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The subcommittee will hear testimony from Helen Butler, executive director at the Georgia Coalition for the People’s Agenda; Sophia Lin Lakin, Deputy Director of the American Civil Liberty Unions Voting Rights Project; Maureen Riordan, litigation counsel at the Public Interest Legal Foundation; and James Tucker, of counsel at Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker LLP. [read post]
The subcommittee will hear testimony from Christopher Connor, president and CEO of the American Association of Port Authorities; Gene Seroka, executive director of the Port of Los Angeles; Richert Self, executive director of the Port of Lake Charles; and Tony Reardon, national president of the National Treasury Employees Union. [read post]
30 Dec 2018, 3:03 am by Ben
February was also the month when the anthem of the US Civil Rights Movement “We Shall Overcome” was freed into the public domain in a victory for the We Shall Overcome Foundation, an organisation that wanted to make a documentary about the song. [read post]
30 Oct 2008, 4:54 am
However, the state initiative is not a law.A federal judge Tuesday temporarily blocked part of a Missouri law requiring sex offenders to stay in their homes on Halloween, after four convicted sex offenders and the American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit.In 2005, Maryland began requiring sex offenders in Baltimore to stay inside their homes on Halloween. [read post]
12 Oct 2010, 1:32 pm by Steve Hall
Nationally, there have been a number of studies done comparing the cost of implementing the death penalty to life in prison.The most recent one, released in March by the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California, found that over a five-year period in that state, death penalty cases cost $1 billion more than permanently jailing accused individuals. [read post]
24 Jan 2011, 9:27 am by Steve Hall
Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of lethal injection, the nation's leading method of execution, in a 7-2 ruling. [read post]
31 May 2011, 9:18 am by Lovechilde
  As Ben Wizner, the American Civil Liberties Union lawyer who argued the case, summed matters up, "To date, every victim of the Bush administration's torture regime has been denied his day in court. [read post]
14 Jun 2021, 9:59 am by Ajay Sarma, Christiana Wayne
The subcommittee will hear testimony from Kevin McAleenan, former acting homeland security secretary; Anthony Reardon, national president of the National Treasury Employees Union; Samuel Vale, president of the Starr-Camargo Bridge Company; and Jaime Chamberlain, president of Chamberlain Distributing Inc. [read post]
8 May 2007, 5:27 am
Arrest: To deprive a person of his or her liberty by legal authority. [read post]
18 Jun 2009, 5:19 pm
Opinion below (DC Circuit) Petition for certiorari Brief in opposition Petitioner’s reply Brief 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 al. [read post]
11 Sep 2011, 8:58 am by Lovechilde
  Let's Cancel 9/11 By Tom Engelhardt, cross-posted from Tom Dispatch Let’s bag it. [read post]
11 Sep 2011, 8:58 am by Lovechilde
  Let's Cancel 9/11 By Tom Engelhardt, cross-posted from Tom Dispatch Let’s bag it. [read post]
5 Jun 2007, 5:02 am
Howard Simon, the executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Florida, said the lifting of the moratorium was "out of step with public opinion". [read post]
16 Dec 2017, 8:50 am
(pix credit; here)The Statement on Visit to the USA, by Professor Philip Alston, United Nations Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights has just been posted to the UN's website. [read post]
30 Nov 2009, 7:20 am
American Civil Liberties Union, et al. (09-160). [read post]
6 Jul 2021, 9:45 am by Scott Bomboy
American Civil Liberties Union (2005), Breyer voted with a majority that said two Ten Commandments exhibits at a Kentucky courthouse violated the First Amendment because they actively promoted religion. [read post]