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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We filed this lawsuit in August 2010 challenging Treasury Department regulations that required lawyers to obtain government permits before providing legal representation (including pro bono...
We represented Pepin Tuma, a young man who was falsely arrested by D.C. police in 2009 in apparent retaliation for chanting “I hate the police” while walking near a group of police officers. The case was...
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 (“...
In 2009, the ACLU joined forces with existing habeas corpus counsel for Guantanamo detainee Mohamedou Ould Slahi, who had been subjected to the worst treatments meted out to Guantanamo prisoners....
