Cases

Fowler & Keating v. Bennington Select Board

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.

April 5, 2021

HRDC v. CCS (amicus brief)

The ACLU of Vermont is supporting an effort by the Human Rights Defense Center (HRDC) to obtain records of legal claims filed against Vermont’s former prison healthcare provider over a period of five years.

March 24, 2021

Vermont Journalism Trust v. Vermont Agency of Commerce & Community Development

The EB-5 Immigrant Investor Visa Program is a federal program designed to create jobs and stimulate foreign capital investment in low-income regions while providing a path to citizenship for foreign investors.

March 5, 2021

Bombard v. Riggen, State of Vermont

Vermont resident Gregory Bombard filed a lawsuit on February 3, 2021, challenging a retaliatory arrest by a Vermont State Police Trooper in February 2018.

February 2, 2021

Drewniak v. CBP

ACLU affiliates in New Hampshire, Maine, and Vermont today 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.

December 1, 2020

State v. Walker-Brazie and Lena-Butterfield

The ACLU has appealed to the Vermont Supreme Court 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, Vermont.

October 27, 2020