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. Parker managed a Rite-Aid drug store in Northeast D.C. In November 2006 he was having a verbal disagreement with a customer when two MPD officers walked in. The officers arrested and handcuffed him and...
The main issue in this federal employee’s appeal of a suspension without pay was whether the appeal itself had been timely filed. The statute provides that an appeal to the court “must be filed within 60...
We filed this Freedom of Information Act lawsuit in September 2007 seeking “all records relating to the killing of civilians by U.S. forces in Iraq and Afghanistan since January 1, 2005.” In January 2008...
We filed this sex discrimination lawsuit in 2005 on behalf of Diane Schroer, a retired U.S. Army Colonel with extensive counterterrorism experience whose job offer to be a terrorism analyst at the Library...
The landlord in this case refused to rent to tenants whose rent would be paid, in part, by federal “Section 8” low income housing vouchers. This policy violates Montgomery County’s fair housing law, which...