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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Aug 27, 2015

Champa v. Town of Weston Public Schools

Victory! In October 2015, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled that public schools must turn over records relating to special education placements.

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Aug 27, 2015

Commonwealth v. Doe

Commonwealth v. Doe, a case before the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, concerns whether mandatory GPS monitoring applies to someone on probation who was charged with a sex offense but—rather...

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Mary Holmes standing in front of a brick wall

Aug 19, 2015

Holmes v. Garvey

MBTA police officers brutally beat and arrested Mary Holmes after she spoke out to prevent the officers from abusing a person in her community.

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Aug 6, 2015

Commonwealth v. Lucas

Victory! In a powerful defense of free speech, the Massachusetts high court has struck down a ban on “false” campaign speech.

Our amicus brief urged the Supreme Judicial Court...

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Aug 6, 2015

ACLU of Massachusetts v. Evans

In August 2015, the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts and the national ACLU, together with the law firm WilmerHale, filed a public-records lawsuit against the Boston Police Department (BPD)...

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Aug 5, 2015

Morris v. US

In our client Ryan Morris’s case, the sentencing judge violated his jury trial right by imposing a 10-year mandatory minimum sentence based on facts found at sentencing, instead of facts submitted to a jury...

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