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Oct 20, 2020
Fraternal Order of Police v. District of Columbia - Requiring Prompt Release of Body-Worn Camera Videos
The D.C. Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) sued to block that legislation, claiming that it violated the separation of powers (arguing that only the Mayor has the power to supervise the police) and infringed the substantive due process privacy rights of officers.
Oct 1, 2020
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.
Apr 28, 2020
United States v. Reed - Challenging the Shifting of Certain Prosecutions from D.C. to Federal Court
Apr 16, 2020
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.
Apr 3, 2020
Williams v. Federal Bureau of Prisons - Challening Life-Threatening Lack of COVID-19 Precautions at D.C. Halfway House
Mar 30, 2020
Banks v. Booth - Challenging Life-Threatening Lack of COVID-19 Precautions at the D.C. Jail
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