Cases

One of the main ways the ACLU of Illinois works to protect civil liberties and civil rights is through litigation. Litigation remains one of the fundamental tools with which our adept legal team fights for equality and civil rights throughout the state.  This section of our website documents the cases we’re working on now and those we’ve handled in recent years.

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Jan 5, 2011

Sherman v. Koch

First Amendment Advocacy
Status: Closed

(formerly Sherman v. Township High School District 214)

We were amicus in a case filed by the Sherman family of Buffalo Grove against their local public high school and the Illinois...

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Jan 5, 2011

Terkel v. AT&T

Status: Closed

The ACLU of Illinois represented the estate of the late author Studs Terkel, Dr. Quentin Young, attorney James Montgomery, Illinois House Majority Leader Barbara Flynn Currie, Professor Diane Geraghty, and...

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Jan 5, 2011

Khorrami v. Rolince

Immigration
Status: Closed

Farid Khorrami, a lawful U.S. immigrant (and now, a U.S. citizen), filed suit seeking damages against FBI agents for months of unjustified detention and abusive physical treatment immediately following the...

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Jan 5, 2011

Cummins v. Illinois

Women's and Reproductive Rights

The RBF/ACLU represented a group of thirty (30) physicians as amicus curiae in a case before the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals that challenged a previous State of Illinois policy excluding...

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Jan 5, 2011

Rahman v. Chertoff

Status: Lost appeal

The ACLU of Illinois, along with other ACLU affiliates in Massachusetts, Michigan and Washington State, represented nine individuals – all United States citizens – who had been the victims of repeated stops...

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Protect Access to Birth Control
Jan 5, 2011

Morr-Fitz v. Quinn

Women's and Reproductive Rights
Status: Decided

The ACLU of Illinois participated actively in a lawsuit raising the fundamental question of whether a private, for-profit business should be permitted to discriminate against some customers on the basis of...

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