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21 Mar 2025, 9:00 am
Fishman Professor of Constitutional Law / Suzanne Young Murray Professor, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University Afternoon Break (Lunch) 12:05 - 1:00 PM Paper #3: Civil Rights and the Constitution … [read post]
24 Feb 2014, 9:51 am
The ACLU will submit written testimony for the hearing. [read post]
19 Sep 2016, 2:01 pm
The majority, however, said:Nowhere did the [Supreme] Court say anything that could reasonably be construed as a requirement that outside or retained clergy are the only constitutionally permissible givers of legislative prayer.Judge Wilkinson, dissenting, said in part:This combination of legislators as the sole prayer-givers, official invitation for audience participation, consistently sectarian prayers referencing but a single faith, and the intimacy of a local governmental setting exceeds even a… [read post]
19 Oct 2012, 11:12 am
The ACLU helps represent the plaintiff in Windsor, and provides a very complete page of documents for that case here.The thing that is building excitement about the growing number of challenges to DOMA is the certainty that the Supreme Court will pick up one or another of these cases on appeal. [read post]
23 Sep 2020, 8:09 am
In this week’s episode of At the Polls, we answer voters’ questions about absentee voting along with Joyce Harris, a veteran employee who has been with the USPS for more than 30 years, and Bobby Hoffman, the deputy director of the ACLU’s Democracy Division -— and coincidentally, a former letter carrier for USPS. [read post]
29 Oct 2014, 3:35 am
[Click here to see the rest of this post]Found onRelated articlesCuomo and Christie Order Strict Ebola Quarantines (workers-compensation.blogspot.com)ACLU demands Christie give legal reason for quarantining nurse who's tested negative for Ebola (workers-compensation.blogspot.com)Quarantined nurse to CNN: 'My basic human rights' are being violated (workers-compensation.blogspot.com)NJ quarantines NBC crew that worked with Ebola-stricken cameraman… [read post]
22 Sep 2015, 11:28 am
Yesterday, EFF and the ACLU filed a friend-of-the-court brief (press release) defending the Federal Communications Commission’s net neutrality rules in the federal Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. [read post]
10 Jan 2024, 4:00 am
In a Release (full text) criticizing the new Rule, Alliance Defending Freedom said in part:In its rule, HHS suggests it will continue its misguided use of the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act to require doctors to perform abortions even though that federal law has no abortion requirement, and conscience laws provide no exception allowing forced performance of abortion.In a Release (full text) commending the Biden Administration for the Rule change, the ACLU said in part:The… [read post]
18 Mar 2016, 4:05 am
In ACLU of North Carolina v. [read post]
5 May 2016, 4:10 am
As reported by Alabama Media Group, the ACLU was already planning a legal challenge, and the city attorney had warned that the ordinance as written might violate Title IX. [read post]
3 Apr 2014, 12:53 pm
Utah’s new law demonstrates that, as the ACLU has recommended, requiring a warrant for law enforcement to access metadata is sensible and workable policy. [read post]
24 Jul 2013, 12:37 pm
According to Allie Bohm, a speech privacy and technology policy strategist with the ACLU, Texas is the first state to enact a law protecting email content from warrantless searches. [read post]
18 Dec 2012, 1:06 pm
This sweeping surveillance program was enacted in secret, with no input from either the people or our representatives in Congress, and records that the ACLU has obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request make it clear that the program was controversial even among those who knew about it. [read post]
17 Nov 2024, 7:08 am
The right to self-determination thus protects Kentuckians’ power to control whether to continue or terminate their own pregnancies.The Kentucky ACLU issued a press release announcing the filing of the lawsuit. [read post]
30 Dec 2022, 4:10 am
The Department is seeking public comment on the proposal to retain certain provisions of the 2019 Final Rule, including on any alternative approaches for ensuring compliance with the conscience protection laws....The ACLU issued a press release calling the HHS Notice "an important first step toward repealing the most harmful aspects of this dangerous rule. [read post]
22 Jul 2015, 6:45 am
The ACLU joined calls this month for the state of South Carolina to unhook the “Southern Cross”—a Confederate battle flag—from the flagpole at the state capitol and permanently remove the flag from the seat of its government. [read post]
28 Nov 2012, 4:39 am
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), and the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL) have filed an amicus brief, arguing that Jones requires a warrant for installation of and monitoring with a GPS device and that the good faith doctrine only saves evidence when binding precedent existed at the time of the installation. [read post]
13 Feb 2014, 4:10 am
Yesterday, the ACLU announced that has filed a state court lawsuit on behalf of 8 Missouri same-sex couples challenging Missouri's statutory and state constitutional provisions that deny recognition to plaintiffs' marriages that were legally entered into in other jurisdictions. [read post]
2 May 2013, 11:37 am
While on one hand, one must recognize that visiting a jail is not the same thing as visiting a restaurant or a movie theater (pointed out by a spokesman for the Los Angeles Country Sheriff); on the other hand, increasing awareness of mistreatment and poor conditions in prisons and jails is recognized as "a positive thing" by the director of the National Prison Project of the ACLU. [read post]
21 Jun 2018, 1:57 pm
"Earlier this week, the American Library Association mentioned a whole list of other organizations fighting the Trump administration's cruel anti-immigrant policy: “We express our sincere appreciation and stand in solidarity with those of like mind including ACLU, Al Otro Lado, Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project, Border Angels, CARA Family Detention Pro Bono Project, Immigrant Defender's Law Network , KIND (Kids in Need of Legal Defense), Pueblo Sin Fronteras, REFORMA:… [read post]
