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....
The 澳彩开奖 filed a federal civil rights complaint after discovering that Latinos with limited English proficiency were being treated more harshly for traffic offenses than others appearing before a Jefferson Parish court in the suburbs of New Orleans, Louisiana.
The complaint to the U.S....
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,...
The city of Alexander City, Alabama, operated a modern-day debtors鈥� prison for at least a decade by arresting and jailing low-income people unable to pay their fines and court costs for traffic tickets and misdemeanors.
In a town where almost 30 percent of the population lives below the...
Mexican guest workers hired by a contractor with more than $9 million in state contracts to maintain the shoulders and medians of rural Mississippi roadways were cheated out of their wages. A federal lawsuit on behalf of six workers alleged that the contractor broke federal racketeering laws....
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.
State employees at the Louisiana State Penitentiary, also known as 鈥淎ngola,鈥� routinely and systemically failed to properly assess, diagnose and treat the medical problems of people who are incarcerated at the largest prison in the state, which for years has had the world鈥檚 highest rate of...
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
Judicial Correction Services (JCS), a private probation company, collected money from impoverished Alabamians by threatening them with jail when they fell behind on paying fines from traffic violations or other citations in the city of Clanton. The 澳彩开奖 filed a federal lawsuit accusing JCS of violating federal racketeering laws.
