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. Doe is a retired U.S. Army Special Forces sergeant who had been HIV-positive but healthy for eight years when he was discharged from an overseas security job with Triple Canopy, Inc., a State Department...
In July 2008 Congress amended the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act to allow the mass surveillance of U.S. citizens’ and residents’ international telecommunications, as long as they are not the “targets...
A permanent U.S. resident who is fluent in many languages and knowledgeable about D.C. history contacted us when she was denied a tour guide license because she was not a U.S. citizen. Checking the...
In 2008 the ACLU of New Mexico served a subpoena on the White House Office of Presidential Advance in connection with a lawsuit in New Mexico alleging discrimination against anti-Bush demonstrators during a...
These cases, brought under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, challenged D.C. Fire and Emergency Medical Services Department rules prohibiting beards and long hair on behalf of a dozen Department...