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4 Feb 2017, 4:30 am by Cyrus Farivar
Enlarge (credit: Aude Guerrucci - Pool/Getty Images) The American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California has also sued the Trump Administration over its recent executive order, which restricts entry into the country for people who hail from seven predominantly Muslim countries. [read post]
3 Feb 2017, 8:26 am by Lawrenz Fares
[JURIST] The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) [advocacy website] filed a class action lawsuit [complaint, PDF] Thursday accusing the Trump administration of violating the religious freedom of nationals from the seven nations named in President Donald Trump's immigration executive order [text]. [read post]
30 Jan 2017, 5:28 am
Soon enough, he got arrested:Shortly after Korematsu's arrest, Ernest Besig, the director of the American Civil Liberties Union in northern California, asked him whether he would be willing to use his case to test the legality of the Japanese American internment. [read post]
25 Jan 2017, 6:00 am by Cyrus Farivar
The proposed law was inspired by the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California’s successful efforts in 2015. [read post]
11 Jan 2017, 1:30 pm
” In this moment, the ACLU of Northern California saw an opportunity to educate the public about the danger HUAC posed to American ideals of freedom, democracy, and dissent. [read post]
29 Dec 2016, 9:30 pm by Griffin Davis
” JULY In one of the largest consumer class action payouts in American history, Volkswagen agreed to pay up to $14.7 billion in two related settlements—one with the United States and California, and one with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC)—arising out of allegations made by the U.S. [read post]
14 Nov 2016, 12:25 am by INFORRM
The director of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has called Trump’s proposed policies ‘unlawful and unconstitutional’. [read post]
3 Nov 2016, 11:41 am by Emelina Perez
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Northern California [advocacy website] filed the lawsuit [complaint, PDF] on Monday against California Secretary of State Alex Padilla [official profile], arguing that photographing one's ballot is a form of political speech protected under the First Amendment [LII materials] of the US Constitution. [read post]
25 Aug 2016, 9:30 pm by Justin Daniel
District Court for the Northern District of Texas issued a nationwide injunction in response to a lawsuit brought by eleven states, blocking the guidance because the federal government failed to fulfill the notice and comment requirements of the Administrative Procedure Act and because the guidance is not a legal directive under Title IX—a decision hailed by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who called the guidance an “illegal federal overreach,” but criticized by a… [read post]
18 Mar 2016, 12:29 pm by Alex R. McQuade
Cameroon soldiers killed 20 Boko Haram militants on Wednesday during a raid in northern Nigeria. [read post]
10 Dec 2015, 4:46 pm by Riana Pfefferkorn
That’s why we joined the American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Northern California today in filing a Freedom of Information Act request to the DOJ, asking for more information about the 70 unlocking orders it acknowledged in open court. [read post]
9 Dec 2015, 3:30 pm by Elina Saxena
Turkey is calling for increased levels of support to moderate rebel forces and for the creation of safe zones in northern Syria. [read post]
23 Oct 2015, 12:42 pm by Elina Saxena, Quinta Jurecic
The Journal theorizes that Putin may have been referring to the Syrian Kurdish forces fighting in northern Syria, though his comments remain unclear. [read post]
9 Jun 2015, 9:13 am by ProBonoGA
  The core of the story follows: A court policy of making Valley traffic offenders pay fees upfront in order to challenge a ticket in court is unconstitutional and unfairly impacts low-income residents, the associate director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California said Friday. [read post]
16 Mar 2015, 4:52 am by SHG
” said Linda Lye, a lawyer for the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California, which in 2013 sued the Justice Departmentto force it to disclose more about the technology. [read post]
10 Mar 2015, 10:30 am by Dave Maass
What: Oral Arguments in American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Southern California et al .v. [read post]
20 Nov 2014, 10:36 am by LTA-Editor
Jameel Jaffer, the deputy legal director for the American Civil Liberties Union, responded to the lawsuit by saying that “Twitter is doing the right thing by challenging this tangled web of secrecy rules and gag orders. [read post]
18 Nov 2014, 2:27 pm by Dave Maass
Harris, a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Northern California and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) in 2012. [read post]
12 Nov 2014, 6:45 am by Cyrus Farivar
green kozi New research from two American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) affiliates definitively shows local law enforcement surveillance technology spreading throughout California—with hardly any public oversight. [read post]
8 Sep 2014, 2:35 pm by Stanley Radtke
Holder, a class action lawsuit in which the Asian Law Caucus and the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California challenged the ICE's practice in California of detaining certain immigrants without bond, often for many months, while they face deportation proceedings. [read post]