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The American Civil Liberties Union of Arizona (ACLU) and a group of 10 news organizations filed a lawsuit Tuesday challenging an Arizona law that makes it a crime for the public to record law enforcement within eight feet without an officer’s permission. [read post]
The letter was signed by the Sikh Coalition, the American Civil Liberties Union of Arizona (ACLU-AZ) and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), among other organizations. [read post]
17 Aug 2022, 4:37 pm by Scott Bomboy
” The controversy over the Espionage Act of 1917 also led to the creation of the Civil Liberties Bureau (the predecessor of the American Civil Liberties Union). [read post]
15 Aug 2022, 1:03 pm by Josh Richman
Police used private network of 300 surveillance cameras to spy on George Floyd protests in 2020, plaintiffs tell appeals court.SAN FRANCISCO–San Francisco police violated the city’s surveillance technology law by tapping into a private surveillance camera network to spy on demonstrators protesting the 2020 police murder of George Floyd, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Northern California (ACLU)… [read post]
9 Aug 2022, 12:29 pm by Eugene Volokh
Schwarzenegger (9th Cir. 2011), the California same-sex marriage initiative case in which he participated while his wife, Ramona Ripston, was the head of the ACLU of Southern California: The chief basis for the recusal motion appears to be my wife's beliefs, as expressed in her public statements and actions, both individually and in her capacity as Executive Director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California (ACLU/SC). [read post]
4 Aug 2022, 7:14 am by Jorge Contreras
Myriad and Gene Patenting As I document in my book The Genome Defense: Inside the Epic Legal Battle Over Who Owns Your DNA (New York: Algonquin, 2021), the Myriad case was brought by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the Public Patent Foundation (PubPat) in response to widespread complaints that individuals at high risk of having one or more deleterious BRCA mutations could not afford, or were otherwise ineligible to receive, the BRCA testing… [read post]
3 Aug 2022, 8:17 am by Immigration Prof
In a letter to Border Patrol, the American Civil Liberties Union of Arizona documented dozens... [read post]
2 Aug 2022, 2:00 am by Guest Author
American democracy after the civil war becomes a new democracy that at the very least encompasses, and at best requires, the primacy of substantive equality as a governmental project. [read post]
31 Jul 2022, 5:53 am by Bill Henderson
  Surveying the geopolitical landscape, including the market-based reforms being implemented in China and the former Soviet Union, Fukuyama concluded that there were no longer any “viable systematic alternatives to Western liberalism. [read post]
27 Jul 2022, 10:35 am by Guest Author
Though Novak has much to say about a common democratic litmus test—namely, the extension of civil rights to African Americans—he is relatively uninterested in electoral politics and social movements. [read post]
27 Jul 2022, 9:49 am by Michael Froomkin
[…] He earned his […] law degree, cum laude, from Notre Dame Law School. [ … ] He has served as a Guardian ad Litem in the Eleventh Judicial Circuit, and a guest lecturer for the Cuban American Bar Association’s Civility and Professionalism Committee, […] and for local universities. [read post]
27 Jul 2022, 7:53 am by Kyle Hulehan
Concerns over the resulting enforcement of the proposed menthol sales ban caused the American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey to caution against implementation of a ban. [read post]
27 Jul 2022, 5:01 am by Irina Manta, Cassandra Burke Robertson
The American Civil Liberties Union has supported the American Samoans’ litigation, explaining that “[t]hey can’t be court reporters in Utah, optometrists in New Mexico, or funeral home directors in Oklahoma, to name a few of the professions into which they’re barred entry. [read post]
26 Jul 2022, 9:05 pm by Daniella Cass
Over two dozen policy groups, including the American Civil Liberties Union, wrote an open letter last year to FDA arguing that the menthol ban will result in criminalization of the cigarette market, which will disproportionately harm people of color. [read post]
23 Jul 2022, 7:35 am by Ilya Somin
To it credit, the ACLU - which is generally sympathetic to gun control, opposes SB 1327 because of the danger of extending the SB 8 model: The American Civil Liberties Union California Action opposed the measure precisely because it is modeled after Texas' abortion law, warning that it "would set a dangerous legal precedent" and legitimize models like SB 8. [read post]
19 Jul 2022, 12:56 pm by Ashley Belanger
This week, the American Civil Liberties Union released thousands of heavily redacted pages of documents that provide a "glimpse" of how DHS agencies came to leverage "a shocking amount" of location data, apparently purchasing data without following proper protocols to ensure they had the authority to do so. [read post]
15 Jul 2022, 12:23 pm by Anastasia Boden and Elizabeth Slattery
He has repeatedly urged Americans to learn about the nation’s history, its founding documents, and the Civil Rights movement. [read post]
Plaintiffs in the case include the Center for Reproductive Rights, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Arizona, the Arizona Medical Association, the Arizona National Council of Jewish Women, Arizona NOW, and two abortion providers, Dr. [read post]
12 Jul 2022, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
As Sot Barber, Stephen Macedo, and Jim Fleming argue, “positive constitutionalism is neither new nor inconsistent with American traditions” and properly moves from thinking not only about “negative liberties” but also about positive ends. [read post]
8 Jul 2022, 9:34 am by Corene Kendrick
Plaintiffs in the case are represented by the American Civil Liberties Union’s National Prison Project, the ACLU of Arizona, Prison Law Office, Arizona Center for Disability Law, and the law firm of Perkins Coie LLP. [read post]