On January 25, 2018, the ACLU of Pennsylvania, the ACLU’s National Prison Project, the Abolitionist Law Center, and cooperating counsel filed a federal lawsuit against the Pennsylvania Department of...
On December 21, 2017, the ACLU of Pennsylvania and the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers filed a friend-of-the-court brief urging a federal district court in Philadelphia to reject a request...
On November 6, the American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania and the Law Offices of Timothy P. O’Brien filed a lawsuit against Allegheny County on behalf of Jules Williams, a transgender woman who was...
The Lebanon County Court of Common Pleas held Mr. Diaz and Mr. Smetana in contempt at the same “costs and fines day,” where dozens of individuals who had missed payments on their fines and costs were...
On October 16, 2017, the ACLU of Pennsylvania filed a friend-of-the-court brief in the Pennsylvania Supreme Court urging the Court to reject the government’s argument that it has the inherent “common law”...
On September 25, 2017, the ACLU-PA filed suit on behalf of B.L., a high school sophomore who has been cheerleading since she was in fifth grade and was expelled from the team as punishment for out-of-school...