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.
These defendants were convicted of assault and battery on the basis of diagnoses of Shaken Baby Syndrome--but since the mid-1980s, studies have been published that cast doubt on the theory that SBS can only...
Does the "necessity defense" apply to homeless people who trespass to survive bitter cold?
Victory! In a case involving cell site location information (CSLI), the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court held in September 2015 that the government must get a warrant for anything more than six hours of...
A case involving a Framingham SWAT raid that killed an innocent African-American grandfather centers on safety of people seized by the police.
