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29 Jul, 2007 10:51 am
... that the Supreme Court's June 28th rulings involved two school districts, Seattle, Washington, and Louisville, Kentucky. Today Chris
Kenning and Andrew Wolfson of the Louisville Courier Journal have a story headlined "Lawyer in schools ... , for example, the Dover School District in Pennsylvania was forced to pay $1
million in legal fees to the American Civil Liberties
Union and the Americans United for Separation of Church and State, which successfully represented parents who sued the district for ...
25 Sep, 2007 6:30 am
... legal costs," from July 2, 2007, and Sept. 8, 2007. See "Lawyer in Kentucky schools case seeks fees, bonus" from July 29, 2007, and today's
... Ted Gordon filed a request yesterday in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky in Louisville that includes $228,022 in
fees and court costs and a $521,977 ... District in Pennsylvania was forced to pay $1 million in legal fees to the American Civil Liberties Union and the Americans United for Separation of
Church and State, which successfully ...
18 Sep, 2008 2:55 pm
... Commandments could cost two Southern Kentucky counties nearly $400,000. In a motion filed this week, attorneys with the American Civil Liberties Union
of Kentucky requested fees of $390,588 for representing people who challenged the displays in the halls of the ... its request for an
injunction barring the displays. Congress approved rules decades ago under which the losers in civil-rights cases must pay the legal fees of
the winners. The goal was to make it possible for citizens and attorneys to ...
19 Sep, 2008 3:03 pm
... gays are forbidden by both statute and Kentucky's constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage," here is an AP story from the 17th,
including this quote: A lawyer with the American Civil Liberties Union said the ruling hurts children. "It's ... trans. denied 11/25/05. See also this editorial from the
Louisville Courier Journal, dated Sept. 17th: The recent ruling by the Kentucky Court of Appeals, regarding the laws of gay adoption, was both
technically correct and a stark reminder of the lack ...
13 Nov, 2008 9:48 pm
... - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT), and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) urged a Kentucky Court of Appeals Wednesday to vacate a lower court's order authorizing the seizure of ... domain names, threatens free speech across the Internet. In
a move to combat what it viewed as illegal online gambling, the Commonwealth of Kentucky convinced a state court to "seize" 141 domain names
because the names allegedly constituted "gambling devices" ...
20 Apr 10:24 am
... Frontier Foundation (EFF), the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT), and the American Civil
Liberties Union of Kentucky (ACLU of Kentucky) on Friday urged the Kentucky Supreme Court to uphold an appeals court ruling that blocked state officials
... of over 100 overseas Internet domain names accused of violating state gambling laws. The case began in September when the commonwealth of Kentucky convinced a state court judge to order the seizure of 141 domain names, claiming that the names were " ...
20 Sep, 2007 2:39 am
A Kentucky federal district court this week upheld the constitutionality of a display of the Ten Commandments as part of a "Foundations of
American Law and government" display in the Rowan County (KY) Fiscal Courtroom. The "Foundations" display was authorized by the ... an earlier
posting of the 10 Commandments among 17 other miscellaneous documents. In American Civil
Liberties Union of Kentucky v. Rowan County,
Kentucky, (ED KY, Sept. 17, 2007), the court concluded that "plaintiffs have failed to ...
20 Sep, 2007 10:50 am
[JURIST] A display featuring the Ten Commandments in a Kentucky courthouse passes constitutional muster because it does not promote religion, a
federal judge held in a ruling released Wednesday. Judge Karl Forester of the Eastern District Court of Kentucky [official website] ruled
against a lawsuit [ACLU backgrounder] brought by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Kentucky [advocacy
15 Nov, 2008 8:36 pm
... state-required safety emblems on their horse-drawn buggies. The men were convicted in Graves District Court in Western Kentucky late Friday
night following an all-day trial. The men are members of the Swartzentruber Amish sect, who do not believe ... as tractors and buggies. "They were certainly disappointed," said their
attorney, William Sharp of the American Civil Liberties
Union of Kentucky, in an interview yesterday. "But they also knew this is just the beginning, because
we will be appealing ...
24 Jan, 2008 2:37 pm
... the State of the Union address from the Senate floor. The Intel committee bill expands the government's wiretapping authority and gives
immunity to the telecoms that helped the government secretly spy on Americans without getting the warrants ... Democracy and Technology's Greg Nojeim described the move for
cloture as a way for the Administration to pass the measure without civil liberties amendments, many
of which were being pulled piecemeal from the Judiciary committee version of the bill that ...
