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6 Oct 2008, 10:04 pm
The American Civil Liberties Union says that the county's ordinance, passed last October, "not only violates sex offenders' constitutional right against increased after-the-fact punishment and other federal and state laws, but that it interferes with Pennsylvania's carefully... [read post]
8 Sep 2008, 10:29 pm
Speaking at a gay legal conference in San Francisco on Saturday afternoon, Coles, who heads the Lesbian and Gay Rights Project of the New York-based American Civil Liberties Union, predicted the battle for gay marriage would move from the courts to state legislatures coast to coast. [read post]
22 Oct 2008, 5:16 pm
Government agents should not have the right to stop and question Americans anywhere without suspicion within 100 miles of the border, the American Civil Liberties Union said Wednesday, pointing attention to the little known power of the federal government to set up immigration checkpoints far from the nation's border lines. [read post]
18 Oct 2011, 8:48 am by Alexandra Malatesta
The lawsuit [complaint, PDF; JURIST report], brought by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) [advocacy website] and other human rights groups, contests the provision requiring abortion providers to show women ultrasounds prior to performing the procedure. [read post]
9 Nov 2010, 6:59 am
Counsel for the plaintiffs, including Awlaqi's father, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) [advocacy websites] argued against the government's right to kill any US citizen labeled a terrorist... [read post]
6 Aug 2012, 5:23 am by Christopher D. Walsh
The New Jersey Branch of the Americans Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has created a new app that will allow users to discreetly monitor and record police activity. [read post]
9 Jul 2014, 10:25 am by David Kravets
In response, 44 groups ranging from the American Civil Liberties Union to the United Church of Christ sent a blistering letter (PDF) to President Barack Obama urging the White House to respond to the 1960s- and 1970s-style monitoring that once targeted African American civil rights groups. [read post]
6 Jul 2007, 8:08 am
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit holds that the American Civil Liberties Union and its co-plaintiffs lack standing to challenge the National Security Administration's interception without warrants of certain telephone and email communications: You can access today's ruling, by a divided three-judge panel, at this link. [read post]
9 May 2017, 8:31 am by Steve Lubet
There may be no subject among American historians more fully discussed than the events that led to the Civil War. [read post]
29 Oct 2010, 5:25 pm
With the help of the American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana, the two families argue that health officials are interpreting this law in such a way to make their children legally illegitimate. [read post]
10 Oct 2006, 12:20 am
[JURIST] The Mississippi American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) [advocacy website] filed a lawsuit [press release] Monday challenging a list of felony crimes which prevent convicted individuals from voting in the state. [read post]
26 Jul 2013, 1:26 am by Jon Gelman
As an immigrant, as an African American woman, as a civil rights attorney and as a deaf person, the ADA is more than just a law. [read post]
21 Mar 2013, 9:09 am by Rahul Bhagnari, ACLU
Perry, the Justices will consider the constitutionality of Proposition 8, a 2008 referendum that stripped same-sex couples in California of their fundamental right to marry by limiting state-recognized marriages to unions between a man and a woman. [read post]
17 Sep 2013, 1:43 am by Gilles Cuniberti
In 2013, the European Law Institute (ELI) and UNIDROIT agreed to work together in order to adapt the 2004 Principles of Transnational Civil Procedure developed by the American Law Institue and UNIDROIT from a European perspective and develop European Rules of Civil Procedure. [read post]
6 Jan 2020, 4:00 am by Public Employment Law Press
 Danny Donohue, as President of the Civil Service Employees Association, Inc., Local 1000, AFSCME, AFL-CIO, and others [Plaintiffs] filed suit against the Authority alleging that the termination of union-represented employees violated the employees' First Amendment right of association. [read post]
25 Mar 2015, 4:49 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
Christopher Soghoian is a TED Fellow, and the principal technologist at the American Civil Liberties Union, where he monitors the intersection of federal surveillance and citizen’s rights. [read post]
9 Apr 2012, 8:10 am by Suzanne Ito
   Why cell-phone tracking should require a warrant [SF Gate] "The American Civil Liberties Union released a troubling report this past weekend demonstrating that law enforcement agencies around the nation routinely track personal cell phones, often without warrants. [read post]
2 Dec 2010, 3:03 pm by Andrew Koppelman
§§ 37:1-28 to -36 (West Supp. 2009) (civil union); OR. [read post]
26 Mar 2013, 7:38 am
But we felt it was really important to do equal rights under the law for every single American, and Vermont is the only state in the country where everybody has the same rights as everyone else.... [read post]
18 Jul 2016, 4:00 am by Lyonette Louis-Jacques
The Organization of American States’ Department of International Law Family and Child Law Network has OAS member state civil codes as well as separate family codes. [read post]