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14 Mar 2008, 9:28 am
And, every few years, the American Civil Liberties Union will sue the Tangipahoa Parish School Board in Louisiana. [read post]
5 Nov 2015, 11:00 am
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) [advocacy website] filed a lawsuit [complaint, PDF] on Wednesday challenging a new Louisiana criminal law that requires websites to implement age-verification systems to protect material that may be harmful to any minor. [read post]
16 Aug 2011, 12:33 pm
[JURIST] The American Civil Liberties Union of Louisiana (ACLU) [advocacy website] on Tuesday filed a complaint [text, PDF] in federal court seeking to block a new Louisiana law [HB 55, R.S. [read post]
7 Oct 2007, 1:51 am
In American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Louisiana v. [read post]
18 May 2007, 1:47 am
The Louisiana chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union announced yesterday that it had filed yet another lawsuit against the Tangipahoa Parish School Board, this time to stop the Board from allowing the distribution of Gideon Bibles to students on school property during the school day. [read post]
4 Mar 2008, 2:12 pm
Two years later, reports of police abuse, racial profiling, housing discrimination and other civil liberties violations were still pouring into our Louisiana affiliate. [read post]
13 Jan 2009, 11:46 am
The Times-Picayune reports: The American Civil Liberties Union agreed Thursday to settle a lawsuit it filed against the state of Louisiana over unrestricted government payments to churches.The ACLU's Louisiana chapter said the settlement agreement bars the state from funneling taxpayer money without conditions to selected churches that offer non-religious social services. . . . [read post]
1 Apr 2022, 6:56 am
In response, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LFD), American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), ACLU of Louisiana, and law firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Warton & Garrison filed a lawsuit. [read post]
7 Apr 2020, 11:30 am
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a class action lawsuit on Monday against the director of the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) and the warden of Oakdale Federal Detention Centers in Louisiana seeking “the release of people who are incarcerated and at high risk for serious illness or death in the event of COVID-19 infection due to age and/or underlying medical conditions. [read post]
15 Jan 2016, 10:11 am
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) [advocacy website] and the ACLU of Louisiana [advocacy website] filed a class action lawsuit [complaint] on Thursday against the New Orleans Public Defenders Office and the Louisiana Public Defender Board [official websites] due to the lack of available public defenders for individuals with no access to an attorney. [read post]
27 Jan 2009, 1:18 pm
The American Civil Liberties Union of Louisiana joined the East Baton Rouge Parish Federation of Teachers in challenging the legality of the parish school board's drug testing policy.An agreement filed Thursday in federal court calls for the school board to refrain from such testing unless it has a reasonable suspicion that a teacher was under the influence of drugs or alcohol while injured on the job.That agreement will remain in effect pending the… [read post]
27 Jan 2009, 1:18 pm
The American Civil Liberties Union of Louisiana joined the East Baton Rouge Parish Federation of Teachers in challenging the legality of the parish school board's drug testing policy.An agreement filed Thursday in federal court calls for the school board to refrain from such testing unless it has a reasonable suspicion that a teacher was under the influence of drugs or alcohol while injured on the job.That agreement will remain in effect pending the… [read post]
13 Jan 2009, 11:46 am
The Times-Picayune reports: The American Civil Liberties Union agreed Thursday to settle a lawsuit it filed against the state of Louisiana over unrestricted government payments to churches.The ACLU's Louisiana chapter said the settlement agreement bars the state from funneling taxpayer money without conditions to selected churches that offer non-religious social services. . . . [read post]
27 Jan 2009, 1:18 pm
The American Civil Liberties Union of Louisiana joined the East Baton Rouge Parish Federation of Teachers in challenging the legality of the parish school board's drug testing policy.An agreement filed Thursday in federal court calls for the school board to refrain from such testing unless it has a reasonable suspicion that a teacher was under the influence of drugs or alcohol while injured on the job.That agreement will remain in effect pending the… [read post]
14 Oct 2020, 9:50 am
Make sure you know where the candidates are on key civil liberties and civil rights issues. [read post]
13 Jan 2009, 11:46 am
The Times-Picayune reports: The American Civil Liberties Union agreed Thursday to settle a lawsuit it filed against the state of Louisiana over unrestricted government payments to churches.The ACLU's Louisiana chapter said the settlement agreement bars the state from funneling taxpayer money without conditions to selected churches that offer non-religious social services. . . . [read post]
15 Jul 2016, 5:59 am
Local groups and the American Civil Liberties Union of Louisiana [advocacy website] filed a lawsuit [complaint, PDF] Wednesday against the Baton Rouge Police Department for violating the First Amendment rights of protestors who were peacefully protesting the police killing of Alton Sterling [press release]. [read post]
11 Aug 2006, 2:01 am
[JURIST] The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) [advocacy website] and other rights organizations have called [letter, DOC] for a "full and immediate investigation into abuses at Louisiana correctional facilities" during and after Hurricane Katrina [JURIST news archive] last year. [read post]
21 May 2007, 6:57 pm
"Appeals court to hear prayer issue; School Board, ACLU at odds": The Advocate of Baton Rouge, Louisiana today contains an article that begins, "Attorneys for the Tangipahoa Parish School Board and the American Civil Liberties Union head to a federal appeals court in New Orleans on Tuesday to argue whether board meetings can be opened with sectarian prayer. [read post]
8 Sep 2009, 7:17 pm
Domoine Rutledge, General Counsel, East Baton Rouge Parish School System Michael and Ellain Ellerbe, Refined by Fire Ministries Georgia Noone-Sherrod, Deputy Director, American Civil Liberties Union (Wash, D.C.) [read post]
