Court Cases

Affirmative litigation challenging the constitutionality of excluding New Jersey farmworkers from equal wage and overtime pay.

Amicus brief arguing that common law requires public access to internal affairs records, where they can be turned over without revealing identity of witnesses.

A civil rights lawsuit challenging the targeting and arrest of Black Lives Matter leaders at a demonstration.

Amicus brief addressing the standard required for stopping a person on the street, based largely on the character of a neighborhood.

In this novel case, the ACLU-NJ argued that the State’s unlawful and racial use of its law enforcement power against a qualified Black potential juror, by running a criminal background check on him and later having him arrested from the courthouse on a municipal warrant.

Police union challenge to AG directives ordering the public disclosure of the identities of officers sanctioned for serious disciplinary violations.

Amicus brief addressing the abuse of low level traffic stops by police officers as tools to justify arbitrary and discriminatory invasions into the privacy rights of New Jerseyans.

Amicus brief in support of the Attorney General’s power to implement the Immigrant Trust Directive

The ACLU-NJ represents P.D., a pretrial detainee with mental illness who, after being unable to make bail, was held in solitary confinement for more than four months.