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Upping the Racial Profiling Ante In a recently released report, "War Comes Home," the American Civil Liberties Union (my employer) discovered that nearly 80% of all SWAT raids it reviewed between 2011 and 2012 were deployed to execute a search warrant. [read post]
25 Jul 2014, 7:38 am by Jim Sedor
New York – JCOPE Donor-Disclosure Exemption Rejections Are Overturned Albany Times Union – Casey Seiler | Published: 7/18/2014 A judicial hearing officer reversed the Joint Commission on Public Ethics (JCOPE) and held that the New York Civil Liberties Union and three other advocacy groups do not have to reveal their financial backers because doing so could put their supporters at risk. [read post]
2 Jul 2014, 7:19 am by Joy Waltemath
Initially, the district court in Oklahoma denied Hobby Lobby’s request for an injunction, and the district court in Pennsylvania denied Conestoga’s request. [read post]
20 May 2014, 12:31 pm by Jaclyn Belczyk
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) [advocacy website] filed the federal lawsuit [JURIST report] last July on behalf of 21 Pennsylvania residents who wished to marry their same-sex partners or who were seeking recognition of their out-of-state same-sex marriages. [read post]
9 May 2014, 5:26 am
The American Civil Liberties Union in Colorado has been on the front lines of this litigation and has sued successfully. [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]
13 Mar 2014, 3:20 pm by Dave Maass
EFF Represents Computer Scientists in Explaining Why “It Is Not Just Metadata”San Francisco - Representing a large group of top computer science experts and professors, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) today submitted a brief to a federal appeals court supporting the American Civil Liberties Union's lawsuit over the NSA's mass call records collection program. [read post]
26 Feb 2014, 8:32 am by Yan Zhu
Sincerely, The Electronic Frontier Foundation in collaboration with*: Roger Dingledine, Project Leader, Tor Project Brendan Eich, CTO, Mozilla Corporation Matthew Green, Assistant Research Professor, Department of Computer Science, Johns Hopkins University Nadia Heninger, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania Nick Mathewson, Chief Architect, Tor Project Eleanor Saitta, OpenITP / IMMI Bruce Schneier, Security Technologist Christopher… [read post]
21 Jan 2014, 5:55 am by Adam Santucci
The American Civil Liberties Union ACLU of New Jersey has called for New Jersey's Governor to require employees to use government-issued email accounts to conduct public business and to maintain any emails or texts sent from personal accounts as government records in the event an employee leaves their position. [read post]
28 Nov 2013, 4:24 am by Benjamin Wittes
The contemporary literature and case law on the relationship between government security powers and civil liberties routinely echoes back to the Civil War and before. [read post]
19 Nov 2013, 2:20 pm by Benjamin Wittes
So many of you are drawn to this topic because of what happened 12 years ago in this proud city, and at the Pentagon and in the skies above Pennsylvania. [read post]
4 Oct 2013, 3:08 pm by Dan Auerbach and Dan Auerbach
Schiller, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Bruce Schneier, BT Seth Schoen, Electronic Frontier Foundation Micah Sherr, Georgetown University Christopher Soghoian, American Civil Liberties Union Ashkan Soltani, Independent Researcher Brad Templeton, Electronic Frontier Foundation/Singularity University Dan S. [read post]
19 Sep 2013, 12:35 pm
Sidra Chaudhary Sidra Chaudhary joins the Empire State Fellows Program from a position as the Program Director for the Liberty Partnerships Program (“LPP”) at the State University of New York at Albany. [read post]
27 Aug 2013, 9:53 pm by Patent Docs
By Donald Zuhn -- Last week, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), ACLU of Utah Foundation, Inc., Public Patent Foundation (PUBPAT), Association for Molecular Pathology (AMP), Breast Cancer Action, and AARP submitted an amici curiae brief in two infringement actions brought by Myriad Genetics, Inc. [read post]
8 Jul 2013, 7:09 am by The Charge
  It was an essential victory in the Civil War.As the Army of the Tennessee hunkered down in Mississippi, the famous three day battle of Gettysburg was underway in Pennsylvania. [read post]
6 Jul 2013, 5:04 pm by Larry Catá Backer
Instead, 'American ideology' is grounded in the traditional notion of personal 'liberty' arising out of a shared understanding of customary and traditional  prerogatives. [read post]
26 Jun 2013, 7:32 pm by Larry Catá Backer
Prof CAI Lidong (School of Law, Jilin University, China) The Chinese Features of Progressively Transformed Civil Law Abstract: Unlike the former Soviet Union or other Eastern European countries adopting the “shock therapy”, China has been developing her social reforms with a progressive strategy of “going cross the river by feeling stones”, by both maintaining social stability and untying social stresses. [read post]