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26 Oct 2018, 10:48 am
The ACLU filed suit to block the law’s enforcement last week. [read post]
11 Oct 2007, 11:45 am
The City of Los Angeles and the ACLU announced a settlement today in a case filed by six homeless people in 2003 over an ordinance that prohibits sleeping on sidewalks, and which had been used by the Los Angeles Police Department to roust the homeless from Skid Row. [read post]
12 Mar 2010, 1:23 pm
Today, the ACLU, Human Rights Watch and the Juvenile Law Center sent a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder and Defense Secretary Robert Gates calling on them to drop the military commissions case against Omar Khadr and either send him home to Canada, or send his case to U.S. federal criminal court. [read post]
7 Sep 2007, 6:08 am
So much information came out so quickly about TYC this spring it was hard to process it all, but this afternoon I was looking back at the "Blueprint for Girls" published May 22 by the national ACLU Women's Rights Project at the request of then-conservator Jay Kimbrough and found this grim paragraph (p. 8):Rather than being necessary to the mission of TYC, overly harsh rules, harshly enforced, actually interfere with girls' rehabilitation. [read post]
17 Apr 2009, 12:47 am
You can find the memos at the ACLU's website. [read post]
24 Aug 2010, 12:13 pm
The ACLU of Louisiana sent a letter (PDF) to parish Sheriff Jack Strain informing him that locking prisoners in these cages was inhumane and unconstitutional. [read post]
6 Nov 2008, 7:26 pm
The ACLU, Lambda Legal, and the National Center for Lesbian Rights have filed a suit challenging the validity of recently passed California Proposition 8. [read post]
17 May 2014, 6:05 am
Civil libertarians won victories last term in restraining open-ended use of police surveillance, search and seizure: access to emails and social media postings older than six months will now require warrant, as will location tracking; new restrictions also placed on use of automatic license plate reading system data [ACLU 2014 policy report] Bill that would have banned weapons on private school grounds, whether or not the school itself had objection, failed to make it out of committee [SB… [read post]
22 Aug 2018, 10:44 am
In 2003 the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) [advocacy website] filed a request under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) [text, PDF] for the release of photographs depicting torture at military detention facilities in Afghanistan and Iraq in the wake of September 11, 2001. [read post]
15 Jul 2011, 10:56 am
A new report on the state's death penalty system published by the ACLU of Northern California catalogs numerous intractable problems and waning public support which may lead to the end of capital punishment in the state. [read post]
18 Jun 2019, 9:07 am
In October 2017, the ACLU challenged the government’s policy that amounted to a “blanket abortion ban” on behalf of several undocumented minors in federal custody who were denied access to abortions. [read post]
3 Dec 2012, 5:42 am
The ACLU and other plaintiffs sued Myriad and the USPTO in 2009 claiming that Myriad’s patents to isolated genes are invalid as directed to non-statutory subject matter and in violation of the First Amendment to the Constitution. [read post]
22 Nov 2021, 6:53 pm
Gizmodo – Here’s Why and How – “Independent experts from NYU, UMass Amherst, Columbia, Marquette, and the ACLU are partnering with Gizmodo to responsibly publish this historic leak. [read post]
22 Mar 2011, 9:00 pm
Rick Scott's executive order requires quarterly drug tests; ACLU says courts have already found similar attempts unconstitutional by David Royse from the Orlando Sentinel: Gov. [read post]
8 Oct 2010, 4:00 am
ACLU of North Carolina announced Wednesday that it had filed a lawsuit in a North Carolina federal district court on behalf of 14-year old high school freshman Ariana Iacono and her mother challenging Clayton (NC) High School's refusal to grant Ariana an exemption from its dress code so she can wear a small nose stud for religious reasons. [read post]
23 Aug 2007, 4:48 pm
Las Vegas has been ordered by a federal court to stop enforcing its ordinance that prohibits people from feeding the homeless in city parks.But the permanent injunction issued by Judge Robert Jones today allows the city to continue to enforce trespassing laws in parks and to require permits for gatherings of more than 25 people.The ruling is the latest development in a 14-month-old federal court action that set the ACLU of Nevada and homeless advocates against the city.Gail Sacco, a… [read post]
18 Nov 2011, 11:24 am
In a single-page Order on Objections, Judge Lynn Hughes of the Southern District of Texas noted Professor Freiwald's amicus brief, along with a brief submitted by the EFF and ACLU, as an aid in arriving at his decision. [read post]
12 Mar 2008, 2:53 pm
Call me biased, but the best contribution in the book is written by our very own Laughlin McDonald, Director of the ACLU's Voting Rights Project. [read post]
14 Jan 2009, 12:26 am
The Mississippi Legislature is considering a law which would ban racial profiling in Mississippi (the ACLU has this information describing racial profiling). [read post]
18 Aug 2020, 10:01 am
The lawsuit was filed by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Idaho in April on behalf of Lindsay Hecox and three other students who are challenging the constitutionality of HB 500, which excludes transgender athletes from competing in school sports and places requirements on schools to “verify the student’s biological sex” in the event any athlete’s gender is “disputed. [read post]
