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1 Aug 2011, 11:52 am
The ACLU is currently working to overturn an example of this kind of legislation in Oklahoma. [read post]
8 Nov 2011, 8:13 am
The ACLU of Northern California and the National Lawyers' Guild sent a public records request about OPD's use of force on the night of October 25, 2011 on demonstrators supporting Occupy Oakland. [read post]
19 Mar 2015, 9:10 am
[JURIST] The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the New York Civil Liberties Union [advocacy websites] filed [complaint, PDF] a lawsuit in federal court on Thursday in an effort to obtain documents from the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) [official website] regarding their behavior detection program used in airports across the country to spot suspect travelers. [read post]
4 Sep 2007, 1:36 am
[JURIST] The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) [advocacy website] on Tuesday released new documents describing crimes committed by US soldiers against civilians [press release; document log] in Iraq and Afghanistan which show a pattern of US troops failing to follow the laws of interrogations and deadly actions, but also a pattern of troops believing they were in fact following the law in [read post]
12 May 2012, 6:04 am
[JURIST] The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) [advocacy website] on Thursday filed a compliant [text, PDF] with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) [official website] seeking a federal investigation into allegations of abuse of individuals at ports of entries (POEs) along the U.S. [read post]
26 Feb 2018, 11:50 am
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) [advocacy website] filed a lawsuit [complaint, PDF] in the US District Court for the Southern District of California on Monday challenging the Trump administration's policy of separating asylum-seeking immigrant parents from their children. [read post]
16 Mar 2016, 11:54 am
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) [advocacy website] reached a settlement [agreement, PDF] with the city of Biloxi, Mississippi, on Tuesday in a lawsuit alleging that the detention of defendants unable to pay fines for misdemeanor charges exhibited deliberate indifference to their constitutional rights. [read post]
24 Jun 2016, 2:29 pm
The ACLU contends that the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), through HHS, has approved grants to the US Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), and other groups with similarly held religious or... [read post]
23 Oct 2017, 10:40 am
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) [advocacy website] asked [press release] the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit [official website] on Monday to reconsider the denial of an abortion for a pregnant 17-year-old, identified as Jane Doe, being held in a Texas immigration facility. [read post]
10 Nov 2009, 1:00 pm
Today, the ACLU filed a lawsuit on behalf of Amir Meshal, an American citizen who was arrested and secretly imprisoned in Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia for four months. [read post]
13 Nov 2014, 11:07 am
[JURIST] The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), along with United Sikhs [advocacy websites], filed a lawsuit [complaint, PDF] on Wednesday against the US Army [official website] for refusing to allow a Sikh college student to enlist in the Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) program unless he shaves his beard, removes his turban, and cuts his hair. [read post]
12 Apr 2018, 1:33 pm
The ACLU of Massachusetts [advocacy website] filed a class action lawsuit [text, pdf] Tuesday against President Trump and other administration officials on behalf of a Rhode Island resident and Guatemalan native, along with six similarly-situated plaintiffs, in the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts [official website]. [read post]
9 Sep 2011, 6:54 am
[JURIST] The American Civil Liberties Union of North Carolina Legal Foundation (ACLU-NCLF) [advocacy website] on Thursday filed a lawsuit [complaint, PDF] in the federal district court for the Eastern District of North Carolina challenging a North Carolina state law authorizing the use of pro-life license plates as a violation of the First Amendment [text]. [read post]
22 Mar 2012, 9:38 am
[JURIST] The American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania (ACLU-PA) [advocacy website] on Wednesday sued [complaint, PDF] the Solanco School District [school website] in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania on behalf of an 11-year-old girl who is required to submit to a drug test. [read post]
3 Feb 2014, 11:29 am
[JURIST] The Wisconsin branch of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) [official website] on Monday filed a lawsuit [complaint, PDF] in the US District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin [official website] challenging the state's ban on same-sex marriage. [read post]
23 Jul 2010, 8:05 am
[JURIST] The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) [advocacy website] filed a lawsuit [complaint, PDF] Thursday seeking to force Montana to provide legal status to same-sex relationships. [read post]
8 Dec 2011, 9:51 am
[JURIST] The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the Public Patent Foundation (PUBPAT) [advocacy websites] on Wednesday asked [cert. petition, PDF] the US Supreme Court [official website] to overturn a recent federal appeals court decision that upheld gene patents. [read post]
10 Jan 2017, 11:29 am
The ACLU released a statement [press release]:The nationwide injunction restrains the government from enforcing the regulation to prevent public and private healthcare providers, including hospitals and healthcare centers, from discriminating against transgender people and women.... [read post]
19 Mar 2015, 8:32 am
[JURIST] The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) [advocacy website] on Wednesday requested, as part of their ongoing suit [press release] against the bill, that a federal judge block an Alabama law allowing fetuses legal representation in cases when minors seek abortions. [read post]
5 Aug 2016, 12:00 pm
A state senator has joined with the ACLU of Maryland and the state’s largest teachers union in calling on Gov. [read post]
