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Nov 22, 2017

Doe v. Gossage (2006)

Youth Rights
Status: Won

Filed a lawsuit on behalf of a graduating Russell County High School senior who objected to the prayer planned for his public high school graduation ceremony. 

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Nov 22, 2017

Meredith v. Jefferson County Board of Education (2006)

Youth Rights

The ACLU of Kentucky filed a brief at the Sixth Circuit in support of the decades-old school desegragation plan in Jefferson County. Although federal courts ended their supervision of the...

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Nov 22, 2017

Attorney General v. State Board of Election (2006)

Voting Rights
Status: Won

Thirty five days before the May 2006 primary, Kentucky election officals purged 8,105 Kentuckian voters from the list of eligible voters. The Attorney General filed suit shortly afterwards alleging...

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Nov 21, 2017

Boyd County High School Gay - Straight Alliance v. Board of Education of Boyd County (2005)

LGBTQ+ Equality
Status: Active

In a previous 2003 legislation case regarding the Boyd County Gay-Straight Alliance, anti - harassment trainings became mandatory for all middle and high school students, faculty, and staff....

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Nov 21, 2017

Morrison v. Board of Education of Boyd County (2005)

LGBTQ+ Equality

The ALCU of Kentucky, in conjuction with the national ACLU Lesbian and Gay Rights Project, has intervened on behalf of students who were parties of the original Consent Decree, as well as the parent...

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Wooden gavel
Nov 21, 2017

Jewell, et al. v. Purcell, et al. (2005)

Youth Rights

The ACLU of Kentucky is representing a Daviess County student who has been refused the right to wear a t - shirt to school bearing a picture of an antique tractor with a Confederate flag in the...

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