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Jun 2020
Harris v. Georgia Department of Corrections
On October 3, 2018, the ACLU and the ACLU of Georgia, together with National Association of the Deaf and Weil, Gotshal & Manges, LLP, filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of deaf and hard of hearing people incarcerated in prisons supervised by the Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC). The complaint highlights GDC’s failure to provide incarcerated deaf and hard of hearing people with equally effective communication access to programs, services, and activities, including medical care, telecommunications, and prison programs. Further, due to lack of access to interpreters and other communication accommodations, deaf prisoners are also often unable to explain or defend themselves when GDC takes disciplinary action against them.
Status: Ongoing
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Georgia
Jun 2018
Coen v. Georgia Department of Corrections
The American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Georgia, together with the National Association of the Deaf and Weil, Gotshal & Manges, LLP, filed a motion in federal court to pursue a class action lawsuit on behalf of deaf and hard of hearing people imprisoned in and released from the Georgia Department of Corrections. The proposed complaint highlights how prison, probation, and parole systems fail deaf prisoners – leading deaf people to go to prison more often, stay longer, and return more quickly.
Status: Closed (Voluntarily Dismissed)
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Georgia
Disability Rights
Coen v. Georgia Department of Corrections
The American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Georgia, together with the National Association of the Deaf and Weil, Gotshal & Manges, LLP, filed a motion in federal court to pursue a class action lawsuit on behalf of deaf and hard of hearing people imprisoned in and released from the Georgia Department of Corrections. The proposed complaint highlights how prison, probation, and parole systems fail deaf prisoners – leading deaf people to go to prison more often, stay longer, and return more quickly.
Jun 2018
Status: Closed (Voluntarily Dismissed)
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Georgia
Aug 2017
Alisha Coleman v. Bobby Dodd Institute
The American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Georgia and co-counsel Buckley Beal LLP filed a brief in the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals arguing that their client, Alisha Coleman, was subjected to unlawful workplace discrimination when she was fired for experiencing a heavy period, a symptom of premenopause.
Status: Ongoing
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Georgia
Women's Rights
Alisha Coleman v. Bobby Dodd Institute
The American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Georgia and co-counsel Buckley Beal LLP filed a brief in the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals arguing that their client, Alisha Coleman, was subjected to unlawful workplace discrimination when she was fired for experiencing a heavy period, a symptom of premenopause.
Aug 2017
Status: Ongoing
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Georgia
Mar 2015
Georgia Latino Alliance for Human Rights, et al. v. Deal
On June 2, 2011, the ACLU Immigrants’ Rights Project joined with the ACLU Racial Justice Project, the ACLU of Georgia, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), Asian Law Caucus, the National Immigration Law Center (NILC), and private co-counsel to file a lawsuit challenging Georgia's anti-immigrant law, HB 87, which was inspired by Arizona's notorious SB 1070. The Georgia law authorized police to demand "papers" demonstrating citizenship or immigration status during traffic stops, criminalized Georgians in their daily interaction with immigrants, and made it nearly impossible for individuals without specific identification documents to access state facilities and services.
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Georgia
Immigrants' Rights
Georgia Latino Alliance for Human Rights, et al. v. Deal
On June 2, 2011, the ACLU Immigrants’ Rights Project joined with the ACLU Racial Justice Project, the ACLU of Georgia, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), Asian Law Caucus, the National Immigration Law Center (NILC), and private co-counsel to file a lawsuit challenging Georgia's anti-immigrant law, HB 87, which was inspired by Arizona's notorious SB 1070. The Georgia law authorized police to demand "papers" demonstrating citizenship or immigration status during traffic stops, criminalized Georgians in their daily interaction with immigrants, and made it nearly impossible for individuals without specific identification documents to access state facilities and services.
Mar 2015
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Georgia
Dec 2012
Lathrop, et al. v. Deal, et al.
The American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Georgia have filed a lawsuit challenging a Georgia law banning pre-viability abortions. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of three Georgia obstetrician-gynecologists whose patients include women in need of this essential medical care.
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Georgia
Reproductive Freedom
Women's Rights
Lathrop, et al. v. Deal, et al.
The American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Georgia have filed a lawsuit challenging a Georgia law banning pre-viability abortions. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of three Georgia obstetrician-gynecologists whose patients include women in need of this essential medical care.
Dec 2012
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Georgia
Aug 2012
Common Cause v. Billups
In 2005, the Georgia legislature passed a law requiring voters to show photo ID before voting at the polls on Election Day. The ACLU Voting Rights Project and the ACLU of Georgia joined two individual voters and five other non-profit organizations in a lawsuit challenging the law under the 24th Amendment, Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Equal Protection Clause, and the state constitution.
Status: Closed (Dismissed)
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Georgia
Voting Rights
Common Cause v. Billups
In 2005, the Georgia legislature passed a law requiring voters to show photo ID before voting at the polls on Election Day. The ACLU Voting Rights Project and the ACLU of Georgia joined two individual voters and five other non-profit organizations in a lawsuit challenging the law under the 24th Amendment, Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Equal Protection Clause, and the state constitution.
Aug 2012
Status: Closed (Dismissed)
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