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9 Oct, 2007 9:41 am
... conduct was criminal under the statute, while also arguing that the statute was unconstitutionally vague. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) submitted a brief in support of Senator
Craig's motion, arguing that under a prior decision of the Minnesota Supreme Court restricting the scope of the disorderly conduct statute on
First Amendment and Due Process grounds, "there is a very real possibility that this ...
4 Sep, 2007 11:15 pm
Below are the final top and bottom side briefs in Danforth v. Minnesota (06-8273) -- a case examining state courts' authority to expand
retroactivity of Supreme Court criminal procedure rulings -- which is scheduled for argument on October 31. Click here to read the petitioner's brief, filed by the Minnesota Public Defender's office, and here to read the respondent's brief. Click here and here for amicus briefs from the American Civil Liberties Union
and the National Association of ...
18 Jun 5:19 pm
... amicus curiae of Federal Public Defender for District Court of Oregon (in support of petitioners) Brief amicus curiae of American
Civil Liberties Union (in support of petitioners) Brief
amici curiae of Association of the Bar of the City of New York, et ... regardless of which spouse formally owned those assets when the recipient spouse died. Opinion below (Supreme
Court of Minnesota) Petition for certiorari Brief in opposition Petitioner's reply Petitioner's supplemental brief Brief amicus curiae of ...
20 Jul, 2008 1:54 pm
... restrictions for Megan's Law offenders, said state police and the American Civil Liberties Union state chapter. But it might be only a matter of time. Strict ... court ruled that the state's
Megan's Law is "pervasive and comprehensive and should be the only law governing how sex offenders are treated. Civil rights organizations like
... seem to live closer to schools or child care centers than non-recidivists. The Minnesota Department of Correction analyzed 224 sex
offenders released between 1990 and ...
26 May 1:53 pm
... Court could have disastrous consequences. 05/27/09 Volokh Conspiracy University of Minnesota law professor law professor Dale Carpenter
says that "even if he ... rights organizations: A group of gay rights and legal organizations, including the American Civil Liberties Union, GLAD and Lambda Legal [official websites], have
cautioned ... a license to discriminate against us." Opinion opposing the lawsuit 06/06/09 American Family News Network, comments by Alliance
Defense Fund attorney Austin Nimocks " ...
17 Sep, 2007 9:00 pm
... to the cops after his arrest, and then to proceed to court without a lawyer. Now, true to its best traditions, the American Civil Liberties Union has filed a friend of the court legal memorandum
urging the District Court of Hennepin County, Minnesota, to permit Mr. Craig to withdraw his guilty plea to disorderly conduct. Here and here,
the ACLU talks about why such anti-civil libertarians as Craig are as ...
2 Nov, 2008 4:50 am
... any excuses from this Miss Lou either (who is slightly younger). A List: Voter Access and Voter Protection►American Civil Liberties Union, "Voter Protection"►Federal Elections Commission,
"Help America Vote Act of 2004" (HAVA)►League ... concerns raised by African-Americans and other minorities with regard to allegations of voter suppression and intimidation)
►University of Minnesota Human Rights Law Library, "Study Guide on the International Right to Vote"The need for serious voting process reform
...
4 May, 2007 5:48 am
... are being used to create a surveillance society," said Barry Steinhardt, director of the Technology and Liberty Program at the American Civil Liberties Union.
"Even as we're creating this surveillance monster in our midst, we are not creating ... kidnapping charges for allegedly abducting a North Dakota woman from a mall in November. The
woman's body was found in April in Minnesota. Cell tower data linked Rodriguez to the missing woman. Rick Brown, an assistant Grand Forks
County state's attorney ...
23 Jan, 2007 4:02 pm
... the boilerplate complaint in the form of motions to dismiss complaint, of which we are aware, 3 in Texas, 1 in Minnesota, 1 in Arizona, and
3 in New York; my firm handled the 3 New York motions. A ... fees. Ultimately he did, awarding Ms. Foster $68,685.23. Ms. Foster's attorneys fee motion was supported by an amicus curiae
brief submitted by the American Civil Liberties
Union, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the American Association of Law Libraries, Public Citizen,
and the ACLU Foundation of ...
22 Jul 12:20 am
In American Civil Liberties Union of Minnesota v. Tarek ibn Ziyad Academy, (D MN, July 21, 2009), a Minnesota federal district court held that plaintiff has taxpayer standing to challenge as an Establishment Clause violation the funding of a charter school
by the state of Minnesota. Plaintiff alleges that the Tarek ibn Ziyad Academy advances the Muslim religion and fosters entanglement between
government and religion. The court rejected defendants' argument that under the U.S. ...
