Equal Justice Under Law has filed a class action lawsuit against Louisiana’s Attorney General and state and local court officials to help 300,000 Louisianans prevented from rebuilding their lives due to inability to pay expungement fees.
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Despite the passage of Act 95 by Pennsylvania’s General Assembly, which ended the policy of non-driving related license suspensions, tens of thousands of Pennsylvanians remain under license suspension. Act 95 lacks retroactive enforcement, leaving many individuals with past suspensions that will run until as late as 2026.
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Act 95 was passed by Pennsylvania’s General Assembly and signed into law by Governor Tom Wolf earlier this year; however, Act 95 was not enforced retroactively, leaving tens of thousands of Pennsylvanians on license suspension for years to come.
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Equal Justice Under Law joins the ACLU of Ohio and dozens of sister organizations in urging the Supreme Court of Ohio to adopt critical bail reform.
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Equal Justice Under Law is seeking relief in its federal lawsuit, Wright v. Family Support Division, filed in Missouri federal court in March of this year. The suit aims to end Missouri’s practice of suspending driver’s licenses of parents who are unable to pay child support.
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In 2015, the city of Newark, Arkansas passed a discriminatory law designed to banish people from its community simply because they are poor. Specifically, Newark’s law required that any person living in a mobile home worth less than $25,000 (for a single-wide) or $35,000 (for a double-wide) be denied entrance into the city, and that any person in violation of the law be fined up to $500 per day for this “offense.”
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Individuals arrested in San Francisco will no longer be assigned a price tag on their freedom. Federal judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers issued an injunction that will finally put an end to San Francisco’s discriminatory and arbitrary bail system.
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Individuals arrested in San Francisco will no longer be assigned a price tag on their freedom. Last week, Equal Justice Under Law and Sheriff Vicki Hennessy filed a proposed settlement that will finally put an end to San Francisco’s discriminatory and arbitrary bail system.
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More than 600,000 Texans will be eligible to have their drivers licenses reinstated and pending surcharges waived as the Driver Responsibility Program (DRP) repeal takes effect.
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A critical hearing was held August 24th regarding the future of the money bail system in San Francisco. The case, Buffin v. Hennessy, has been pending in federal court for the Northern District of California.
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Expungement is set up to give people with a criminal history a second chance. It’s a clean slate, a fresh start. But, it is often only available if you can afford to pay for it.
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On Thursday, April 4, 2019, Equal Justice Under Law sent a letter to Attorney General Ken Paxton and other state officials regarding the Texas Failure to Appear/Failure to Pay Program, otherwise known as the OmniBase Services, promising civil litigation if changes are not made to the program that would make it more equitable.
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The college admissions scandal -- while shocking in some ways -- has revealed what most Americans have always known: the rich have many advantages when it comes to higher education. As bad (and as illegal) as it is to bribe admissions officers, SAT proctors, and athletics coaches to get one’s own child admitted to a prestigious university, it is only the newest way we’ve learned that some wealthy parents have of manipulating the admissions system to their advantage.
On March 4, 2019, in the federal court in San Francisco, Equal Justice Under Law won its lawsuit against the bail schedule system.
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In 2014 Missouri adopted legislation that authorized its courts and agencies to suspend an individual’s driver’s license if they owe $2,500 in past-due child support, or three months of payments, whichever is less.
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