In the Courts

At any given time, the ACLU of Wisconsin has thirty to forty active matters on its litigation docket. From municipalities infringing on individuals' free speech rights, to schools not taking race-based bullying seriously, to broader statewide issues.

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Jun 10, 2024

Department of Corrections Must Keep Families Together

Status: Won

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

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Jun 6, 2024

Coalition to March on the RNC v. City of Milwaukee

Status: Decided

We sued the city of Milwaukee for passing rules pertaining to the 2024 Republican National Convention that infringe on protest rights.

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Sep 1, 2022

WJI v. WEC: Informing Voters of What’s on the Ballot

Status: Lost

We argued that Marsy’s law wasn’t fully, properly, or accurately presented to Wisconsin voters, leading voters to make a decision about a proposal about which they were not fully informed.

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Apr 28, 2022

Battling the School-to-Prison Pipeline in Oshkosh

When Black and biracial students faced racial harassment and disparate punishment in the Oshkosh Area School District, the ACLU of Wisconsin took the case to the U.S. Department of Education's Office of...

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Apr 13, 2022

Doe v. Madison Metropolitan School District: Protecting Transgender Students

Status: Victory!

In February 2020, several parents anonymously sued the Madison Metropolitan School District in Wisconsin state court. The parents claimed...

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Feb 1, 2022

Protecting Northern Wisconsin from Oil Pipeline

Status: On appeal

In 2022, the ACLU of Wisconsin submitted public comments regarding the Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) on Enbridge's proposed relocation of its Line 5...

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