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1 Jul 2021, 5:00 am by Andrew Brockman
Ria Tabacco Mar, director of the American Civil Liberties Union’s Women’s Rights Project, said that only requiring men to register imposes a “serious burden on men that’s not being imposed on women. [read post]
30 Jun 2021, 9:05 pm by Scott Skinner-Thompson
As explained earlier this year by law professor Katie Eyer and in a recent lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union against the Arkansas medical care ban, such bans are unconstitutional under the Equal Protection Clause because they are born out of animus and discriminate against people on the basis of their sex and transgender status. [read post]
The subcommittee will hear testimony from Helen Butler, executive director at the Georgia Coalition for the People’s Agenda; Sophia Lin Lakin, Deputy Director of the American Civil Liberty Union’s Voting Rights Project; Maureen Riordan, litigation counsel at the Public Interest Legal Foundation; and James Tucker, of counsel at Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker LLP. [read post]
25 Jun 2021, 9:26 am by The Boyd Law Group, PLLC
Levy, represented by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), sued Mahanoy High School claiming the suspension was a violation of her First Amendment rights. [read post]
25 Jun 2021, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
District Court Judge Dabney Friedrich dismissed most claims filed by the American Civil Liberties Union of D.C. and others in lawsuits that accused the Trump administration of authorizing an unprovoked attack on demonstrators in Lafayette Square last year. [read post]
24 Jun 2021, 10:12 am by John Elwood
City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, it’s also a good time to be filing religious liberty petitions. [read post]
24 Jun 2021, 8:53 am by Ajay Sarma
On June 21, the United States District Court for the District of Columbia dismissed several claims in the overlapping suits filed by Black Lives Matter, the American Civil Liberties Union and others against former President Donald Trump, former Attorney General William Barr and a number of federal and local officers and agencies for the forcible clearing of protestors in Lafayette Square on June 1, 2020. [read post]
24 Jun 2021, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
Lash does include two small pieces of subsequent-interpretation debate: the 1869 effort by a few important Republicans to secure nationwide black voting under the Fourteenth Amendment, and the 1870 re-adoption and partial extension to non-citizens of the Civil Rights Act of 1866. [read post]
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) National Legal Director David Cole, who represented Levy, said that it was a “[b]eautiful day to win a big Supreme Court victory for the free-speech rights of 50 million students,” and thanked his ACLU team, and Levy for fighting. [read post]
23 Jun 2021, 9:56 am
The LOC collection contains "correspondence, memoranda, case files, speeches, lectures, writings, reports, interviews, briefs, orders, opinions, motions, depositions, and other papers relating chiefly to Ginsburg's efforts as an advocate for women's rights, particularly through her speeches and writings and her endeavors as general counsel to the American Civil Liberties Union and director of its Women's Rights Project. [read post]
23 Jun 2021, 6:07 am
The LOC collection contains "correspondence, memoranda, case files, speeches, lectures, writings, reports, interviews, briefs, orders, opinions, motions, depositions, and other papers relating chiefly to Ginsburg's efforts as an advocate for women's rights, particularly through her speeches and writings and her endeavors as general counsel to the American Civil Liberties Union and director of its Women's Rights Project. [read post]
22 Jun 2021, 1:11 pm by Ajay Sarma, Christiana Wayne
District Court for the District of Columbia were filed by the American Civil Liberties Union, Black Lives Matter and others. [read post]
20 Jun 2021, 9:08 pm by Cary Coglianese
As David Cole, the National Legal Director at the American Civil Liberties Union put it on Twitter, “ADF and others have long sought a First Amendment license to discriminate. [read post]
20 Jun 2021, 3:56 am by SHG
After Michael Powell’s scathing NYT article about the American Civil Liberties Union’s abandonment of its mission in favor of social justice, the knives came out. [read post]
19 Jun 2021, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
Congress started with securing the physical freedom of enslaved persons everywhere in the Union. [read post]
18 Jun 2021, 1:37 pm by Andrea Picciotti-Bayer
What’s more, the American Civil Liberties Union – an organization founded to defend civil liberties – represented intervenors who sided with the city. [read post]
18 Jun 2021, 6:30 am by ernst
The New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU), the national ACLU’s New York City affiliate, brought this case, Sontag v. [read post]
17 Jun 2021, 7:30 am by Sandy Levinson
  Kate Masur’s new book Until Justice Be Done makes it altogether clear that the “first American civil rights movement” focused at least as much on the mistreatment of “free Blacks” as on eliminating the undoubtedly even worse evils of chattel slavery. [read post]
15 Jun 2021, 9:42 am by Rebecca Jeschke
“More transparency into financial censorship helps civil liberties and human rights advocates see patterns of abuse,” said EFF Chief Program Officer Rainey Reitman. [read post]