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CLARKSBURG, W.Va. – The American Civil Liberties Union of West Virginia (ACLU-WV) and Teresa Toriseva of Toriseva Law in Wheeling have filed a lawsuit in Harrison County Circuit Court over the abusive treatment of a transgender high school student, and following the school system’s continued failure to follow its own policies regarding the matter.

West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey stood firmly on the wrong side of history when he filed a brief with the U.S. Supreme Court on Aug. 23 asking the court to rule against three individuals who had been fired for being LGBTQ. The three cases include the first transgender civil rights case to be heard by the high court.

Thin-skinned, technically-not-a-felon coal baron Don Blankenship has agreed to drop our client, Wonkette, from his bogus lawsuit targeting more than 100 individuals and media organizations.

ACLU of West Virginia is disturbed by media reports that town officials in Richwood have circulated a list to businesses telling them not to serve alcohol to certain named residents. 

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ACLU-WV has joined tens of thousands of voices demanding the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services abandon a proposed rule change that would allow discrimination against transgender and nonbinary people in health care.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. – The American Civil Liberties Union of West Virginia (ACLU WV) has filed a friend-of-the-court brief in a state Supreme Court case involving the rights of workers and labor organizations.

At the ACLU, our mission is not only to protect civil liberties, but to advance them. We have serious problems in West Virginia. The time for half measures is over. We need big, bold ideas if we want to live up to the ideals embodied in our state’s motto---montani semper liberi. The ACLU-WV recently unveiled three campaigns to guide our work for the next decade, focusing on Juvenile Justice Reform, Criminal Justice Reform, and Defending Democracy. These campaigns are an effort to fulfill a long-term vision in which mountaineers truly are always free.

Today, the American Civil Liberties Union of WV is unveiling three campaigns to guide our work for the next decade. With these campaigns, we aim to fundamentally change West Virginia.