Plaintiffs in a class action lawsuit challenging the civil-forfeiture practices of the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office are seeking to add four top officials of the First Judicial District as defendants.
In an amended complaint filed Monday in Sourovelis v. City of Philadelphia, the plaintiffs asked U.S. District Judge Eduardo C. Robreno of the Eastern District of Philadelphia to add Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas President Judge Sheila Woods-Skipper and Administrative Judge Jacqueline F. Allen, as well as court administrator Joseph H. Evers and chief deputy court administrator Charles A. Mapp. The court officials were added to the suit for their alleged failure to address systemic due-process violations inherent in the city’s civil-forfeiture procedures.
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