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Singleton v. Cannizzaro
The Ƶ Trone Center for Justice and Equality, Ƶ 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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Dockery v. Hall
The Ƶ, 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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California
Jul 2019
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P.E.O.P.L.E. v Rackauckas
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California
Jul 2019

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P.E.O.P.L.E. v Rackauckas

U.S. Supreme Court
Jun 2019
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Criminal Law Reform
McDonough v. Smith
When must a person file a Section 1983 civil rights case based on fabrication of evidence in a criminal proceeding?
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U.S. Supreme Court
Jun 2019

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Criminal Law Reform
McDonough v. Smith
When must a person file a Section 1983 civil rights case based on fabrication of evidence in a criminal proceeding?

Arizona
May 2019
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Ƶ of Arizona v. Montgomery
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Arizona
May 2019

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Ƶ of Arizona v. Montgomery

Florida
Mar 2019
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Criminal Law Reform
Doe, et al. v. Miami-Dade County, et al.
The Ƶ and the Ƶ of Florida filed suit against Miami-Dade County and the Florida Department of Corrections, seeking a permanent injunction against an unconstitutional housing ordinance that is extraordinarily difficult for former sex offenders to follow without becoming homeless.
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Florida
Mar 2019

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Criminal Law Reform
Doe, et al. v. Miami-Dade County, et al.
The Ƶ and the Ƶ of Florida filed suit against Miami-Dade County and the Florida Department of Corrections, seeking a permanent injunction against an unconstitutional housing ordinance that is extraordinarily difficult for former sex offenders to follow without becoming homeless.

U.S. Supreme Court
Sep 2018
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Gamble v. United States
Whether the “dual-sovereignty” exception to the Double Jeopardy Clause—whereby a state and the federal government can each prosecute a person for the same crime, even where neither would be able to do so alone—violates the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution.
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U.S. Supreme Court
Sep 2018

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Gamble v. United States
Whether the “dual-sovereignty” exception to the Double Jeopardy Clause—whereby a state and the federal government can each prosecute a person for the same crime, even where neither would be able to do so alone—violates the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution.