All Cases


39 Court Cases
Court Case
Aug 8, 2024
Cases
  • Immigrants' Rights|
  • +2 Issues

El Comité de Apoyo a los Trabajadores Agrícolas (CATA) v Platkin

Affirmative litigation challenging the constitutionality of excluding New Jersey farmworkers from equal wage and overtime pay.
Court Case
Apr 23, 2024
Cases
  • LGBTQ+ Rights|
  • +1 Issue

Platkin v Manalapan-Englishtown Reg’l Bd. of Educ., Platkin v Middletown Township Bd. of Educ., & Platkin v Marlboro Township Bd. of Educ.

Amicus briefs arguing that school policies requiring staff to out transgender students to their parents or guardians are unconstitutional, violate the Law Against Discrimination, and will cause irreparable harm to students and schools.
Court Case
Mar 11, 2024
Cases
  • Voting Rights|
  • +1 Issue

Kim v. Hanlon

Amicus briefs arguing that New Jersey’s system for designing primary ballots violates voters’ constitutional rights.
Court Case
Jan 10, 2024
Cases
  • Immigration Enforcement & Detention|
  • +1 Issue

CoreCivic, Inc. v. Murphy 

Amicus brief in support of a state law prohibiting new, renewed, or expanded immigration detention contracts in New Jersey.
Court Case
Dec 21, 2023
In the Courts, ACLU OF New Jersey
  • Criminal Legal System|
  • +2 Issues

State Newsroom v. City of Jersey City

The issue in this case is whether New Jersey’s expungement statute bars public access to an internal affairs report concerning a police officer, because the report contains facts or documents common to expunged criminal records.
Court Case
Jul 10, 2023
Cases
  • Voting Rights|
  • +1 Issue

In re Tom Malinowski, Petition for Nomination for General Election

Amicus brief challenging New Jersey's anti-fusion voting laws.
Court Case
Apr 4, 2022
Cases
  • Police & Law Enforcement

State v. Bookman

Amicus brief addressing whether police may enter a third parties’ home in “hot pursuit” of a person wanted only on a traffic warrant,
Court Case
Mar 18, 2022
Cases
  • Police & Law Enforcement

State v. Smith

The ACLU-NJ entered this case as amicus to argue that police stops based on rear tinted windows in cars are arbitrary, unconstitutional and in violation of the Fourth Amendment and Article I, Paragraph 7 of the New Jersey Constitution.
Court Case
Feb 14, 2022
Cases
  • Decarceration|
  • +2 Issues

State v. Mackroy-Davis

Amicus brief addressing the how delays caused by COVID-19 impact the speedy trial provisions of the Criminal Justice Reform Act.