Legal Opinion
Cain v. City of New Orleans
District Court, E.D. Louisiana
Decided April 21, 2016No. CIVIL ACTION NO. 15-4479PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER AND REASONS
SARAH S. VANCE, UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE
Named plaintiffs Alana Cain, Ashton Brown, Reynaud Variste, Reynajia Var-iste, Thaddeus Long, and Vanessa Maxwell filed this civil rights action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 seeking to declare the manner in which the Orleans Parish Criminal District Court collects post-judgment court costs from indigent debtors unconstitutional. Ac*540cording to plaintiffs, the Criminal District Court and other, related actors maintain a policy of jailing criminal defendants who fail to pay their court costs solely because of their indigence.1
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2Cases cited39 opinions
- Younger v. HarrisSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
- Heck v. HumphreySupreme Court of the United States · 1994
- District of Columbia Court of Appeals v. FeldmanSupreme Court of the United States · 1983
- Rooker v. Fidelity Trust Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1924
- City of Los Angeles v. LyonsSupreme Court of the United States · 1983
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