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 American Civil Liberties and the ACLU of the District of Columbia filed an administrative complaint with the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS), the federal volunteer service agency...
The petition filed by the ACLU and ACLU-DC seeks a court order permitting ACLU attorneys to meet with the “John Doe” detainee, forbidding interrogation of the detainee until the habeas petition is resolved...
Following the mass arrests the government carried out on Inauguration Day 2017 (which we challenged in Horse v. D.C.), the government...
In June 2017, ACLU-DC learned of a sealed case in which Facebook had been served with search warrants for the contents of three user accounts, and had also been ordered not to tell the users or anyone else...
The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (“WMATA”) operates one of the nation’s largest transit systems, the D.C. Metro, which spans more than 90 stations in the District, Maryland, and Virginia....
The diversity visa program awards immigrant visas to nationals of countries that historically have sent low numbers of immigrants to the United States. Each year, a very small fraction of applicants from...