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31 May 2012, 9:15 am by Rekha Arulanantham
The American Civil Liberties Union has a similar case awaiting a decision in federal court on behalf of Edith “Edie” Windsor, who was forced to pay over $300,000 in taxes after the death of her spouse Thea Spyer, which she would not have had to pay if she married a man. [read post]
5 Mar 2011, 8:42 pm
The American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts was, in my view as a Dedham, Massachusetts criminal defense attorney, more smug in its own response: Said John Reinstein, legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts, “We think the bill will resolve the issues in the lawsuit’’ - while at the same time warning that the ACLA will not withdraw its federal law… [read post]
2 Jul 2012, 10:25 am by The Charge
  Constitutional compromises regarding democracy and liberty ultimately led to civil war. [read post]
6 Apr 2018, 1:02 pm by Samuel Goldberg
According to the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts and Committee for Public Counsel Services (“CPCS”), the state’s public defender agency, more than 11,000 convictions in nearly 7,700 cases are being tossed. [read post]
4 Oct 2013, 3:08 pm by Dan Auerbach and Dan Auerbach
Schiller, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Bruce Schneier, BT Seth Schoen, Electronic Frontier Foundation Micah Sherr, Georgetown University Christopher Soghoian, American Civil Liberties Union Ashkan Soltani, Independent Researcher Brad Templeton, Electronic Frontier Foundation/Singularity University Dan S. [read post]
3 Mar 2015, 5:46 pm by By Jeffrey Mittman
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20 Aug 2020, 11:26 am by Sandy Levinson
  One might, of course, cheer the result because it triggered the conflagration of civil war. [read post]
27 Jun 2014, 4:05 am by SHG
Via Radley Balko, the Massachusetts ACLU’s effort to get information under the Freedom of Information Act about SWAT teams was rebuffed under a novel, if bizarre, rationale: As part of the American Civil Liberties Union’s recent report on police militarization, the Massachusetts chapter of the organization sent open records requests to SWAT teams across that state. [read post]
26 Feb 2013, 6:25 am
But the American people will not hear us out if we stand against their friends, family, and individual liberty. [read post]
27 Jul 2022, 7:53 am by Kyle Hulehan
Concerns over the resulting enforcement of the proposed menthol sales ban caused the American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey to caution against implementation of a ban. [read post]
1 Aug 2011, 3:03 pm by Jamison Koehler
Barred access to the protections, benefits, and obligations of civil marriage, a person who enters into an intimate, exclusive union with another of the same sex is arbitrarily deprived of membership on one of our community’s most rewarding and cherished institutions. [read post]
27 Jan 2020, 12:43 pm by Cornerstone Law Group
American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts and other attorneys on Abadi’s behalf filed an emergency suite and U.S. [read post]
12 Nov 2019, 7:25 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
McAleenan, filed by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), and ACLU of Massachusetts, on behalf of 11 travelers whose smartphones and laptops were searched without individualized suspicion at U.S. ports of entry. [read post]
12 Nov 2013, 1:10 pm by Cyrus Farivar
On Tuesday, the American Civil Liberties Union announced that it had filed a formal request (PDF) under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), asking various federal judicial agencies what “policies, procedures, and practices [are] followed to obtain search queries from search engine operators for law enforcement purposes. [read post]
23 Mar 2013, 9:12 pm
His mother, Christina Stone, told reporters that "I think they're trying to make an example of (my son"), and threatened to go to the Boston chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union. [read post]
20 Feb 2013, 9:00 am by Guest Blogger
Regarding same-sex marriage, for example, Sandel says that dispute is “fundamentally a debate about whether gay and lesbian unions are worthy of the honor and recognition that, in our society, state-sanctioned marriage confers. [read post]
13 Nov 2019, 7:04 am by Angela Mauroni
District Judge Denise Casper issued the ruling in response to a lawsuit brought by the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the American Civil Liberties Union on behalf of 11 travelers. [read post]
5 Sep 2008, 6:42 pm
King moved to Washington in 1998 and was a legislative counsel and lobbyist for the American Civil Liberties Union, where she worked on limiting the scope of the USA Patriot Act. [read post]