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5 Apr 2008, 6:44 pm
"The American Civil Liberties Union believes many Ohio death row inmates suffer excruciating, torturous pain during executions. [read post]
4 Jul 2018, 3:57 am by David Kopel
When Missouri's original 1820 constitution was written, Missouri was entering the Union as a slave state. [read post]
26 May 2020, 11:35 am by Nkechi Taifa
” Inspired by and organized on the heels of the passage of the 1988 Civil Liberties Act, which granted reparations to Japanese-Americans for their unjust incarceration during World War II, NCOBRA reinvigorated the demand for reparations for African Americans and broadened the concept through public education, accompanied by legislative and litigation-based initiatives.Also encouraged by the 1988 Civil Liberties Act, Rep. [read post]
4 Oct 2020, 10:51 am by Law Offices of Jeffrey S. Glassman
Ginsburg co-founded the Women’s Rights Project at the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) in 1972, and as the project’s chief litigator, argued a succession of gender equality cases before the Supreme Court. [read post]
10 Apr 2009, 10:18 pm
Figueroa suffered no permanent injuries but has blood on his nose in his mug shot, according to his lawyer, Howard Friedman, of the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts. [read post]
13 Dec 2011, 5:45 am
Earlier this year the Carroll Center for the Blind and the Massachusetts Commission for the Blind named Hope, who is legally blind, the Employee of the Year on account of her work as an international law and human rights teacher and scholar.Hope's professional service includes: Executive Council member and cofounder and co-chair of the International Disability Rights Interest Group of the American Society of International Law; Board of Governors, Society of American… [read post]
7 Jan 2010, 6:33 am by Erin Miller
Massachusetts last Term. [read post]
25 Mar 2016, 6:26 am by Lori Ringhand and Paul Collins
Frankfurter also was a founding member of the American Civil Liberties Union and an avid supporter of Roosevelt’s New Deal agenda. [read post]
12 Dec 2015, 9:31 am by Victoria Kwan
The Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review provided a live blog of the proceedings. [read post]
21 Dec 2012, 5:55 am by Jeffrey P. Hermes
January 27, 2012), the Digital Media Law Project joined the Public Citizen, the American Civil Liberties Union, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation in filing an amicus memorandum on the proper standards for discovery of the identities of anonymous online speakers in a trademark and defamation case. [read post]
21 Dec 2012, 5:55 am by Jeffrey P. Hermes
January 27, 2012), the Digital Media Law Project joined the Public Citizen, the American Civil Liberties Union, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation in filing an amicus memorandum on the proper standards for discovery of the identities of anonymous online speakers in a trademark and defamation case. [read post]
27 Nov 2019, 3:02 am by Walter Olson
During World War II, the American Civil Liberties Union not only failed to oppose the Plan; its founder, Roger Baldwin, sent a memorandum encouraging its local branches to cooperate with officials enforcing it. [read post]
25 Aug 2012, 3:02 pm by Alex Hunt
ACLU Tells Public Schools It’s Monitoring School Prayer Complaints, Wall Street Journal As the new school year begins, the American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of South Carolina are hoping to educate the educators – as well as students and parents — about religious liberty through a new campaign encouraging schools to protect students’ rights to remain free from governmental promotion of religion. [read post]
20 Apr 2022, 7:30 am by Guest Blogger
  By mobilizing American women en masse, by turning northern men against the Democratic Party, by fostering an organizational legacy in the American Anti-Slavery Society and the Liberty and Free Soil Parties and by creating the template for activity that would again shift agendas during the Civil War, the cross-regional explosion of the 25th Congress reshaped American politics for generations. [read post]
12 Nov 2020, 8:18 pm by Josh Blackman
We should all welcome rational civil speech on important subjects, even if we do not agree with what the speaker has to say. [read post]
22 Jan 2009, 3:04 pm
The Attorney General's Office defended the Civil Service Department's action, with amicus support from Lambda Legal and the New York Civil Liberties Union. [read post]
3 Aug 2008, 6:24 am
American Civil Liberties Union officials warn that restriction zones and posters could violate the civil rights of not only sex offenders who have served prison sentences but also innocent people who live in these communities. [read post]
10 Feb 2017, 7:03 am by David Russcol
In 2015, the defense bar, including the Committee for Public Counsel Services and lawyers from the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts, asked the SJC to implement a “global remedy” – that is, to make a strong statement about the integrity of the criminal justice system by wiping all of the Dookhan-tainted convictions off the books in one fell swoop. [read post]
10 Feb 2017, 7:03 am by David Russcol
In 2015, the defense bar, including the Committee for Public Counsel Services and lawyers from the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts, asked the SJC to implement a “global remedy” – that is, to make a strong statement about the integrity of the criminal justice system by wiping all of the Dookhan-tainted convictions off the books in one fell swoop. [read post]