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24 Oct 2017, 9:05 pm by Walter Olson
I’ve got a new opinion piece at the Wall Street Journal about the extraordinary recent happenings at William & Mary, part of the Virginia public university system, where activists associated with the Black Lives Matter movement shouted down the executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia, Claire Gastañaga, at a scheduled talk where she was to deliver remarks on freedom of speech. [read post]
24 Sep 2021, 6:57 am by ernst
A group of lawyers, working in close concert with the Illinois Division (their preferred name of choice at the time) of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) sought to weaponize civil suits into a means of forcing CPD leadership to crack down on abusive and harmful police behavior. [read post]
24 Feb 2016, 5:30 am by Cyrus Farivar
—Ben Wizner, a top attorney at the American Civil Liberties Union, is probably best known for being one of the lawyers representing Ed Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor. [read post]
13 Feb 2008, 1:00 pm
" And an article headlined "Law Curbing Inmates' Lawsuits Questioned" begins, "As longtime chairman of the American Conservative Union, David Keene seems an unlikely ally of the American Civil Liberties Union in a prisoners-rights campaign. [read post]
15 Nov 2017, 7:00 am
Dolores Huerta, the legendary civil rights icon and farmworker activist, had it right: “Organized labor is a necessary part of democracy. [read post]
26 Feb 2010, 1:05 pm by Erin Miller
Why do civil rights protections remain important? [read post]
13 Jan 2020, 4:56 am by Erin Napoleon
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) reached a settlement with California Friday for the right to a criminal defense lawyer in all 58 counties. [read post]
3 Apr 2014, 3:00 pm by Karen Tani
As Wheeler’s engaging history of how the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) helped make sex a civil liberty reveals, commitments to sexual freedom and consumer rights grew out of the changing political and cultural milieu from which the organization emerged and drew its leaders.Read on here. [read post]
22 Sep 2012, 1:44 pm by Richard Renner
The Zinn Education Project is sponsoring State Out of the Union, a performance about civil rights, immigration and education, this Wednesday, September 26, 2012, at Busboys and Poets, 2021 14th St. [read post]
15 Dec 2009, 2:57 am
[JURIST] The American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania (ACLU-PA) and the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) [advocacy websites] announced [press release] Monday that they are extending and continuing a lawsuit against the City of Pittsburgh for allegedly violating the rights of two protest groups during September's Group of 20 (G-20) Summit [official website; JURIST news archive]. [read post]
22 Sep 2009, 7:12 am
[JURIST] The American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania (ACLU-PA) and the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) [advocacy websites] filed suit [complaint, PDF] Monday on behalf of two groups protesting this week's Group of 20 (G-20) Summit [official websites] in Pittsburgh, alleging that police have violated their Constitutional rights. [read post]
18 Jun 2013, 1:25 pm
Body: The American Civil Liberties Union of Connecticut has posted to its website the 2013 edition of Privacy Rights in Connecticut. [read post]
8 Feb 2008, 12:09 am
Civil rights groups, including the American Civil Liberties Union and the Mexican American [read post]
19 Feb 2008, 9:57 am
Civil rights groups, including the American Civil Liberties Union and the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund [advocacy [read post]
6 Oct 2017, 5:19 pm by davidruiz
EFF and 57 organizations, including American Civil Liberties Union, R Street, and NAACP, spoke out against warrantless searches of American citizens in a joint letter this week demanding reforms of the so-called “backdoor search” loophole that exists for data collected under Section 702. [read post]
25 Jun 2007, 5:06 pm
Tomorrow is a big day in Washington, courtesy of the American Civil Liberties Union, Amnesty International (USA), the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights and the National Religious Campaign Against Torture. [read post]
26 Feb 2008, 11:12 am
[JURIST] The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a lawsuit [complaint, PDF; press release] in federal court Monday challenging a Tennessee state law that requires convicted felons to pay "all outstanding legal financial obligations" before their voting rights are restored. [read post]
20 Nov 2023, 9:44 am by Marissa Gerchick
Source: American Civil Liberties Union When it comes to what’s in the audits, the statistics required to be calculated and reported can provide some basic information about which automated tools employers are using in their hiring processes and the number of job applications being evaluated by these tools. [read post]
5 Aug 2017, 1:43 pm by Ram Eachambadi
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) joined forces with the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, the National Immigration Law Center [advocacy websites], and Jenner and Block, LLP [official website] on Thursday in filing a petition for mandamus and complaint for injunctive and declaratory relief [complaint, PDF] against the US State Department [official website] for refusing to process immigrant visa applications of the 2017 US Diversity Visa Program… [read post]
25 Oct 2016, 1:31 pm by J. Bradley Smith, Esq.
” The man suspected of planting the bombs on the Jersey Shore and in Manhattan last month is being represented by attorneys for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) after being denied access to a federal public defender. [read post]