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18 Aug 2017, 6:23 am by Jim Sedor
District of Columbia: ACLU Sues Washington, D.C., Transit System for Removing Milo Yiannopoulos AdsLos Angeles Times – Matt Pearce | Published: 8/10/2017 The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is suing the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority for pulling or rejecting controversial ads, which the organization claims violates freedom of speech. [read post]
13 Jul 2017, 5:52 pm by Lovechilde
She rebelled, studying anthropology and working among civil rights activists before running chapters of the American Civil Liberties Union in the 1970s. [read post]
13 Jul 2017, 9:00 am by Neil Schoenherr
” The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund and the American Civil Liberties Union, among others, now represent the twin girls from Mystic Valley Regional Charter School, and they are exploring legal actions to ensure that black students can attend the school without having their educational experience disrupted because they do not have straight hair. [read post]
27 Jun 2017, 1:14 pm by Brian Stull
Brian Stull is a senior staff attorney with the Capital Punishment Project of the American Civil Liberties Union. [read post]
26 May 2017, 3:21 pm by Floyd Abrams
” But the Times’s editorial fully, if inadvertently, vindicated Justice Alito’s submission that it viewed itself as “preferred” in that it could exist in corporate form and receive full First Amendment protection while nonmedia corporations — universities, museums, theaters, bookstores, and not-for-profit entities such as the American Civil Liberties Union and the National Rifle Association that take positions on public issues… [read post]
31 Mar 2017, 4:38 am by Edith Roberts
Douglas County School District, that constitute “important victories for civil rights plaintiffs. [read post]
6 Feb 2017, 1:25 pm by Adams & Luka
The more shocking numbers are the ages of those 2,000 arrests; Orange County, Florida leads the state of Florida in child arrests between the ages of five and ten. [read post]
6 Feb 2017, 1:25 pm by Adams & Luka
The more shocking numbers are the ages of those 2,000 arrests; Orange County, Florida leads the state of Florida in child arrests between the ages of five and ten. [read post]
30 Dec 2016, 6:14 am by Jim Sedor
New lobbyist-disclosure requirements approved by the Florida House aim to reveal how paid advocates and lawmakers interact behind the scenes. [read post]
29 Oct 2016, 8:18 am by Cannabis Law Group
But then, we consider a joint report by the Human Rights Watch and the American Civil Liberties Union that shows the 575,000 marijuana arrests in 2015 for low-level personal use last year numbered 13.6 percent more than the 506,000 arrests made for all violent crimes that same year – including for murder, rape and serious assaults. [read post]
29 Sep 2016, 10:29 pm by Edward A. Fallone
I received a phone call from Larry Dupuis of the Milwaukee Office of the American Civil Liberties Union in November of 2003. [read post]
14 Sep 2016, 8:03 am by Eric Baxter
Partially in response to that ruling, the American Civil Liberties Union – an early and ardent supporter of RFRA – announced that it would “no longer support the federal ‘religious freedom law’” for fear that it may be used “to discriminate against women, gay and transgender people and others. [read post]
7 Sep 2016, 7:48 am by Kelly Phillips Erb
” That same year, the Foundation detailed contributions worth nearly $1 million to a variety of charitable organizations including the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Foundation of Florida, the Make A Wish Foundation, and the Ronald McDonald House. [read post]
29 Aug 2016, 7:10 am by Darren E. Tromblay
The La Red Avispa network was a Cuban-sponsored intelligence apparatus that operated in Florida from 1992 until 1998, which, among other things, monitored Cuban exile organizations. [read post]
A swift public outcry followed, with many celebrities denouncing the law and canceling appearances in North Carolina, companies threatening to boycott, and the American Civil Liberties Union filing a lawsuit challenging HB2 as unconstitutional and for violating federal law. [read post]
19 May 2016, 7:45 am
  After the use of Stingrays was first reported in 2011, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and other activist groups attempted to find out more about how the technology was being used, only to quickly run into heavy resistance from police departments nationwide. [read post]
13 May 2016, 8:20 am by Mark Casper
[JURIST] The Florida American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) [official website] filed a lawsuit [complaint, PDF] against the Marion County school district on Thursday, challenging their bathroom policy as anti-transgender. [read post]
24 Apr 2016, 8:49 am by Taylor Gillan
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) [advocacy website]... [read post]
9 Mar 2016, 12:05 pm by Podhurst Orseck
Here’s the complete ACLU of Florida news release: The Social Security Administration has agreed to fully recognize the marriage of Arlene Goldberg of Fort Myers – one of the plaintiffs in the lawsuit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the ACLU of Florida, and Stephen Rosenthal of the Podhurst Orseck law firm challenging Florida’s ban on marriages for same-sex couples – and her late wife Carol… [read post]