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5 Jun 2018, 4:11 am by Edith Roberts
” Additional coverage comes from Kevin Daley at The Daily Caller, Richard Wolf for USA Today, Josh Gerstein and Renuka Rayasam at Politico, Lydia Wheeler at The Hill, and Lawrence Hurley at Reuters, who reports that the court “declined to take up the administration’s request for disciplinary action against the American Civil Liberties Union lawyers who represented the girl,” and “allowed litigation to continue in lower courts… [read post]
10 May 2018, 11:27 am by Karen Gullo
Court Rejects DHS's Attempt to Have Case DismissedBoston, Massachusetts—The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), and the ACLU of Massachusetts won a court ruling today allowing their groundbreaking lawsuit challenging unconstitutional searches of electronic devices at the U.S. border to proceed—a victory for the digital rights of all international travelers. [read post]
10 May 2018, 5:56 am by Tracy Thomas
Wash Times, School May Make Bras Mandatory After Forcing Student to Cover Nipples with Band-Aids The American Civil Liberties Union stepped in this week to defend the choice of students at a Florida high school to go bra-free, saying the... [read post]
30 Apr 2018, 2:00 pm
Read the demand letter sent by the American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Florida to the School District of Manatee County. [read post]
26 Mar 2018, 3:15 pm
The American Civil Liberties Union firmly believes that legislatures can, consistent with the Constitution, impose reasonable limits on firearms sale, ownership, and use, without raising civil liberties concerns. [read post]
16 Mar 2018, 11:47 am by Scott Bomboy
The American Civil Liberties Union is asking for students to report instances of excessive punishment, claiming that “these forms of punishment far exceed those permitted by statute and are constitutionally suspect. [read post]
15 Mar 2018, 8:48 am by The Ansara Law Firm
However, the American Civil Liberties Union has expressed concern that black motorists were twice as likely as white drivers to be stopped by police for failure to wear seat belts, and there is concern about how the law would be fairly applied. [read post]
23 Feb 2018, 4:07 am by Edith Roberts
American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, Council 31, in which the court will consider whether an Illinois law allowing public-sector unions to charge nonmembers for collective-bargaining activities violates the First Amendment. [read post]
22 Feb 2018, 4:12 am by Edith Roberts
American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, Council 31, in which the court will consider whether an Illinois law allowing public-sector unions to charge nonmembers for collective-bargaining activities violates the First Amendment, noting that “[w]hile the current case applies only to state employees, the repercussions could affect unions nationwide. [read post]
26 Jan 2018, 1:38 pm by Karen Gullo
Eleven Travelers in Groundbreaking Case Face Substantial Risk of Future Unconstitutional SearchesBoston, Massachusetts—The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) urged a federal judge today to reject the Department of Homeland Security’s attempt to dismiss an important lawsuit challenging DHS’s policy of searching and confiscating, without suspicion or warrant, travelers’ electronic devices at… [read post]
3 Jan 2018, 8:34 am by Amy Howe
The American Civil Liberties Union, for example, predicts that a ruling for the government could have an outsized impact on lower-income drivers, who have often “come to depend on rental cars for everyday travel because they cannot afford to purchase their own vehicles,” and minorities, who are more likely both to rent cars and to be pulled over and searched while driving. [read post]
29 Dec 2017, 7:34 am by Ben
The Turtles ongoing tri-state litigation against SiriusXM over the satellite radio broadcaster's refusal to pay to broadcast pre-1972 sound recordings reached the the Florida Supreme Court, who looked again at Judge Darrin Gayle's decision which found in favour of SiriusXM and agreed that "There is no specific Florida legislation covering sound recording property rights, nor is there a bevy of case law interpreting common law copyright related to the arts"… [read post]
11 Dec 2017, 4:59 am by Diane Marie Amann
Babcock,* Clinical Professor of Law at Cornell Law School and Faculty Director of the Cornell Center on the Death Penalty Worldwide ► The UN Optional Protocol on the Abolition of the Death Penalty by Marc Bossuyt, Fellow at the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study, Emeritus Professor of the University of Antwerp, Emeritus President of the Constitutional Court of Belgium, and former Chairman of the UN Commission on Human Rights ► The Right to Life and the Progressive Abolition of the… [read post]
11 Dec 2017, 3:08 am by Scott Bomboy
American Civil Liberties Union, the Court said in a 5-4 decision that of two public-sponsored holiday displays in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, only one was permissible. [read post]
5 Dec 2017, 4:21 am by Edith Roberts
Garza, “[t]he American Civil Liberties Union on Monday called ‘baseless’ the U.S. [read post]
30 Nov 2017, 12:16 pm by David Greene
We also provided examples of how during the hurricanes in Houston, Florida, and Puerto Rico, and the firestorms in Sonoma and Napa, officials used social media to quickly disseminate evacuation orders, safe travel routes, and forecasts to the public. [read post]
16 Nov 2017, 4:11 am by Edith Roberts
American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, Council 31, in which the court will consider whether an Illinois law allowing public-sector unions to charge nonmembers for collective-bargaining activities violates the First Amendment, arguing that the case “finally provides the Court with a golden opportunity to restore the First Amendment liberties of the country’s public-sector workers. [read post]
13 Sep 2017, 3:37 pm by Cyrus Farivar
The plaintiffs are being represented by attorneys from the American Civil Liberties Union and the Electronic Frontier Foundation. [read post]
12 Sep 2017, 9:51 pm by karen
PT: Media Access Number: 866-564-2842, Code: 5147769 Boston, Massachusetts—The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) sued the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) today on behalf of 11 travelers whose smartphones and laptops were searched without warrants at the U.S. border. [read post]
18 Aug 2017, 6:23 am by Jim Sedor
District of Columbia: ACLU Sues Washington, D.C., Transit System for Removing Milo Yiannopoulos AdsLos Angeles Times – Matt Pearce | Published: 8/10/2017 The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is suing the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority for pulling or rejecting controversial ads, which the organization claims violates freedom of speech. [read post]