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13 Feb 2023, 4:00 am
They perfectly understood the meaning of the language they used, and how it would be understood by others, and they knew that it would not in any part of the civilized world be supposed to embrace the negro race . . . . [read post]
4 Feb 2023, 3:57 pm
" This is today mainly remembered for its blistering condemnation of American slavery and hypocrisy about liberty. [read post]
2 Feb 2023, 3:57 pm
LOUIS — The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) today filed a friend-of-the-court brief in support of an appeal filed by the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press (RCFP). [read post]
26 Jan 2023, 12:38 pm
(Image: Innocence Project) In an effort to counter the guilty plea phenomena, the Innocence Project is working with a coalition of organizations, including the American Civil Liberties Union, the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc., the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and many more, to end the trial penalty — the substantial difference between the sentence offered in a plea deal prior to trial versus the sentence a person may… [read post]
25 Jan 2023, 8:00 am
Witness China and the former Soviet Union. [read post]
24 Jan 2023, 6:30 am
The political stresses caused by the nullification crisis in the 1830s or Dred Scott in the 1850s did not cause Americans to turn to amendments as solutions except just before the Civil War broke out. [read post]
19 Jan 2023, 8:00 am
The Court shifted the focus of constitutional law from political economy to civil liberties and civil rights, and a new generation of liberal lawyers and scholars learned to speak in the increasingly elaborate doctrinal language the Court devised to regulate those spheres. [read post]
10 Jan 2023, 6:17 am
When the declaration was issued, many civil society groups complained that they had not been adequately consulted during the negotiation process. [read post]
10 Jan 2023, 6:00 am
Two weeks after Ringer’s remarks, given in front of the Copyright Society of New York, the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, Civil Liberties, and the Administration of Justice would begin markup of S.22, leading to President Gerald Ford signing the bill into law October 19, 1976. [read post]
3 Jan 2023, 6:30 am
A century-and-a-half after the Civil War, some places in the South—and the American political system—remain scarred by the violence and destruction the South brought upon itself. [read post]
27 Dec 2022, 6:30 am
Just recall the sad fate of Lani Guinier when she was nominated by President Clinton to head the Office of Civil Rights within the Department of Justice. [read post]
19 Dec 2022, 9:05 pm
There have been many exciting case studies of these new technologies and their uses by regulators, including from the Administrative Conference of the United States, the American Civil Liberties Union, the Australian Productivity Commission, and the Australian Communications and Media Authority. [read post]
17 Nov 2022, 8:58 am
" … In contrast to other lawsuits challenging the act filed by the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund and the American Civil Liberties Union, FIRE's suit is limited to higher education and does not take a position on the truth of the prohibited concepts of race and sex. [read post]
4 Nov 2022, 6:11 am
First, an individual from a “qualifying state”—the list of which is to be determined by the Attorney General—may file a complaint with an appropriate public authority in that state, who will in turn submit the complaint to a Civil Liberties Protection Officer (CLPO) of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI). [read post]
29 Oct 2022, 3:44 pm
” The Liberty Justice Center and Momoko Takahashi make a similar argument. [read post]
6 Sep 2022, 8:54 am
Several news organizations and the American Civil Liberties Union of Arizona sued last month to prevent the law from going into effect, arguing it “creates an unprecedented and facially unconstitutional content-based restriction on speech about an important governmental function. [read post]
15 Aug 2022, 1:03 pm
Police used private network of 300 surveillance cameras to spy on George Floyd protests in 2020, plaintiffs tell appeals court.SAN FRANCISCO–San Francisco police violated the city’s surveillance technology law by tapping into a private surveillance camera network to spy on demonstrators protesting the 2020 police murder of George Floyd, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Northern… [read post]
9 Aug 2022, 12:29 pm
Schwarzenegger (9th Cir. 2011), the California same-sex marriage initiative case in which he participated while his wife, Ramona Ripston, was the head of the ACLU of Southern California: The chief basis for the recusal motion appears to be my wife's beliefs, as expressed in her public statements and actions, both individually and in her capacity as Executive Director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California (ACLU/SC). [read post]
4 Aug 2022, 7:14 am
Myriad and Gene Patenting As I document in my book The Genome Defense: Inside the Epic Legal Battle Over Who Owns Your DNA (New York: Algonquin, 2021), the Myriad case was brought by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the Public Patent Foundation (PubPat) in response to widespread complaints that individuals at high risk of having one or more deleterious BRCA mutations could not afford, or were otherwise ineligible to receive, the… [read post]
27 Jul 2022, 10:35 am
Though Novak has much to say about a common democratic litmus test—namely, the extension of civil rights to African Americans—he is relatively uninterested in electoral politics and social movements. [read post]
