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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]
4 May 2023, 5:16 am by Daphne Keller
Gonzalez alone generated dozens of amicus briefs, discussing both harms and free expression—including a brief I submitted with the American Civil Liberties Union. [read post]
22 Feb 2018, 4:12 am by Edith Roberts
American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, Council 31, in which the court will consider whether an Illinois law allowing public-sector unions to charge nonmembers for collective-bargaining activities violates the First Amendment, noting that “[w]hile the current case applies only to state employees, the repercussions could affect unions nationwide. [read post]
5 May 2015, 9:52 am by Dave Maass
Buford is currently suing the Indiana Department of Corrections with the help of the American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana. [read post]
12 Apr 2010, 9:44 pm by David Kopel
These doctrines were developed as arguments for state sovereignty by the Confederacy in the civil war era and as 1950’s and 1960’s era segregationist strategies to thwart desegregation and civil rights for African-Americans. [read post]
12 Sep 2018, 1:48 pm by David Super
       Advocates of strengthening democracy through an Article V convention insist that this country’s problems are so severe that we must take the risk that a convention poses to civil rights and civil liberties. [read post]
3 Feb 2009, 8:46 pm
Miami, FL 33128 Dear Chief Timoney: It has come to the attention of the Greater Miami Chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union of Florida that within the past week or so City of Miami police officers have repeatedly threatened to arrest homeless persons around the western bridge area of the Julia Tuttle Causeway for trespass upon public property. [read post]
23 Dec 2022, 5:09 am by Scott Bomboy
American Civil Liberties Union, a unanimous court struck down important parts of the Communications Decency Act of 1996 (or CDA) as unconstitutional. [read post]
21 Feb 2010, 9:38 am by SOIssues
TREATMENT Civil liberties advocates have long raised concerns that civil commitment is merely an indefinite extension of an offender's prison sentence. [read post]
1 Feb 2022, 7:30 am by Amy Howe
Early life and career A native Washingtonian, Jackson moved to Florida as a young child with her parents, graduates of historically Black colleges and universities who worked as public schoolteachers. [read post]
29 Jun 2018, 4:17 am by Edith Roberts
American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, Council 31, in which the court held that an Illinois law allowing public-sector unions to charge nonmembers for collective-bargaining activities violates the First Amendment, doesn’t have to “’cripple’” certain unions across the country. [read post]
14 Apr 2022, 9:08 pm by William McDonald
Hausman, a postdoctoral scholar at Stanford University and former attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union Immigrants’ Rights Project, assessed the efficiency of discretion in the Social Security Disability adjudicative review process. [read post]
7 Oct 2010, 12:22 pm by Chris Hampton, LGBT Project
Many years after first seeing those signs, I started working at the American Civil Liberties Union. [read post]
20 Oct 2007, 7:05 pm
In Florida in December, Angel Nieves Diaz grimaced and shook for more than 30 minutes before finally suffering convulsions and dying.Authorities later found that the needles were inserted too far and the lethal cocktail had been injected outside his veins.In 2006, there were 53 executions in the United States, all but one through lethal injection.Now though, executions appear to have been put on hold almost by default, apart from the controversial execution of Michael Richard in Texas, just… [read post]
24 Apr 2009, 1:19 am
" ACLU CHARGES CHRISTIE OK'D USE OF GPS TO TRACK CELL PHONES"The American Civil Liberties Union said Thursday that Justice Department documents made public through a lawsuit show that former U.S. [read post]
28 Dec 2009, 7:22 am by SOIssues
The American Civil Liberties Union of Florida (Contact) filed an unsuccessful lawsuit in July, claiming Miami-Dade County's ordinance interferes with the state's monitoring of released offenders. [read post]
28 May 2007, 2:19 am
"What is clear from today's botched execution is that the state doesn't know how to execute people without torturing them to death," American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio attorney Carrie Davis said Thursday. [read post]
28 May 2007, 2:04 am
Delayed execution 'intolerable' [news.cincypost.com] By Julie Carr SmythAssociated Press LUCASVILLE - The American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio called on the state to stop executions after prison staff struggled to find suitable veins on a condemned man's arm to deliver deadly chemicals used in lethal injection. [read post]
26 Apr 2010, 1:12 pm by Hilde
"We are spending money on a broken death penalty," said Natasha Minsker, an American Civil Liberties Union lawyer who won the Abolitionist of the Year award from the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty in 2008. [read post]