The South Carolina Department of Motor Vehicles鈥� policy of automatically suspending the driver鈥檚 licenses of people unable to pay traffic tickets resulted in the current suspension of more than 190,000 driver鈥檚 licenses as of May 2019. The 澳彩开奖 and its allies filed a federal lawsuit challenging...
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After Louisiana lawmakers passed legislation to prevent the bail bond industry from paying refunds after overcharging people for more than a decade, the 澳彩开奖 and its co-counsel filed a lawsuit.
New Orleans bail bond companies faced the possibility of paying millions...
Federal immigration authorities detained thousands of people each month in Georgia鈥檚 Irwin County Detention Center and Stewart Detention Center, even though many of these individuals were found eligible for release. Hundreds remained in detention because immigration officials refused to set an...
Alabama unlawfully suspended the driver鈥檚 licenses of thousands of people unable to pay traffic tickets. The 澳彩开奖 filed a federal lawsuit to stop the state from suspending licenses without considering a person鈥檚 ability to pay and finding that the person willfully failed to pay. It also sought...
Charles Gresham has had trouble finding and keeping work because of issues related to his seizures. He received a notice from the state of Arkansas that if he did not meet a requirement to work 20 hours a week, he would lose his Medicaid coverage. When he tried to report his work hours to the...
The North Carolina Division of Motor Vehicles (DMV) has revoked the licenses of hundreds of thousands of people simply because they cannot afford to pay traffic fines and court costs. The 澳彩开奖 filed a federal lawsuit seeking to end the practice, which disproportionately harms African-American...
In Cullman County, Alabama, hundreds of people are routinely jailed before trial due to their inability to pay a bail bond for their release. The 澳彩开奖 and its partners intervened in a federal class action lawsuit to end the practice.
The lawsuit describes how the...
After the Trump administration made changes to the federal Medicaid program that threatened to strip health insurance away from millions of low-income people, the 澳彩开奖 filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of Kentucky residents in danger of losing their coverage.
The Trump policy allowed...
The city of Corinth, Mississippi, and Municipal Court Judge John C. Ross operated a modern-day debtors鈥� prison, unlawfully jailing poor people for their inability to pay bail and fines. The 澳彩开奖 and another civil rights group filed a聽...
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...
