Dashtamirova v. United States
The ACLU-DC filed a formal complaint on behalf of a protestor who was injured by the National Guard’s use of low-flying helicopters to intimidate racial justice demonstrators.
ACLU v. Federal Bureau of Prisons
United States v. Reed - Challenging the Shifting of Certain Prosecutions from D.C. to Federal Court
Costa v. Bazron - Challenging Conditions at St. Elizabeths Hospital During Month-Long Water Outage and COVID-19 Crisis
This case challenges the failure of the District of Columbia government to protect some of its most vulnerable patients from back-to-back crises at their treatment facility: first, an extended water outage in the fall of 2019, and second, the COVID-19 pandemic in the spring of 2020.
Williams v. Federal Bureau of Prisons - Challening Life-Threatening Lack of COVID-19 Precautions at D.C. Halfway House
Banks v. Booth - Challenging Life-Threatening Lack of COVID-19 Precautions at the D.C. Jail
Mwimanzi v. Wilson – Challenging Unconstitutional Sexually Invasive Search by MPD Officer
Blades v. United States - Asserting Public Right of Access to Full Jury-Selection Proceedings in Criminal Trials
ACLU v. DHS - FOIA re: Hunger Strike Documents from the Bureau of Prisons