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21 Dec 2016, 7:21 am
The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit [official website] on Tuesday rejected [opinion, PDF] a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) [official website] request from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) [advocacy website] for information about the US government's use of drones for "targeted killings. [read post]
29 Jul 2010, 12:13 pm
[JURIST] The Obama administration is in danger of entrenching some of the most draconian aspects of the Bush administration's controversial national security policy, warns a new report, [text, PDF; press release] from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) [advocacy website] [press release] released Thursday. [read post]
13 Feb 2010, 5:07 am
This year’s honorees are: Frank Porter Graham Award – Jimmy Creech ACLU of North Carolina Award – Juvencio Rocha Peralta Paul Green Award – Jeremy Collins & Charmaine Fuller Cooper [read post]
31 Dec 2013, 11:14 am
[JURIST] The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) [advocacy website] on Monday announced that they had filed a lawsuit [complaint, PDF; press release] under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) [DOJ backgrounder] seeking information on the extent of governmental use and interpretation of Executive Order 12,333 [federal backgrounder], which permits US government surveillance abroad to protect national security. [read post]
12 Sep 2014, 7:53 am
[JURIST] The American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania (ACLU-PA) [advocacy website] filed a motion [text, PDF] Thursday on behalf of the Guardian, the the Philadelphia Inquirer, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and the Philadelphia City Paper [news websites] asking the US District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania [official website] to unseal court records which include information regarding the source of Pennsylvania's lethal injection drugs. [read post]
15 Nov 2014, 6:27 am
[JURIST] The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) [advocacy website] filed a petition for certiorari [PDF] on behalf of same-sex couples in Ohio with the US Supreme Court [official website] on Friday asking the court to resolve a circuit split on the issue of same-sex marriage. [read post]
4 Oct 2017, 9:31 am
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) [advocacy website] filed a lawsuit [complaint] in the US District Court for the District of Hawaii [official website] Tuesday against the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) [official website] related to regulations for the administration of the abortion pill Mifeprex. [read post]
15 Mar 2018, 11:46 am
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed [complaint] a federal lawsuit against the Trump administration Thursday for its "arbitrary detention" of asylum seekers. [read post]
14 Jun 2012, 3:31 pm
The ACLU filed a complaint in the Northern District of Indiana against the Griffith Public School district after it expelled three middle school girls for a lengthy conversation they had on Facebook outside of school hours. [read post]
5 Jan 2012, 10:25 am
[JURIST] A judge for the US District Court for the District of Arizona [official website] on Wednesday granted an American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) [advocacy website] motion to dismiss a lawsuit [order, PDF] challenging Arizona's voter approved medical marijuana law, the Arizona Medical Marijuana Act [text, PDF]. [read post]
15 Jun 2011, 11:08 am
The ACLU's Brownbag Lecture Series starts up again on Wednesday, July 13 at noon, and continues every Wednesday at noon for four weeks. [read post]
17 Mar 2005, 1:46 am
[JURIST] The ACLU [advocacy website], Break the Chains [advocacy website], and the Brennan Center for Justice [official website] released a report Thursday indicating that America's war on drugs is inflicting deep and disproportionate harm on women, most of them mothers. [read post]
7 Mar 2010, 11:21 am
[JURIST] The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) [advocacy website] released a full-page advertisement [image] in the New York Times on Sunday, imploring President Barack Obama to fulfill his pledge to try suspected 9/11 [JURIST news archive] terrorists in federal courts. [read post]
31 Aug 2005, 12:57 pm
The ACLU and the [read post]
19 Oct 2016, 7:40 am
[JURIST] The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), along with the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights [advocacy websites] and 50 other interest groups, sent a letter [text] on Tuesday urging the US Department of Justice [official website] to investigate the increasing use of facial recognition technology. [read post]
13 May 2016, 8:20 am
[JURIST] The Florida American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) [official website] filed a lawsuit [complaint, PDF] against the Marion County school district on Thursday, challenging their bathroom policy as anti-transgender. [read post]
8 Apr 2016, 10:19 am
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and Planned Parenthood [advocacy websites] of Indiana filed suit against the state of Indiana on Thursday, challenging [complaint, PDF] the constitutionality of a recently-signed abortion law [bill, PDF] that would prevent abortions sought due to genetic abnormalities. [read post]
28 Mar 2008, 9:28 pm
District Court Judge Wiley Daniel has granted class certification in a case filed by the ACLU against the Garfield (Colorado) County Jail alleging various constitutional violations arising from jail treatment of prisoners. [read post]
19 Aug 2010, 8:51 am
[JURIST] The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) [advocacy website] on Wednesday filed a lawsuit [complaint, PDF; press release] against a number of federal agencies, including the Department of Justice (DOJ), State Department (DOS), FBI and CIA, seeking information related to the detention of US citizen Naji Hamdan in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in 2008. [read post]
13 Jul 2012, 9:11 am
[JURIST] The American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan (ACLU) [advocacy website] filed a lawsuit [complaint, PDF] on Thursday alleging that the Highland Park School District [official website] has violated state and federal law by failing to ensure that students are reading at grade level. [read post]
