Our client is a prisoner at Florence McClure Women's Correctional Facility in Southern Nevada. She was sexually abused by a prison chaplain, Donald Burse, on two...
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Feb 16, 2024
McAllister v. Clark County
First Amendment
Status: Filed
We're challenging Clark County's pedestrian flow zone ordinance for its vague language that allows LVMPD to selectively enforce and, in effect, selectively target people. Our client uses a manual wheelchair...
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Jan 12, 2024
Jones v. LVMPD
Smart Justice
Status: Filed
The Clark County Detention Center (CCDC) is the largest jail in Nevada, housing thousands of people every year. The ACLU of Nevada has been investigating the treatment of people who are deaf and detained at...
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Aug 29, 2023
Silver State Hope Fund vs. Nevada Department of Health and Human Services
Health Equity
Status: Victory!
The ACLU of Nevada filed a lawsuit challenging Nevada's ban on Medicaid coverage for abortion, which discriminates against women and people who can become pregnant based on their sex in violation of the...
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Aug 11, 2023
Ramsay v. State of Nevada
First Amendment
Status: In State Supreme Court
A Clark County court is banning people from the “Resort Corridor,” an expansive geographical area defined by Clark County ordinances, as a condition of probation without explanation or analysis for why this...
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May 30, 2023
Nevada Board of Parole Commissioners v. Valentine
Smart Justice
Status: Dismissed
In this joint filing by the ACLU of Nevada and Nevada Attorneys for Criminal Justice, we argue that the state can't make it harder for people working toward rehabilitation to reenter society by imposing...