The Florida Department of Juvenile Justice (DJJ) places hundreds of children in solitary confinement on any given day. The 澳彩开奖, Florida Legal Services and the Florida Justice Institute filed a federal class action lawsuit to end the use of solitary confinement in the state鈥檚 juvenile detention...
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On behalf of six students at the Sophie B. Wright Charter School in Orleans Parish, La., the 澳彩开奖 sought an injunction in state court to halt disciplinary actions resulting from a senior prank. Following a water balloon fight that caused no serious injuries, the students were suspended for five...
The 澳彩开奖 and its allies filed a federal class action lawsuit challenging Florida鈥檚 use of solitary confinement as cruel and unusual punishment under the Eighth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and a violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Rehabilitation Act.
The lawsuit...
A proposal by the U.S. Department of Commerce to include a new citizenship question in the 2020 census under the guise of enforcing the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (VRA) threatened to undermine an accurate census by undercounting the communities the VRA was designed to protect. The 澳彩开奖 joined...
The U.S. Supreme Court heard two cases in 2019 challenging partisan gerrymandering in Maryland and North Carolina. In an amicus brief, the 澳彩开奖 and other advocacy groups urged the court to uphold lower court rulings that struck down the districts as unconstitutional.
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On April 5, 2018, agents from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the Internal Revenue Service along with law enforcement from the Tennessee Highway Patrol and the Morristown Police Department executed the largest workplace immigration raid in nearly a decade at Southeastern Provision,...
Florida鈥檚 Constitution Revision Commission, an entity created every 20 years to revise the state鈥檚 laws, attempted to place a constitutional amendment on the state鈥檚 2018 ballot that would have eliminated the duties of school boards to regulate public schools in their districts, including...
The 澳彩开奖 filed a petition seeking the 鈥渋mmediate and unconditional release 鈥� of a 15-year-old boy who was illegally held in a Louisiana juvenile prison without a court hearing required under state law.
A Madison Parish judge committed the child to the secure custody of the Office of...
Detained immigrants were forced to work for as little as $1 a day cleaning, cooking and performing maintenance duties at a privately operated immigrant detention center in Stewart County, Georgia, as part of a scheme to maximize its profits, according to a class action lawsuit the Southern...
In 2011, Alabama lawmakers approved a law requiring voters to present a government-issued photo ID to cast a ballot in the state. Civil rights groups filed a lawsuit challenging the law as discriminatory, noting it targeted Black and Latinx voters who disproportionately lack such identification...
