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2 Apr 2014, 3:30 am
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 post]
8 May 2024, 7:37 am
” Attorneys say Kinecta’s action violated Section 1981 of the federal Civil Rights Act of 1866 and the California Unruh Civil Rights Act. [read post]
14 Mar 2012, 10:35 am
A lawsuit filed by the League of Women Voters (LWV), the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), and other groups seeks to restore voting rights to about 85,000 people incarcerated in county jails or under the supervision of county probation departments. [read post]
21 Oct 2011, 6:38 am
The New York Times on October 20, 2011 released the following: "By CHARLIE SAVAGE WASHINGTON - The Federal Bureau of Investigation has collected information about religious, ethnic and national-origin characteristics of American communities, according to internal F.B.I. documents made public by the American Civil Liberties Union on Thursday. [read post]
21 Oct 2011, 6:38 am
The New York Times on October 20, 2011 released the following: "By CHARLIE SAVAGE WASHINGTON - The Federal Bureau of Investigation has collected information about religious, ethnic and national-origin characteristics of American communities, according to internal F.B.I. documents made public by the American Civil Liberties Union on Thursday. [read post]
29 Oct 2012, 10:46 am
The original for this post is On The Legality of Referral Fees: The NJ Civil Rights Attorney’s Fee Fight at Litigation & Trial Lawyer Blog. [read post]
6 May 2009, 6:59 pm
I offered a careful proposal to maximize the civil liberties of all Americans. [read post]
30 Jun 2010, 11:18 am
Langston with the blog faculty Source: The Washington Post The American Civil Liberties Union plans to sue the U.S. government Wednesday on behalf of 10 citizens or legal permanent residents who have been placed on a no-fly list and, in some cases, stranded abroad. [read post]
23 May 2016, 1:01 am
The federal Civil Rights laws of the 1960s finally but only theoretically ended segregation and protected the voting rights of African Americans. [read post]
18 Oct 2016, 12:05 pm
The American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan [advocacy website] filed a class-action lawsuit [complaint, PDF; fact sheet, PDF] Monday regarding children's education in relation to the Flint water crisis. [read post]
22 Jul 2010, 10:10 am
From the ACLU which is part of the coalition that is behind this suit: Implementation Of Arizona's Racial Profiling Law FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 22, 2010 PHOENIX – At a hearing today in a federal court in Phoenix, the American Civil Liberties Union and a coalition of civil rights groups argued that Arizona's discriminatory new law, known as SB 1070, should be blocked pending a final court ruling on its constitutionality. [read post]
27 Jan 2009, 1:18 pm
The American Civil Liberties Union of Louisiana joined the East Baton Rouge Parish Federation of Teachers in challenging the legality of the parish school board's drug testing policy.An agreement filed Thursday in federal court calls for the school board to refrain from such testing unless it has a reasonable suspicion that a teacher was under the influence of drugs or alcohol while injured on the job.That agreement will remain in effect pending the outcome of a… [read post]
5 Aug 2011, 11:17 am
[JURIST] The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) [advocacy website] appealed [press release] a case over same-sex domestic partnerships Thursday to the the Montana Supreme Court [official website], arguing that denying partnership rights to same-sex couples violates the state constitution [text, PDF]. [read post]
11 Aug 2012, 10:42 am
[JURIST] Florida Administrative Judge Thomas Crapps on Friday heard a challenge [petition, PDF] to a voting rights law [HB 1355 materials] filed by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the National Council of La Raza (NCLR) [advocacy websites] and Senator Arthenia Joyner [official profile]. [read post]
27 Oct 2015, 5:30 am
A judge for the US District Court for the District of Maryland [official website] on Friday dismissed [opinion, PDF; ACLU press release] a lawsuit [materials] filed by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) [advocacy website] and other human rights organizations challenging surveillance by the National Security Agency (NSA) [official website]. [read post]
9 Nov 2006, 1:04 am
[JURIST] The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) [advocacy website] Wednesday applauded the resignation [JURIST report] of US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld [official profile] as a "step in the right direction" and urged Congress to launch an investigation [press release] into his alleged abuses of power. [read post]
17 Feb 2008, 7:01 pm
" As the AP summarizes the claim, "his lawyer and the Virginia chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union are arguing that the school system violated his constitutional rights, and that what [he] did in his own time was his personal business. [read post]
27 Oct 2016, 7:28 am
The American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California (ACLU SoCal) [advocacy website], along with the Urban Peace Institute [advocacy site] and Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP [firm website] filed a lawsuit [complaint, PDF; press release] on Thursday alleging gang injunctions conducted by the Los Angeles officials violate due process rights of community members. [read post]
30 Aug 2012, 5:59 am
The American Civil Liberties Union of Washington (ACLU-WA) and the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project (NWIRP) [advocacy websites] filed the lawsuit [JURIST report] in April on behalf of... [read post]
21 Mar 2018, 9:18 am
The case was originally [JURIST report] brought by the American Civil Liberties Union [advocacy website] and other immigration rights groups when they... [read post]
