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27 Mar 2023, 1:25 am by INFORRM
Surveillance Civil rights groups, including Liberty and StopWatch, have published an open letter to the Manchester Mayor and Chief Constable of Greater Manchester asking them to investigate the use of gang surveillance in cases invoking the common law doctrine of joint enterprise. [read post]
3 Mar 2023, 5:16 am by Eugenia Lostri, Stephanie Pell
”  The new strategy also notes that the Defense Department’s current strategic approach of “defending forward,” where the U.S. military engages in cyber operations outside of Defense Department networks, has generated insights on threat actors. [read post]
27 Feb 2023, 5:16 am by Paul Rosenzweig
For individual complaints from qualifying countries, the intelligence community’s civil liberties and privacy officer will conduct an initial review. [read post]
9 Feb 2023, 9:05 pm by Zoe Stern
” WHAT WE’RE READING THIS WEEK In an article in the Boston Review, Louise Melling, Deputy Legal Director at the American Civil Liberties Union, argued that recent U.S. [read post]
10 Jan 2023, 6:17 am by Kenneth Propp
When the declaration was issued, many civil society groups complained that they had not been adequately consulted during the negotiation process. [read post]
27 Dec 2022, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
Just recall the sad fate of Lani Guinier when she was nominated by President Clinton to head the Office of Civil Rights within the Department of Justice. [read post]
2 Dec 2022, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
In a country (and culture) that sometimes appears to believe that prevention of even one terrorist attack justifies immense costs in terms both of money and deprivations of ordinary liberty, it is at least worth noting the remarkable indifference of much of the public—and certainly the whole of the Republican Party—to the costs attached to offering the kind of capacious interpretation of the Second Amendment instantiated in the recent case of New York State Rifle & Pistol… [read post]
17 Nov 2022, 9:05 pm by Zoe Stern
The American Civil Liberties Union celebrated the decision as a victory in preserving asylum-seekers “right to protection. [read post]
4 Nov 2022, 6:11 am by Ashley Gorski
Below, I address the administration’s new procedures for handling complaints of unlawful surveillance, my initial take on why these procedures are unlikely to satisfy the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), and why Congress must step in to ensure individuals can fairly pursue redress in Article III courts. [read post]
” The Liberty Justice Center and Momoko Takahashi make a similar argument. [read post]
17 Aug 2022, 4:37 pm by Scott Bomboy
” The controversy over the Espionage Act of 1917 also led to the creation of the Civil Liberties Bureau (the predecessor of the American Civil Liberties Union). [read post]
15 Aug 2022, 1:03 pm by Josh Richman
Police used private network of 300 surveillance cameras to spy on George Floyd protests in 2020, plaintiffs tell appeals court.SAN FRANCISCO–San Francisco police violated the city’s surveillance technology law by tapping into a private surveillance camera network to spy on demonstrators protesting the 2020 police murder of George Floyd, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Northern California (ACLU)… [read post]
27 Jul 2022, 10:35 am by Guest Author
Army of the indigenous tribes in the trans-Mississippi West, the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, the labor injunction, Plessy v. [read post]
4 Jul 2022, 2:56 pm by INFORRM
Canada The defendant’s motion for summary judgment is dismissed in Canadian Union of Postal Workers v. [read post]
1 Jul 2022, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
Several former senior Justice Department officials testified about a bizarre effort by Clark to volunteer himself and the department as advocates for Trump’s bogus claims of massive voter fraud during the election. [read post]
In its Amicus Brief, the American Civil Libertie Union (ACLU) urged the court to grant deference to judges, saying, “[o]n the government’s account, Congress sub silentio permitted district courts to ignore extant law and facts in re-sentencing defendants pursuant to a statute specifically designed to provide relief from an unduly punitive and discriminatory sentencing regime. [read post]
7 Jun 2022, 5:00 pm by Michael Ehline
The late Justice Antonin Scalia restated the ancient common law rule in Deshaney v. [read post]
20 May 2022, 1:56 pm by David Kopel
I was called unpatriotic for opposing the civil liberties violations in the so-called PATRIOT Act of 2001. [read post]