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Melendres v. Arpaio

2:07-cv-02513 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: Dec. 12, 2007

Case Ongoing

On December 12, 2007, a group of plaintiffs filed this lawsuit in United States District Court for the District of Arizona against the County of Maricopa and the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office (MCSO), as well as Sheriff Joe Arpaio. The plaintiffs sought to represent a class of Latino persons who have been or will be stopped, detained, interrogated, or searched by the Sheriff or his agents in moving or parked vehicles in Maricopa County. They alleged claims under the Fourth Amendment (search a…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Rouser v. White

2:93-cv-00767 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California

Filed Date: May 7, 1993

Case Ongoing

On May 7, 1993, a Wiccan prisoner incarcerated by the California Department of Corrections since 1979 filed a lawsuit against prison officials in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act, and California state law. The plaintiff, represented pro se and sometimes by private counsel, asked the court for injunctive relief and damages, claiming that the prison officials had violated his right to fr…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Westefer v. Snyder

3:00-cv-00162 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois

Filed Date: March 7, 2000

Closed Date: 2016

On March 7, 2000, prisoners in Illinois' supermax prison, Tamms Correctional Center, brought this action in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois. The prisoners sued the Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC) under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and state law, alleging that their selection by prison officials for transfer to and continued confinement at Tamms violated their rights to petition the government, to due process, and to freedom of association, as well as the ex-post fact…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
United States v. Firestack-Harvey

2:13-cr-00024 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Washington

Filed Date: Feb. 6, 2013

Closed Date: 2015

On February 6, 2013, a federal grand jury in the Eastern District of Washington indicted five defendants on six counts: conspiracy to manufacture 100 or more marijuana plants, manufacture of 100 or more marijuana plants, possession with the intent to distribute more than 50 marijuana plants, distribution of marijuana, possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug crime, and maintaining a place for the manufacture and distribution of marijuana. The Federal Public Defender was appointed to rep…