The ACLU of Florida along with several state educators filed a federal lawsuit challenging a state law cracking down on ...

Plaintiffs say the restrictions are 'punishing educators and students for expressing differing and disfavored viewpoints' ...

The educators and their attorneys argue Florida’s 2023 law — signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis — violates educators’ and students’ speech rights and is chilling expression in public ...

Florida inmates are still sitting in cells without air-conditioning — and advocates Thursday filed a federal class-action ...

A federal judge has rejected a state attempt to end a lawsuit stemming from manatee deaths in the Indian River Lagoon and said a trial is needed to determine whether the Florida Department of ...

Saying the “Constitution does not mandate comfortable prisons,” Florida corrections officials want a federal judge to toss out a potential class-action lawsuit alleging the state has violated ...

The Florida ... prisoners described, in lawsuits and interviews, being locked in shower stalls with fresh injuries or while in acute mental distress. Frank Vinci, for instance, said in a federal ...

The family of Robert Brooks, who was beaten to death last month at an upstate New York prison, filed a federal civil rights lawsuit Wednesday against the 17 officers under investigation in the case.

Earlier this fall, Florida officials ordered transgender women in the state's prisons ... federal judge held a preliminary hearing in the ACLU case. The state had asked the judge to dismiss the ...

Prisoners across the country were filing too many lawsuits. "The vast majority of these suits are ... prison door and to put the keys safely out of reach of overzealous federal courts." Sen. Harry ...

were previously named in federal lawsuits filed by prisoners accusing them of brutal attacks that left one man disfigured and another in a wheelchair. A lawyer for one of the injured men drew a ...