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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A transgender woman was treated as a man by U.S. Marshals and D.C. police when she was locked up after being arrested. She sued for damages, and after the district court refused to dismiss her case, the...
Stephanie Gray is an employee at the D.C. Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency (CSOSA), whose duties include updating the personal data of people on the D.C. Sex Offender Registry (a/k/a “Megan’s...
We filed this Freedom of Information Act lawsuit in November 2013, seeking release of the 6,300-page report of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) about the CIA’s post-9/11 rendition,...
A Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation (“SLAPP”) is a term for a legal action that is of little merit but is filed anyway for the purpose of stopping someone from engaging in (usually...
Prior to 2013, one of the ways in which the Voting Rights Act guarded against discriminatory voting laws and procedures was to require certain state and local governments to obtain prior approval (“...
We were co-counsel with the ACLU of Southern California in a lawsuit filed in D.C. challenging the denial of a FOIA request to the Citizenship and Immigration Services agency for records regarding the “...