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Solitary Confinement & Harsh Conditions

In re George T.

California Supreme Court •

Challenged the zero-tolerance approach to student misbehavior where a teen was sentenced to 100 days in juvenile detention for distributing a poem that mentioned bringing guns to school.

Keeping Kids in the Community

Washington State Dept. Of Social and Health Services v. Keffeler

U.S. Supreme Court •
Supported the position that the state must apply children’s federal insurance benefits under Title II and Title XVI in accordance with the children’s best interests and not to reduce the state’s foster care system’s financial burden.

D.C. v. School District of Philadelphia

Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court •

Challenged a provision of the PA Juvenile Act that barred Philadelphia adjudicated youth from returning to their regular public schools after they were discharged from residential delinquency placements.

Juvenile Life Without Parole (JLWOP)

State v. Tate

Florida District Courts of Appeal •
Addressed the issue of a 12-year-old’s competency to stand trial and whether his due process rights were violated by the trial court’s failure to order competency evaluations.

Board of Education v. Earls

U.S. Supreme Court •
Briefed the constitutionality of random urinalysis testing of student-athletes.
Youth Interrogations & Access to Counsel

State ex rel. D.J.

Louisiana Supreme Court •
Argued that juveniles should be afforded the right to a jury trial in delinquency proceedings.
Youth Tried as Adults

Manduley v. Superior Court of California

California Supreme Court •
Briefed the issues of constitutionality and racial disparity in the application of a statute allowing prosecutors discretion to file charges against minors directly in criminal court without a prior adjudication of a minor’s lack of fitness for juvenile disposition.
Solitary Confinement & Harsh Conditions

A.M. v. Luzerne County Juvenile Detention Center

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit •
Filed a civil rights suit against the detention center for violating the substantive due process rights of a 13-year-old boy with serious mental health problems by failing to protect him from harm while being detained at the center.
Keeping Kids in the Community

Anderson v. Houstoun

United States District Court, Middle District of Pennsylvania •
Class action lawsuit challenging state and county officials’ failure to pay kinship caregivers for their care of dependent children.