Cases

For more than one hundred years, ACLU lawyers have been at the center of one history-making court case after another, participating in more Supreme Court cases than any other private organization. 

This page highlights current and important ACLU of Massachusetts cases, and provides ways to sort and search for other casework.

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Students sitting with notebooks in their laps, taking notes
Jan 29, 2019

Spaulding v. Natick School Committee

People have the right to speak truth to their elected officials and to hold them accountable.

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In our America Lawn Sign
Nov 16, 2018

Molloy et al. v. City of Holyoke

People have a right to express personal political views through signs displayed on their property.

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Massachusetts Peace Action march
Jul 12, 2018

Massachusetts Peace Action v. City of Cambridge

The voices of event organizers and participants should be encouraged and applauded, not taxed.

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Deanna Mya and Colleen Cook
May 19, 2017

Cook v. Mystic Valley Regional Charter School

Two 15-year-old Black Boston-area students have been repeatedly punished by their school for wearing their hair in braids with extensions.

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Cell phone cameras as tiles in front of black background
Jun 30, 2016

Martin v. Rollins (formerly Martin v. Evans, Martin v. Gross)

We filed a federal lawsuit defending the right to record the police in performance of public duties.

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Sep 21, 2015

McLaughlin v. Lowell (formerly Copley v. Lowell)

We challenged an anti-begging ordinance that violates the First Amendment right to peacefully solicit donations in public and to engage the public in political and other speech.

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