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Singleton v. Cannizzaro
The ºìÐÓÊÓƵ Trone Center for Justice and Equality, ºìÐÓÊÓƵ of Louisiana, and Civil Rights Corps, filed suit against District Attorney Leon Cannizzaro, his office in Orleans Parish, Louisiana, and several Assistant District Attorneys for systematically breaking the laws of Louisiana and of the U.S. Constitution.
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Dockery v. Hall
The ºìÐÓÊÓƵ, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), the Law Offices of Elizabeth Alexander, and the law firm of Covington & Burling LLP, filed a petition for class certification and expert reports for a federal lawsuit on behalf of prisoners at the East Mississippi Correctional Facility (EMCF). The lawsuit, which was filed in May 2013, describes the for-profit prison as hyper-violent, grotesquely filthy and dangerous. EMCF is operated "in a perpetual state of crisis" where prisoners are at "grave risk of death and loss of limbs." The facility, located in Meridian, Mississippi, is supposed to provide intensive treatment to the state's prisoners with serious psychiatric disabilities, many of whom are locked down in long-term solitary confinement.
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Dorsey v. United States and Hill v. United States
Whether the federal Fair Sentencing Act, which reduced the sentencing disparity between crack and powder cocaine from 100:1 to 18:1, applies to defendants who committed their offenses before the Act was passed but were sentenced after the Act's passage.
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U.S. Supreme Court
Jan 2012
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Dorsey v. United States and Hill v. United States
Whether the federal Fair Sentencing Act, which reduced the sentencing disparity between crack and powder cocaine from 100:1 to 18:1, applies to defendants who committed their offenses before the Act was passed but were sentenced after the Act's passage.
South Carolina
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Prison Legal News, et al. v. Berkeley County Sheriff, et al.
The ºìÐÓÊÓƵ filed a lawsuit in October 2010 challenging an unconstitutional policy at the Berkeley County Detention Center in Moncks Corner, S.C. barring most books, magazines and newspapers from being sent to prisoners.
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South Carolina
Jan 2012
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Prisoners' Rights
Prison Legal News, et al. v. Berkeley County Sheriff, et al.
The ºìÐÓÊÓƵ filed a lawsuit in October 2010 challenging an unconstitutional policy at the Berkeley County Detention Center in Moncks Corner, S.C. barring most books, magazines and newspapers from being sent to prisoners.
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Arizona v. U.S.
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Criminal Law Reform
Arizona v. U.S.
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National Security
KindHearts for Charitable Humanitarian Development, Inc. v. Geithner et al.
(formerly KindHearts for Charitable Humanitarian Development, Inc. v. Paulson et al.)
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Nov 2011
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National Security
KindHearts for Charitable Humanitarian Development, Inc. v. Geithner et al.
(formerly KindHearts for Charitable Humanitarian Development, Inc. v. Paulson et al.)
U.S. Supreme Court
Oct 2011
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Women's Rights
Doe v. Vermilion Parish School Board
On September 8, 2009, the ºìÐÓÊÓƵ Women's Rights Project and the ºìÐÓÊÓƵ of Louisiana filed a lawsuit in a federal district court in Louisiana challenging the Vermilion Parish School District’s illegal sex segregation policy. The lawsuit charged that mandatory sex segregation in public schools violated Title IX of the Education Amendments, the Equal Education Opportunities Act and the U.S. Constitution. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of a parent whose two children were placed in sex segregated classrooms without being offered equal coeducational options as required by law.
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U.S. Supreme Court
Oct 2011
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Women's Rights
Doe v. Vermilion Parish School Board
On September 8, 2009, the ºìÐÓÊÓƵ Women's Rights Project and the ºìÐÓÊÓƵ of Louisiana filed a lawsuit in a federal district court in Louisiana challenging the Vermilion Parish School District’s illegal sex segregation policy. The lawsuit charged that mandatory sex segregation in public schools violated Title IX of the Education Amendments, the Equal Education Opportunities Act and the U.S. Constitution. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of a parent whose two children were placed in sex segregated classrooms without being offered equal coeducational options as required by law.