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23 Jul 2010, 8:05 am
[JURIST] The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) [advocacy website] filed a lawsuit [complaint, PDF] Thursday seeking to force Montana to provide legal status to same-sex relationships. [read post]
2 Apr 2014, 9:30 am
[The Library of Congress's Civil Rights History Project is news to us. [read post]
18 Mar 2021, 8:20 am
The post Civil War Scout, Spy, Nurse, Suffragist, Civil Rights Activist Harriet Tubman appeared first on North Carolina Divorce Lawyers Blog. [read post]
20 Mar 2012, 11:04 am
[JURIST] The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) [advocacy website] on Monday filed a petition [press release] against the US with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IAHCR) [official website] on behalf of three Afghans and three Iraqis who were allegedly tortured while being detained by the American military in Afghanistan and Iraq. [read post]
6 Jan 2015, 9:38 am
This is the civil rights logjam that has blocked black communities from access to the prosperity that they deserve. [read post]
11 Jul 2011, 1:22 pm
The new law, set to come into effect on September 1, has been criticized by the American Civil Liberties Union as subjecting both citizens and non-citizens to “criminal penalties and incarceration for innocent daily activities. [read post]
11 Jan 2012, 5:56 am
The New York Civil Liberties Union recently reported that nearly 90 percent of the arrests of summer school students were of students of color, raising some Long Island civil rights issues. [read post]
29 Jul 2010, 12:13 pm
[JURIST] The Obama administration is in danger of entrenching some of the most draconian aspects of the Bush administration's controversial national security policy, warns a new report, [text, PDF; press release] from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) [advocacy website] [press release] released Thursday. [read post]
28 Oct 2020, 4:16 pm
Pope Francis on Sunday named 13 new cardinals, including Washington DC Archbishop Wilton Gregory, an outspoken civil rights advocate who will become the first Black American to be appointed to the office in the Roman Catholic Church. [read post]
1 Jul 2008, 6:36 pm
According to this announcement, and this one as well, which notes: The American Civil Liberties Union will announce the opening of its new South Carolina Office July 2 at a press conference and ceremonial ribbon-cutting that will include Charleston Mayor Joe Riley and a host of other political and community leaders. [read post]
20 Dec 2022, 3:36 pm
The American Civil Liberties Union, ACLU of Mississippi, Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law; Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP,… Continue reading The post “Civil Rights Advocates File Federal Lawsuit Over Mississippi’s Racially Gerrymandered Maps” appeared first on Election Law Blog. [read post]
23 Mar 2012, 3:02 pm
Rights to vote, to join a union, or to marry the person one loves are today at the forefront of the struggle to build an America that reflects its ideals. [read post]
10 May 2017, 2:39 pm
After three years of advocacy uniting communities across Providence, the City Council on April 20 voted unanimously to adopt a set of groundbreaking protections for civil rights and civil liberties, including digital civil liberties. [read post]
2 Nov 2016, 8:35 am
" The letter, signed by groups including the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), 350.org and the Indigenous Environmental Network [advocacy websites], points to specific instances of removal and suppression of human-rights related content. [read post]
15 Nov 2017, 9:31 am
The American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California has published a report following a two-year study that concludes law enforcement agencies in Kern County – specifically the Bakersfield Police Department and Kern County Sheriff’s Office – have engaged in patterns of excessive force and systematically violated the civil rights of local residents. [read post]
26 Feb 2007, 6:35 am
The ADA is a Federal civil rights law that gives protection to persons with disabilities similar to the civil right protections provided to persons based on race, color, age, religion, sex and national origin. [read post]
1 Jun 2011, 10:57 am
(Dale Carpenter) They’re not quite registering June brides, but the joyous end of American civilization has legislatively spread to Cook County and the rest of the Land of Lincoln. [read post]
7 Sep 2010, 11:48 am
[JURIST] The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the New York Civil Liberties Union and the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL) [advocacy websites] filed a lawsuit [complaint, PDF] Tuesday against the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) [official website] challenging a government policy that allows border patrol to search electronic devices without reasonable suspicion. [read post]
22 Sep 2016, 5:03 am
MacArthur Fellows / Meet the Class of 2016 Ahilan Arulanantham Human Rights Lawyer Director of Advocacy and Legal Director American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California Los Angeles, California Ahilan... [read post]
12 Mar 2015, 8:15 am
The plaintiffs, including the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International and Wikimedia, are challenging the NSA's UPSTREAM program, contending that by directly seizing a mass amount of American communications while... [read post]
