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PRISON CONDITIONS
Boles v. Matthews

2:97-cv-02510 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Tennessee

Filed Date: June 5, 1997

Closed Date: 1999

On June 5, 1997, a Tennessee inmate filed a lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and the Religious Freedom Restoration Act against Shelby County Circuit Court in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Tennessee. The plaintiff, representing himself, asked the court for declaratory and injunctive relief, alleging that the state court clerk refused to legally change plaintiff's name in violation of his civil rights.On June 16, 1997, the District Court (Judge Unknown) dismissed the plaintif…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Wayne County Jail Inmates v. Wayne County Sheriff

71-173217-CZ | Michigan state trial court

Filed Date: Jan. 1, 1971

This case arose amid a backdrop of increasing public opposition to poor conditions at the Wayne County Jail. In the 1960s, Detroit implemented tough-on-crime measures including a stop-and-frisk ordinance and aggressive enforcement of loitering and disorderly conduct laws. Around the same time, local judges began to set drastically higher bail rates. For example, the Detroit Traffic Court raised bail for speeding from $35 in March 1970 to $333 in November 1971. As a result, the Wayne County Jail…
INDIGENT DEFENSE
State of Lousiana v. Citizen

04-KA-1841 | Louisiana state trial court

Filed Date: 2004

Closed Date: 2005

In 2004, two criminal indigent defendants filed suit in the 14th Judicial District Court, Parish of Calcasieu challenging the constitutionality of two Louisiana statutes in determining the source of funds for indigent defendants' counsel. They argued that because of the disclaimers in the statues, stating that nothing in the statute should make the parishes of Louisiana responsible for the expenses associated with the costs of indigent criminal defense, they were deprived of their right to eff…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Ray v. Judicial Corrections Services

2:12-cv-02819 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama

Filed Date: Aug. 28, 2012

Closed Date: Sept. 29, 2020

On August 28, 2012, three Alabama residents filed a federal class lawsuit against the city of Childersburg, Alabama and the private, for-profit law enforcement company the city used to collect law-enforcement related fines, costs, and fees. The plaintiffs sued in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama, seeking a declaratory judgment and an injunction. They asserted claims under both federal and state law. Public Justice, Professor Erwin Chemerinsky, and private counsel re…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Rodriguez v. Hayes

2:07-cv-03239 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: May 16, 2007

On May 16, 2007, an immigration detainee who had been held for more than six months without a bond hearing while in removal proceedings petitioned the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California for a writ of habeas corpus. Plaintiff claimed that, without a bond hearing, detention over six months violated the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment and the statutory requirements of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA). Represented by private counsel, the ACLU of Southern C…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Roy v. Los Angeles County

2:12-cv-09012 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: Oct. 19, 2012

On October 19, 2012, five named plaintiffs filed this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, challenging the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department’s (LASD) practice of holding individuals subject to immigration detainer beyond their release date solely on the basis of the detainer. The plaintiffs alleged that these practices violated state law, the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution, and the California Constitution (Cal. …
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Farrow v. Lipetzky

3:12-cv-06495 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Dec. 12, 2012

Closed Date: Feb. 22, 2021

On December 12, 2012, two individual plaintiffs filed suit against Contra Costa County (California) and its Office of the Public Defender (PD) in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California (in San Francisco). Represented by private counsel, the plaintiffs sought to represent a class of indigent criminal defendants who, they alleged, were inadequately represented by the PD. The case was assigned to Magistrate Judge Joseph Spero.The written policy of the PD provided for indig…
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Sioux Chief MFG. Co, Inc. v. Sebelius

4:13-cv-00036 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri

Filed Date: Jan. 14, 2013

Closed Date: 2015

On January 14, 2013, several Catholic business owners filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri under 42 U.S.C. §1983, the Religious Freedom Restoration Act ("RFRA"), and the Administrative Procedures Act ("APA"), against the U.S. Departments of Health and Human Services, Labor, and the Treasury. The plaintiffs, represented by the Alliance Defense Fund, asked the court for both declaratory and injunctive relief, alleging that federal rules adopted pursuant …
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Gordon v. Napolitano [later Johnson, Nielsen]

3:13-cv-30146 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: Aug. 8, 2013

Closed Date: June 26, 2019

On August 8, 2013, several noncitizens being held in mandatory detention filed this class-action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts against the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and various county sheriffs in Massachusetts. The plaintiffs argued that their detention in deportation proceedings -- without any chance for release on bail when they were released from criminal custody months or years before -- violated the …

Class Action Complaint and Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus

Gordon v. Napolitano

Aug. 8, 2013

Order Regarding Plaintiff's Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus, Plaintiff's Motion for a Preliminary Injunction, and Defendants' Motion to Dismiss

Gordon v. Napolitano

Oct. 23, 2013

Memorandum and Order Regarding Plaintiff's Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus, Plaintiff's Motion for a Preliminary Injunction, and Defendants' Motion to Dismiss

Gordon v. Napolitano

Dec. 31, 2013

Order Regarding Plaintiffs' Motion for Class Certification, Plaintiff Cesar Chavarria Restrepo's Individual Habeas Petition, and Defendants' Motion to Dismiss

Gordon v. Napolitano

March 27, 2014

Memorandum & Order Regarding Plaintiffs' Motion for Class Certification and Plaintiffs' Motion for Summary Judgment

Gordon v. Napolitano

May 21, 2014

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IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Reid v. Donelan

3:13-cv-30125 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: July 1, 2013

On July 1, 2013, a lawful permanent resident held in immigration detention in Massachusetts for eight months filed a federal habeas petition under 18 U.S.C. § 2241, and a class-action complaint in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, contending that the prolonged detention of himself and others similarly situated without an individualized bond hearing violated the Immigration & Nationality Act (INA), the Fifth Amendment's Due Process Clause, and the Eighth Amendment's Exce…