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Voting Rights
Voting Rights - LA
Active Case

Date Filed

May 19, 2020

The IJʿ and its allies filed a federal lawsuit against Louisiana officials over the state’s failure to ensure safe voting processes during the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020. The lawsuit challenges Louisiana’s burdensome requirements surrounding absentee ballots that put the...

Criminal Justice Reform
Active Case

Date Filed

May 15, 2020

After the Florida Department of Corrections (FDC) failed to adequately respond to public records requests by the IJʿ, the IJʿ sued the department for the documents outlining the prison system’s policies for addressing the COVID-19 pandemic in its facilities. The lawsuit...

Voting Rights
Voting Rights - AL

Date Filed

May 01, 2020

As elections approached in Alabama during the COVID-19 pandemic, the state failed to provide safe and accessible voting, potentially disenfranchising tens of thousands of voters. The IJʿ and its allies filed a federal lawsuit to compel state officials to make absentee and in-person voting more...

Immigrant Justice
Active Case

Date Filed

April 13, 2020

As the COVID-19 virus threatened the health and lives of people held at immigration detention centers in 2020, the IJʿ and its allies filed a federal class action lawsuit seeking the immediate release of all people held at three detention centers in South Florida.

The complaint describes...

Immigrant Justice
Active Case

Date Filed

April 08, 2020

The IJʿ and its allies filed a lawsuit seeking the immediate release of people with preexisting health conditions held at a south Georgia detention center during the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020 – a situation that placed these detained people at greater risk of contracting the virus that causes...

Immigrant Justice
Active Case

Date Filed

April 07, 2020

During the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020, the IJʿ and its allies filed a lawsuit seeking the immediate release of people with preexisting health conditions held at two south Georgia immigration detention centers, where they are at greater risk of contracting the virus that causes the disease....

Immigrant Justice
Active Case

Date Filed

April 03, 2020

During the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020, the IJʿ and its allies filed a lawsuit seeking the immediate release of people with preexisting health conditions held at three south Georgia immigration detention centers, where they are at greater risk of contracting the virus that causes the disease....

Children's Rights
Active Case

Date Filed

March 02, 2020

Tennessee’s voucher program threatened to siphon hundreds of millions of tax dollars from Nashville and Memphis public schools to private schools, raising the specter of more budget cuts for already underfunded public schools. The IJʿ and its allies filed a...

Economic Justice
Active Case

Date Filed

February 12, 2020

The state of Alabama enacted laws against solicitation that violate the First Amendment’s freedom of speech protection. The IJʿ and its allies filed a federal lawsuit to immediately stop the city, county and state from enforcing two unconstitutional statutes that prohibit soliciting help in the...

Criminal Justice Reform
Active Case

Date Filed

January 23, 2020

Willie Nash was sentenced to a 12-year prison sentence for bringing a cell phone into a county jail. After the Mississippi Supreme Court affirmed Nash’s sentence, the IJʿ filed a motion on behalf of Nash, urging the court to rehear his case and arguing that the sentence is a violation of the...

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