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10 May 2018, 4:12 am by SHG
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]
9 May 2018, 9:01 pm by Marci A. Hamilton
Yet, the lineup of the powerful to defeat modest SOL reform is stunning: the “American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the Michigan Chamber of Commerce, universities and municipal groups, doctors, religious organizations and groups that work with children. [read post]
18 Apr 2018, 10:01 am by Akira Tomlinson
In April the American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania (ACLU) [advocacy website] referred [ACLU report] to the bill as an unconstitutional restriction on reproductive rights, thereby making it unenforceable. [read post]
6 Apr 2018, 4:00 am by Russell Spivak
” Specifically, the motion collects many of President Trump’s statements—including his “pledge[] to keep Guantánamo open and ‘load it up with some bad dudes,’ and [statement that] he would ‘absolutely authorize’ torture techniques like waterboarding against terrorist suspects, ‘who deserve it anyway’”; his apparent belief that Americans ought to be tried in military commissions in Guantanamo Bay; his tweet that… [read post]
14 Mar 2018, 9:01 pm by Marci A. Hamilton
He in Hollywood where he was demonized and marginalized until recently and she in USA Volleyball where she and 5 others have had to point to their abuser, Rick Butler, for over 20 years before he was removed from coaching by USA Volleyball and the American Athletic Union (AAU). [read post]
6 Mar 2018, 4:07 am by Edith Roberts
American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, Council 31, the high-profile union-fees case, and Dahda v. [read post]
21 Feb 2018, 6:00 am by Dakota S. Rudesill
With a national security interest in the global progress of liberty, it is not in our interest to see American troops ordered to participate in a spectacle that to much of the world would look like parades in the Soviet Union, Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, Russia today, and a host of other dictatorships including North Korea. [read post]
5 Feb 2018, 3:04 pm by David Frakt
His interest in civil rights and his membership in the American Civil Liberties Union were other life-long passions. [read post]
25 Jan 2018, 9:32 am by Ram Eachambadi
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), together with the Abolitionist Law Center [advocacy websites], and the law firms of Kairys, Rudovsky, Messing, Feiberg & Lin LLP and Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP [firm websites] filed a class action suit [complaint, PDF] against Pennsylvania's "unconstitutional practice of holding prisoners sentenced to death in mandatory, permanent solitary confinement," alleging that the practice… [read post]
21 Jan 2018, 12:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
American Civil Liberties Union of Kentucky (2005), Justice David Souter characterized the Fourteenth Amendment as ‘the most significant structural [constitutional] provision adopted since the original Framing. [read post]
3 Jan 2018, 8:34 am by Amy Howe
The American Civil Liberties Union, for example, predicts that a ruling for the government could have an outsized impact on lower-income drivers, who have often “come to depend on rental cars for everyday travel because they cannot afford to purchase their own vehicles,” and minorities, who are more likely both to rent cars and to be pulled over and searched while driving. [read post]
15 Dec 2017, 1:55 am by NCC Staff
North Carolina’s copy of the Bill of Rights was missing for nearly 140 years after being stolen by a Union soldier during the Civil War. [read post]
11 Dec 2017, 3:08 am by Scott Bomboy
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]
5 Dec 2017, 4:21 am by Edith Roberts
Garza, “[t]he American Civil Liberties Union on Monday called ‘baseless’ the U.S. [read post]
15 Nov 2017, 7:39 pm by Wolfgang Demino
(“GSS”) (D.I. 12); the Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency d/b/a American Education Services (“PHEAA”) (D.I. 20); Wilmington Trust Company (“WTC”) (D.I. 31); U.S. [read post]
15 Nov 2017, 7:39 pm by Wolfgang Demino
(“GSS”) (D.I. 12); the Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency d/b/a American Education Services (“PHEAA”) (D.I. 20); Wilmington Trust Company (“WTC”) (D.I. 31); U.S. [read post]
5 Oct 2017, 9:30 pm by Sarah Madigan
” The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) sued the U.S. [read post]
26 Sep 2017, 3:07 am by Lyle Denniston
  The American Civil Liberties Union would rename its annual youth affairs award the “Mary Beth Tinker Youth Involvement Award. [read post]
10 Jul 2017, 5:36 am by David Markus
"There's just no question in 2017 that the right to record the police is part of the liberty protected by the First Amendment, even more so now that smartphones are as ubiquitous as they are," said Molly Tack-Hooper, a staff attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania who argued the case. [read post]