Check out the latest news on ACLU-TN’s efforts to protect and promote civil liberties and civil rights in Tennessee.
A federal judge has issued modifications to a 1978 court order that prohibited the Memphis government from monitoring the constitutionally-protected political activities of residents.
We joined with partners to file an amended lawsuit asking for immediate relief to protect people in the Shelby County Jail from widespread infection, serious injury and death from COVID-19.
In a victory for religious freedom, a federal district court issued a permanent injunction late yesterday prohibiting the Smith County School System from unconstitutionally imposing religion on students.
The city of Mt. Juliet today abandoned its efforts to ban the provision of procedural abortion care within the city limits following an ACLU lawsuit.
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Tennessee abortion providers filed a lawsuit today challenging a requirement that forces doctors to provide false and misleading information to their patients about the potential to “reverse” a medication abortion.
ACLU-TN's statement on new Tennessee law targeting protesters
A federal judge today denied the emergency release of medically vulnerable people, including people with disabilities, detained at the Shelby County jail who are at high risk of severe injury or death from COVID-19.
Under a Tennessee Supreme Court decision issued today, the state must permit every eligible voter with an underlying health condition that makes them especially vulnerable to COVID-19 — and any voter who is a caretaker of such individuals — to vote by mail in all elections in 2020 due to COVID-19.
Tennessee’s law banning abortion at nearly every stage of pregnancy is blocked while litigation continues.
