Court Cases

ACLU affiliates in New Hampshire, Maine, and Vermont filed a federal lawsuit challenging the use of unconstitutional border patrol checkpoints that frequently occur on I-93 in Woodstock, New Hampshire and elsewhere in northern New England.

Our client was unlawfully arrested, interrogated, and searched by Bennington police.

The Vermont Supreme Court ruled in our favor on behalf of a Vermont couple who were prosecuted following an August 2018 “roving patrol” stop by a U.S. Border Patrol agent in Jay.

The ACLU of Vermont, along with cooperating attorney Anthony Iarrapino, has filed a public records lawsuit on behalf of Reed Doyle against the Burlington Police Department for failure to produce bodycam footage of an alleged use-of-force incident.

Montagno v. City of Burlington challenged the City's policy of pressuring landlords to evict low-income tenants for calling police for help “too frequently."