10 Jul, 2008 4:16 am
... ). He gratefully acknowledges the assistance of Henry Schwarzschild, Director Emeritus of the ACLU Capital Punishment Project. The American
Civil Liberties Union holds that the death penalty
inherently violates the constitutional ban against cruel and unusual punishment ... of them offering cut-rate prices."(43) Public executions were common in this country during the 19th
century; one of the last was in 1936 in Kentucky, when 20,000 people gathered to watch a young African-American male hanged.(44) ...
16 Oct, 2007 12:40 am
... states have modified lethal-injection protocols to address concerns raised in lawsuits. The case before the Supreme Court originated in Kentucky, where inmates Ralph Baze and Thomas C. Bowling, both convicted of double murders, challenged the state's ... and asked to die rather than live on
death row. The appeal that halted the lethal injection was filed by the American Civil
Liberties Union on behalf of those who witness executions and argued that the paralytic effect of the
pancuronium bromide ...
16 Oct, 2007 7:49 am
... because the constitutionality of lethal injection is currently "in legal limbo." That court agreed Sept. 25 to hear arguments in a Kentucky
case to resolve whether current protocols for lethal injection are unconstitutionally cruel. She asked for a writ ... and asked to die rather than live on death row. The appeal that
halted the lethal injection was filed by the American Civil Liberties Union on behalf of those who witness executions and argued that the paralytic effect of the pancuronium
bromide ...
8 Apr, 2008 5:23 am
... the state's procedure for executions doesn't protect against that happening, according to an expert witness hired by the American
Civil Liberties Union of Ohio. "The way lethal injection is
being done in Ohio does not comport with what is being done ... , an anesthesiologist at the University of Massachusetts Medical School who will testify for prosecutors today, testified
in a similar case in Kentucky filed by two death row inmates. That case was heard in January by the U.S. Supreme Court, which is ...
16 Apr, 2008 2:54 am
... penalty States keep their protocols secret, acomprehensive survey of other States' practices is not available. See Brief for American
Civil Liberties Union et al. as Amici Curiae 6-12. BAZE v.
REES GINSBURG, J., dissenting ... drugs too fast. "The easiest and most obvious way to ensure that an inmate is unconscious during an execution," petitionersargued to the
Kentucky Supreme Court, "is to check forconsciousness prior to injecting pancuronium [bromide]." Brief for Appellants in No. 2005-SC-00543, ...
16 Oct, 2007 12:49 am
... could find it a cruel and unusual punishment. The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Sept. 25 to take a hard look at the method of lethal injection most states use. The high court will hear
a challenge early next year from two inmates in Kentucky who claim that lethal injection as practiced by that state amounts to cruel and
unusual punishment, in violation of the Eighth Amendment. One of the issues raised by the ACLU in the emergency hearing before the Supreme Court is whether one of the three drugs ...
13 Dec, 2007 10:15 am
... a secret the state wants to keep for security reasons. Jeff Gamso, legal director for the Ohio chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union who also is representing Rivera and McCloud, said
the names of team members weren't included in ... out quickly and painlessly,'' he said. ''That is what is under litigation here.'' With the U.S. Supreme Court to consider the
constitutionality of Kentucky's lethal injection procedures, Ohio executions could be halted for some time. Collins would not say whether ...
8 Apr, 2008 8:34 am
... and the state's procedure for executions doesn't protect against that happening, according to an expert witness hired by the American
Civil Liberties Union of Ohio. "The way lethal injection is
being done in Ohio does not comport with what is being done for ... the procedure. Lethal injections are on hold nationally while the U.S. Supreme Court considers a challenge in a case
from Kentucky, which is among the roughly three dozen states, like Ohio, that administer three drugs in succession to sedate, ...
6 Sep, 2008 9:30 pm
Friday's Lexington (KY) Herald-Leader reports that the American Civil Liberties Union of Kentucky this week filed a petition in federal court
seeking from the losing defendants attorneys fees of $390,588 and expenses of $8, ... is conservative because it does not seek fees for work done by most of the attorneys other than the
lead attorney on the case. Matthew Staver of Liberty Counsel, representing the counties, says the fees are too high and, in any event, should not be awarded because the case is
...
4 Sep 2:48 pm
... put it: "The corporate form is not a constitutional basis for banning core speech." Sen. Mitch McConnell, Kentucky Republic who leads the
GOP in the Senate, who will have a lawyer sharing in Wednesday's argument, argued that "recent campaign ... First Amendment principles inside out." The collection on that side of the
case is polyglot, ranging from the National Rifle Association to the American Civil Liberties Union. Some are there to plead their own causes, including several who urge the Court to ...
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