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Jan 14, 2025
Simon et al. v. Kay Ivey et al.
A group of Alabama students and educators in higher education filed a federal lawsuit challenging Senate Bill 129 (SB129) – a censorship bill that impedes their ability to learn, teach, and engage in public university classes and programs related to diverse viewpoints and topics.
Apr 04, 2024
Alabama State Conference of the NAACP et al. v. Marshall et al.
Civil Rights, Voting Rights, Disability Rights Groups Sue Alabama Over SB 1’s Extreme Anti-Voter Restrictions and Penalties
Sep 25, 2023
West Alabama Women’s Center, et al. v. Marshall, et al.
A group of health care providers filed a lawsuit in federal court to prevent Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall and district attorneys throughout the state from prosecuting those who assist Alabamians seeking to travel across state lines to access abortion care where abortion is legal.
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Oct 28, 2013
Eternal World Television Network, Inc. v. Sebelius
While religious freedom gives us all the right to make personal decisions about how to practice religion, it doesn't give institutions or individuals the right to impose their beliefs on others or to discriminate. Thus, together with National, we filed an amicus brief arguing that point.
Oct 16, 2013
Riley v. Shuler; Duke v. Shuler
These two cases involve a blogger’s relentless drumbeat of publishing allegations regarding Petitioners on a website, allegations which the Petitioners claim are false, defamatory and libelous.
Sep 12, 2013
Doe v. Entrekin (Etowah County Sheriff)
The Etowah County Sheriff’s Office operates a program of unannounced, random and suspicionless compliance investigations of every individual in the county who is subject to the registration requirements of the Alabama Sex Offender Registration and Community Notification Act.
Feb 07, 2013
Doe v. Hobson
On February 7, 2013, ACLU IRP, the ACLU of Alabama, and coalition partners filed a lawsuit challenging § 5 of HB658, which would create an online registry of “unlawfully present aliens” who were arrested and appeared in an Alabama court for any alleged violation of state law.
Dec 01, 2012
U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights investigation of Birmingham City School System
As a result of ACLU action that led to an investigation by the federal agency charged with enforcing Title IX, the federal law prohibiting sex discrimination in federally funded educational programs, a Birmingham public middle school has agreed to abandon unlawful single-sex classes.
Jul 08, 2011
Hispanic Interest Coalition of Alabama v. Bentley
On July 8, 2011, ACLU Immigrants’ Rights Project (“IRP”), ACLU Racial Justice Project (“RJP”), the ACLU of Alabama, and coalition partners filed a federal challenge on to Alabama’s anti-immigrant legislation, HB 56.
Apr 27, 2010
Shelby County, Alabama v. Holder
Shelby County sued the U.S. seeking a declaration by the federal court that two sections of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, Sections 4(b) and 5, are unconstitutional on their face. We intervened in the case with the goal of preserving intact these two enforcement provisions of the VRA.
Mar 01, 1963
Lee v. Macon County Board of Education
We joined this long-running school desegregation case which was originally filed in 1963. Our immediate goal was to prevent the Pickens County School Board from closing the Carrollton Unit School, a majority African American school which the school board had neglected for years.
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