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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.
Records

In the Interest of Douglas D.

Wisconsin Supreme Court •
Challenged the zero-tolerance approach in the delinquency adjudication of an eighth-grade student whose creative writing assignment invoked an unhappy student who cut off his teacher’s head when she told him to shut up.

Appeal from the Administrative Order of the Dauphin County Juvenile Court

Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court •
Challenged the presence of armed juvenile probation officers in school buildings.
Keeping Kids in the Community

In re D.R. and A.R.

Pennsylvania Superior Court •
Argued against a per se rule removing a well-cared-for and loved child from a home because of a parent’s drug use.

Commonwealth v. Hartford

Pennsylvania Supreme Court •
Argued an appeal in the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to reverse the criminal conviction of an adult (Hartford) under Pennsylvania’s Interference with Custody of Children Statute. Argued that a parent has no right of "custody" to control abortion decisions and that the prosecution violated the right to choose an abortion, as well as the right to travel to a state allowing abortion without parental consent.