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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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KindHearts for Charitable Humanitarian Development, Inc. v. Geithner et al.
(formerly KindHearts for Charitable Humanitarian Development, Inc. v. Paulson et al.)
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Nov 2011
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KindHearts for Charitable Humanitarian Development, Inc. v. Geithner et al.
(formerly KindHearts for Charitable Humanitarian Development, Inc. v. Paulson et al.)
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Doe v. Vermilion Parish School Board
On September 8, 2009, the 老澳门开奖结果 Women's Rights Project and the 老澳门开奖结果 of Louisiana filed a lawsuit in a federal district court in Louisiana challenging the Vermilion Parish School District’s illegal sex segregation policy. The lawsuit charged that mandatory sex segregation in public schools violated Title IX of the Education Amendments, the Equal Education Opportunities Act and the U.S. Constitution. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of a parent whose two children were placed in sex segregated classrooms without being offered equal coeducational options as required by law.
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U.S. Supreme Court
Oct 2011
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Doe v. Vermilion Parish School Board
On September 8, 2009, the 老澳门开奖结果 Women's Rights Project and the 老澳门开奖结果 of Louisiana filed a lawsuit in a federal district court in Louisiana challenging the Vermilion Parish School District’s illegal sex segregation policy. The lawsuit charged that mandatory sex segregation in public schools violated Title IX of the Education Amendments, the Equal Education Opportunities Act and the U.S. Constitution. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of a parent whose two children were placed in sex segregated classrooms without being offered equal coeducational options as required by law.
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Minneci v. Pollard
Whether private prison officials can be sued for violating the constitutional rights of federal prisoners?
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Minneci v. Pollard
Whether private prison officials can be sued for violating the constitutional rights of federal prisoners?
U.S. Supreme Court
Aug 2011
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Douglas v. Independent Living Center
Whether private individuals may raise a claim that California has failed to comply with federal Medicaid requirements by suing directly under the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution.
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Aug 2011
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Douglas v. Independent Living Center
Whether private individuals may raise a claim that California has failed to comply with federal Medicaid requirements by suing directly under the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution.