Court Cases

The American Civil Liberties Union of Delaware works in the courts, in the state and federal legislatures, with government officials and at the grassroots level to protect and promote freedom of speech, religious freedom, racial justice, LGBT rights, women’s rights, immigrants’ rights, and more.

An African-American movie theater audience was subjected to demeaning treatment the theater had never applied to a white or mixed adult audience. More than 30 audience members filed claims with by the Delaware Human Relations Commission.

ACLU-DE began representing a Muslim inmate at Baylor Women’s Correctional Institution in a case seeking to compel the Department of Correction to provide Halal meat to Muslim inmates in the prison.