22 Apr, 2008 2:29 pm
... in our lives was in June, 1985, when Lois Bentz, accused with her husband, Robert, of sexually abusing children in Jordan, Minnesota, was
told by her attorney about a very attractive plea bargain. With tears running down her face, Lois said to us, "I ... , DC: National Prison Project. The Rights of Prisoners Handbook ().
125 Broad Street, New York, New York: American Civil Liberties Union. Yant, M. (1991). Presumed Guilty: When Innocent People Are Wrongly Convicted (). New York:
Prometheus Books. ...
30 Jun, 2008 4:08 am
... Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and the Louisiana Public Defenders Association in Support of Petitioner Brief for the American
Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Louisiana, and the NAACP
Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., in Support ... Sexual Violence; the Louisiana Foundation Against Sexual Assault; the Texas Association Against Sexual Assault; and the
Minnesota Coalition Against Sexual Assault in Support of Petitioner Brief for Texas, Alabama, Colorado, Idaho, Mississippi, Missouri ...
6 Sep, 2008 1:49 am
... bus stop limitation, the church provision is in place. Last fall, the Southern Center for Human Rights and the American Civil Liberties Union asked a court to prevent nine elderly and severely
disabled offenders who lived within 1, ... people can live in] fairly quickly." Nancy Sabin is the executive director of the Jacob Wetterling Foundation, named for a Minnesota boy who was abducted at gunpoint in 1989 and never heard from again. The foundation spearheads preventive education programs aimed at ...
16 Jan, 2008 1:03 am
... private - Yahoo! News ST. PAUL, Minn. - In an effort to help Sen. Larry Craig, the American Civil
Liberties Union is arguing that people who have sex in public bathrooms have an expectation of
privacy. Craig, of Idaho, is asking the Minnesota Court of Appeals to let him withdraw his guilty plea to disorderly conduct stemming from a
bathroom sex sting at the Minneapolis airport. The ACLU filed a brief Tuesday ...
17 Jan, 2008 7:00 pm
Sex in Restroom Stalls is Private, ACLU Says ST. PAUL, Minnesota (AP) - In a legal effort to help a U.S. senator, the American Civil Liberties Union
is arguing that people who have sex in public bathrooms have an expectation of privacy. Republican Senator Larry Craig is asking the Minnesota
Court of Appeals to let him withdraw his guilty plea to disorderly conduct related to a bathroom sex sting at the Minneapolis airport last year. [more] Thanks for clearing that up.
30 Jan, 2008 7:13 pm
... listings of sex offenders not only to aid its investigations but also to protect citizens. After the initial success of Minnesota's Sex
Offender Registration Act, the nation as a whole has worked to continuously improve a detailed, national registry ... psychological effects on the offenders themselves, and have
garnered much attention from civil rights groups. Such groups, especially the American
Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), have recently been concerned
with the recent, localized implementation ...
1 Sep, 2008 4:30 am
... - For Labor Day, a protest march was planned, with organizers expecting tens of thousands of participants. - TwinCities.com reports: "The American Civil Liberties Union
and the National Lawyers Guild filed motions in Ramsey and Hennepin district courts Sunday, seeking the ... return of some of the 'First Amendment-protected literature' that had been
seized, said Chuck Samuelson, ACLU of Minnesota executive director. There were fliers and banners taken in the searches, mostly from a St. Paul
center ...
2 Dec, 2008 6:29 pm
... listings of sex offenders not only to aid its investigations but also to protect citizens. After the initial success of Minnesota's Sex
Offender Registration Act, the nation as a whole has worked to continuously improve a detailed, national registry ... psychological effects on the offenders themselves, and have
garnered much attention from civil rights groups. Such groups, especially the American
Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), have recently been concerned
with the recent, localized implementation ...
6 Dec, 2008 4:47 am
... , abducted at age 11 while riding his bike near the family's Minnesota home. But although she is well aware that statistics show sexual
assault is ... live within 300 feet of a school. The law has drawn sharp criticism from the American Civil Liberties Union, and some Rhode Island police chiefs have also ... ,
Wetterling, a former math teacher who now serves as director of sexual violence prevention for the Minnesota Department of Health, said she
came to Rhode Island to "talk about hope." "The topic of ...
9 Dec, 2008 5:43 pm
In an unpublished opinion issued earlier today, a panel of the Minnesota Court of Appeals turned away dual challenges to the August 2007
conviction of U.S. Senator Larry Craig (R - Idaho) on charges of disorderly conduct ... both Senator Craig's request to withdraw his earlier guilty plea as well as the Senator's and the
American Civil Liberties Union's challenges to the constitutionality of Minnesota's disorderly conduct statute. On the constitutional claims,
the panel "assume[d] without deciding" ...
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