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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We represent Schyla Pondexter-Moore, a community housing activist, who was banned from attending meetings of the D.C. Housing Authority (DCHA) for 60 days after she was ejected from a Housing Authority...
In October 2016, we filed a motion with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, asking it to unseal and release its opinions and orders containing “novel or significant interpretations of law” that...
Samuel Ortiz-Diaz is a senior special agent in HUD’s Office of Inspector General in Washington, D.C., who was denied a transfer from the Washington office to a position in Albany or Hartford. Mr. Ortiz-Diaz...
The DC Office of the State Superintendent of Education (OSSE) has a policy that requires teachers at facilities licensed by OSSE to be subject to random drug and alcohol testing. OSSE licenses daycare...
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...
