At any given time, the ACLU of RI is involved in dozens of legal battles on behalf of civil liberties in the Ocean State. Below is a list of many the cases we have worked on. For our annual case dockets, click here.
“Friend of the court” brief challenging on various grounds the legality of a state police raid of a smoke shop on Narragansett Indian tribal land. The Court upheld the state’s actions in 2004, but the...
Federal lawsuit challenging two separate incidents of racial profiling in which the plaintiff was stopped, questioned and, in one instance, improperly ticketed by Scituate police. A jury ruled for the...
Federal lawsuit, on behalf of a female Hispanic firefighter applicant, challenging a state law giving a town a one-time exemption from the Fair Employment Practices Act in order to allow its acquisition of...
Court brief filed in support of this lawful permanent resident alien’s habeas corpus petition challenging a federal law mandating his detention while undergoing deportation proceedings.