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24 Aug 2022, 5:45 am by Chris Williams
* The ACLU is fighting an Arizona law that prevents citizens from recording police officers within 8 feet of them. [read post]
19 Jun 2013, 4:00 am by Howard Friedman
This policy and practice has a false and unconstitutional premise: that Muslim religious beliefs and practices are a basis for law enforcement scrutiny.The ACLU issued a press release announcing the filing of the lawsuit. [read post]
16 Mar 2014, 6:28 am by Howard Friedman
The ACLU announced on Friday the entry of a consent decree (full text) in Lane v. [read post]
19 Feb 2014, 11:25 am by Howard Friedman
The conference is co-sponsored by Harvard Law School, Williams Institute, ACLU, and USC Center for Law, History and Culture. [read post]
23 Nov 2016, 4:00 am by Howard Friedman
The ACLU and Freedom From Religion Foundation yesterday announced the filing of a lawsuit in Kentucky federal district court challenging the state's refusal to approve an atheist's request for a personalized license plate carrying the letters "IM GOD". [read post]
1 Aug 2024, 4:10 am by Howard Friedman
A press release from ACLU of Virginia elaborates on plaintiff's dismissal, saying in part:Liberty University officials read a termination notice aloud to Ellenor citing “denying biological and chromosomal sex assigned at birth” as the basis for her termination, stating a conflict with Liberty’s Doctrinal Statement that names “denial of birth sex by self-identification with a different gender” as a “sinful act prohibited by God. [read post]
6 Jun 2016, 4:15 am by Howard Friedman
 The complaint (full text) contends:With the passage and approval of that bill, the Legislature and the Governor breached the separation of church and state, and specifically endorsed certain narrow religious beliefs that condemn same-sex couples who get married, condemn unmarried people who have sexual relations, and condemn transgender people.Last month the ACLU filed a lawsuit challenging the new law (see prior posting) and plaintiffs in a suit that helped bring down the barriers to… [read post]
8 Jan 2014, 4:00 am by Howard Friedman
 In 2004 the ACLU objected and the county redesigned the seal to eliminate the cross and change other images on it. [read post]
19 Nov 2024, 5:58 am by Above the Law
[NPR] * After failing in its first attempt, Congress is again taking up law to give the president the power to retaliate against non-profits like the ACLU. [read post]
10 Mar 2013, 1:26 pm by Howard Friedman
The ACLU of Puerto Rico announced Friday that it has filed a lawsuit in federal court on behalf of a police officer who is an atheist who was harassed and demoted to handling menial tasks after he refused to participate in Christian prayer made a part of a workplace meeting by a police commander. [read post]
17 Jun 2022, 4:05 am by Howard Friedman
., filed 6/15/2022), contends that the Mississippi laws violate Section 208 of the Mississippi Constitution that provides:No religious or other sect or sects shall ever control any part of the school or other educational funds of this state; nor shall any funds be appropriated toward the support of any sectarian school, or to any school that at the time of receiving such appropriation is not conducted as a free school.The Mississippi ACLU issued a press release announcing the filing of the… [read post]
14 Aug 2016, 12:35 pm by Howard Friedman
The ACLU says that police should provide a number of non-religious drop-off alternatives, though the group has broader objections to the curfew as well. [read post]
1 Apr 2023, 8:18 am by ernst
Philippa Strum will receive the Spitzer Lifetime Achievement Award at the Bill of Rights Celebration of the District of Columbia Chapter of the ACLU on May 2. [read post]
30 Oct 2016, 9:45 am
Soon, in a lawsuit brought by Privacy International, the ACLU and eight other organizations, the influential European court of human rights will also weigh in on surveillance programs revealed by Snowden, and the result could have implications far beyond Europe. [read post]
29 Mar 2016, 4:00 am by Howard Friedman
The ACLU, Equality North Carolina and three individuals yesterday filed a federal lawsuit challenging a statute enacted last week in North Carolina which bars transgender individuals from using school and public agency bathrooms that correspond with their gender identity. [read post]
(Originally posted on the ACLU of Northern California's Bytes and Pieces blog.) [read post]
11 Apr 2018, 3:50 am by SHG
I never thought I would see the day when the ACLU was such craven hypocritical badge-lickers. [read post]