Court Cases

The ACLU of Wisconsin, along with pro bono counsel from Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP, filed a lawsuit against Governor Tony Evers and the Department of Health Services, on behalf of Trans Law Help Wisconsin and a transgender Wisconsin woman, seeking to overturn a provision in state law that denies transgender people the right to change the sex markers on their birth certificates unless they first undergo a “surgical sex procedure.”

We filed a motion on behalf of 24-year-old Jaciel Cirrus Rojas, who had been unlawfully detained in the Dodge County Jail by ICE since June of 2025. Cirrus Rojas is a father, and since he was detained, he had not been able to see his one-year-old child.

Fusion voting not only allows voters to select the candidate of their choice without having to support one of the major parties, but allows minor political parties influence in elections commensurate to their actual support in the electorate.

The Wisconsin DOC legally must provide programming to incarcerated parents that allows them physical custody of their children for the first year of life.

The ACLU of Wisconsin filed a brief at the Western District of Wisconsin concerning a case in which a parent-led organization, New Richmond Parents for Strong Schools, are trying to push the New Richmond School District (NRSD) to adopt a policy that would force transgender students to use bathrooms that are not consistent with their gender identities.

We filed an amicus brief asking the Wisconsin Supreme Court to protect students' constitutional rights during police interrogations at school. The court agreed.

Our class action lawsuit resulted in regulations to eliminate or significantly restrict the use of pepper spray, solitary confinement, shackling, and strip searches in Wisconsin youth prisons.

We filed a motion to intervene in the Trump administration’s lawsuit against the Wisconsin Elections Commission over its refusal to hand over confidential voter data.

We filed a petition on behalf of immigrant rights group Voces de la Frontera asking the Wisconsin Supreme Court to declare that the practice of Wisconsin jails honoring ICE detainers is illegal.