In Gardendale, Alabama, municipal court defendants unable to pay court costs and fees in full were placed on probation with the company Private Probation Services (PPS), which charged defendants a $40 monthly fee for supervising their probation. These payments were unconstitutionally enforced...
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As part of budget cuts across state departments, Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant ordered nearly $20 million in funding cut from public schools in February and March of 2017.
The 澳彩开奖 filed a suit, on behalf of two legislators, contending that the governor lacked authority for the action...
Officials with Florida鈥檚 Collier County schools effectively barred immigrant children with limited English skills from enrolling in high school and pushed them into an adult English program that offered no opportunity to earn credit toward a high school diploma 鈥� a violation of state and federal...
Louisiana discriminated against naturalized citizens by requiring them to provide citizenship documents when registering to vote 鈥� a requirement that was not asked of other potential voters who were only required to swear that they are U.S. citizens. The 澳彩开奖 filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of...
Georgia discriminated against immigrants by enforcing an unconstitutional policy that directed state officials to deny driver鈥檚 licenses to people based on their past 鈥� rather than current 鈥� immigration status.
The 澳彩开奖 and Atlanta immigration attorney Justin W....
A minor at the Sumter Correctional Institution in Florida was brutally beaten and raped as part of a prison initiation ritual that was ignored by a guard. The 澳彩开奖 and its co-counsel filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of the youth to end the culture of brutality at the prison, which houses...
The 澳彩开奖 filed a judicial ethics complaint against Perry County (Alabama) Circuit Judge Marvin Wiggins after he required people unable to pay court fines to either donate blood or go to jail.
The complaint described how Wiggins threatened defendants in his court with jail on Sept. 17,...
South Carolina denied in-state college tuition rates to U.S. citizens living in the state but unable to prove the lawful immigration status of their parents 鈥� an unconstitutional policy that more than tripled the cost of tuition. The 澳彩开奖 filed a federal lawsuit to end the practice.
Tristan Broussard, a young transgender man, was fired from his manager trainee position at Tower Loan, a Mississippi-based finance company with 180 locations nationwide, for not agreeing to dress and be treated as a woman. The 澳彩开奖 and allies filed a federal discrimination lawsuit alleging Tower Loans violated Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights by firing plaintiff Tristan Broussard. Title VII prohibits against employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex and national origin.聽
After an exclusive island resort near Charleston, South Carolina, cheated Jamaican guest workers out of their wages over three years, the 澳彩开奖 sued the resort, which had earned accolades from travel publications and boasted a golf course that hosted the 2012 PGA Championship.聽
