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3 Jul 2013, 12:33 pm by Howard Wasserman
Unlike when Massachusetts legalized SSM in 2004 and the ACLU urged caution, Cohen argues, the legal and political terrain has shifted, such that victories are more likely in the lower courts (putting SCOTUS to one side). [read post]
4 Apr 2017, 8:36 am by Dawn Allen
Now that a lawsuit brought by several organizations including the ACLU of Michigan, Concerned Pastors for Social Action, and the Natural Resources Defense Council, as well as Flint resident Melissa Mays, has been settled, there may be some progress towards making Flint whole again. [read post]
23 Mar 2015, 6:44 am by Howard Wasserman
It is cross-posted at the Sports Law Blog The ACLU recently filed an amicus brief in the Washington Redskins trademark case, arguing that the Patent and Trademark Office’s (PTO) cancellation of Redskins registrations constitutes viewpoint discrimination contrary to the First Amendment, and urging the federal court to strike down those portions of Section 2(a) of the Lanham Act that prohibit the registration of “immoral,” “scandalous,” or… [read post]
9 Sep 2022, 4:05 am by Howard Friedman
ACLU issued a press release announcing the filing of the lawsuit. [read post]
2 Sep 2016, 7:56 am by Justin Cosgrove
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) [advocate website] filed the lawsuit on behalf of Christopher McDaniel [profile], a reporter whose stories have been critical of Missouri's death penalty procedures. [read post]
25 Jun 2012, 7:42 am by Greg Siskind
The Court says basically that the challenge of the ACLU on civil rights grounds still has a good chance and that the state of Arizona better be very, very careful how it applies the section and that the Court could very well invalidate the provision depending on how it is implemented. [read post]
4 Apr 2019, 6:31 am by Howard Wasserman
Participants include Zachary Clopton (Cornell), Charlton Copeland (Miami), Davis Hausman (ACLU), Michael Morley (Florida State), Portia Pedro (Boston University), Doug Rendelman (Washington & Lee), Mila Sohoni (San Diego), Alan Trammell (Arkansas), Ahmed White (Colorado). [read post]
25 Jan 2018, 9:32 am by Ram Eachambadi
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), together with the Abolitionist Law Center [advocacy websites], and the law firms of Kairys, Rudovsky, Messing, Feiberg & Lin LLP and Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP [firm websites] filed a class action suit [complaint, PDF] against Pennsylvania's "unconstitutional practice of holding prisoners sentenced to death in mandatory, permanent solitary confinement," alleging that the practice "cruelly and baselessly hold… [read post]
8 Nov 2019, 5:04 pm by Ryan J. Farrick
The couple at the center of the suit was driven out of Guatemala by criminal gangs that raped their daughter after they refused to give in to extortion. [read post]
30 Aug 2005, 9:52 am
[JURIST] The American Civil Liberties Union Tuesday expressed "deep concern" over US Supreme Court nominee John Roberts [JURIST news archive] in a letter [PDF] to members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, set to begin his confirmation hearing next week. [read post]
30 Sep 2024, 7:25 am by Microjuris PR
Para hoy la decisión del caso federal sobre la fecha de cierre del registro electoral. [read post]
9 Oct 2010, 6:10 pm by Kevin Jon Heller
I’ll ask again: do Wittes and other conservative scholars who endorse the “political question” rationale for dismissing the ACLU/CCR lawsuit believe that Hamdan was wrongly decided? [read post]
10 Dec 2010, 9:05 am by Jennifer Turner, Human Rights Program
" Today is Human Rights Day, and to mark the occasion the ACLU released a report showing how recent laws and court decisions have severely curbed access to the U.S. [read post]
2 Apr 2012, 4:19 am by Gritsforbreakfast
The ruling was exceptionally narrow in that regard, and for some reason most of the media have overstated what the court actually said.MORE: See ACLU's writeup of documents they received under open records. [read post]
22 May 2012, 7:13 am by Second Circuit Civil Rights Blog
The Court of Appeals has turned back an effort by the ACLU to get its hands on government documents relating to waterboarding in the course of the "war on terror. [read post]
24 Mar 2008, 3:07 pm
The ACLU announced that the Georgia Court of Appeals has reversed the contempt conviction of Elizabeth Hadaway. [read post]