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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An association of telecommunications companies challenged a 2015 FCC order that designated Internet Service Providers (ISPs) as “common carriers.” The effect of this designation is that the ISPs are...
D.C. Police broke down the door to Viola Briggs’s apartment in Southwest D.C. to search for marijuana. It turned out they were in the wrong apartment, but her apartment number was on the search warrant so...
In August 2014, we joined with the National ACLU and the Electronic Frontier Foundation in filing an amicus brief in the D.C. Circuit in this case to challenge the NSA’s collection and retention of “...
Relying on a convoluted (and perhaps unintended) set of cascading statutory definitions, the D.C. Board of Ethics and Government Accountability informed certain members of D.C. political party “state...
We filed this Freedom of Information Act lawsuit in November 2013, seeking release of the 6,300-page report of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) about the CIA’s post-9/11 rendition,...
In June 2013 we filed a motion asking the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to unseal its opinion interpreting a provision of the PATRIOT Act to allow the NSA to collect the “metadata” of hundreds of...