Court Cases

This suit challenges the NH law which would freeze out students and other mobile domiciliaries from federal and state elections. The law would require those registering to vote to sign an affidavit agreeing that they are subject to the state’s onerous and financially burdensome residency laws.

The NH House of Representatives requested a legal opinion from the NH Supreme Court regarding the constitutionality of House Bill 112. The ACLU-NH filed a brief stating the requirements imposed are not only arbitrary and irrational but would create a financial obstacle for people entitled to vote.

ACLU-NH filed a lawsuit seeking to end the unconstitutional practice of detaining, harassing, threatening, dispersing, and citing panhandlers in violation of the First, Fourth, and Fourteenth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution.

The ACLU-NH secures the dismissal of criminal charges against a man who is homeless and charged with criminal trespassing for walking in a park adjacent to the Nashua public library, violating his First Amendment and due process rights.

This case challenges the registration requirement for those sex offenders who completed their sentence before the registry went into effect; the NH Supreme Court held that the law's retroactive, lifetime registration requirements were “punitive in effect” and therefore unconstitutional.

A man was cited for harassment and disorderly conduct by a Littleton police officer after allegedly calling a parking enforcement officer an expletive while he was in a public space; this kind of speech has been held by the U.S. Supreme Court as protected under the First Amendment.

The ACLU-NH challenged the constitutionality of the Education Tax Credit Program program which gives businesses tax deductions in exchange for donations to scholarship organizations which pay for tuition at religious and other private schools; the schools can use those funds with no state oversight.

The ACLU-NH filed an amicus brief asking the NH Supreme Court to end the practice of sentencing juveniles to life in prison without the possibility of parole ("JLWOP") and arguing that a US Supreme Court decision apply retroactively to four New Hampshire children sentenced to JLWOP.

Protestors charged with violating a curfew ordinance and criminal trespass when they set up an occupation of Veteran’s Park in Manchester appealed their case to the New Hampshire Supreme Court arguing that the application of those laws to the peaceful protest violated their rights.