Court Cases

The ACLU and the ACLU of Arizona are suing Allister Adel and her office for forcing people to plead guilty and waive their fundamental right to defend themselves in court.

The ACLU of Southern California, the ACLU of Arizona, and the law firm Kirkland & Ellis filed a federal lawsuit in Arizona on behalf of three migrant rights activists surveilled, detained, searched, and interrogated at the border by the federal government.

The case is a class action lawsuit against the State of Arizona and the Arizona Board of Regents for denying medically necessary, genderconfirming healthcare to transgender people employed by the state.

The lawsuit asks the court to prohibit Phoenix police from using excessive force in the future and seeks financial damages for all people whose First Amendment rights of free speech and assembly were violated by the Phoenix Police Department’s violent dispersal of protesters.

In Arizona, if a person is accused of a sex offense, the state mandates they wear a GPS monitoring ankle device — pretrial, preconviction. This is unconstitutional.

ADAC v Brewer challenged Governor Brewer’s executive order on behalf of ADAC, and individuals who are being denied Arizona driver’s licenses even though the federal government has authorized their presence in the country.