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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After the first federal executions in 17 years, there was a spike in COVID-19 cases in Vigo County, Indiana, the home of the Federal Correctional Complex, Terre Haute: the prison where federal executions...
This case, like J.B.B.C. v. Wolf, challenges the Trump administration’s policy...
This case challenges the government’s unlawful indefinite detention of Adham Amin Hassoun. The government claims that Mr. Hassoun is a threat to national security, but has not produced any credible evidence...
This was the the nation’s first legal challenge to the Trump administration’s order restricting immigration based on an unprecedented and unlawful invocation of the Public Health Service Act.
