Posted June 1, 2001 on CourtTV's website:
The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a class-action suit on behalf of the Maryland NAACP and 11 minority motorists, charging that the Maryland Police uses discriminatory racial-profiling techniques in stopping drivers along Interstate 95. The NAACP and the 11 plaintiffs in the suit seek monetary damages on behalf of themselves and hundreds of other minority motorists who have been stopped and searched arbitrarily by officers searching for drug smugglers. This suit is one of the first in the nation to seek monetary damages and is the first class-action suit of its kind in Maryland.

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