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20 Mar 2019, 11:29 am
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Pennsylvania filed a new complaint against the Pennsylvania Department of Human Services (DHS) Tuesday over the jailing of mentally ill individuals. [read post]
22 Feb 2019, 1:11 pm
The American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania (ACLU-PA) said Friday that it is nearing a settlement in a federal lawsuit challenging a controversial Pennsylvania Department of Corrections (DOC) mail policy in which photocopies of incoming mail be delivered to inmates instead of the original copies, which were stored. [read post]
7 Feb 2019, 9:17 am
Long before the elections of 2016, the American Republic had been moving toward more formal and open hostilities in the cultural civil war, one with social, economic, cultural and political consequences, that was one of the great consequences of the immediate post 1945 period. [read post]
4 Feb 2019, 8:00 am
We are working with the American Civil Liberties Union to discourage the Supreme Court from taking up the case. [read post]
27 Jan 2019, 9:30 pm
Louise Melling, deputy legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union, argued that the Trump Administration policy represented “a chilling return to the days when the government treated women’s sexuality, and thus contraception, as immoral, perpetuating harmful stereotypes that have long been used to discriminate against women. [read post]
13 Dec 2018, 2:22 am
American Civil Liberties Union, the Court said in a 5-4 decision that of two public-sponsored holiday displays in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, only one was permissible. [read post]
11 Dec 2018, 7:07 am
Fox Professor of Practice and Senior Resident Fellow of the Program for Research on Religion at the University of Pennsylvania. [read post]
31 Oct 2018, 7:26 am
The American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania (ACLU-PA) filed a lawsuit against the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections (DOC) on Tuesday over a new policy that requires that only photocopies of incoming mail be delivered to inmates instead of the original copies. [read post]
12 Oct 2018, 5:49 am
Critics with the American Civil Liberties Union and the Defender Association of Philadelphia claim that the proposed Pennsylvania criminal sentencing algorithm cannot accurately predict the risk of recidivism in criminal offenders, and even worse expresses the same racial biases as some human judges. [read post]
12 Sep 2018, 1:48 pm
Advocates of strengthening democracy through an Article V convention insist that this country’s problems are so severe that we must take the risk that a convention poses to civil rights and civil liberties. [read post]
2 Aug 2018, 9:30 pm
The American Civil Liberties Union and other civil rights groups filed a class action against Trump Administration officials over “punitive and inhumane” conditions in a California prison that detained immigrants and refugees must endure. [read post]
23 Jul 2018, 5:03 am
According to a report from American Civil Liberties Union, a man was run over by a bulldozer recently during a pursuit, after the man was allegedly caught growing a whopping 10 plants on state gaming property. [read post]
22 Jul 2018, 9:30 pm
In 2007, the American Civil Liberties Union, the Stanford Law School Immigrants’ Rights Clinic, and the law firm Sidley Austin challenged the practice of prolonged detention in two class action cases—Garcia v. [read post]
21 Jul 2018, 3:00 am
The American Civil Liberties Union soon sought to challenge the law in court. [read post]
16 Jul 2018, 9:45 am
In 1996, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) sued the office on behalf of defendants who were not given constitutionally adequate representation. [read post]
2 Jul 2018, 11:38 am
American Civil Liberties Union, which struck down key provisions of the Communications Decency Act of 1996, which restricted “indecent” speech over the internet. [read post]
28 Jun 2018, 3:10 am
” The women’s rights lawyer who wrote the question that way, Kathryn Kolbert of the American Civil Liberties Union, told the press at that time that she worded the issue to test the Justices’ reaction to arguments then being made that the Court had already undercut Roe’s meaning. [read post]
11 Jun 2018, 3:23 am
It took the Civil War, the bloodiest war in American history, for Lincoln to begin to make Jefferson’s vision of equality a constitutional reality. [read post]
22 May 2018, 10:01 pm
American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania, 2018 WL 2272597 (Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania, May 18, 2018) About the Author: Evan Brown is a Chicago technology and intellectual property attorney. [read post]
10 May 2018, 4:12 am
Note: This is an experimental* guest post by one of my favorite criminal law journalists, Christopher Moraff, who writes on the intersection of policing, criminal justice, drug policy and civil liberties. [read post]
