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  • National Association for the Advancement of Colored People v. Merrill

    The NAACP and various members filed suit to challenge Connecticut’s 2011 state legislative maps, contending that the maps violate the Fourteenth Amendment because of prison gerrymandering.

    March 19, 2019
    Redistricting

  • Electronic Privacy Information Center v. United States Dep't of Commerce

    The Electronic Privacy and Information Center filed a lawsuit challenging the Commerce Department’s decision to add a citizenship question to the 2020 Census without having conducted Privacy Impact Assessments analyzing how citizenship data will be handled.

    March 12, 2019
    2020 CENSUS

  • McDonough v. Smith (Amicus Brief)

    The Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, the Center on the Administration of Criminal Law, the ACLU, and the New York Civil Liberties Union have filed an amicus brief in McDonough v. Smith arguing against the Second Circuit’s ruling that the statute of limitations for a Section 1983 claim alleging fabrication of evidence begins when a defendant first knows or should have known that the evidence being used to prosecute was falsified.

    March 4, 2019
    Justice for All

  • Alabama v. United States Dep’t of Commerce

    The State of Alabama filed a lawsuit against the Commerce Department and Census Bureau, challenging the Bureau’s policy of including all U.S. residents in the Census count used for apportionment. This case is pending in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama.

    February 26, 2019
    2020 CENSUS

  • Timbs v. Indiana

    The Brennan Center, the Drug Policy Alliance, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the Law Enforcement Action Partnership, Americans for Prosperity, FreedomWorks Foundation, the Independence Institute, Libertas Institute, the Drug Policy Forum of Hawai‘i, the Colorado Criminal Defense Bar, Alabama Appleseed Center for Law and Justice, and the Rio Grande Foundation, represented by Holwell Shuster & Goldberg LLP, filed an amicus brief in Timbs v Indiana arguing that the Eighth Amendment’s Excessive Fines Clause should be applied to the states.

    February 20, 2019
    Justice for All
    Reducing Mass Incarceration

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