This type of speech raises public forum issues that have been recognized by the United States Supreme Court. An ACLU cooperating attorney is investigating this request for assistance. A client was terminated from his position as a volunteer for the Elsmere Fire Department because of his association with the Pagan Motorcycle Club. The Sussex County Council, after passing a resolution to place the Ten Commandments on the wall of the Council Chamber, has in fact done so. Our efforts to have the County Council voluntarily remove the plaque have not been successful.
Legal action is anticipated.
A group of now-elderly men have been meeting for years for coffee and conversation on a Wilmington street corner with no interference from the Wilmington Police. Recently, one officer began harassing them and cited them under the Loitering ordinance. After an ACLU cooperating attorney intervened, the charges were dropped. A client has been charged with disorderly conduct for using an obscenity in a dispute with a person at a neighboring business. With an ACLU cooperating attorney's assistance, the case was resolved to the client's satisfaction.