Court Cases

We're fighting to ensure Connecticut’s civil rights laws, including the right to breastfeed, apply in public schools and public places throughout the state.

The decision to become a parent is deeply personal, and no school or job should be able to interfere with that choice. Yet for cadets at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy, that is exactly what their school does.

With national women's rights organizations, the ACLU-CT filed a friend of the court brief siding with Noriana Radwan, a former UConn women's soccer player who was kicked off the team, lost her scholarship, and lost her ability to attend UConn because she raised her middle finger in celebration.

The ACLU of Connecticut filed a federal class action lawsuit on April 20, 2020 on behalf of all people incarcerated in Connecticut prisons and jails, seeking emergency action to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in Connecticut Department of Correction (DOC) facilities.

The ACLU of Connecticut, representing the Connecticut Criminal Defense Lawyers Association (CCDLA) and people who are incarcerated, filed a lawsuit in Superior Court seeking emergency action to prevent the spread of COVID-19 by reducing the number of people who are incarcerated in Connecticut.

When a Stamford police officer confiscated Michael Friend's phone and sign and arrested and jailed him for exercising his right to protest, he violated Friend's First Amendment rights to free speech and information and Fourth Amendment right against warrantless seizure.

In a complaint filed with the U.S. District Court, the ACLU-CT contends that three state police troopers illegally retaliated against and interfered with a protester by searching and detaining him, confiscating his camera, and charging him with fabricated criminal infractions.