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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Dec 17, 2012

Fall River Public Schools Complaint

LGBTQ Rights

In June 2012, we filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights (OCR) against Fall River Public Schools, alledging that the district's frequent use of out-of-school...

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Jan 5, 2012

Glik v. Cunniffe

Free Speech and Expression

Arrested for "illegal wiretapping" in 2007 after recording police officers roughly arresting a young man, ACLU client Simon Glik sued three police officers and the City of Boston for violating his civil...

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