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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These cases challenged a provision of the STOCK (“Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge”) Act, a 2012 statute that, among other things, required federal agencies to post detailed information about the...
In June 2009, Debra Hartley, a former police officer, walked 225 miles to Washington from her home in Pennsylvania carrying signs calling attention to discrimination against women in law enforcement. She...
In March 2013, Dan Choi, a West Point graduate and combat veteran of the Iraq War who had been discharged from the Army after he came out as gay on the Rachel Maddow Show, was charged with “failure to obey...
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...
Numerous copyright infringement cases have been filed in federal courts here and elsewhere by the alleged owners of various (mostly pornographic) motion pictures, alleging that each of many “John Doe”...
