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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Together with the National ACLU, we represent U.S. Army Private First Class (PFC) Chelsea Elizabeth Manning in seeking to obtain proper medical treatment for her gender dysphoria while she is serving a 35-...
This lawsuit was filed in August 2014, in the context of the large numbers of Central American women with children who entered the United States from Mexico without visas that summer. After they entered the...
Prior to 2013, one of the ways in which the Voting Rights Act guarded against discriminatory voting laws and procedures was to require certain state and local governments to obtain prior approval (“...
We were co-counsel with the ACLU of Southern California in a lawsuit filed in D.C. challenging the denial of a FOIA request to the Citizenship and Immigration Services agency for records regarding the “...
