a defendant and what conditions, if any, to impose on release.  The vast majority of ACMs are non-lawyers who have completed a …
INDIGENT DEFENSE
State v. Covington

2020-KK-00447 | Louisiana state trial court

Filed Date: Oct. 29, 2018

Closed Date: Dec. 11, 2020

In this case, a Louisiana appellate court held that courts could not lawfully assign lawyers (in particular, public defenders) a larger caseload than they could competently handle. The Public Defender's evidence in this case established that the Louisiana public defense system currently has the capacity to handle only 21 percent of its workload with reasonable competence and effectiveness. See State v. Spears, No. 2019 KW 1494, 2020 WL 1230134 (La. Court of Appeal, First Circuit, March 13, 2020…
INDIGENT DEFENSE
Robbins v. Maine Commission on Indigent Legal Services

CV-22-54 | Maine state trial court

Filed Date: March 1, 2022

Case Ongoing

This class-action lawsuit challenged Maine’s system of appointing private attorneys to provide representation to indigent criminal defendants. On March 1, 2022, five people currently being represented in criminal proceedings by appointed counsel filed a complaint and motion for class certification in Maine’s Kennebec County Superior Court. The plaintiffs sued the executive director of the Maine Commission on Indigent Legal Services in his official capacity, the chair of the Maine Commission on …
INDIGENT DEFENSE
Cantwell v. Crawford

09EV275M | Georgia state trial court

Filed Date: April 7, 2009

Closed Date: Dec. 20, 2012

On April 7, 2009, indigent pretrial detainees who had not been appointed counsel filed this class action lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and state statutory law against the State of Georgia in the Superior Court for the County of Elbert, Georgia. The plaintiffs, represented by the Southern Center for Human Rights, asked the court for declaratory and injunctive relief, claiming that the failure to appoint counsel to them violated their constitutional rights. Specifically, plaintiffs claimed that …
INDIGENT DEFENSE
Wilson v. Allen County

1:15-cv-00402 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana

Filed Date: Dec. 31, 2015

Closed Date: April 1, 2020

On December 31, 2015, three indigent individuals residing in Indiana filed this putative class-action lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Indiana. Plaintiffs filed a third amended complaint on August 19, 2016. The plaintiffs sued the Allen County Council, Allen County Board of Commissioners, and Allen County Public Defender Board under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 to redress the alleged deprivation of their constitutional rights. Plaintiffs, represented by private couns…
INDIGENT DEFENSE
N.P. v. Georgia

2014CV241025 | Georgia state trial court

Filed Date: Jan. 7, 2014

Closed Date: July 1, 2018

On January 7, 2014, youth and adult criminal defendants filed this class-action lawsuit in the Georgia Superior Court of Fulton County. The plaintiffs sued Georgia, the Georgia Public Defender Standard Counsel (GPDSC), and several Georgia counties, under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, for violations of the 6th and 14th Amendments, and for violations of the Georgia Constitution and the Indigent Defense Act of 2003, O.C.G.A. §§ 17-12-1 et seq. The plaintiffs, represented by the Southern Center for Human Right…