These two cases contain the consolidated appeals of nine seperate Graves County Amish men from their criminal convictions for refusing to display slow-moving emblems (fluorescent yellow-orange triangles) on their horse-drawn buggies.
The ACLU of Kentucky, in conjuction with cooperating attorneys, filed this lawsuit challenging on equal protection grounds Kentucky's prohibition on obtaining a Concealed Deadly Weapon Permit on the basis of alienage.
The ACLU filed suit against Breckinridge County Middle School as they began implementing single-sex classes under the guise of Title IX without notifying parents or providing them an oppurutnity to "opt-out" with co - ed classes.
In cooperation with the national ACLU's Reproductive Freedom Project, the ACLU of Kentucy filed a brief against the Commonwealth as they sought to pursue criminal charges against a pregnant woman for creating a risk of injury to her fetus by ingesting illicit drugs.
The ACLU of Kentucky and the Louisville Metro Public Defender's office represented a Kentucky death row inmate in an 8th Amendment challenge to Kentucky's lethal injection protocol.
A convicted sex-offender who suffered from a dimished mental capacity moved into a nursing home within 1000' of the local high school's parking lot. Even though the patient posed no risk to public safety, he was discharged from the home despite being an "ideal patient".