Court Cases

ACLU affiliates across the country filed 13 separate Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuits demanding government documents about the on-the-ground implementation of President Trump’s Muslim bans.

The ACLU is representing a former Teacher of the Year who was fired from his school in violation of federal law after announcing on Facebook that he was marrying his longtime same-sex partner.

The ACLU and other reproductive rights groups successfully challenged North Carolina’s unconstitutional law that prevented doctors from providing abortion care to a woman after the twentieth week of pregnancy.

The ACLU, ACLU of North Carolina, and Lambda Legal challenged North Carolina’s sweeping anti-LGBT law, House Bill 2, and its discriminatory replacement, House Bill 142, on behalf of LGBT North Carolinians and members of the ACLU of North Carolina.

The ACLU successfully represented three Brunswick County students in a legal challenge against a section of a K-8 public charter school’s dress code that requires female students to wear skirts to school and prohibits them from wearing pants or shorts.

The ACLU and ACLU of North Carolina won a 2014 lawsuit on behalf of three married, same-sex couples seeking state recognition of their marriages.

The ACLU, the ACLU of North Carolina, and the Southern Coalition for Social Justice successfully challenged North Carolina's voter suppression law that imposed a voter ID requirement and eliminated same-day registration, out-of-precinct voting, and a week of early voting.

The ACLU successfully represented three Rowan County residents in a challenge to their county commissioners’ practice of opening meetings by coercing the public to join them in prayers that overwhelmingly advance beliefs specific to one religion.

The ACLU helped win the freedom to marry for same-sex couples in North Carolina by successfully challenging the state's ban on marriage for same-sex couples.