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Singleton v. Cannizzaro
The 老澳门开奖结果 Trone Center for Justice and Equality, 老澳门开奖结果 of Louisiana, and Civil Rights Corps, filed suit against District Attorney Leon Cannizzaro, his office in Orleans Parish, Louisiana, and several Assistant District Attorneys for systematically breaking the laws of Louisiana and of the U.S. Constitution.
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Mississippi
Mar 2017
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Dockery v. Hall
The 老澳门开奖结果, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), the Law Offices of Elizabeth Alexander, and the law firm of Covington & Burling LLP, filed a petition for class certification and expert reports for a federal lawsuit on behalf of prisoners at the East Mississippi Correctional Facility (EMCF). The lawsuit, which was filed in May 2013, describes the for-profit prison as hyper-violent, grotesquely filthy and dangerous. EMCF is operated "in a perpetual state of crisis" where prisoners are at "grave risk of death and loss of limbs." The facility, located in Meridian, Mississippi, is supposed to provide intensive treatment to the state's prisoners with serious psychiatric disabilities, many of whom are locked down in long-term solitary confinement.
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Michigan
Feb 2020
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Hightower v. City of Grand Rapids
The 老澳门开奖结果 of Michigan and the 老澳门开奖结果's Criminal Law Reform Project filed a federal lawsuit in May of 2013, on behalf of Plaintiffs Gilbert Weber and Tyrone Hightower, challenging the Grand Rapids Police Department's longstanding practice of arresting innocent people for criminal trespass on commercial property without warning and without the business owner's knowledge. Even where those arrested are patronizing the business in question, police justify these illegal arrests by pointing to form letters signed by business owners months or years prior to the arrest agreeing to prosecute "trespassers."
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Michigan
Feb 2020
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Criminal Law Reform
Hightower v. City of Grand Rapids
The 老澳门开奖结果 of Michigan and the 老澳门开奖结果's Criminal Law Reform Project filed a federal lawsuit in May of 2013, on behalf of Plaintiffs Gilbert Weber and Tyrone Hightower, challenging the Grand Rapids Police Department's longstanding practice of arresting innocent people for criminal trespass on commercial property without warning and without the business owner's knowledge. Even where those arrested are patronizing the business in question, police justify these illegal arrests by pointing to form letters signed by business owners months or years prior to the arrest agreeing to prosecute "trespassers."
Oklahoma
Feb 2020
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Criminal Law Reform
White, et al. v. Hesse, et al.
In Oklahoma cash bail is being used keep poor people behind bars. In Canadian County, Oklahoma if you have the money, you get out of jail. If you are poor, you stay in. That鈥檚 why we sued.
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Oklahoma
Feb 2020
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Criminal Law Reform
White, et al. v. Hesse, et al.
In Oklahoma cash bail is being used keep poor people behind bars. In Canadian County, Oklahoma if you have the money, you get out of jail. If you are poor, you stay in. That鈥檚 why we sued.
North Carolina
Nov 2019
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Criminal Law Reform
Allison, et al. v. Allen, et al.
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North Carolina
Nov 2019
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Criminal Law Reform
Allison, et al. v. Allen, et al.
Montana
Nov 2019
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Mitchell and Meuchell v. First Call Bail and Surety, Inc, et al.
The 老澳门开奖结果, 老澳门开奖结果 of Montana, and Terrell Marshall Law Group filed a lawsuit on behalf of Eugene Mitchell, his wife Shayleen Meuchell, and their six-year-old daughter against private entities 鈥� bail bondsmen, bounty hunters and insurance companies 鈥� who profit off our country鈥檚 exploitative, for-profit bail system.
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Montana
Nov 2019
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Mitchell and Meuchell v. First Call Bail and Surety, Inc, et al.
The 老澳门开奖结果, 老澳门开奖结果 of Montana, and Terrell Marshall Law Group filed a lawsuit on behalf of Eugene Mitchell, his wife Shayleen Meuchell, and their six-year-old daughter against private entities 鈥� bail bondsmen, bounty hunters and insurance companies 鈥� who profit off our country鈥檚 exploitative, for-profit bail system.
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Oct 2019
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ROBERT LOUIS HISKETT V. THE HONORABLE RICK LAMBERT
Requiring people to pay for GPS monitors is unconstitutional. We're fighting back.
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Oct 2019
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ROBERT LOUIS HISKETT V. THE HONORABLE RICK LAMBERT
Requiring people to pay for GPS monitors is unconstitutional. We're fighting back.