On June 24, the Mississippi Office of State Public Defender sued the state Administrative Office of Courts (AOC) to prevent AOC from denying Youth Court attorneys and their clients access to records in their own cases. On June 29, the federal court approved an Agreed Order that binds AOC to continue providing those records at least until July 15.

On May 4, 2026, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals reinstated Mr. Tyler Harrington’s claims of unlawful entry, search, and seizure against three Harris County, Texas, Deputy Constables, and dismissed Mr. Harrington’s excessive force claim on qualified immunity grounds. The lawsuit alleges that officers James Lancaster, Nathaniel Cano, and Jared Lindsay conducted a warrantless no-knock entry into Mr. Harrington’s home in the middle of the night and held him at gunpoint, despite questioning aloud whether they were at the wrong house. 

On March 30, 2026, Civil Rights Corps (CRC) filed a brief in support of sanctions against a District Attorney’s Office in the case of Kjoller v. Superior Court of Nevada County, urging the court to conduct an inquiry into a series of filings by Nevada County prosecutors riddled with citations to fabricated legal authorities, fictitious quotations, and misrepresentations of law. Below is a background summary and quotations from that brief.

Orange County Superior Court judge has enjoined Riverside County, the Riverside County Sheriff’s Office, and Sheriff Chad Bianco, stopping them from jailing people arrested on lower-level charges before they have a court hearing simply because they cannot pay money bail.

Civil Rights Organizations and Leaders File Amicus Brief Defending Parents’ Right to Access the Safe Haven Law Without Liability

The lawsuit argues that Judge Walker and Sheriff Birkhead’s actions violate CRC’s First Amendment rights.

Children whose parents are jailed in Adams County have sued the County, the Sheriff, and telecommunications company HomeWAV, asking the Colorado state court to affirm their constitutional right to hug their parents.

California Superior Court overruled the County Defendants’ demurrer to the complaint

Civil Rights Organizations and Leaders File Amicus Brief Defending Parents’ Right to Access the Safe Haven Law Without Liability

Houston, TX – In 2016, Maranda ODonnell filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of tens of thousands of impoverished individuals arrested for misdemeanors in Harris County, challenging the County’s practice of detaining people due solely to their inability to pay small amounts of cash to secure their release. That system destroyed people’s lives, causing them to lose jobs, homes, cars, and sometimes custody of their children, all simply because they were poor and could not pay a few hundred dollars to a for-profit bail company. 

On May 26, 2025, individuals detained in Riverside County jails filed a class action lawsuit challenging Riverside County’s cash-based jailing of individuals between their arrest and first court hearing, as well as Riverside County’s unnecessary delay of that hearing.