Beginning the date of the inauguration on January 20, 2025, the Trump administration issued a series of anti-LGBTQIA+ executive orders, particularly restricting access to medical care, travel,...
Updated: June 4, 2025
This lawsuit seeks declaratory and injunctive relief from the Trump administration’s express targeting of plaintiffs for categorical, unjustified, and unconstitutional punishment by incarceration in...
Updated: April 23, 2025
Edicson David Quintero Chacón filed an amended petition for writ of habeas corpus on April 16, 2025, challenging the legality of his detention at the infamous Terrorism Confinement Center (“CECOT”)...
Updated: April 16, 2025
Devyn Elijah Springer, who goes by the pen name Musa, is a Black, Muslim, queer activist and journalist from the Atlanta area. On April 8, 2025, they were stopped by U.S. Customs and Border...
Updated: April 16, 2025
Melika Olya, an Iranian native, filed a petition for writ of habeas corpus on March 13, 2025, challenging the legality of her indefinite detention at the El Paso Service Processing Center in Texas...
Updated: March 13, 2025
In Alabama’s complex history, the remnants of slavery in the state’s prison system cast a long shadow. Following the legal abolition of slavery in Alabama, through the ratification of the Thirteenth...
Updated: February 26, 2025
Four Venezuelan migrants filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus on September 13, 2024, challenging the legality of their indefinite detention at the Otero County Processing Center in Chaparral...
Updated: February 25, 2025
Rights groups are seeking information about President Trump’s plan to establish a massive immigration detention center, by far the country’s largest, at Guantánamo. With immigrants arriving in...
Updated: February 6, 2025
Rufus Henry and Matthew Allen were both convicted of murder in the second degree by non-unanimous juries and sentenced to life in prison following trials in which they argued that they acted in self-...
Updated: January 17, 2025
Mariah Lopez v. New York City Department of Homeless Services is a case concerning the failure of the NYC Department of Homeless Services (DHS) to serve transgender people in safe shelters, meet...
Updated: November 15, 2024
A federal class action lawsuit challenging prolonged solitary confinement as cruel and unusual punishment.
Updated: November 15, 2024
Ortiz et al. v. Orange County, NY et al. is a federal lawsuit against Orange County in New York, Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and county officials for their punitive retaliation...
Updated: November 15, 2024
Al Otro Lado, Inc., et al. v. Alejandro Mayorkas, et al. , is a class action lawsuit against officials at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) in a...
Updated: November 15, 2024
This case aims to end the state of Pennsylvania’s mandatory imposition of death-by-incarceration sentences, otherwise known as life without parole, for Derek Lee and others convicted of felony murder...
Updated: October 7, 2024
City of Grants Pass v. Johnson is a case about the criminalization of poverty. The Supreme Court has decided whether people experiencing involuntary homelessness in a city with no safe, available...
Updated: June 28, 2024
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