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Does v. Snyder (Does II)

2:16-cv-13137 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: Aug. 30, 2016

Closed Date: May 5, 2022

This case involved a class action lawsuit on behalf of all people required to register under Michigan’s Sex Offender Registry Act (SORA). On August 30, 2016, the plaintiff filed this lawsuit on behalf of himself and similarly situated plaintiffs in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan Southern Division against the governor of Michigan and the director of the Michigan State Police under the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Represented by private co…
PRISON CONDITIONS
United States v. Alabama

2:20-cv-01971 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama

Filed Date: Dec. 9, 2020

This case involved alleged unconstitutional conditions in Alabama’s men’s prisons. On December 9, 2020, the DOJ filed this lawsuit in  the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama against the Alabama Department of Corrections under the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act (CRIPA)(42 U.S.C. §1997). The DOJ alleged that the conditions of the prisons violated the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments, following an investigation that found poor conditions and deliberate indiffer…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Doe A v. Whitmer

2:22-cv-10209 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: Feb. 2, 2022

On January 13, 2023, a class action lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan challenging the constitutionality of Michigan's Sex Offender Registration Act (SORA). The plaintiffs, representing a class of all individuals who are or will be subject to registration under Michigan's Sex Offenders Registration Act, alleged that the enforcement of the Act violated their constitutional rights, including under the Ex Post Facto Clause, Due Process Clause, Equal P…

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DISABILITY RIGHTS
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…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
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…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Barnes v. Jeffreys

1:20-cv-02137 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: April 5, 2020

This case involved a challenge to the continued imprisonment of individuals who completed prison sentences for sex offenses but remained incarcerated because they could not find housing that complied with an Illinois statute. On April 5, 2020, a male individual filed a class action lawsuit against the Illinois Department of Corrections (“IDOC”) under 42 U.S.C. §1983 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. Represented by private counsel, the plaintiff sought declaratory…
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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

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 …
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
United States v. State of Tennessee

2:24-cv-02101 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Tennessee

Filed Date: Feb. 15, 2024

On February 15, 2024, the United States filed a lawsuit against the State of Tennessee and the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation in the United States District Court for the Western District of Tennessee to enforce Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), 42 U.S.C. §§ 12131-12134, and its implementing regulation, 28 C.F.R. Part 35. The federal government alleged that Tennessee unlawfully discriminates against people with HIV in their maintenance and enforcement of their aggravated …
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Doe v. Wilson

3:21-cv-04108 | U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina

Filed Date: Dec. 22, 2021

Closed Date: April 22, 2022

This is a case about South Carolina's inclusion of people with pre-Lawrence v. Texas convictions for consensual gay sex on the state's sex offender registry. Lawrence v. Texas is a U.S. Supreme Court case that held most sanctions of criminal punishment for consensual, adult, non-procreative sexual activity are unconstitutional. On December 22, 2021, a man who was convicted of South Carolina’s criminal sodomy statute in 2001 and remained on the sex offender registry, filed this lawsuit in the Un…
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Pennington v. Taylor

2:19-cv-00695 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama

Filed Date: Sept. 19, 2019

On September 19, 2019, attorneys from the Juvenile Law Center and Southern Poverty Law Center––representing plaintiffs who, as children, were tried and convicted as adults––filed this lawsuit against Alabama's Attorney General, the Secretary of Alabama Law Enforcement Agency, and others in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama. Plaintiffs alleged that the state's Sex Offender Registration and Community Notification Act (SORNA) was an unconstitutional violation of the Eighth…