The ACLU said the lack of funding deprived citizens of their constitutional rights to due process, equal protection, and an ...
In a lawsuit filed in Commonwealth Court, the ACLU argues that Pennsylvania is inadequately funding its public defense system ...
The examples in the lawsuit are many. One man held in jail for three months on $100 bail for a minor trespassing and ...
The lawsuit is the latest in a string of New Jersey juvenile detention abuse lawsuits brought by Levy Konigsberg.
This litigation is as much about bringing to light the injustices suffered by our petitioners ... as it is about ...
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Pennsylvania is suing the Commonwealth, alleging that the there are not enough public defenders for the amount of people ...
In N.W.M., the Pennsylvania Supreme Court determined that guardians ad litem (GAL) are not quasi-judicial and thus not immune ...
More than 250 former juvenile detainees have filed lawsuits against New York City — including 100 people just this week — ...
Pennsylvania law mandates that juveniles ages 10 and older who are accused of murder start out in adult court. But his lawyer ...
Illinois Department of Corrections and the Department of Juvenile Justice over alleged systemic sexual abuse in youth ...
Dozens of former youth inmates have filed lawsuits seeking millions in damages for sexual abuse allegedly endured at Illinois ...