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Doe v. Pataki

1:96-cv-01657 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: March 6, 1996

Closed Date: Dec. 3, 2007

In March 1996, the Plaintiffs--convicted sex offenders who were incarcerated, on parole, or on probation when New York's original Sex Offenders Registration Act ("SORA") took effect on January 21, 1996--filed a class action in the District Court, alleging that the Act violated the Ex Post Facto Clause of the Constitution and deprived the Plaintiffs of their due process and equal protection rights. On cross-motions for summary judgment, the District Judge (Judge Denny Chin) concluded that the SO…
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Whitaker v. Perdue

4:06-cv-00140 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: June 20, 2006

On June 20, 2006, six low-level sex offenders filed this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, against the state of Georgia. The plaintiffs, represented by the Southern Center for Human Rights and the ACLU of Georgia, challenged provisions of the state's new sex offender law that prevented sex offenders from living and working within one-thousand feet of school bus stops and churches. The plaintiffs had committed their crimes when they were young …
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Graziano v. Pataki

7:06-cv-00480 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Jan. 23, 2006

Closed Date: 2012

On January 23, 2006, prisoners in the custody of the New York State Department of Correctional Services and serving sentences for second degree murder filed a class action lawsuit pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York against Governor Pataki and the New York State Division of Parole. Plaintiffs alleged that Governor Pataki instigated an unofficial policy of denying parole release to prisoners convicted of A-1 violent felony offe…
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Foster-Bey v. Sampson

2:05-cv-71318 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: April 5, 2005

Closed Date: 2008

On April 5, 2005, Michigan inmates, represented by attorneys and students with the University of Michigan Clinical Law Program, filed suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in U.S. District Court Eastern District of Michigan, alleging that changes to the Michigan parole law and policies made in 1992 ("life means life") precluded any meaningful review of their life sentences, thereby effectively converting them into mandatory life sentences in violation of the Ex Post Facto and the Due Process Clauses of t…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Almodovar v. Snyder

99 MR 404 | Illinois state trial court

Filed Date: 1999

In 1999, attorneys with the Uptown People's Law Center in Chicago filed a class action lawsuit in the Circuit Court for Sangamon County, Illinois, challenging the administrative detention procedures at the Tamms Correctional Center. After the suit was filed, the Illinois Department of Corrections issued a new administrative directive, "Renunciation of Affiliation with Security Threat Groups" ("the Renunciation Policy"), which provided that unless an inmate agreed that he would no longer affilia…
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Doe v. Nixon

4:08-cv-01518 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri

Filed Date: Oct. 8, 2008

Closed Date: 2013

On October 8, 2008, several sex offenders in Missouri filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri against the State of Missouri, several cities and counties in Missouri, and several police departments in Missouri. The plaintiffs were represented by the American Civil Liberties Union of Missouri Foundation and private counsel. They asked the court for a preliminary injunction that prevented the police from enforcing R.S.Mo. §589.426, which prohibits certain activi…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Burnette v. Fahey

3:10-cv-00070 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

Filed Date: Feb. 3, 2010

On February 3, 2010, eleven Virginia prisoners, represented by the Legal Aid Justice Center and private counsel, filed this class action lawsuit against the Virginia Parole Board ("the Board") under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. Plaintiffs challenged the Board's denials of parole for prisoners convicted of violent offenses solely because of the nature and circumstances of the crimes they had been convicted of committing. Those denials, Plainti…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Johnson v. Bredesen

3:08-cv-00187 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee

Filed Date: Feb. 25, 2008

Closed Date: 2008

On February 25, 2008, Plaintiffs filed a lawsuit 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee, Nashville Division. Plaintiffs are all Tennessee residents and convicted felons. Plaintiffs sought to invalidate those portions of Tenn. Code Ann. § 40-29-202 that condition the restoration of voting rights for people previously convicted of "infamous crimes" upon their payment of certain legal financial obligations, namely restitution and child support. Plaintiffs …
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American Civil Liberties Union of Nevada v. Masto

2:08-cv-00822 | U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada

Filed Date: June 24, 2008

Closed Date: 2015

On June 24, 2008, several sex offender plaintiffs brought an action in the U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada against several state defendants under 42 U.S.C. 1983. The plaintiffs, represented by the American Civil Liberties Union of Nevada, alleged violation of several constitutional protections. Speficially plaintiffs' argued that new sex offender laws could not be applied retroactively, and that they resulted in excessive punishments to plaintiffs, thus seeking injunctive relief …
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Hill v. Snyder

2:10-cv-14568 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: Nov. 17, 2010

Closed Date: Nov. 17, 2020

This is a lawsuit challenging mandatory life sentences without parole for juveniles in Michigan. On November 17, 2010, juvenile prisoners filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan against the State of Michigan, challenging the state law that prohibited the Michigan Parole Board from considering for parole juveniles who were sentenced to life in prison without parole for first-degree murder. The plaintiffs, represented by counsel from the America…