The ACLU of North Carolina Legal Foundation works in courts and communities across the state to protect civil rights and civil liberties. If you believe your constitutional rights have been violated, you can contact us for legal assistance here.
Below is a list of some of our active and recent legal cases. Amicus briefs filed by the ACLU of North Carolina can be found here.
The ACLU is representing a former Teacher of the Year who was fired from his school in violation of federal law after announcing on Facebook that he was marrying his longtime same-sex partner.
The ACLU and other reproductive rights groups successfully challenged North Carolina’s unconstitutional law that prevented doctors from providing abortion care to a woman after the twentieth week of...
The ACLU, ACLU of North Carolina, and Lambda Legal challenged North Carolina’s sweeping anti-LGBT law, House Bill 2, and its discriminatory replacement, House Bill 142, on behalf of LGBT North Carolinians...
The ACLU successfully represented three Brunswick County students in a legal challenge against a section of a K-8 public charter school’s dress code that requires female students to wear skirts to school...
The ACLU and ACLU of North Carolina won a 2014 lawsuit on behalf of three married, same-sex couples seeking state recognition of their marriages.
The ACLU, the ACLU of North Carolina, and the Southern Coalition for Social Justice successfully challenged North Carolina's voter suppression law that imposed a voter ID requirement and eliminated same-day...