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A settlement has been reached in a class action lawsuit alleging the City of Los Angeles served gang injunctions with unconstitutional curfews on more than 5,000 people.
If you were served with an LA gang injunction prior to Feb. 20, 2013, you may be entitled to benefits from the Los Angeles gang member class action settlement.
According to the LA gang injunction class action lawsuit, the language contained in the injunctions allegedly included a requirement that people not go outside during specified nighttime hours unless they engage in unspecified “legitimate meeting or entertainment activit[ies].” A California appellate court found the curfew provisions in the LA gang injunctions violated the California Constitution.
The plaintiffs allege the unconstitutionally vague language regarding curfews allowed for the arbitrary and discriminatory harassment by police officers that violated the rights of individuals in the neighborhoods covered by the injunctions. According to the LA gang injunction class action lawsuit, the affected individuals were disproportionately black or Latino, and the injunction kept them from being able to visit with their families, advance their education and career skills, and to pursue career opportunities.
The gang injunction class action lawsuit was filed after the arrests of Christian Rodriguez and Alberto Cazarez in 2009. Rodriguez and Cazaraz were allegedly labeled as gang members and lived in an injunction zone. They were reportedly arrested for violating curfew even though the LAPD knew that the curfews were declared unconstitutional in 2007.
The defendants have agreed to pay up to $30 million to settle the gang injunction class action lawsuit. The class action settlement offers Class Members a variety of benefits, including job training programs, tattoo removal, and an application process for removal from the list of individuals covered by the injunctions.
The LA gang class action settlement received final approval and final judgment was issued on March 24, 2017.
Who’s Eligible
To be eligible for benefits from the LA gang settlement, you must have been served with one or more of the gang injunctions issued in the following court cases prior to Feb. 20, 2013:
- Culver City Boys, Injunction Case No. SC056980
- Grape Street Crips, Injunction Case No. BC330087
- Venice Shoreline Crips, Injunction Case No. SC057282
- 18th Street (Hollywood), Injunction Case No. BC305434
- Highland Park (HLP), Injunction Case No. BC359944
- Venice Trece, Injunction Case No. SC060375
- 18th Street (Wilshire), Injunction Case No. BC313309
- Krazy Ass Mexicans, Injunction Case No. BC282629
- Westside Wilmas, Eastside Wilmas, Injunction Case No. NC030080
- Avenues, Injunction Case No. BC287137
- Langdon Street, Injunction Case No. LC048292
- White Fence (Boyle Heights), Injunction Case No. BC353596
- Big Hazard, Injunction Case No. BC335749
- Mara Salvatrucha, Injunction Case No. BC311766
- White Fence (Hollywood), Injunction Case No. BC353596
- Blythe Street, Injunction Case No. LC020525
- Playboys, Injunction Case No. BC351990
- Rolling 60’s Crips, Injunction Case No. BC298646
- Canoga Park Alabama, Injunction Case No. BC267153
- School Yard Crips, Geer Street Crips, Injunction Case No. BC349468
- Varrio Nueva Estrada, Injunction Case No. BC319981
- Clover, Eastlake, Lincoln Heights, Injunction Case No. BC358881
- All For Crime, Barrio Mojados, Blood Stone Villains, Florencia, Oriental Boyz, Pueblo Bishops, Injunction Case No. BC397522
- Crazy Riders, Krazy Town (KTO), Down in Action (DIA), La Raza Loca, Orphans, Rockwood Street Locos, Varrio Vista Rifa, Wanderers, Witmer Street Locos, Injunction Case No. BC332713
- 38th Street, Injunction Case No. BC319166
- 42nd Street Gangster Crips, 43rd Street Gangster Crips, 48th Street Gangster Crips, Injunction Case No. BC 326016
- Dogtown, Injunction Case No. BC359945
Potential Award
The settlement provides the following benefits to eligible Class Members:
- A jobs and education program (participants may receive up to $1,000 if they meet certain requirements)
- Tattoo removal (provided on a first-come, first-served basis)
- An application process to get off the injunction
- New rules that must be followed by the LAPD
Class Members must file a timely and valid Claim Form to be eligible to receive the first three benefits listed above.
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Claim Form Deadline
8/14/2020
NOTE: The funds in this class action settlement are limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis. Class Members should file a claim as soon as possible.
