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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Nov 25, 2015
Commonwealth v. Magadini
Economic Justice
Does the "necessity defense" apply to homeless people who trespass to survive bitter cold?
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Oct 17, 2015
Commonwealth v. Estabrook
Privacy and Surveillance
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...
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Sep 29, 2015
Stamps v. Town of Framingham
Police Accountability
A case involving a Framingham SWAT raid that killed an innocent African-American grandfather centers on safety of people seized by the police.
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Sep 21, 2015
McLaughlin v. Lowell (formerly Copley v. Lowell)
Free Speech and Expression
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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Sep 21, 2015
Moe v. Secretary of Administration and Finance
Reproductive Freedom
Protecting women's right to reproductive freedom under the state constitution.
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Sep 1, 2015
Commonwealth v. Walters
Victory! In September 2015, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court brought longstanding constitutional protections to the digital age. We stress the importance of First Amendment protections in the face...