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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Sep 18, 2018

Commonwealth v. Williams

Prospective jurors should not be excluded from juries for expressing their view that there are racial disparities in our criminal legal system.

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Aug 30, 2018

Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard

Affirmative action is one of the most effective tools for redressing the injustices caused by our nation’s historic discrimination against people of color and women.

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Aug 29, 2018

Gray v. Cummings

Judith Gray was tased by a police officer while she was experiencing symptoms of her bipolar disorder.

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Aug 20, 2018

Commonwealth v. Almonor

This case challenges law enforcement's ability to access precise, real-time location information from a cell phone.

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Aug 17, 2018

Commonwealth v. Plasse

It is unsafe and unjust to sentence someone to more time in order to “help” them recover from a substance use disorder.

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Aug 13, 2018

Commonwealth v. Johnson

Law enforcement should get a warrant to search a probationer’s historical GPS location data.

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