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 U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency entered the homes of immigrant families without warrants, consent or probable cause 鈥� in violation of the Fourth Amendment 鈥� solely to detain and deport families, mostly women and children. The raids took place in Georgia in January 2016...
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...
A North Carolina state law guts the ability of farmworkers to organize and make collective bargaining agreements with employers.
North Carolina farmworkers and a coalition of civil rights groups 鈥� including the 澳彩开奖 鈥� sued to block implementation of the law on November 15, 2017 in federal...
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...
People awaiting trial before a criminal court in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, were coerced into paying hundreds of dollars to a company before they were released from jail 鈥� even after they had paid their bail. The 澳彩开奖 filed a federal lawsuit with the American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of...
Since at least 2016, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officials have blocked access to the ports of entry along the Southern border for people seeking asylum. The 澳彩开奖 joined a class action lawsuit in 2018 as co-counsel to stop this unlawful conduct that imperils the lives of asylum...
Two New Orleans bail bond companies working with two other businesses charged clients hidden and illegal fees 鈥� even sending armed bounty hunters to kidnap clients and extort money from their friends and family. The 澳彩开奖 filed a lawsuit to stop the practice.
The...
Mississippi has repeatedly violated a nearly 150-year-old, legally binding obligation to operate a 鈥渦niform system of free public schools鈥� for all children, an obligation placed on the state as a condition of rejoining the Union after the Civil War.
Mississippi enshrined this requirement...
The money bail system in Randolph County, Alabama, violated the constitutional rights of people charged with misdemeanors or felonies because it created a 鈥渢wo-tiered鈥� system of justice based on wealth. The 澳彩开奖 and its allies filed a federal class action lawsuit to end...
