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.
The ACLU intervened in this pro se petition on behalf of a non-citizen who had been detained for three years awaiting deportation. The District Court affirmed a magistrate judge’s ruling that the petitioner...
Federal lawsuit alleging that a school district failed to hire a applicant for two art teacher positions because of her public criticism over the years, as a parent, of some school district practices. After...
Successful representation of a retired school teacher who sought to have the school district add her same-sex spouse to her health insurance plan.
“Friend of the court” brief challenging, on free speech and due process grounds, the imposition of sanctions on plaintiffs’ attorneys in the Cornel Young, Jr. civil rights case for allegedly misstating the...