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5 Oct 2017, 6:13 am
The American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois (ACLU-IL) [advocacy website] filed a lawsuit [press release] Wednesday accusing the Chicago Police Department (CPD) [official site] of widespread abuses against people with disabilities and ethnic minorities. [read post]
28 Jun 2011, 7:00 am
Judge Thomas Thrash issued a preliminary injunction at the request of the plaintiffs, including the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the National Immigration Law Center (NILC) [advocacy websites] and other rights groups, which filed a motion for preliminary injunction... [read post]
2 Jun 2004, 9:09 am
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and other medical and veterans' groups today filed suit against the Department of Defense and other US government agencies alleging violations of the Freedom of Information Act in connection with Iraq prison abuses. [read post]
27 Apr 2012, 7:56 am
[JURIST] The American Civil Liberties Union of Washington (ACLU-WA) and the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project (NWIRP) [advocacy websites] filed a lawsuit [complaint, PDF; press release] Thursday alleging that US Border Patrol [official website] agents are routinely stopping vehicles to check the immigration status of Latinos without legal justification. [read post]
9 Feb 2007, 2:38 am
[JURIST] The American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California filed a class action lawsuit [complaint, PDF; press release] against the federal government Thursday, alleging that "its practice of indefinitely delaying citizen applications" violated due process rights protected by the Constitution and federal statutes and regulations governing immigration. [read post]
19 Feb 2008, 10:37 am
Bush created after the September 11 attacks.The American Civil Liberties Union had asked the justices to hear the case after a lower court ruled the ACLU, other groups and individuals that sued the government had no legal right to do so because they could not prove they had been affected by the program. [read post]
15 Jul 2016, 5:59 am
Local groups and the American Civil Liberties Union of Louisiana [advocacy website] filed a lawsuit [complaint, PDF] Wednesday against the Baton Rouge Police Department for violating the First Amendment rights of protestors who were peacefully protesting the police killing of Alton Sterling [press release]. [read post]
4 Jun 2011, 1:17 pm
[JURIST] The American Civil Liberties Union of Florida (ACLU) [advocacy website] filed a lawsuit [text, PDF; press release] on Friday in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida [official website] challenging a new state voting law. [read post]
11 Jun 2015, 11:03 am
The Center for Reproductive Rights, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the ACLU of Florida [advocacy website] filed a lawsuit [motion, PDF] Thursday challenging a Florida law [HB 633 materials] requiring women to visit a doctor and wait 24 hours before undergoing an abortion. [read post]
15 Jul 2009, 11:24 am
One of the myths of the religious right is that the American Civil Liberties Union isn't just a liberal group, but is actively anti-Christian. [read post]
3 Aug 2012, 2:32 pm
[JURIST] The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) [advocacy website] filed suit [complaint, PDF] in federal court on Thursday arguing that a provision of a new law designed to stop insider trading by members of Congress and federal employees violates these employees' privacy and freedom of speech rights. [read post]
5 Dec 2006, 2:19 am
Plaintiffs, represented by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) [advocacy website], argued that marriage is a fundamental right which should not be denied according to the parties' genders. [read post]
12 Oct 2016, 11:50 am
A study [HRW report] released Wednesday by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and Human Rights Watch (HRW) [advocacy websites] found that arrests for possessing marijuana exceeded arrests for violent crimes. [read post]
8 Aug 2017, 2:39 pm
AUGUSTA, Maine — The American Civil Liberties Union of Maine sued Republican Gov. [read post]
6 Jul 2011, 9:06 am
Judge Thomas Thrash issued a preliminary injunction for the plaintiffs—the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the National Immigration Law Center (NILC) [advocacy websites] and other rights groups—last week. [read post]
14 Jan 2014, 9:38 am
The lawsuit was filed by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the advocacy group Compassion & Choices [advocacy website] on behalf of two doctors and a terminally ill cancer patient against the District Attorney for the Second Judicial District, Kari... [read post]
19 Oct 2010, 7:45 pm
The American Civil Liberties Union argued that network neutrality rules barring broadband providers from discriminating against Internet content are “crucial” to protecting First Amendment rights. [read post]
20 Jun 2018, 12:32 pm
The Center for Reproductive Rights, Planned Parenthood and the American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia [advocacy websites] filed a lawsuit [complaint, PDF] on Wednesday against the state of Virginia over the state's abortion laws, which the plaintiffs deem [press release] "burdensome and medically unnecessary. [read post]
3 Aug 2010, 11:12 am
It has been reported that the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has filed a lawsuit in U.S. [read post]
13 Jul 2010, 2:39 pm
The American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts says it’s joining a group of other organizations in a legal challenge to a new state law that was intended to ban distribution by the Internet of “matter harmful to minors. [read post]
