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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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Mississippi
Mar 2017
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Prisoners' Rights
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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National Security
Kiyemba v. Obama
Whether federal habeas courts have the authority to order the release of Guantanamo detainees who are being illegally detained, including an order releasing them into the United States if no other alternative is available.
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U.S. Supreme Court
Dec 2009
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National Security
Kiyemba v. Obama
Whether federal habeas courts have the authority to order the release of Guantanamo detainees who are being illegally detained, including an order releasing them into the United States if no other alternative is available.
U.S. Supreme Court
Dec 2009
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Lewis v. City of Chicago
Whether the 300 day deadline for filing a disparate impact complaint with the EEOC runs from the date the challenged practice is adopted by the employer or from the date that it is applied against the complaining employee.
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U.S. Supreme Court
Dec 2009
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Lewis v. City of Chicago
Whether the 300 day deadline for filing a disparate impact complaint with the EEOC runs from the date the challenged practice is adopted by the employer or from the date that it is applied against the complaining employee.
New Jersey
Nov 2009
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Thompson v. Ricci, et al.
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New Jersey
Nov 2009
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Thompson v. Ricci, et al.
U.S. Supreme Court
Nov 2009
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Nelson v. Norris
The case of an Arkansas woman who was shackled to her hospital bed while in labor in 2003.
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U.S. Supreme Court
Nov 2009
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Nelson v. Norris
The case of an Arkansas woman who was shackled to her hospital bed while in labor in 2003.
U.S. Supreme Court
Nov 2009
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Davis, et al. v. Canyon County, Idaho, et al.
Six plaintiffs file this action on their own behalf and on behalf of a class of all other persons incarcerated, now or in the future, in the Canyon County Jail in Caldwell, Idaho.
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U.S. Supreme Court
Nov 2009
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Davis, et al. v. Canyon County, Idaho, et al.
Six plaintiffs file this action on their own behalf and on behalf of a class of all other persons incarcerated, now or in the future, in the Canyon County Jail in Caldwell, Idaho.