Court Cases

The American Civil Liberties Union of Eastern Missouri has filed suit against the City of Poplar Bluff after the City’s public library disciplined a part-time employee who objected to participating in the promotion of a Harry Potter book.

The American Civil Liberties Union of Eastern Missouri has filed suit against the City of St. George and the police officer whose threats to fabricate charges against a young motorist were captured on videotape.

The American Civil Liberties Union of Eastern Missouri applauded a decision by a district court in Missouri allowing women prisoners in that state to access timely, safe, and legal abortion care.

The ACLU-EM filed a federal lawsuit today on behalf of Army Specialist Anthony Collins of Charlie Company’s 327th Infantry Regiment, who encountered the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department and was pepper-sprayed, forced to the ground, handcuffed, and arrested.

The ACLU-EM represents Bill Wickersham and Eleanor Doyle in their effort to protect free speech rights at the annual Salute to Veterans Air Show held on the grounds of the Columbia, MO, Regional Airport each Memorial Day Weekend.

The ACLU of Eastern Missouri filed a complaint on behalf of two parents with children in the South Iron schools.

The ACLU of Eastern Missouri filed suit in federal court challenging Missouri statutory and constitutional provisions that bar those with court-appointed guardians from registering to vote without any consideration of the individual’s capacity to vote.

The ACLU-EM filed a lawsuit on behalf of Olivia Shelltrack, Fondray Loving and their family who were denied a permit to live in the City of Black Jack because of a law that prohibited more than three people from living together unless they are related by “blood, marriage or adoption.”