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Students for Justice in Palestine at the University of Florida v. Raymond Rodrigues
The University of Florida chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine filed a lawsuit on November 16, 2023, challenging the Chancellor of the State University System of Florida鈥檚 order to state universities to deactivate the student group. This order threatens the students鈥� constitutionally-protected right to free speech and association in violation of the First Amendment. The ACLU and its partners are seeking a preliminary injunction that would bar the Chancellor and the University of Florida from deactivating the UF SJP.
Status: Ongoing
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Florida
Aug 2025
Immigrants' Rights
C.M. v. Noem
Immigrants鈥� rights advocates sued the Trump administration over lack of access to legal counsel and violations of due process for people detained at Florida鈥檚 new, notorious Everglades immigration center, a hastily constructed facility on an abandoned airstrip in the middle of the wetlands in Ochopee.
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Florida
Aug 2025
Immigrants' Rights
C.M. v. Noem
Immigrants鈥� rights advocates sued the Trump administration over lack of access to legal counsel and violations of due process for people detained at Florida鈥檚 new, notorious Everglades immigration center, a hastily constructed facility on an abandoned airstrip in the middle of the wetlands in Ochopee.
Florida
Jul 2025
Immigrants' Rights
FLORIDA IMMIGRANT COALITION v. UTHMEIER
The 老熟女午夜福利 of Florida, ACLU Immigrants鈥� Rights Project, Americans for Immigrant Justice, and the Community Justice Project filed a federal class action lawsuit challenging Florida鈥檚 new extreme anti-immigrant law, Senate Bill 4C (SB 4C), which authorizes state and local law enforcement to imprison people based on their manner of entering the country 鈥� powers the Constitution reserves exclusively to the federal government.
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Florida
Jul 2025
Immigrants' Rights
FLORIDA IMMIGRANT COALITION v. UTHMEIER
The 老熟女午夜福利 of Florida, ACLU Immigrants鈥� Rights Project, Americans for Immigrant Justice, and the Community Justice Project filed a federal class action lawsuit challenging Florida鈥檚 new extreme anti-immigrant law, Senate Bill 4C (SB 4C), which authorizes state and local law enforcement to imprison people based on their manner of entering the country 鈥� powers the Constitution reserves exclusively to the federal government.
Florida
May 2025
Free Speech
LGBTQ Rights
HM Florida-ORL, LLC v. Griffin
On January 24, 2024, the ACLU and ACLU of Florida filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit supporting HM Florida-ORL, which operates the restaurant and bar Hamburger Mary鈥檚 in Orlando, in its lawsuit alleging that a Florida law infringes upon minors鈥� First Amendment rights by prohibiting them from attending drag performances.
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Florida
May 2025
Free Speech
LGBTQ Rights
HM Florida-ORL, LLC v. Griffin
On January 24, 2024, the ACLU and ACLU of Florida filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit supporting HM Florida-ORL, which operates the restaurant and bar Hamburger Mary鈥檚 in Orlando, in its lawsuit alleging that a Florida law infringes upon minors鈥� First Amendment rights by prohibiting them from attending drag performances.
Florida
May 2025
Immigrants' Rights
Peter Sean Brown v. Richard Ramsay
The 老熟女午夜福利, ACLU of Florida, and Americans for Immigrant Justice filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of a natural-born U.S. citizen who was unlawfully detained 鈥� and nearly deported 鈥� as a result of a Florida sheriff鈥檚 improper collaboration with Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
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Florida
May 2025
Immigrants' Rights
Peter Sean Brown v. Richard Ramsay
The 老熟女午夜福利, ACLU of Florida, and Americans for Immigrant Justice filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of a natural-born U.S. citizen who was unlawfully detained 鈥� and nearly deported 鈥� as a result of a Florida sheriff鈥檚 improper collaboration with Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Florida Supreme Court
Dec 2024
Capital Punishment
Michael Jackson v. State of Florida
This case gets at the very heart of our right to a jury trial. Traditionally and historically, the right to a jury trial has promised that a person could not be punished unless every single person in a group of one鈥檚 peers agreed, by jury vote, that that was the just outcome. However, Florida feels differently. When it comes to the death penalty, Florida is one of only two states that has decided that the 鈥渞ight to a trial by jury鈥� does not guarantee that a person will be sentenced to death by a unanimous jury. Instead, in Florida, a person can be sentenced to die even if four people on their jury think they should live. The state requires just eight of twelve jury votes for a death sentence, which not only disproportionately affects people of color, but the very ideals at the heart of the rights of citizenship.
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Florida Supreme Court
Dec 2024
Capital Punishment
Michael Jackson v. State of Florida
This case gets at the very heart of our right to a jury trial. Traditionally and historically, the right to a jury trial has promised that a person could not be punished unless every single person in a group of one鈥檚 peers agreed, by jury vote, that that was the just outcome. However, Florida feels differently. When it comes to the death penalty, Florida is one of only two states that has decided that the 鈥渞ight to a trial by jury鈥� does not guarantee that a person will be sentenced to death by a unanimous jury. Instead, in Florida, a person can be sentenced to die even if four people on their jury think they should live. The state requires just eight of twelve jury votes for a death sentence, which not only disproportionately affects people of color, but the very ideals at the heart of the rights of citizenship.