A Kentucky woman filed a lawsuit today challenging the Commonwealth’s abortion bans. The case details the severe harms that Jane Doe and a class of all pregnant Kentuckians seeking abortion are enduring because the government has denied her access to the care she needs.

The American Civil Liberties Union of Kentucky and National Center for Lesbian Rights, on behalf of Kentucky parents, will ask the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a decision by the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals upholding Kentucky’s ban on medically necessary care for transgender youth.

The Kentucky Supreme Court today struck down Senate Bill 126, a change of venue law allowing any party to a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of a state law to unilaterally transfer the case from the original court to a randomly chosen court elsewhere in the state.

The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals today declined to lift the stay of the preliminary injunction in Doe v Thornbury, our case regarding medically necessary care for transgender youth in Kentucky. The ban on this care in Kentucky remains in effect.

The ACLU of Kentucky today sent a letter to Louisville Metro Deputy Mayor Nicole George urging her and Louisville Metro Government to halt the practice of clearing homeless encampments during this extreme heatwave.

The ACLU of Kentucky has reached a settlement in Thurman v Crews. The religious liberty suit was filed in April of 2022, after Mr. Carlos Thurman submitted a grievance against a Department of Corrections (DOC) policy related to dreadlocks and other natural hair styles.

The ACLU of Kentucky, National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR), and Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP today filed a motion for emergency relief in our transgender healthcare case.

A Federal Judge in Kentucky’s west district today ruled to stay the preliminary injunction in Doe v Thornbury, the case regarding medically necessary care for transgender youth in Kentucky.

On behalf of the ACLU of Kentucky, the National ACLU, Black Lives Matter Louisville, and Kentucky Equal Justice Center, attorneys from the ACLU of Kentucky and the National ACLU’s Voting Rights Project filed an amicus brief asking the KY Supreme Court to strike down House Bill 2 and Senate Bill 3.