For more than one hundred years, ACLU lawyers have been at the center of one history-making court case after another, participating in more Supreme Court cases than any other private organization.
This page highlights current and important ACLU of Massachusetts cases, and provides ways to sort and search for other casework.
On March 25, 2025, Rümeysa Öztürk, a PhD student at Tufts University, was grabbed, arrested, and detained in Somerville by plainclothes federal agents in apparent retaliation for an op-ed she co-authored in...
In March 2024, the ACLU of Massachusetts, together with law firm Allen & Overy, sued the Bristol District Attorney’s Office (BDAO) for records related to the office’s collection, storage, and use of DNA...
Update: In March 2024, the Rural Justice Network and ACLU of Massachusetts announced a ...
In May 2023, the ACLU of Massachusetts filed a public records lawsuit against the Office of the State Auditor for wrongfully withholding documents related to prisoner deaths and health care at the houses of...
The ACLU and Todd & Weld filed a lawsuit on behalf of Michael Okosi, seeking justice for the harm he suffered—including physical and emotional injuries—based on the lies of one police officer.
The ACLU of Massachusetts, together with law firm Wolf Greenfield, filed a lawsuit against two Massachusetts agencies for failing to produce public records regarding the state’s use of automatic license...