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Aug 15, 2025
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ACLU of Nevada v. Department of Motor Vehicles

We’re suing the Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) for violating Nevada’s public records laws by refusing to release records related to their communications with ICE.
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Jul 09, 2025
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ACLU of Nevada v. LVMPD

We are suing the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department to get public records about the full extent of its involvement with federal immigration enforcement.
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Apr 19, 2023
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ACLU of Nevada v. Clark County School District

In February, Durango High School students were attacked by CCSD police, and video of the incident was captured by a bystander. CCSD continues to stonewall the release of public records related to the incident. The ACLU of Nevada is representing two of the students attacked in the incident.

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Aug 27, 2015
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Duncan v. Nevada

The lawsuit, filed on behalf of a group of parents, clergy, and other taxpayers, sought to prevent the state from diverting taxpayer dollars to primarily religious private schools. There were no restrictions on how participating schools, a majority of which are religious, could use the money: Many of the schools eligible to participate in the program use thoroughly religious curricula and textbooks; many require students, parents, or employees to be of a certain faith, attend a certain church, or sign pledges of faith; many of the schools also discriminate against LGBT students or employees and those who have had an abortion; and at least one school eligible to participate in the program uses corporal punishment to discipline students. We filed suit in District Court for Clark County, Nevada, in August 2015, arguing that the voucher program violated the Nevada Constitution’s prohibition on the use of public funds for any sectarian purpose and the state constitutional guarantee of a uniform system of common schools. The district court judge granted the state’s motion to dismiss and we appealed. In September 2016, the Nevada Supreme Court struck down the voucher program, holding that the legislature’s mechanism for funding the program violated the state constitution.