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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The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) is a special court created by Congress to authorize (or deny) U.S. intelligence agencies the right to conduct domestic surveillance activities in the name...
The plaintiff we represent in this civil suit is the same Antoine Jones in whose criminal case the Supreme Court ruled in 2012 that attaching a GPS tracking device to a vehicle is a Fourth Amendment search...
These cases challenged a provision of the STOCK (“Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge”) Act, a 2012 statute that, among other things, required federal agencies to post detailed information about the...
We filed an amicus brief in the D.C. Circuit in this criminal appeal, arguing that police need a search warrant to attach a GPS transmitter to a vehicle to track its movements. The trial court refused to...
This FOIA case sought records related to the government’s warrantless use of cell phones as real-time tracking devices in criminal investigations. Some records were produced without the need for a court...
D.C. resident John Doe was convicted in Virginia of simple possession of child pornography, a crime that does not require registration on the D.C. sex offender registry (“Megan’s List”). But his parole...