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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In June 2016 we and the National Project on ACLU’s Speech, Privacy and Technology filed the complaint in this case, challenging a provision of federal law (section 1030(a)(2)(C) of the Computer Fraud and...
We represented Chante Price on behalf of her 11-year-old son in a lawsuit against a D.C. police officer who slammed the boy’s head into a table in his school cafeteria, apparently because the boy was not...
In 2011, Ms. Fretes-Zarate, a citizen of Paraguay and a lawful resident of the United States with a five-year-old U.S.-born son, was convicted of simple assault on her former husband after a domestic...
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 (“...
