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INDIGENT DEFENSE
Doyle v. Allegheny County Salary Board

GD-96-13606 | Pennsylvania state trial court

Filed Date: Sept. 18, 1996

Closed Date: 2005

On September 18, 1996, the National and Pittsburgh chapters of the ACLU in conjunction with a private attorney, filed a 42 U.S.C. §1983 class-action lawsuit in the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. The suit was filed on behalf of three named indigent defendants who sought to represent all present and future indigent criminal defendants in the jurisdiction. Named defendants included the Allegheny County Salary Board, three County Commissioners, and the Chief Public Defende…
INDIGENT DEFENSE
Rivera v. Rowland

95-cv-545929 | Connecticut state trial court

Filed Date: Jan. 5, 1995

Closed Date: 1999

On January 5, 1995, a group of indigent criminal defendants filed a class action lawsuit against the State of Connecticut and its Public Defender Services Commission under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments, the state constitution, and a state statute (C.G.S. 51-289 et seq.), in the Superior Court of Connecticut, Judicial District of Hartford-New Britain, at Hartford. The plaintiffs alleged that the State did not provide minimally adequate legal representation to indigent de…
INDIGENT DEFENSE
Best v. Grant County

04-00189 | Washington state trial court

Filed Date: Dec. 21, 2004

Closed Date: 2013

On December 21, 2004, three indigent criminal defendants with felony cases pending in the Grant County, Washington Superior Court, along with an individual taxpaying resident of Grant County, filed a class action lawsuit pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the Superior Court of Kittitas County, challenging the constitutionality of the public defense system in Grant County. Plaintiffs claimed that Grant County: (1) failed to establish a public defense system that provided effective assistance of co…
CHILD WELFARE
Nicholson v. Williams

1:00-cv-02229 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: April 17, 2000

Closed Date: 2007

The plaintiffs in this case are mothers in New York who have been subjected to domestic violence, and as a result, had the Administration for Children's Services (ACS) remove their children from their custody. Represented by the Sanctuary for Families, Lawyers for Children, and the New York Legal Aid Society, they each brought suit, separately, in 2000 in U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York, against ACS. Their cases were then consolidated and converted to a class action in Janua…
INDIGENT DEFENSE
Stinson v. Fulton County

1:94-cv-00240 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: Jan. 28, 1994

Closed Date: 2005

On January 28, 1994, a man incarcerated at the Fulton County Jail filed a class action lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. §1983 against the Fulton County public defender program, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. The plaintiff, represented by court-appointed counsel and attorneys from the Southern Center for Human Rights, sought declaratory and injunctive relief from violations of his rights as secured by the Sixth Amendment, the Equal Protection Clause, the Due Process Clau…
INDIGENT DEFENSE
Wayne County Criminal Defense Assn. v. Wayne Circuit Court

122709 | Michigan state appellate court

Filed Date: Nov. 12, 2002

Closed Date: 2003

On November 12, 2002, the Wayne County Criminal Defense Bar Association and the Criminal Defense Attorneys of Michigan filed a lawsuit against the Chief Judges of Wayne County Circuit Court, in the Supreme Court of Michigan. The plaintiffs, represented by private counsel, sought declaratory and injunctive relief from alleged systemic violations of the Sixth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, and Article 1, Section 20 of the Michigan Constitution. Specifically, the plaintiffs alleged that the d…
INDIGENT DEFENSE
Luckey v. Miller

4:86-cv-00297 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: Jan. 1, 1990

Closed Date: 1991

On 10/24/1986, a group of criminal defense attorneys and indigent criminal defendants filed a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 class action lawsuit against Georgia state officials (including the governor and all state court judges responsible for appointing attorneys to indigent criminal defendants) in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. The plaintiffs claimed that a number of inadequacies in Georgia's indigent criminal defense system (including inadequate resources, delays in the app…
INDIGENT DEFENSE
Anderson v. State

2004-5405 | Louisiana state trial court

Filed Date: Sept. 23, 2004

On September 23, 2004, nine clients of the Calcasieu Parish Public Defender's Office (PDO) filed a class action lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. §1983 against both the governor of Louisiana and the State Legislature, in the Fourteenth Judicial District Court in Calcasieu Parish, LA. The plaintiffs, represented by private counsel, sought injunctive and declaratory relief from violations of their rights as secured by the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments, and by the Louisiana State Constitution. Plaintiffs …
INDIGENT DEFENSE
White v. Martz

C DV-2002-133 | Montana state trial court

Filed Date: 2002

Closed Date: 2006

In February 2002, indigent defendants with criminal cases pending in Montana state courts in Butte-Silver Bow, Missoula, Glacier, Teton, Flathead, Lake, and Ravalli Counties filed a class action lawsuit against these counties and the state pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The plaintiffs, represented by the ACLU, the ACLU of Montana, and a private attorney, filed in the Montana First Judicial District Court, challenging the adequacy of the public defense system in the state of Montana. Specifical…
INDIGENT DEFENSE
In the Matter of the Review of Issues Concerning Representation of Indigent Defendants in Criminal and Juvenile Delinquency Cases

ADKT No. 411 | Nevada state trial court

Filed Date: 2007

In 2007, the Supreme Court of Nevada became concerned that the provision of indigent defense in the state was deficient and required reform. On April 26, 2007, the Supreme Court of Nevada ordered that an Indigent Defense Commission be created for the purpose of studying issues relating to selection, appointment, compensation, qualifications, performance standards, and caseloads of counsel assigned to represent indigent defendants in criminal and juvenile delinquency cases throughout Nevada. T…