Magisterial district judges (MDJs) in Lancaster County regularly set cash bail without considering a person’s ability to pay, leading to the unconstitutional and unnecessary pretrial incarceration of...
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Feb 18, 2022
McLinko v. Commonwealth (Bonner v. Commonwealth)
Voting Rights
Status: Amicus Brief
The consolidated lawsuits McLinko v. Commonwealth and Bonner v. Commonwealth are state constitutional challenges to Act 77 of 2019. That law implemented numerous election law reforms, including no-excuse...
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Jan 31, 2022
Migliori et al. v. Lehigh County Board of Elections
Voting Rights
Status: Closed
On January 31, 2022, the ACLU of Pennsylvania filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against Lehigh County to require the county to count 257 mail-in ballots from the 2021 general election that were...
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Jan 10, 2022
FOIA Request Regarding ICE Philadelphia Field Office Enforcement
The ACLU of Pennsylvania and Juntos have filed a Freedom Of Information Act request with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) regarding the enforcement...
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Jan 6, 2022
Walczak and ACLU-PA v. Fulton County
Voting Rights
On January 5, 2022, the ACLU of Pennsylvania filed suit against Fulton County for its failure to comply with a September 2021 order by the Office of Open Records to produce all records related to Fulton...
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Oct 28, 2021
Smith et al. v. Sobel et al.
Immigrants' Rights
Status: Filed
On October 28, 2021, the ACLU of Pennsylvania and the law firm Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders LLP filed a lawsuit against the Clearfield County commissioners for failing to follow state law when the...