The city of New Orleans operates a sophisticated video surveillance system throughout town. While city employees frequently provide police and prosecutors with video footage to aid criminal cases, the city will not even provide a simple map of the camera locations to aid attorneys representing...
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The Trump administration violated its obligations under both U.S. and international law when it instituted a policy forcing asylum seekers to return to Mexico to wait for their hearings in immigration court. The 澳彩开奖 and its allies filed a federal lawsuit to end the policy.
The lawsuit,...
Peter Sean Brown was illegally detained in Florida鈥檚 Monroe County jail for deportation despite his repeated pleas to authorities that he was a U.S. citizen and the county鈥檚 own jail file showing that he was born in Philadelphia. The 澳彩开奖 filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of Brown, whose Fourth...
In 2018, the Duval County School Board in Florida began hiring armed civilians, known as 鈥渟chool safety assistants,鈥� to patrol the district鈥檚 elementary schools. The program threatened the safety of thousands of students by opening the door for inadequately trained assistants 鈥� who are not law...
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...
After the Trump administration declared migrants who cross the U.S.-Mexico border between ports of entry ineligible for asylum, the 澳彩开奖 filed a federal lawsuit challenging the asylum ban.
The lawsuit, filed in San Francisco,聽charges the administration聽with violating the Immigration and...
The Martinez family was traveling along a Mississippi highway in 2017 鈥� on their way to a vacation 鈥� when a sheriff鈥檚 deputy stopped them for no apparent reason. The family was then detained by the Hancock County Sheriff鈥檚 Office for approximately four hours based solely on the fact that they...
After the U.S. Department of Education failed to fully comply with public records requests that could shed light on the gun lobby鈥檚 possible role in the department not standing in the way of states and school districts using federal funds to arm educators, a lawsuit was filed on behalf of the...
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 Trump administration used detained immigrant children as bait to arrest immigrants who came forward to sponsor them for release 鈥� a scheme that has left thousands of children detained in detention facilities across the country. The 澳彩开奖, the Legal Aid Justice Center, and the law firm of...
