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27 Jun 2014, 2:52 pm
(Two coalition letters, here and here, sent to key members of the Senate yesterday detail the concerns of a broad coalition of organizations, including the ACLU.) [read post]
1 May 2014, 12:26 pm
While the ACLU Racial Justice Program continues to work toward improving the many economic injustices people of color face — by holding Morgan Stanley accountable for orchestrating predatory loans prior to the 2008 financial crisis and investigating debtors' prisons that have led to the incarceration of poor people unable to pay criminal justice debts — a federal minimum wage raise by Congress has the potential to lessen racial wealth inequality as a whole. [read post]
14 Sep 2017, 10:00 am
On August 28, the ACLU sued the president and the Department of Defense for violating the constitutional rights of transgender service members. [read post]
11 Apr 2014, 12:21 pm
Speaking on behalf of EFF, the American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of the Nation's Capital, Public Citizen and Public Knowledge, EFF Intellectual Property Director Corynne McSherry will urge the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia to reverse a district court decision that allowed the plaintiff to seek identifying information for thousands of "John Does" without complying with basic procedural rules. [read post]
10 Dec 2014, 10:24 am
Contrary to the urgings of the ACLU and others, the FAA provided no baseline privacy standards for the sites. [read post]
29 Jun 2021, 5:55 am
The ACLU also follows legislation affecting LGBTQ+ rights across the country, including anti-LGBTQ bills, religious exemption bills, bills pre-empting local protections, and LGBTQ equality bills.Need help with research on LGBTQ+ laws? [read post]
6 Dec 2022, 3:33 pm
Although the legal issues in Taamneh primarily center on how federal courts should interpret the ATA’s language,the Ninth Circuit’s broad interpretation would have dangerous implications for the First Amendment rights of internet users and the platforms hosting their speech, according to a friend-of-the-court brief filed by EFF, the Center for Democracy & Technology, the ACLU, the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia… [read post]
22 Jan 2019, 11:00 am
In a similar vein, the ACLU is currently representing researchers who are asserting their First Amendment right to submit false information online as part of testing websites to uncover algorithmic discrimination in housing and employment opportunities. [read post]
22 Aug 2019, 11:30 am
This was a flagrant violation of Torres’ constitutional rights, and this week the ACLU of Louisiana sued on his behalf. [read post]
7 Mar 2016, 12:15 pm
” The ACLU also filed a brief, along with other civil rights organizations such as the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights and the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, to highlight an important lesson of history: As our society has moved toward greater equality for racial minorities and women, it has increasingly and properly rejected the idea that religion can be used as justification for discrimination in the marketplace. [read post]
17 Apr 2013, 10:43 am
Last week when the ACLU of the Nation's Capital filed a civil complaint for damages against a Metropolitan Police Officer on behalf of T.P., news stations clamored to hear the story of the alleged assault. [read post]
21 May 2019, 1:28 pm
You may recall that in December 2018, a magistrate judge here in the Northern District of California issued an unfavorable report and recommendation (R&R) on the petition my colleague Jennifer Granick (now at the ACLU) and I filed back in September 2016. [read post]
26 Feb 2020, 8:41 am
The ACLU sued in December, and last week, we argued in federal court that the policy should be declared illegal and ended immediately. [read post]
16 Feb 2016, 2:15 pm
Last week the ACLU responded on behalf of our clients, Suleiman Abdullah Salim, Mohamed Ahmed Ben Soud, and the family of Gul Rahman. [read post]
11 Aug 2014, 1:45 pm
That's why the ACLU has written a letter to the South Carolina Board of Education urging it to reject this effort to inject religion into the science curriculum by falsely undermining evolution. [read post]
18 Mar 2013, 11:38 am
The Supreme Court has been inundated with legal briefs from "friends of the court" supporting the ACLU's argument that DOMA is unconstitutional. [read post]
8 Jan 2014, 6:36 am
The charges arise from an incident—now subject of a lawsuit by the ACLU of Nebraska—that started when a man, Octavius Johnson, questioned why his family’s cars were being towed, and ended up with excessive force, a warrantless search and seizure, and the charges mentioned above. [read post]
15 May 2018, 12:00 pm
The good news is it will likely be blocked before it ever goes into effect because the ACLU of Iowa, Planned Parenthood, and the Emma Goldman Clinic are suing and a similar ban from North Dakota was previously struck down. [read post]
23 Mar 2018, 1:30 pm
That’s why the ACLU of Nevada is stepping in to defend him. [read post]
3 Sep 2015, 1:45 pm
The case was brought by our colleagues at the ACLU on behalf of Wikimedia—the non-profit that operates Wikipedia—and a broad spectrum of other media, human rights and legal organizations. [read post]
