ACLU of Vermont Wins Suit Against Residency Restriction
The Washington Superior Court has granted judgment to Christopher Hagan in his lawsuit against the City of Barre, striking the city’s residency restriction ordinance that barred individuals with...
View ArticleGovernment Accountable To All
In mid-October, the ACLU of Vermont filed suit against the Vermont Department of Public Safety to force it to remove an individual listed on the public sex offender registry who should not have been...
View ArticleACLU-Vt Sues on Behalf of Arrested Protesters
MONTPELIER – The American Civil Liberties Union of Vermont has filed suit against the Brattleboro police officers who arrested four individuals for silently holding signs during a speech given by...
View ArticleSchool No-Trespass Order Against Parent Challenged
The ACLU-VT has filed suit on behalf of a parent who has been forbidden to attend school board meetings, drop his child off at school, or attend his child’s concerts, plays, and games. In 2010, Benson...
View ArticleCourt Rules Town Meeting Cannot Include Prayer
A Vermont superior court has ruled in favor of a Franklin woman who challenged her town’s inclusion of prayer in town meeting proceedings. Marilyn Hackett brought suit against the Town of Franklin last...
View ArticleCommon Denominator: Police Brutality
Vermont law enforcement was punched twice last week with lawsuits alleging excessive force, illegal detention, negligent training, racial profiling, and malicious, wanton, willful, and outrageous...
View ArticleBig Public Records Win
Two years after the arrest of an African-American man in his own home, the ACLU-VT has won Anne Galloway of the investigative online news site VtDigger.org the right to access information for a story...
View ArticleHalt To Discrimination At Inn
A Vermont inn will pay a fine of $10,000 and will place $20,000 in a charitable trust as part of a settlement in a lawsuit brought by a lesbian couple who were told the inn wouldn’t host their wedding...
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Vermont Supreme Court OK’s Limits on Electronic Searches The Vermont Supreme Court gave electronic privacy a big boost Friday when it approved restrictions placed upon police when conducting searches...
View ArticleSupreme Court Takes Pass on Vt. Warrant Case
The United States Supreme Court has declined to hear prosecutors’ appeal of a 2012 Vermont ruling clarifying that judges may limit search warrants to protect privacy. We’re pleased that the state...
View ArticleVictory In Bogus Traffic Stop Case
Motorist Rod MacIver and the town of Shelburne have agreed to settle MacIver’s case against police officer Jason Lawton on terms that take police oversight one step closer to reality for all...
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