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9 Jul 2009, 10:19 am
7-9-2009 Florida:The ACLU of Florida on Thursday filed a lawsuit challenging a Miami-Dade County ordinance that attempts to remove homeless sex offenders who live under the Julia Tuttle Causeway.The county's 2,500-foot residency restriction conflicts with state law, which makes it unlawful for convicted sex offenders to live within 1,000 feet of a school, day-care center, park or playground, [read post]
1 Oct 2010, 9:12 am
ACLU, 542 U.S. 656, 664-65 [...] [read post]
14 Oct 2024, 2:19 am
Republished by Blog Post PromoterThe ACLU reports: In the first federal challenge ever argued against the Bush administration’s NSA spying program, U.S. [read post]
10 Jul 2014, 4:10 am
Among the groups withdrawing their support are the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, the ACLU, Lambda Legal, the National Center for Lesbian Rights, and the Transgender Law Center. [read post]
4 Aug 2010, 9:43 am
[JURIST] Treasury Department Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) [official website] Director Adam Szubin [official profile] said Tuesday that his office would be willing to issue a license to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) [advocacy website] allowing them to provide legal services to Anwar al-Awlaqi [NYT profile]. [read post]
11 Jul 2016, 6:31 am
The latest edition of FIRE's So to Speak podcast features an interview with Aryeh Neier, who was the ACLU's Executive Director in the late 1970s, when the Nazis marched in Skokie and wrote a book on the controversy. [read post]
9 Jan 2008, 11:15 pm
Yesterday's Indianapolis Star reports that the ACLU, which had previously sued the Indiana House to challenge its sectarian opening prayers, had threatened a similar suit against the Senate after it opened with an overtly Christian prayer in November. [read post]
29 Aug 2005, 8:17 am
[JURIST] Several civil rights organizations, including the University of Chicago Law School's MacArthur Justice Center [advocacy website] and the ACLU of Illinois [advocacy website] announced [press release] Monday that they have asked the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights [official website] to investigate allegations that as many as 20 Chicago police detectives used torture to obtain [read post]
24 May 2007, 6:34 am
The News & Record reports here that a Wake County judge ruled today that the Quran can be used to swear in witnesses in North Carolina courtrooms.The ruling applies to other religious texts as well.The ACLU is a plaintiff, as is Syidah Mateen, a Muslim woman who said she was denied the use of the Quran in a Guilford County court.I previously blogged about this case here.Fox News reports on this [read post]
12 Oct 2014, 11:54 am
On the same day, the ACLU [official website] filed a federal lawsuit challenging the state's same-sex marriage ban. [read post]
16 Mar 2019, 8:14 pm
” And Bruce Schreiner of The Associated Press reports that “ACLU seeks to block fetal heartbeat measure in Kentucky. [read post]
28 May 2016, 8:34 pm
ACLU of Illinois reports on a complaint it filed last month with the Illinois Department of Human Rights charging Bernadine’s Stillman Inn in Galena, Illinois with religious discrimination. [read post]
12 Aug 2004, 2:12 pm
US District Judge Alvin Hellerstein ordered the Defense Department and other government agencies to comply with Freedom of Information Act requests made by the ACLU and other civil rights groups. [read post]
21 Dec 2004, 9:41 am
[JURIST] FBI records released late Monday by the ACLU pursuant to a Freedom of Information Act request include complaints in 2004 about military impersonation of FBI agents while using "torture technqiques" against prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, and allege that there was direct Presidential authority in the form of an Executive Order for the use of interrogation techniques such as sleep deprivation [read post]
April 9 Safeguarding Democracy Project Event and Webinar: “Race and the Risk of Election Subversion”
2 Apr 2024, 8:56 am
April 9, 12:15pm – 1:15pm Race and the Risk of Election Subversion In-person at UCLA Law Room 1337 and Online Webinar Registration In-Person Registration Sophia Lin Lakin (ACLU), Spencer Overton… Continue reading The post April 9 Safeguarding Democracy Project Event and Webinar: “Race and the Risk of Election Subversion” appeared first on Election Law Blog. [read post]
15 Dec 2004, 11:11 am
The ACLU of Ohio had brought a suit arguing that the punch-card system was more error-prone and discriminated against persons using it, many of whom were black (electronic voting systems being more commonly used in [read post]
4 Mar 2008, 11:50 pm
The Edina, Minnesota City council on Monday voted 4-1 against approving the issuance of tax-exempt bonds to help a Christian elementary school expand its building. the Minneapolis Star Tribune reports that the vote follows a letter from the ACLU that urged rejection of the proposal on church-state grounds. [read post]
29 Jul 2016, 8:48 am
[JURIST] The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) [advocacy website] said Thursday that Chelsea Manning is being investigated [press release] for charges in relation to her recent attempt at suicide. [read post]
14 Apr 2006, 12:48 am
[JURIST] A federal district judge on Thursday urged the US government to make a decision regarding the visa application of prominent European Muslim scholar Tariq Ramadan [ACLU profile]. [read post]
10 Apr 2008, 1:03 am
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) petitioned the IACHR, an autonomous arm of the Organization of American States (OAS) [ [read post]
