Mass Incarceration
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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158 Mass Incarceration Cases
Missouri
Sep 2013
Barrett v. Claycomb
A federal district court has ruled that a public college in Missouri must end its unconstitutional program of requiring all of its students—irrespective of their course of study—to submit to suspicionless drug-testing.
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Missouri
Mass Incarceration
Criminal Law Reform
Barrett v. Claycomb
A federal district court has ruled that a public college in Missouri must end its unconstitutional program of requiring all of its students—irrespective of their course of study—to submit to suspicionless drug-testing.
Sep 2013
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U.S. Supreme Court
Aug 2013
Kansas v. Cheever
Whether the Fifth Amendment imposes any limits on the state's ability to introduce evidence derived from a court-ordered psychiatric examination of the defendant by the state's expert.
Status: Closed (Judgment)
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U.S. Supreme Court
Mass Incarceration
+2 Issues
Kansas v. Cheever
Whether the Fifth Amendment imposes any limits on the state's ability to introduce evidence derived from a court-ordered psychiatric examination of the defendant by the state's expert.
Aug 2013
Status: Closed (Judgment)
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U.S. Supreme Court
Jun 2013
Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics
Whether human genes can be patented.
Status: Closed (Judgment)
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U.S. Supreme Court
Mass Incarceration
+3 Issues
Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics
Whether human genes can be patented.
Jun 2013
Status: Closed (Judgment)
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U.S. Supreme Court
Jun 2013
Maryland v. King
Whether collecting and analyzing DNA samples from arrestees without a warrant or consent violates the Fourth Amendment.
Status: Closed (Judgment)
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U.S. Supreme Court
Mass Incarceration
+2 Issues
Maryland v. King
Whether collecting and analyzing DNA samples from arrestees without a warrant or consent violates the Fourth Amendment.
Jun 2013
Status: Closed (Judgment)
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U.S. Supreme Court
Apr 2013
Missouri v. McNeely
Whether every person arrested for drunk driving can be forced to submit to a blood test without consent and without a warrant.
Status: Closed (Judgment)
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U.S. Supreme Court
Mass Incarceration
Criminal Law Reform
Missouri v. McNeely
Whether every person arrested for drunk driving can be forced to submit to a blood test without consent and without a warrant.
Apr 2013
Status: Closed (Judgment)
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