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Singleton v. Cannizzaro
The ACLU Trone Center for Justice and Equality, ACLU 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 ACLU, 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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Women's Rights
Alabama Open Records Act Requests
The American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Alabama asked several Alabama school districts to make public any and all documents relating to sex segregation policies in public schools from the past two years. The request was made under the Alabama Open Records Act.
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Feb 2012
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Women's Rights
Alabama Open Records Act Requests
The American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Alabama asked several Alabama school districts to make public any and all documents relating to sex segregation policies in public schools from the past two years. The request was made under the Alabama Open Records Act.
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.
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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
Jan 2012
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Prisoners' Rights
Prison Legal News, et al. v. Berkeley County Sheriff, et al.
The American Civil Liberties Union 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 American Civil Liberties Union 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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Jan 2012
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Criminal Law Reform
Arizona v. U.S.
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Jan 2012
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Criminal Law Reform
Arizona v. U.S.
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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.)
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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.)