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12 Apr 2013, 9:29 am by Rahul Bhagnari, ACLU
On April 15th, there is a chance for the United States Supreme Court to correct this genetic injustice and remove the limitations to our DNA. [read post]
12 Apr 2013, 12:10 am by Helena Bottemiller
“This administration is wise to reject that path and to embrace the idea, even indirectly, that horses belong in the stable and not on the table,” said Wayne Pacelle, chief executive of the Humane Society of the United States, in the New York Times on Thursday. [read post]
11 Apr 2013, 8:32 am by Rahul Bhagnari, ACLU
You can read our testimony to the United States Patent and Trademark Office on the topic of how exclusive gene patenting impacts research and access to care. [read post]
10 Apr 2013, 8:24 pm by Larry Catá Backer
  What makes the report most troubling is the way in which state and enterprise appear to collude to produce a result, within a democratic state, that was once supposedly the hallmark of totalitarian and closed anti-democratic societies. [read post]
10 Apr 2013, 1:22 am
The International Environmental Law Interest Groups of the American Society of International Law and the European Society of International Law have issued a call for papers for a symposium on "The Changing Nature of International Environmental Law: Evolving Approaches of the United States and the European Union," to be held November 22-23, 2013, at the Graduate Institute in Geneva. [read post]
9 Apr 2013, 7:13 am by Rahul Bhagnari, ACLU
Like many social justice organizations, the ACLU of Florida, working in collaboration with the national ACLU Human Rights Program, will continue to engage in this process to raise issues that impact the lives of millions of people in the United States. [read post]
5 Apr 2013, 5:29 pm by Larry Catá Backer
Participants will use these two major events as a focal point for discussing the roles that corporations, civil society and states can all play in advancing the cause of human rights. [read post]
5 Apr 2013, 2:42 pm by Taryn Rucinski
The 60-page report available here discusses the following: Natural gas production in the United States has increased rapidly in recent years, growing by 23 percent from 2007 to 2012. [read post]
5 Apr 2013, 1:16 pm by Rahul Bhagnari, ACLU
An international human rights body is set to question the United States on its obligations under a key human rights treaty. [read post]
5 Apr 2013, 9:01 am by Rachel Sachs
Perry and United States v. [read post]
4 Apr 2013, 9:01 pm by John Dean
The Constitution further established fundamental standards for nationwide application (e.g., freedom of speech, religion, etc.), which largely apply as well to our smaller political units, typically established by constitutions or charters adopted by the people: states, counties, districts, cities, towns, villages, and neighborhoods—thus becoming national standards. [read post]
4 Apr 2013, 9:10 am by Rahul Bhagnari, ACLU
Yesterday, we filed a friend-of-the-court brief in the Supreme Court in a case called United States Agency for International Development v. [read post]
3 Apr 2013, 7:34 am by Rahul Bhagnari, ACLU
Some states are moving to end solitary confinement, a practice seen as a human rights violation by the international community. [read post]
30 Mar 2013, 3:50 am
So far we have presented this, in the case of legislation, as a general feature of human language; uncertainty at the borderline is the price to be paid for the use of general classifying terms in any form of communication concerning matters of fact. [read post]
29 Mar 2013, 6:38 am by Thaddeus Mason Pope, J.D., Ph.D.
Medical marijuana, a controlled substance, is illegal under federal law in the United States. [read post]
29 Mar 2013, 12:25 am by Helena Bottemiller
“This study adds to the extensive scientific research supporting the connection between the overuse of antibiotics – 80% of which are used on otherwise healthy animals in the United States – and the development of antibiotic resistant bacteria,” said Slaughter, in the letter addressed to FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg. [read post]
27 Mar 2013, 10:02 pm by Dan Flynn
Elements typically found in an “ag-gag” bill, according the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) include: Banning taking a photo or video of a factory farm without permission, Essentially making it a crime for an investigator to get work at a factory farm, or Requiring mandatory reporting with impossibly short timelines so that no pattern of abuse can be documented. [read post]
27 Mar 2013, 10:15 am by VALL Blog Master
Jury decision making: the state of the science. [read post]