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8 Dec 2011, 8:24 pm
Maggie McLetchie, a lawyer arguing for the American Civil Liberties Union of Nevada, told judges with the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco that the new laws re-punish sex offenders by upping their tier classifications, in some cases forcing them to move because... [[ This is a content summary only. [read post]
7 Sep 2011, 8:48 am
Recently, an appeals court ruled, on behalf of an ACLU client, that Americans have a First Amendment right to videotape the police making an arrest in a public park. [read post]
5 May 2021, 9:33 am
Georgia passed a voting rights bill that imposed several barriers to accessing the polls, which has faced several lawsuits from civil rights groups. [read post]
20 Apr 2010, 1:23 pm
Assistant Attorney for Civil Rights Tom Perez testified about the steps his department is taking to ensure that the civil rights of the American people are protected. [read post]
9 Oct 2020, 9:36 am
CAST AN INFORMED VOTE Make sure you know the candidates’ positions on key civil liberties and civil rights issues. [read post]
19 Mar 2024, 12:04 pm
Source: American Civil Liberties Union But the ACLU will never stop fighting for your rights. [read post]
30 Jul 2012, 12:45 pm
Personhood USA [advocacy website] had originally tried to gather enough petition signatures to put the "personhood" issue on Oklahoma's November election ballot, but the effort was enjoined through an American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and Center for Reproductive Rights [advocacy websites] lawsuit [complaint, PDF] filed on behalf of Oklahoma doctors and... [read post]
7 Mar 2006, 12:45 am
The American Civil Liberties Union and Human Rights First [advocacy websites] filed the suit on behalf of nine former detainees [ACLU profiles], [read post]
30 Jan 2014, 9:13 am
[JURIST] The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Planned Parenthood Federation of America and the Center for Reproductive Rights [advocacy websites] filed a lawsuit [press release] on Wednesday in Alaska Superior Court [official website] challenging a new regulation that seeks to prevent Medicaid [official website] from covering elective abortions. [read post]
15 Feb 2019, 6:58 am
A group of human rights organizations filed a lawsuit against President Donald Trump’s administration on Thursday challenging its policy requiring Central American migrants to return to Mexico to wait for their asylum requests to be processed. [read post]
6 Mar 2014, 12:00 am
Highlights of her professional accomplishments include serving as legislative counsel to the AIDS Project of the American Civil Liberties Union and as lead attorney on the team that drafted the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 as well as the ADA Amendments Act of 2008. [read post]
8 Apr 2016, 9:47 am
The nation instituted a law permitting same-sex couples to enter into civil unions in October 2015. [read post]
25 Jan 2017, 3:02 pm
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) [advocacy website] filed the lawsuit for Ada Morales, a naturalized US citizen born in Guatemala and was arrested [ACLU press release] by Rhode Island in 2009. [read post]
3 Apr 2009, 3:51 pm
Our nation’s watchdog organizations, including the American Civil Liberties Union, American Federation of Government Employees, National Whistleblower Center and Project on Government Oversight, sent a letter to President Obama on April 1, 2009 urging that the government fulfill his campaign and transition policy commitments to strengthen whistleblower rights. [read post]
28 Feb 2012, 12:46 pm
David Fathi is the Director of the American Civil Liberties Union National Prison Project, which brings challenges to conditions of confinement in prisons, jails, and other detention facilities and works to end US overreliance on incarceration. [read post]
24 Jun 2011, 8:46 am
The ACLU comprises two separate corporate entities, the American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU Foundation. [read post]
11 Jun 2013, 6:52 pm
ACLU Sues Obama Adminsitration Over Phone Records by FindLaw View this document on Scribd The American Civil Liberties Union sued the Obama administration Tuesday charging that its collection of vast domestic phone records violates Americans’ constitutional rights of free speech and privacy. [read post]
11 Jun 2013, 6:52 pm
ACLU Sues Obama Adminsitration Over Phone Records by FindLaw View this document on Scribd The American Civil Liberties Union sued the Obama administration Tuesday charging that its collection of vast domestic phone records violates Americans’ constitutional rights of free speech and privacy. [read post]
12 Aug 2012, 10:00 pm
By Sam Favate In what could be a groundbreaking action with national implications, the American Civil Liberties Union has filed a “right to read” lawsuit in Michigan, charging that the state and its agencies that oversee public education have failed to ensure that students are reading at grade level as required by state law. [read post]
26 Jun 2009, 11:42 am
06/26/09 San Jose Mercury News (source: Gay Marriage Watch):In court briefs filed Thursday night, the American Civil Liberties Union and the National Center for Lesbian Rights formally endorsed the arguments of a high-powered legal team trying to block Prop 8 in federal court in San Francisco.Here is the brief, and here is the press release by the American Foundation for Equal Rights. [read post]
