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18 Apr 2008, 2:16 pm
On behalf of the ACLU of Massachusetts, I had the pleasure of introducing Wednesday night’s free screening of The Visitor in Boston. [read post]
24 Mar 2007, 9:52 am
As ACLU attorney Vic Walczak said ruefully, "It's a little difficult when the target keeps moving. [read post]
26 Apr 2007, 1:00 am
On Monday, the Transylvania County, North Carolina, Board of County Commissioners-- responding to a challenge by the ACLU-- unanimously agreed to continue to open board meetings with a prayer. [read post]
18 Aug 2009, 9:48 am
The ACLU of Maryland says that a Bethesda law against fortune telling violates the First Amendment. [read post]
19 May 2011, 5:47 pm
Lambda Legal, the National Center for Lesbian Rights, the ACLU of Northern California and Equality California filed a friend of the court brief urging the U.S. [read post]
14 Nov 2006, 3:30 am
Following on a suit filed by the ACLU in September, yesterday Americans United for Separation of Church and State announced that it has filed two lawsuits seeking U.S. [read post]
26 Sep 2010, 7:05 am
by Kevin Jon Heller In the past few hours, both Jack Goldsmith and Ben Wittes have argued that the Obama administration has “reluctantly” claimed that the ACLU/CCR lawsuit must be dismissed because of the state-secrets privilege. [read post]
6 Feb 2008, 1:14 pm
The ACLU would like to draw your attention to the results of a new national poll, conducted by the Mellman Group, on the destruction of the CIA torture tapes. [read post]
16 Nov 2009, 11:05 pm
The suit, filed by the ACLU of Tennessee (press release), objects to incidents involving the distribution of Gideon Bibles in classrooms, teacher-endorsed prayer at football games, school-sponsored prayer delivered by students at graduation ceremonies, the teaching of intelligent design, and the display of a cross in a high school classroom. [read post]
26 Jun 2008, 11:00 am
ACLU (announced on June 26, 1997) is close to our heart, as it was the first major Supreme Court ruling regarding the regulation of materials distributed via the Internet. [read post]
18 Feb 2010, 12:49 pm
Earlier this week, British journalist Andy Worthington reposted an article written by former Guantánamo detainee and ACLU rendition client Binyam Mohamed about Omar Khadr, one of the child soldiers detained at Gitmo since he was 15. [read post]
7 Nov 2009, 12:50 pm
A Florida federal district judge has largely rejected an attempt by the Christian Educators Association International to challenge the high profile and contentious consent decree entered into in March by the Santa Rosa County Florida school board to settle litigation brought by the ACLU challenging religious practices in the county's schools. [read post]
29 Mar 2011, 7:30 am
The ACLU of Northwest Florida is helping to represent Mark Brune, 49, a homeless man who was arrested Feb. 1 on a charge of violating the ordinance.The ordinance prohibits soliciting and panhandling under certain circumstances, including after sunset and before sunrise, at bus stops, within 20 feet of ATMs and bank entrances or from a driver in traffic. [read post]
14 Aug 2012, 4:05 am
The ACLU of Southern California announced yesterday that it has filed suit in a California federal district court against Walt Disney Corp. on behalf of a former employee who alleges religious harassment and refusal to accommodate her Muslim religious practice of wearing a hijab (headscarf). [read post]
4 Mar 2018, 12:51 pm
ACLU: “The TSA and Amtrak Police are trying out new see-through body scanners in New York City’s Penn Station that raise serious constitutional questions. [read post]
21 Dec 2011, 6:44 am
The ACLU recently released a report prompted by the increasing use of surveillance drones by U.S. law enforcement and other agencies. [read post]
12 Feb 2008, 11:59 am
In response to the Pentagon's announcement yesterday that it will try six Guantánamo detainees with 9/11 crimes, ACLU Executive Director Anthony Romero writes in HuffingtonPost about the ongoing disgrace to the United States that is the military commission system:As an observer of the first military commission proceedings in 2004, I can testify to this system's ignominious shortcomings. [read post]
14 Feb 2008, 8:48 am
Elko Daily 2/14/08 ACLU challenges new iniative petition rules. [read post]
4 Feb 2014, 5:14 am
Briefly: In The National Law Journal, Tony Mauro reports on the latest developments in a lawsuit challenging the Supreme Court’s ban on protests on the Court’s plaza: an amicus brief filed by the ACLU, which cites the media stakeouts and press gaggles in front of the Court as a “fatal sign of inconsistency. . . . [read post]
4 Nov 2011, 7:00 am
This week we got the welcome news that the state of Alabama will not appeal a ruling ordering a new trial for ACLU client Montez Spradley, who was sentenced to death despite inadequate and very weak evidence, after his trial judge rejected the jury’s 10-2 vote for a life sentence . [read post]
