One of the main ways ACLU-DC works to protect civil liberties and civil rights is through litigation. This section of our website documents the cases we’re working on now and those we’ve handled in recent years. Click here for general information about what types of cases we litigate.
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Mr. Bado arrived here as a political asylum-seeker from Burkina Faso after being prosecuted and tortured there for his political and religious beliefs. He was accused of misdemeanor sexual assault (...
In November 2014, Prince Jones was convicted for rape and robbery. To apprehend Mr. Jones, police used a “StingRay,” a device that captures a cellphone’s signal and measures the time it takes to communicate...
This Freedom of Information Act lawsuit seeks records related to the federal government’s Countering Violent Extremism (“CVE”) program -- an expanding set of measures about which little has been publicly...
This case challenges a federal statute that prohibits demonstration activity on the Supreme Court grounds. The district court assumed that the plaza in front of the courthouse was a “nonpublic forum” (an...
Naval officer John Sharpe was denied a promotion and was eventually discharged from the service in 2009 for making public comments in 2004 and 2005 critical of the Commander-in-Chief and the Gulf War. We...
The D.C. Office of the State Secretary of Education (OSSE) decided to require the schools it licenses to institute a program of random drug and alcohol testing for their teachers and staff. We represented a...