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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Representing nine victims of U.S. Army torture in Iraq and Afghanistan, the ACLU and Human Rights First filed these lawsuits in 2005 against then-Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and three senior Army...
The Njoroge family immigrated to the U.S. from Kenya in July 2004. Fourteen months later, a large squad of riot-geared Montgomery County police officers broke into their apartment at 4:30 a.m., put the...
In November 2005, D.C. police arrested Lindsay Huthnance for disorderly conduct after she wondered aloud how a group of police officers were fighting crime by being in a 7-Eleven at midnight. Our lawsuit...
Our client is the mother of Jonathan Magbie, a quadriplegic young man who died in the D.C. Corrections Department’s contractor-operated Correctional Treatment Facility (CTF) in September 2004 from lack of...
