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 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 “...
In June 2013 we filed a motion asking the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to unseal its opinion interpreting a provision of the PATRIOT Act to allow the NSA to collect the “metadata” of hundreds of...
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...
We filed this lawsuit in May 2013 for Tiffany Hall on behalf of her son, a small 14-year-old who was placed in a chokehold, punched, pepper-sprayed, and arrested by Metro Transit Police officers when he...
