Court Cases

United States District Judge Nanette Laughrey granted a preliminary injunction Nov. 15th that requires all Missouri prisons to notify senders whenever written materials they send are censored, seized and withheld from prisoners.

Thanks to efforts by the American Civil Liberties Union of Eastern Missouri, April LaChance married her fiancé Alain Hersey-Brown today.

The ACLU-EM filed suit on behalf of Jane Doe, who objected to the use of sectarian prayer at the beginning of Franklin County Commission meetings.

Lamprecht wants to place signs advocating political candidates in his yard. When he's tried to do this in the past, he's been contacted by a trustee of Tiara at the Abbey Homeowners Association and informed he was violating a covenant that forbids most signs.

The American Civil Liberties Union of Eastern Missouri received a favorable judgment on June 27, 2012, in a lawsuit over the St. Louis Division of Corrections’ failure to respond to the ACLU’s request for information about grievance policies in the jails.

Linn State Technical College forces students to submit to mandatory drug tests without any suspicion of wrongdoing.

The ACLU of Eastern Missouri settled two lawsuits filed on behalf of prisoners in the Jefferson City Correctional Center, which is operated by the Missouri Department of Corrections.