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30 Oct 2014, 10:48 am by Andrew Crocker
In response, EFF has joined in an amicus brief by the American Civil Liberties Union in Restis v. [read post]
7 Sep 2014, 1:49 pm by Omar Ha-Redeye
The legal memos from 2004, over a decade ago, outlining the power of the President to use wiretapping, have been obtained through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit by the American Civil Liberties Union and Electronic Privacy Information Center. [read post]
20 Aug 2014, 2:27 pm by Dave Maass
Americans Deserve Full Protection of the Fourth Amendment for their Telephone Records, Groups ArgueWashington, DC - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) today filed an amicus brief in Klayman v. [read post]
Upping the Racial Profiling Ante In a recently released report, "War Comes Home," the American Civil Liberties Union (my employer) discovered that nearly 80% of all SWAT raids it reviewed between 2011 and 2012 were deployed to execute a search warrant. [read post]
16 Jul 2014, 8:58 am by Dave Maass
I am thrilled that the American Civil Liberties Union and Electronic Frontier Foundation agreed to assist us in this case. [read post]
For more than four years of Freedom of Information Act litigation concerning the government's targeted-killing program, the government managed to avoid releasing a single document in response to requests filed by the American Civil Liberties Union and reporters for the New York Times. [read post]
2 Jul 2014, 7:19 am by Joy Waltemath
Barbara Green, co-founder of Hobby Lobby, said in a statement, “Today the nation’s highest court has re-affirmed the vital importance of religious liberty as one of our country’s founding principles. [read post]
26 Jun 2014, 9:01 pm by John Dean
Four years ago, on June 30, 2010, the American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit on behalf of ten individuals (later joined by three more similarly situated persons), all of them U.S. citizens or lawful permanent residents, who had been denied travel on commercial airlines because they believe, or have been informally (but not officially) told, that they were on the U.S. government’s “No-Fly List. [read post]
10 Jun 2014, 11:37 am by Bill Ward
Although the New Jersey American Civil Liberties Union has traditionally been wary of the use of the power of eminent domain, executive director Udi Ofer has voiced support for the proposal and his belief that the use of eminent domain to purchase underwater mortgages would be permitted under New Jersey law. [read post]
19 May 2014, 9:01 pm by Joanna L. Grossman
Even the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), an ardent defender of civil rights, distanced itself from any notion of gay rights, issuing a policy statement in 1957 that sodomy bans were constitutional if “deemed socially necessary or beneficial” by state and local governments. [read post]
21 Apr 2014, 8:35 am by Benjamin Wittes
Times”), and the American Civil Liberties Union and the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation (collectively “ACLU”) appeal from the January 24, 2013, judgment of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Colleen McMahon, District Judge) dismissing, on motions for summary judgment, their consolidated FOIA suits. [read post]
10 Apr 2014, 7:00 am by Robert Chesney
The conference was entitled, “The National Security Agency at the Crossroads. [read post]
13 Mar 2014, 3:20 pm by Dave Maass
EFF Represents Computer Scientists in Explaining Why “It Is Not Just Metadata”San Francisco - Representing a large group of top computer science experts and professors, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) today submitted a brief to a federal appeals court supporting the American Civil Liberties Union's lawsuit over the NSA's mass call records collection program. [read post]
1 Feb 2014, 6:55 am by Yishai Schwartz
Keith Alexander as the director of the National Security Agency. [read post]
27 Dec 2013, 11:40 am by Lyle Denniston
Given the fact that the issues surrounding the National Security Agency’s global “metadata” program are novel and not easily resolved, it is no surprise that judges are ruling differently. [read post]
25 Nov 2013, 12:30 pm by Matt Danzer
Pauley III, of the Southern District of New York, heard oral argument in the American Civil Liberties Union’s (“ACLU”) challenge to the government’s bulk telephony metadata collection program under Section 215 of the USA PATRIOT Act. [read post]