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8 Mar 2021, 6:39 am by David Oscar Markus
§ 3661 to preclude a court of the United States from considering, except for purposes of mitigating a sentence, acquitted conduct at sentencing, andDefining “acquitted conduct” to include acts for which a person was criminally charged and adjudicated not guilty after trial in a Federal, State, Tribal, or Juvenile court, or acts underlying a criminal charge or juvenile information dismissed upon a motion for acquittal.Along with Durbin and Grassley, the legislation is also… [read post]
14 May 2013, 4:30 am
The American Civil Liberties Union Foundation (ACLU), with now more than 500,000 members, was founded in 1920.... [read post]
4 Dec 2014, 9:26 am by Dave Maass
Following a district court ruling against Smith, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the American Civil Liberties Union of Idaho joined the case as co-counsel in July 2014 to assist in crafting the appeal. [read post]
25 Jun 2014, 7:13 am by Jennifer Lynch
It is essential for the American public to have a complete picture of all the programs and authorities the FBI uses to track our daily lives and an understanding of how those programs affect our civil rights and civil liberties. [read post]
19 Dec 2011, 1:38 pm by Antoinette Konski
., (reported in our December 7th post) the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation (“ACLU”) and the Public Patent Foundation petitioned the U.S. [read post]
3 Nov 2010, 11:47 am by Stephen Albainy-Jenei
Earlier, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the Public Patent Foundation (PUBPAT), and a whole gaggle of others filed a lawsuit challenging patents covering diagnostic tests for mutations in genes. [read post]
Today the Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit organization that supports Wikipedia and its sister projects, is filing suit against the National Security Agency and the Department of Justice of the United States with representation from the American Civil Liberties Union. [read post]
24 Jan 2020, 3:02 am by Walter Olson
“A federal judge has ordered the nation’s leading pharmacy chains to turn over billions of nationwide prescription records going back 14 years – even as the American Civil Liberties Union and some states attack similar requests by the government as overbroad and an invasion of privacy. [read post]
7 May 2014, 10:11 am by David Kravets
In response to concerns from senators and the American Civil Liberties Union, the White House agreed this week to allow lawmakers to review at least one of the memos from David Barron, now a Harvard Law School scholar, in a classified setting. [read post]
26 Oct 2007, 7:35 pm
10-18-2007 Ohio:Two sex offenders are challenging the constitutionality of a new state law that changes the classification, registration and notification requirements imposed on sex offenders, arguing that the changes cannot apply retroactively.Lawyers with the Cincinnati-based Ohio Justice and Policy Center filed suit Monday in the Ohio Supreme Court on behalf of the sex offenders, joined by the American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio, the Ohio Public Defender and… [read post]
10 Jul 2009, 11:06 am
His attorneys with the New York Civil Liberties Union Foundation made out even better from the incident: they got $12,000 in attorneys fees from the city of New York. [read post]
31 Jul 2013, 5:00 am by Karen Tani
Olivas considers higher education litigation in the latter half of the twentieth century and the rise of "purposive organizations," like the American Civil Liberties Union and the Alliance Defense Fund (now known as the Alliance Defending Freedom), that exist to advance litigation. [read post]
16 Dec 2013, 6:37 pm
Leon, a Bush appointee, in a case brought by Larry Klayman, a conservative activist, who is seeking to represent a class of all Americans.Similar legal challenges to the N.S.A. program, including by the American Civil Liberties Union and the advocacy group Electronic Frontier Foundation, are at earlier stages in the courts. [read post]
3 Jul 2021, 8:15 am by Allan Blutstein
DOJ, ACLU Spar Over Redacted Documents In Social Media FOIA CaseDispute over FOIA Exemptions 7(E) and (b)(5)Judge ordered in camera document reviewBy David McAfee, Bloomberg Law, July 2, 2021, 5:01 PMThe Department of Justice and the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation sparred in federal court Friday over how much disclosure is warranted in a Freedom of Information Act case brought in California over social media monitoring programs.The ACLU filed… [read post]
19 Sep 2020, 11:14 am by Pamela S. Karlan
As the director of the Women’s Rights Project at the American Civil Liberties Union, she argued a sextet of cases in the 1970s that served as the foundation for modern sex-equality jurisprudence. [read post]
13 May 2009, 8:00 pm
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the Public Patent Foundation (PUBPAT), and a whole host of others have filed a lawsuit challenging patents on two human genes associated with breast and ovarian cancer claiming such patents stifle research that could lead to cures and limit women’s options regarding their medical care. [read post]
1 Apr 2010, 11:09 am by Jack D
Le 12 mai 2009, des personnes physiques et morales dont « Association for Molecular Pathology », « Public Patent Foundation » et « American Civil Liberties Union Foundation » ont intenté un procès à « Myriad Genetics », « United States Patent and Trademark Office » et « University of Utah Research… [read post]
4 Jun 2020, 7:54 am by Erin Napoleon
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a class action lawsuit Wednesday asking a Minnesota court to stop “unconstitutional conduct targeting journalists. [read post]
4 Sep 2013, 3:19 pm by Dave Maass
Jim Sensenbrenner (R-WI), the author of the original USA PATRIOT Act, in a case brought by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) against the National Security Agency (NSA). [read post]
5 Sep 2012, 12:50 pm by Timothy B. Lee
The groups—the American Civil Liberties Union, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and the Center for Democracy and Technology—want the case re-heard by a panel of all Sixth Circuit judges. [read post]