Due Process

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Press Releases

• ACLU-PA Files Suit on Behalf of Mexican Workers Falsely Arrested 10.20.2011
• ACLU Issues Report Calling on Allegheny County to Fix Dysfunctional Public Defender Office 10.17.2011
• ACLU-PA Files Suit On Behalf Of US Citizen Illegally Detained By ICE for Three Days 12.01.2010
• ACLU-PA Files Lawsuit On Behalf Of Parents Whose Newborn Was Seized After Mom's Poppy-Seed Bagel Caused Positive Drug Test 10.28.2010
• ACLU Petitions PA Supreme Court For Immediate Release Of Men Incarcerated Without Legal Representation 07.23.2009
• ACLU Sues Federal Government For Wrongly Putting Muslim Airline Pilot and His Wife On 'Terrorist Watch List' 08.19.2008
• Government Revoked Muslim Nuclear Physicist's Security Clearance To Retaliate For Criticism Of U.S. Policy, Says ACLU 06.26.2008
• Fayette County CYS Improperly Removed Three Children From Their Father, Says ACLU Lawsuit 06.16.2008
• Immigrants' Rights Advocates and ACLU File Lawsuit to End Illegal Delays in Processing Citizenship Applications 07.21.2006
• Federal Court Strikes Down Discriminatory Anti-Immigrant Law in Hazleton 07.26.2007
• Federal Judge Blocks Hazleton Anti-Immigrant Ordinance, Says Law Causes Harm to Legal Immigrants 10.31.2006
• Coalition Returns to Court Over Harsh Anti-Immigrant Law in Hazleton 10.30.2006
• Hazleton Residents Sue to Halt Harsh Anti-Immigrant Law 08.15.2006

Legal Cases

• Aponte, et al. v. Martino, et al. (Mexican citizens detained without cause by police and store security)
• Galarza v. Szalczyk, et al. (US citizen mistakenly imprisoned by ICE)
• Mort v. Lawrence County Children and Youth Services, et al. (Newborn taken from mother after she falsely tests postive for drugs because of eating a poppy seed bagel)
• State College Nuisance Ordinance (proposed) (Borough proposing to hold hosts responsible for illegal activities of party guests)
• Cepeda, et al. v. Court of Common Pleas for the County of Berks (Indigent men held in prison without legal representation)
• Scherfen et al. v. United States Department of Homeland Security et al. (Muslim couple wrongly placed on Terrorist Watch List)
• El-Ganayni v. United States Department of Energy et al (Muslim physicist's security clearance revoked for criticism of US policy)
• Doe v. Fayette County Children and Youth Services (Children removed from father improperly by CYS)