Our legal team is constantly working on critical cases across the state. Below, you can find some of the cases we have been a part of.
This lawsuit challenges a policy of the El Paso County Jail that unjustly and unconstitutionally requires pretrial detainees who are granted release on personal recognizance to be held in jail if they are...
This lawsuit charges two Aurora police officers with racial profiling for forcibly removing Omar Hassan, a Black man, from an Aurora coffee shop. He had done nothing wrong. ...
Colorado law requires that newly arrested detainees be taken “without unreasonable delay” to the nearest county court judge, who can set bond. County jails commonly fail to follow that law,...
In a groundbreaking ruling issued in 2017, federal district judge Richard Matsch declared that the Colorado statute requiring lifetime sex offender registry imposed cruel and unusual punishment...
This class action lawsuit, filed in 2017, challenges the Colorado Department of Corrections’ systematic denial of life-saving treatment to more than 2,200 prisoners suffering from chronic Hepatitis C....
In May, 2007, four ACLU clients who live at the Suites, a Longmont public housing complex, endured unconstitutional warrantless searches of their homes. The illegal searches were carried out by...