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CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Meade v. Bonin

2:20-cv-01455 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana

Filed Date: May 14, 2020

This is a case about due process violation under the 14th amendment based on a judge potentially steering defendants towards using ankle monitors by a company he has financial and political ties to. On May 14, 2020, two criminal defendants who were ordered to wear ankle monitors in Judge Paul A. Bonin’s court, filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana. The plaintiffs, represented by Institute for Justice, sued Judge Bonin and the ankle monitoring compan…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Shemwell v. Mckinney, Texas City Of

4:20-cv-00687 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas

Filed Date: Sept. 13, 2020

Closed Date: April 19, 2023

This is a case about alleged racially motivated efforts to fix the outcome of a recall election that would deny minority voters an equal opportunity to participate in the political process by voting on a city-wide basis rather than by city council district. On September 13, 2020, a city councilmember in McKinney, Texas who was the subject of a recall election originally scheduled for May 2020 but postponed to November 2020 along with two minority voters in his district filed this lawsuit in the…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Fant v. City of Ferguson

4:15-cv-00253 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri

Filed Date: Feb. 8, 2015

On February 8, 2015, persons jailed for failing to pay fines imposed by the City of Ferguson that they could not afford filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri. They alleged that (1) the City failed to conduct an inquiry into whether the plaintiffs were able to pay their fines before jailing them, in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment’s Equal Protection and Due Process Clauses; (2) the City failed to provide the plaintiffs with legal counsel during …
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Arkansas State Conference NAACP v. Arkansas Board of Apportionment

4:21-cv-01239 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas

Filed Date: Dec. 29, 2021

This is a case about voting rights in Arkansas in light of the 2021 reapportionment plan for the Arkansas House of Representatives (“the Board Plan”). On December 29, 2021, the Arkansas State Conference NAACP (“the Arkansas NAACP”) and the Arkansas Public Policy Panel (“the Panel”) filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas. The plaintiffs were represented by the ACLU (Voting Rights Project) and private counsel. The defendants were the State of Arkansas, …
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
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 …
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
DOJ Investigation of the St. Louis County Family Court

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On November 18, 2013, the DOJ opened an investigation of the St. Louis County Family Court in Missouri. This investigation was initiated pursuant to the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, 42 U.S.C. § 14141, which authorizes the Department of Justice (DOJ) to seek remedies for patterns or practices of conduct that violate the constitutional or federal statutory rights of children in the administration of juvenile justice.The DOJ investigated whether the St. Louis County Famil…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Sourovelis v. City of Philadelphia

2:14-cv-04687 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Aug. 11, 2014

On Aug. 11, 2014, four individuals filed this class-action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. The plaintiffs sued the City of Philadelphia, the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office, and the Commissioner of the Philadelphia Police Department under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for alleged violations of the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, 42 U.S.C. § 1988, and the Declaratory Judgment Act. The plaintiffs filed an amended complaint on Nov. 17, 2014.T…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Cain v. New Orleans

2:15-cv-04479 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana

Filed Date: Sept. 17, 2015

On September 17, 2015, indigent former criminal defendants filed this putative class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana. The plaintiffs sued the City of New Orleans, the Orleans Parish Criminal District Court (OPCDC), the court’s judges, judicial administrators, and the city’s sheriff department, all under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The plaintiffs, represented by the Civil Rights Corps and private counsel, sought declaratory, injunctive, and monetary relief, …
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Morales v. The City of Indio

RC 1803060 | California state trial court

Filed Date: Feb. 13, 2018

Closed Date: March 12, 2019

On February 14, 2018 a property owner in the City of Indio filed a putative class action complaint in the Superior Court of the State of California, County of Riverside. The plaintiff was represented by the Institute for Justice. The complaint challenged the city of Indio’s code enforcement system. The plaintiff claimed that the law firm of Silver & Wright LLP, which the city delegated its powers of criminal prosecution for code enforcement cases to, had a financial conflict of interest in thes…