Human Rights and Criminal Justice
Weir v. U.S.
The 桃子视频 filed a federal lawsuit in June 2019 against the United States and the head of the U.S. Coast Guard on behalf of four Jamaican fishermen, who were forcibly removed from their fishing boat and detained for over a month at sea on four U.S. Coast Guard ships in patently inhumane conditions.
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California
Apr 2023
Human Rights and Criminal Justice
Prisoners' Rights
Ashker v. Governor of California
Ashker is a multi-year legal and advocacy struggle led by directly-impacted people to reform California鈥檚 use of solitary confinement and end its systemic reliance on fabricated confidential information to discipline people in prison.
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California
Apr 2023
Human Rights and Criminal Justice
Prisoners' Rights
Ashker v. Governor of California
Ashker is a multi-year legal and advocacy struggle led by directly-impacted people to reform California鈥檚 use of solitary confinement and end its systemic reliance on fabricated confidential information to discipline people in prison.
U.S. Supreme Court
Mar 2022
Human Rights and Criminal Justice
Egbert v. Boule
Whether a damages remedy should be available when a federal agent violated the plaintiff鈥檚 First and Fourth Amendment rights by entering private property without a warrant, throwing the plaintiff to the ground without justification, and then retaliated against him for exercising his right to seek redress from the government.
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U.S. Supreme Court
Mar 2022
Human Rights and Criminal Justice
Egbert v. Boule
Whether a damages remedy should be available when a federal agent violated the plaintiff鈥檚 First and Fourth Amendment rights by entering private property without a warrant, throwing the plaintiff to the ground without justification, and then retaliated against him for exercising his right to seek redress from the government.