The ACLU of Oklahoma is committed to fight for freedom and the protection of constitutional rights for generations to come. The ACLU accepts cases regarding principles of individual freedom, protection against arbitrary government action, freedom of religion, freedom of speech and press, due process of law, equal protection, and privacy.
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The ACLU of Oklahoma legal team joined lead counsel, Jacob Diesselhorst with Maples, Nix & Diesselhorst, PLLC in yesterday's filing at the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals challenging the application of qualified immunity in Redd v. City of Oklahoma City, et al.
We are challenging the unconstitutional, wealth-based system of pre-trial detention and the lack of accommodation for people with disabilities in Canadian County.
We are working to free people with death sentences from automatic and indefinite solitary confinement and to reinstate their right to group religious services.
We are now representing Julie Eldredge, a groundbreaking plaintiff in same-sex parental rights, in responding to an appeal by her ex-partner, whose attempt to subvert Eldredge’s rights through an adoption was denied by the district court (the opposite outcome as Fleming).
Following district court actions denying equal parental rights to non-biological parents in same-sex families, the ACLU of Oklahoma had three related appeals before the Oklahoma Supreme Court. ACLU's clients won all three of these in unanimous rulings.
The McCraw case is about freedom of speech for Oklahomans. In reaction to complaints about panhandlers, the Oklahoma City City Council passed an ordinance prohibiting virtually all activity on medians. The ordinance a superficial reaction to the problem of poverty and an affront to speech rights.