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12 Apr 2015, 9:08 pm by Lyle Denniston
Windsor, striking down a key part of a federal law that denied federal marital benefits to same-sex couples who already were married under state laws allowing such unions. [read post]
1 Mar 2015, 12:15 pm
Freedman chaired the American Civil Liberties Union of the Nation’s Capital, advised civil rights groups and was an early champion of women’s rights. [read post]
2 Dec 2014, 8:22 am by Lyle Denniston
., a law professor at the University of Michigan; he will have twenty minutes of time. [read post]
1 Dec 2014, 4:30 am by David Markus
"A statute that proscribes speech without regard to the speaker's intended meaning runs the risk of punishing protected First Amendment expression simply because it is crudely or zealously expressed," said a brief from the American Civil Liberties Union and other groups. [read post]
20 Nov 2014, 5:00 am by Maureen Johnston
American Civil Liberties Union of North Carolina 14-35Issue: Whether the government speech doctrine permits the state of North Carolina to promote its “Choose Life” message through a specialty license plate program over which it exercises complete and effective control without also offering a pro-choice specialty plate. [read post]
15 Nov 2014, 6:27 am by Julie Deisher-Edwards
[JURIST] The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) [advocacy website] filed a petition for certiorari [PDF] on behalf of same-sex couples in Ohio with the US Supreme Court [official website] on Friday asking the court to resolve a circuit split on the issue of same-sex marriage. [read post]
13 Nov 2014, 11:10 am by Tommy Eden
The state chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union filed suit alleging that Darlington Fabrics Corporation discriminated against a candidate for a paid intern position because the candidate, Christine Callaghan, disclosed that she used medical marijuana for her migraine headaches. [read post]
30 Oct 2014, 12:49 pm by Matthew R. Arnold, Esq.
” The American Civil Liberties Union released a video of Hall’s shooting this week after a presentation to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights detailing racial disparities in the criminal justice system. [read post]
1 Oct 2014, 6:59 am by Dave Maass
ComputerCOP further claims an apparently nonexistent endorsement by the American Civil Liberties Union and an expired endorsement from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. [read post]
27 Aug 2014, 5:21 pm by Susan Schneider
 All are out-of-state students, and they live and work in Colorado, Georgia, Michigan, New York, Oklahoma, Virginia, Illinois, and Washington, D.C. [read post]
Upping the Racial Profiling Ante In a recently released report, "War Comes Home," the American Civil Liberties Union (my employer) discovered that nearly 80% of all SWAT raids it reviewed between 2011 and 2012 were deployed to execute a search warrant. [read post]
10 Apr 2014, 7:00 am by Robert Chesney
Session 6: A Roundtable Discussion on the Compliance Program and Oversight Framework Moderator: Ahmed Ghappour (UT) Speakers: John DeLong (NSA, Director of Compliance), Alexander Joel (Civil Liberties Protection Officer, Office of the DNI), Margo Schlanger (University of Michigan) The compliance session continued the pattern of matching vigorous critiques with responses from key personnel from the Intelligence Community. [read post]
1 Apr 2014, 9:43 am by Scott Grabel
American Civil Liberties Union of Main Foundation legal director Zachary Heiden said that “Amendments were put in place for a reason, and prosecutors can’t just pick and choose when they apply. [read post]
30 Mar 2014, 4:00 pm by Robert Chesney
Attorney General, Office of Legal Counsel), Jennifer Daskal (American University) 3:45-4:00          Break 4:00-5:00          Session 5: The Content Collection Controversy Moderator:          Bobby Chesney (UT) Participants:        Timothy Edgar (Brown University), Jennifer Granick (Stanford University) 7:00-9:00          Dinner, Featuring a Conversation with NSA General… [read post]
13 Mar 2014, 3:20 pm by Dave Maass
EFF Represents Computer Scientists in Explaining Why “It Is Not Just Metadata”San Francisco - Representing a large group of top computer science experts and professors, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) today submitted a brief to a federal appeals court supporting the American Civil Liberties Union's lawsuit over the NSA's mass call records collection program. [read post]
4 Feb 2014, 10:15 am by Matthew L.M. Fletcher
Aguilar, NAEIP Liaison, Office of the New Mexico Secretary of State Laughlin McDonald, Director, American Civil Liberties Union, Voting Rights Project Nina Perales, Senior Attorney, Mexican-American Legal Defense Fund James T. [read post]
11 Dec 2013, 9:01 pm by Marci A. Hamilton
A recent lawsuit filed by the Americans Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) in the Eastern District of Michigan challenges those Directives on medical negligence grounds. [read post]
11 Dec 2013, 8:15 pm by Walter Olson
“The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a federal action against the U.S. [read post]