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21 Sep 2017, 1:30 pm
The American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan (ACLU) [advocacy website] filed a lawsuit [complaint, PDF] on Wednesday to challenge Michigan's practice of permitting state-contracted and tax-funded child placement agencies to use religious criteria reject qualified prospective parents based on sexual orientation. [read post]
12 Aug 2012, 10:00 pm
By Sam Favate In what could be a groundbreaking action with national implications, the American Civil Liberties Union has filed a “right to read” lawsuit in Michigan, charging that the state and its agencies that oversee public education have failed to ensure that students are reading at grade level as required by state law. [read post]
22 Mar 2019, 11:22 am
“The American Civil Liberties Union filed the lawsuit on behalf of the couples, arguing that the state of Michigan was violating the Constitution by permitting agencies to use religious criteria to exclude prospective foster and adoptive families. [read post]
10 Jun 2009, 12:19 pm
As reported here, the American Civil Liberties Union of Florida has joined forces with the American Center for Law and Justice to help protect a property owner. [read post]
25 Oct 2011, 10:57 am
A spokeswoman from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) argues that police need probable cause to search a vehicle for drugs, and that turning away from a warned drug checkpoint does not provide such probable cause. [read post]
23 Jan 2012, 9:49 am
Hopefully we'll hear him address civil liberties issues. [read post]
6 Nov 2012, 11:11 am
The suit, which was filed by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the ACLU of Michigan, the National Consumer Law Center, and San Francisco-based law firm Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein on behalf of five Detroit residents and the nonprofit legal aid organization Michigan Legal Services, is unique for two reasons. [read post]
6 Jun 2021, 12:59 pm
At the same time, the ACLU also remains devoted to defending other fundamental civil rights and civil liberties, including equal protection of the law — as we always have been. [read post]
13 Apr 2009, 7:24 am
According to an American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan report, "Second Chances: Juveniles Serving Life Without Parole in Michigan," the rate of juvenile-life-without-parole sentences varies widely among Michigan counties. [read post]
28 Jun 2015, 10:34 am
However, Michigan recognizes marital status as a protected classification under its primary employment discrimination law, Michigan’s Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights Act (ELCRA). [read post]
13 Jan 2023, 11:00 am
American Civil Liberties Union of Montana Executive Director. [read post]
7 Nov 2019, 1:55 pm
He repeatedly asked Congress for funding to build the wall, and repeatedly they refused. [read post]
21 Jan 2009, 8:04 am
American Civil Liberties Union, et al. (08-565). [read post]
18 Nov 2016, 1:37 pm
The newsworthy event in November 2016 was American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) lawyers representing PubPeer filed a motion with the Michigan Court of Appeals on November 16 to enter an internal Wayne State University investigation of pathologist Fazlul Sarkar into the legal record .This post related to a case, now at the Michigan Court of Appeals, involving Dr. [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 2014, 10:15 am
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]
7 Jul 2007, 2:24 am
The plaintiffs are a collection of associations and individuals led by the American Civil Liberties Union, and they cross-appeal. [read post]
10 May 2016, 3:59 am
The Legislative Reference Library helpfully compiled these background resources regarding the interim charges those panels will consider:House Committee on Criminal Jurisprudence (May 16) Charge: Asset forfeiture SCOTUS Ruling Requires Relook at State Asset Forfeiture Laws, National Conference of State Legislatures, April 1, 2016 Policing for Profit: The Abuse of Civil Asset Forfeiture, 2nd Edition, Institute for Justice, November 2015 Civil Asset Forfeiture: Good… [read post]
11 Apr 2008, 9:29 am
Proponents of the so-called Oklahoma Civil Rights Initiative (OKCRI)—backed by millionaire California businessman Ward Connerly and his so-called American Civil Rights Institute—were put on the defensive when local civil rights advocates, in collaboration with the American Civil Liberties Union and the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, began looking into the OKCRI’s fishy signature-gathering… [read post]
4 Jun 2009, 8:41 am
I'll have more information on that in the next post, followed by a post on a funding crisis in the Cook County Illinois PD's office.The AP, which is in many newspapers today, is here; two brief excerpts from this must-read:"If you can't afford an attorney, and you fall into the criminal justice system, you are really, really screwed," said Demetrius Thomas of the New York American Civil Liberties Union.… [read post]
