Court Cases

Police stopped a car based on a vague race-based description of people who committed a robbery. Our amicus brief on behalf of clergy detailed the harm caused by such stops and urged to Court to create a rule that would prohibit them.

Case asking the court to apply the exclusionary rule to violations of the “knock-and-announce” requirement in search warrants.

The ACLU-NJ joined this case as amicus on the sole issue of whether a denial of qualified immunity to defendant law enforcement as part of a summary judgment motion is appealable on an interlocutory basis in New Jersey state court.

Was claimant entitled to unemployment compensation under the circumstances presented, including that his separation from work stemmed from his pretrial incarceration for a charge on which the grand jury ultimately didn't return an indictment?

Amicus brief arguing that defendants, who were sentenced for underlying sex offenses when failure to register under Megan’s Law was a fourth-degree offense, cannot subsequently be charged with third-degree failure to register under the 2007 amendment to Megan’s Law.

Amicus brief in support of public access to police internal affairs records.

Amicus brief that asks how courts must consider sentences of people who are already sentenced to long prison terms.