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9 Oct 2019, 12:59 pm by lennyesq
REGINA GARCIA CANO , Associated Press *** But the American Civil Liberties Union says a growing number of officers have “cruelly twisted” the rules by detaining immigrant spouses following marriage interviews. [read post]
14 Dec 2004, 9:29 am
[JURIST] The American Civil Liberties Union will file a federal suit Tuesday against a Pennsylvania school district for requiring that ninth-grade biology students be instructed in "intelligent design" as an alternative to the theory of evolution. [read post]
30 May 2007, 2:08 pm
[JURIST] The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) [advocacy website] filed a lawsuit [press release] in the US District Court for the Northern District of California Wednesday against San Jose-based Boeing [corporate website] subsidiary Jeppesen Dataplan [corporate website], alleging that the airline service provider knowingly supported direct flights to secret CIA prisons, facilitating the [read post]
23 Aug 2012, 12:16 pm by Max Slater
[JURIST] The American Civil Liberties Union of Eastern Missouri (ACLU) [advocacy website] filed a lawsuit [complaint, PDF] in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri [official website] on Wednesday challenging the constitutionality of a Missouri law that makes it a crime to disturb a worship service. [read post]
30 Jan 2015, 10:24 am by Taylor Brailey
[JURIST] The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) [advocacy website] on Friday filed a lawsuit [press release] in federal court that effectively challenges debt collection practices that have resulted in the jailing of many low-income people. [read post]
23 Oct 2017, 6:41 am by Miracle Jones
The American Civil Liberties Union of Maryland (ACLU-MD) [advocacy website] on Friday filed a motion [text, PDF] to intervene in a lawsuit against the Board of Education of Frederick County [official website] over allowing transgender students to use the restroom of their choice. [read post]
31 Aug 2005, 3:52 am
[JURIST] Attorneys from the American Civil Liberties Union [advocacy website] are expected to file suit in federal court Wednesday, demanding the release of Numan Adnan Al Kaby, an Iraqi-born permanent US resident arrested and held in Baghdad since April 2005. [read post]
18 Feb 2006, 7:07 am
[JURIST] US District Judge Leonie Brinkema Friday added a former member of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) [advocacy website] to the pool of potential jurors who will decide between the death penalty or life in prison for 9/11 suspect Zacarias Moussaoui [JURIST news archive]. [read post]
28 Jun 2011, 7:00 am by Maureen Cosgrove
Judge Thomas Thrash issued a preliminary injunction at the request of the plaintiffs, including the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the National Immigration Law Center (NILC) [advocacy websites] and other rights groups, which filed a motion for preliminary injunction... [read post]
22 Mar 2012, 6:00 am by Rebecca DiLeonardo
In a statement [text], Executive Director of the American Civil Liberties Union of... [read post]
9 Nov 2006, 1:04 am
[JURIST] The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) [advocacy website] Wednesday applauded the resignation [JURIST report] of US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld [official profile] as a "step in the right direction" and urged Congress to launch an investigation [press release] into his alleged abuses of power. [read post]
25 Sep 2007, 6:27 pm
[JURIST] The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a lawsuit [complaint, PDF; press release] in federal court Tuesday against the US Department of State and the US Department of Homeland Security [official websites], alleging that the US government is illegally preventing South African scholar and professor Adam Habib [academic profile] from entering the country. [read post]
7 Oct 2011, 11:45 am by Ashley Hileman
The case against the CIA, brought by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) [advocacy website], sought a variety of... [read post]
17 Sep 2009, 10:12 pm
9-18-2009 Florida:A judge ruled that Miami-Dade's strict sex-offender residency law is valid and is not superseded by state law.The American Civil Liberties Union of Florida failed to persuade a Miami-Dade judge to undo strict local ordinances that forced a group of convicted sex offenders to live under the Julia Tuttle Causeway.In the suit, filed against Miami-Dade County, the ACLU argued [read post]
27 Aug 2016, 10:09 am by Ram Eachambadi
The case was brought to court against North Carolina Governor Patrick McCrory [official website] and state legislators Phil Berger [official website] and Tim Moore by three plaintiffs who were represented by the American Civil Liberties Union... [read post]
25 May 2012, 10:30 am by Steven
NCAC – “In a joint letter sent today (link to PDF), the National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC) partnered with the American Civil Liberties Union of Florida (ACLUFL) to urge Brevard County Commissioners to reinstate the best-selling erotic novel Fifty Shades of Grey to the Brevard public library system. [read post]
18 May 2005, 9:51 am
[JURIST] The American Civil Liberties Union [advocacy site] is joining four other groups to sue the FBI claiming the bureau ignored a Freedom of Information Act [text] request. [read post]
15 May 2008, 7:50 pm
[JURIST] Approximately 2,500 minors under the age of 18 have been detained as illegal enemy combatants by the US military at facilities in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Guantanamo Bay since 2002, according to a US government report [text, DOC; ACLU press release] made public Wednesday by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) [advocacy website]. [read post]
12 Aug 2005, 7:39 am
Hellerstein of the US District Court for the Southern District of New York [official website] has authorized the American Civil Liberties Union [advocacy website] to make public papers it filed on August 3 challenging the Pentagon claim that images of detainee abuse must not be released because they put US troops and officials at risk. [read post]
24 Jan 2018, 5:40 am by Sara E. Teller
An Idaho court has ruled that a lawsuit filed by the state’s American Civil Liberties Union over public defender funding can move to class action status. [read post]