Court Cases

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

Amicus brief addressing the impact of marijuana legalization on applications to Pretrial Intervention (PTI) for people who previously received conditional discharges for marijuana offenses.

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 whether the retroactive application of the newly enacted crime-fraud exception to the marital communications privilege violates the ex post facto clauses of the federal and state constitutions.

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.

Challenge to mass transfers of individuals in ICE custody with existing attorney-client relationships to distant detention facilities