Case Name
Rodriguez, et al. v. City of Los Angeles, Case No. 2:11-cv-01135, in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California
Final Hearing
12/2/2016
Settlement Website
www.GangCase.net
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26 thoughts onLos Angeles Gang Injunction Class Action Settlement
What makes them an animal? They are human beings UNLIKE your self Gangs now are only what the government makes them out to be be, but once apon a time i remember when it made since of why gangs existed and that was to keep things in order and make sure the streets were kept safe. The way things are now go Way against that code thanks to the people who actually keep crime on the streets purposely so they can get a pay check every month and that goes to YOUR LOCAL POLICE STATIONS NATIONWIDE. I can tell your a person who just speaks with no THOUGHT so ima help you out. When the streets were safe and there were rules to follow BELIEVE it or NOT NOBODY relied on the POLICE they would go to the head of what ever gang and they would handle the situation guaranteeing that the problem would be delt with in order. Meanwhile that left the POLICE without any work so guess what that means low paychecks theh was barley making ends meet themselves(COPS) NOW pay attn all these OGs are all in prison doing 22 years 50 years 40 years and more or life ALL under False Accusations my dad being one of them.Now look they paid just fine living life making everybody wanna go join the damn Force smdh. But the streets aint safe nomore is it Hell no they even more corrupted then it was from start yea they make ends meet now but hell now it isnt guaranteed that they gone come home safe either so now they fuccd everything up now everybody need to be scared the ones who kept it in order its way out there hands now they cant fix this s**t nobody can im only 29 im born 1990 its my generation messing it up they won’t listen to me but for damn sure u need to check all your facts before yo go speaking about people who kept YOU safe believe it or NOT.
Your absolutely correct ignorance is self distruction.God bless ??
You all need to humble yourselves and reach out to one individual who needs it.if you dont then i guess your perfect.till then please help someoone cause that someone might be your relative.drugs and depression and any other mental illness does not discriminate..please just help one person…thank you for your time…chris
WELL SAID CORINA MF LERMA YOUR SO RIGHT……
What does “white people” have to do with gangs? Reverse Racist BS at its finest
I can not believe that all these good for nothing gangs are going to be rewarded. Maybe if you were a good obeying citizen with no ties with funny names as to belong to a gang this would of never happened to all of you. Now we as tax payers have to pick up the bill, where do you think the money that will be disbursed comes from? Yes, from hard working citizens like us. All your gangs do for our country is distroy it, cause a lot of crime in the streets and get our young kids jumped into your gangs, which will not allow this epidemic to end. I am so embarrassed to be Hispanic because of your good for nothing gangs;which brings no positive outcome belonging to it. Everyone thinks as Hispanics we are all alike. Aren’t you satisfied that you use our system already. Of course not, you want more.
lol first you lack the Education to even reply about the American History lol second you have ZERO clue as to what actually happened in America outside of facebook and youtube so STFU as for these IDIOT filing a claim for all these gang members I say put them and the gang members in a row and pull the trigger they are just as low as the gang members plaguing our streets and dealing drugs and raping women…
I’m sure others will agree with you. I’m surprised your comment is still here as others have left comments stating opinions this settlement is going in hand with California’s sanctuary status for illegals, people of color being a protected class, and other content that expressed an unapproving view toward the settlement and it’s beneficiaries were removed while leaving only the left leaning comments.
I am a gang member from 18th street and we are not being rewarded with money. All it is for us to be off the gang injunction i already signed the application and hopefully expect to be removed from this unlawful justice of me walking to visit my parents house and being sent away for 3 months for disobeying a curfew or just being with a gang member who is my cousion
From what i read above you will get 1000$ a job, education and tattoo removal. Which i think is great. I feel like if more ppl reached out a hand to help other people who feel they cant get a job bc of the past or even the present is amazing. Also the tattoo removal is also awesome. I hope everything works out for you!
Obama?? Wow, some people only sing one tune.
Ir seems that the main body of people who had their rights violated, namely the gang members, will not get anything from this.Who in their right minds would make themselves targets of the police after the all the shootings we hear about of civilians by police, not to mention the government’s goon squad- ICE, and more? Every person in the U.S.A. is, and should be, entitled to the rights listed in the Bill of Rights,even gang members. They’re not getting paid to break the law. It’s the other way around. The police were the lawbreakers and it’s their turn to pay. Money will never repay someone for being abused by those in authority. I’m a 65 yr. old white woman who’s had little contact with police for the last 30 yrs. but I was a dreaded ‘Hippie’ in the late 60’s and the 70’s and I well remember the repeated, and varied, abuses my friends and I suffered at the hands of the L.A.P.D. Our rights were famously and openly violated- physically, mentally, emotionally and illegally. We were the ‘criminals’ then and the courts and our government supported the police who did it. No one is ‘above’ the law they say. But try living ‘under’ it when the law is denied you by some self righteous people who think that lawmen are entitled to do anything they think it takes to make you obey them- their law is whatever they can force on you. After all, they’re the ‘good’ guys,right? So if they’re giving a raw deal to some people those are obviously the ‘bad’ guys. Bull. Lawbreakers have to pay for their crimes, even police who break the law. Especially police who break it, or how can anyone trust the idea of justice?
Here Monica. Frigging libs are destroying this country.