Court Cases

The ACLU of Vermont and partners are suing Vermont DCF, Lund, and Copley Hospital for egregious constitutional violations against a pregnant woman, A.V. This case exposes DCF's grave pattern of surveillance, deception, and violation of Vermont's Reproductive Liberty Amendment.

On March 25, 2025, Rümeysa Öztürk, a PhD student at Tufts University, was grabbed, arrested and detained in Somerville, MA by plainclothes federal agents in retaliation for an op-ed she co-authored in...

On April 14, Mohsen Madawi was scheduled to attend his long-awaited naturalization interview at an immigration field office in Colchester, VT. Following his interview, plainclothes ICE agents with hooded clothing and face coverings arrested and detained him, putting him in an unmarked vehicle.

School administrators took no meaningful action to address ongoing racist bullying.

Isabel Vinson was criminally cited by the Brattleboro Police Department for her online criticism of a local business owner’s derogatory Facebook posts about the Black Lives Matter movement.

Cassandra Keating and Joel Fowler filed a complaint on April 7, 2021 with the Vermont Human Rights Commission (HRC) against the Bennington Select Board for unlawfully retaliating against the couple. The ACLU filed suit on their behalf in July 2023.

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.