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...
Because the Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s decision in Commonwealth v. Ford only addressed discretionary fines, additional litigation addressed whether so-called “mandatory” fines are actually mandatory at...
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...
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...
The ACLU of Pennsylvania and Juntos have filed a Freedom Of Information Act request with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) regarding the enforcement...