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2011
Andrea Fields, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, Cross-Appellants, v. Judy P. Smith, et al., Defendants-Appellants, Cross-Appellees
The U.S. Appeals Court affirms the District Court’s decision that Wisconsin’s Act 105, the Inmate Sex Change Prevention Act, violates the Eighth Amendment’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment. It should be noted that the plaintiffs had been receivin... Read More
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2010
Muhammad Shabazz Farrakan et al, Plaintiffs-Appellants v. Christine O. Gregoire et al, Defendants-Appellees; No. 06-35669
“Plaintiffs, minority citizens of Washington state who have lost their right to vote pursuant to the state’s felon disenfranchisement provision, filed this action in 1996 challenging that provision on the ground that, due to racial discrimination in ... Read More
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2009
United States v. Comstock
The Fourth Circuit unanimously affirmed the district court's decision that 18 U.S.C. 4248 of the Adam Walsh Act is unconstitutional. The federal government does not have the authority to enact U.S.C. 4248 which concerns the civil commitment of sex of... Read More
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2008
C. Alan Powell, et al., Plaintiffs -- Appellees -- Cross-Appellants v. Sheriff Jacqueline Barrett, et. al., Defendants -- Appellants -- Cross-Appellees
The court finds that the "policy or practice of strip searching all arrestees as part of booking them into the general population of a detention facility, even without reasonable suspicion to believe that they may be concealing contraband is constitu... Read More
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