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Howard v. Coonrod

6:21-cv-00062 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida

Filed Date: Jan. 8, 2021

Case Ongoing

This is a challenge to Florida's parole procedures for people sentenced in the state to life with parole for crimes committed under the age of 18.    On January 8, 2021, the four named plaintiffs filed this action in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida, seeking to represent a class of the more than 100 people serving life with parole sentences in Florida for crimes committed under the age of 18.  They argued that Florida's parole procedures failed to comply with the U.S. …
POLICING
Taylor v. Nocco

8:21-cv-00555 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida

Filed Date: March 10, 2021

Case Ongoing

This is a case challenging the Pasco County Sheriff's Office's "Intelligence-Led Policing Program," or ILP Practices. The plaintiffs sued Sheriff Nocco in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida, alleging that the program created a list of individuals believed likely to commit future crimes and then subjected those individuals and their families to “relentless pursuit, arrest, and prosecution” in violation of the First Amendment freedom of assembly and the Fourteenth Amendmen…
POLICING
1997 DOJ Investigation of Orange County Sheriff's Office

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On April 11, 1997, the Department of Justice opened an investigation of the Orange County Sheriff’s Office (OSCO) in Florida after receiving allegations of discriminatory policing and unlawful stops, searches, and seizures, stemming from the Criminal Patrol Unit, a drug interception unit which operated on the turnpike. During the investigation, state legislators passed a statute requiring law enforcement agencies to adopt anti-discrimination policies and procedures for handling civilian complai…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
CODING IN PROCESS
Meza v. Marstiller

3:22-cv-00783 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida

Filed Date: July 17, 2022

Case Ongoing

On July 17, 2022, two low-income adults in Florida with bladder and bowel incontinence, along with Disability Rights Florida—Florida’s federally funded protection and advocacy system—filed this 42 U.S.C. § 1983 putative class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida. The plaintiffs sought to compel the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA) to cover medically necessary incontinence supplies through Florida’s Medicaid program for individuals who …
DISABILITY RIGHTS
National Association of the Deaf v. Florida

1:18-cv-21232 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida

Filed Date: April 3, 2018

Closed Date: Dec. 10, 2021

On April 3, 2018, the National Association of the Deaf and a private plaintiff filed this lawsuit in United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida. The plaintiffs sued the State of Florida; its Senate and the Senate President; the House of Representatives (the House) and the House Speaker; and the Florida State University Board of Trustees (FSU) and the president of Florida State University under Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and Section 504 of the Re…
PRISON CONDITIONS
United States v. Florida

1:12-cv-22958 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida

Filed Date: Aug. 14, 2012

Case Ongoing

On August 14, 2012, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida on behalf of Jewish prisoners under 42 U.S.C. § 2000cc-2(f) and 28 U.S.C. §§ 2201 and 2202 against the Florida Department of Corrections. The DOJ asked the court for declaratory and injunctive relief, claiming that defendant violated religious freedoms granted by the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000 (RLUIPA). Specifically, plaint…
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Equality Florida v. DeSantis

4:22-cv-00134 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida

Filed Date: March 31, 2022

Case Ongoing

This case, filed on March 31, 2022, challenged Florida House Bill 1557, the Florida statute widely known as the "Don't Say Gay" law. H.B. 1557 banned any school instruction on "sexual orientation and gender identity." Equality Florida and Family Equality, two non-profit, public interest organizations, together with individual students, parents, and a teachers brought this suit against the State of Florida, Florida Department of Education, the Florida Board of Education, state officials in their…
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Parsons v. City of Jacksonville

16-2017-CA-001263-XXXX-MA | Florida state trial court

Filed Date: March 1, 2017

Case Ongoing

This is a case about Jacksonville, Florida, its residents, and its businesses against the city's 2017 ordinance that added sexual orientation and gender identity as protected categories under Florida's Human Rights Ordinance ("HRO"). On March 1, 2017, a private Jacksonville citizen filed this lawsuit against Jacksonville in the Florida Fourth Circuit Court for Duval County. The plaintiff sued Jacksonville under Florida law claiming that the city deprived their right to adequate notice and that …
PRISON CONDITIONS
Demler v. Inch

4:19-cv-00094 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida

Filed Date: Feb. 19, 2019

Closed Date: Sept. 7, 2022

On February 19, 2019, a man serving a life sentence in a Florida prison filed this putative class-action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida. The plaintiff sued the Secretary of the Florida Department of Corrections under 42 U.S.C. §1983 and the Declaratory Judgment Act. The case was ultimately assigned to Judge Robert L. Hinkle. The plaintiff, represented by the Social Justice Law Collective and the Florida Justice Institute, sought a declaration that the De…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Generation to Generation, Inc. v. Florida

37 2022 CA 000980 | Florida state trial court

Filed Date: June 10, 2022

Case Ongoing

On June 10, 2022, Generation to Generation, a South Florida synagogue, filed this lawsuit in the Second Circuit of the State of Florida in and for Leon County, Florida. Plaintiff sued the state of Florida on state constitutional claims to challenge HB 5, a state law criminalizing the provision of abortion care after fifteen weeks from an individual's last menstrual period. The complaint alleged that this ban on pre-viability abortions violated the Florida Constitution's rights to privacy, relig…