Litigation

Moss v. Secret Service

ACLU Lawsuit Challenges Secret Service, Local Police Case Tied to 2004 Anti-Bush Demonstration

On August 4, 2010, U.S. Magistrate Judge Mark Clarke issued his Report and Recommendations in Moss et al. v. U.S. Secret Service et al. In this class action suit the ACLU represents individuals and groups that protested outside the Jacksonville Inn on Oct. 14, 2004, while President Bush was dining at the inn.

Hadland v. City of Sweet Home

ACLU Challenges Impoundment of Man's SUV for Someone Else's Driving

July 13, 2009 - The ACLU is representing Wayne Hadland in his suit against the City of Sweet Home to get relief from the improper impoundment of his vehicle.

Volkart v. City of Medford

July 2009 - Circuit Court Judge Rules Panhandling Ordinances Unconstitutional

City of Ashland's Watch List

June 22, 2006 - The American Civil Liberties Union, today, in a letter from the Southern Oregon Chapter of the ACLU of Oregon, told Ashland Mayor John Morrison and the City Council that it had “grave concerns about the Ashland Police Department’s development and uses of a ‘Watch List’ of 24 downtown persons regarded as ‘nuisances,’” and about the Department distributing the list to the Chamber of Commerce.