Court Cases

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.”

The Bi-State Development Agency violated the Constitution when it removed advertising purchased by the National Alliance.

On May 13, 2005, the ACLU of Missouri filed a civil rights lawsuit in federal court on behalf of protesters who were targeted by police just prior to their scheduled protest of the World Agricultural Forum meetings in May 2003.

In late September 2005, the ACLU of Missouri filed an amicus brief in state court, joined by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, supporting a motion to quash a local Prosecuting Attorney’s subpoena to Mark Twain Rural Telephone seeking to unmask the identity of an anonymous online critic.

The ACLU-EM filed an amicus brief and then Legal Director Denise Lieberman argued before the Court of Appeals in this SLAPP suit filed against Thomas Diehl by Fred Weber, Inc.

This federal civil rights lawsuit challenges police misconduct directed at homeless and homeless-appearing persons in downtown St. Louis.

On May 18, the ACLU-EM, along with ACLU affiliates in nine other states, filed Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests with the FBI seeking information about the FBI's use of Joint Terrorism Task Forces and local police to engage in political surveillance.