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.
Federal lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of a federal law requiring libraries receiving federal funds to install blocking software on all their Internet access terminals.
Favorably settled federal lawsuit challenging the airport’s censorship of an issue-oriented advertisement on the grounds that it was “political” and “negative.”
Class-action suit challenging the Department of Human Services’ procedures in conducting food stamp fraud hearings.
Successful federal lawsuit challenging a town’s decision not to hold regularly-scheduled local elections in 2001, relying on the results of a 1998 referendum which authorized a change in town elections from...