Deleiris v. Scott
Successful federal challenge to Health Department policy denying birth certificates to parents who refused to provide personal information on a hospital birth worksheet.
At any given time, the ACLU of RI is involved in dozens of legal battles on behalf of civil liberties in the Ocean State. Below is a list of many the cases we have worked on. For our annual case dockets, click here.
Successful federal challenge to Health Department policy denying birth certificates to parents who refused to provide personal information on a hospital birth worksheet.
Successful court challenge to state Department of Education ruling requiring a public school district to pay tuition for students attending parochial schools.
Successful federal challenge to law allowing Democratic and Republican Party committees to hold fund-raising raffles but prohibiting all other political committees or parties from doing the same.
“Friend of the court” brief in Superior Court, successfully arguing that a state agency could not withhold from the public certain records simply because they had been subpoenaed by a grand jury.