Along with our advocacy, legislative, and public education work, litigation remains one of the fundamental tools with which the ACLU of Minnesota fights for equality and civil rights throughout the state. See below for more information on the cases we've brought to the courts.
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In March 2022, the ACLU, ACLU of Minnesota, and ACLU of Southern California filed a lawsuit on behalf of three Muslim Americans who have been subjected to intrusive questioning from border officers about their religious beliefs, practices, and associations in violation of their constitutional rig
Kerlin Sanchez Villalobos and her younger sister are suing the United States in U.S. District Court in Minnesota after they experienced severe abuse and mistreatment in the immigration system.
The ACLU-MN sued on behalf of a woman who faced criminal charges for recording police holding two Black men at gunpoint. The suit alleges the City of Robbinsdale and involved officers violated her First and Fourth Amendment rights.
The city of Minneapolis and its police department are willfully subverting our state’s Government Data Practices Act by withholding public data about disciplinary action taken against police for serious misconduct, according to a new lawsuit filed by the ACLU of Minnesota in state court Thursday.
Concerned Minnesotans alerted us to a recent partnership between Kandiyohi County Housing and Redevelopment Authority and Willmar Police Department related to K-9 training.
COVID-19 has spread like wildfire at the low-security Federal Correctional Institution in Waseca, where that was completely avoidable.