Reisner v. Catone (Challenging Office of Professional Discipline's failure to investigate and sanction Gitmo psychologist)

State Supreme Court, New York County, Index No. 10115400 (direct)

Cunningham v. New York State Department of Labor (Challenging warrantless GPS tracking of state employee's personal car)

State Supreme Court, Albany County, Index No. 8140-10 (direct) This lawsuit challenges the New York State Department of Labor’s warrantless planting of a GPS tracking device on an employee’s personal car.

Abidor v. Napolitano (Challenging DHS policy authorizing suspicionless search and siezure of travelers' electronic devices)

E.D.N.Y., Index No. CV10 - 4059 (direct) This lawsuit challenges the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) policy permitting border agents to search and seize travelers’ electronic devices at the border without reasonable suspicion.

NYCLU v. City of Saratoga Springs (Seeking access to information on the police department's use of Tasers)

State Supreme Court, Saratoga County, Index No. 09/4158 (direct) This lawsuit challenges the City of Saratoga Springs’ refusal to disclose public records concerning its Police Department’s use of Tasers.

NYCLU v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security (Seeking access to information about Lower Manhattan Security Initiative)

S.D.N.Y., Index No. 09 CV 5329 (direct) This lawsuit challenges the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s refusal to disclose public records about the massive surveillance system it is helping the NYPD develop in downtown Manhattan.

NYCLU v. New York City Police Department (Seeking access to information on Lower Manhattan Security Initiative under FOIL)

State Supreme Court, New York County, Index No. 112145-08 (direct) This case challenges the NYPD’s refusal to disclose information about its plan to create a massive surveillance network in downtown Manhattan.

Amnesty v. Blair (Challenging the FISA Amendments Act of 2008)

S.D.N.Y., Index No. 08 Civ. 6259 (direct) This case challenges the constitutionality of the FISA Amendments Act of 2008 – a law that gives the government virtually unchecked authority to intercept Americans’ international e-mails and telephone calls. The NYCLU and ACLU filed the lawsuit on behalf of a broad coalition of attorneys and human rights, labor, legal and media organizations whose ability to perform their work – which relies on confidential communications – are compromised by the new law. Most of the clients are in New York.

NYCLU v. U.S. Department of Justice (Seeking access to Operation Darkening Clouds under FOIA)

S.D.N.Y., Index No. 08 Civ. 5674 (direct) This case seeks to compel the U.S. Department of Justice to release information on “Operation Darkening Clouds,” a secret FBI data-mining program that may have targeted more than 130,000 immigrants in the lead up to the Iraq war.

NYCLU v. New York City Police Department (Seeking access to NYPD stop-and-frisk database under FOIL)

State Supreme Court, New York County, Index No. 07-115154 (direct) At issue in this case is whether the NYCLU is entitled, under the New York Freedom of Information Law (FOIL), to obtain from the New York City Police Department an electronic copy of an NYPD computer database containing information about hundreds of thousands of stops and frisk encounters between NYPD officers and members of the public.

In re Material Witness Abdallah Higazy (Challenging sealing of controversial confession related to 9/11)

S.D.N.Y., Index No. 01 Misc. 1750 (JSR) (direct) At issue in this case was whether an FBI report regarding a controversial confession that was submitted to a district court judge at the court’s instruction should have been sealed or released to the public.