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13 Sep 2011, 9:47 am
As The National Law Journal reported in May, hires made during the Obama administration have tended to come from traditional civil rights organizations such as the American Civil Liberties Union or the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund. [read post]
3 Aug 2010, 10:58 am
The American Civil Liberties Union has sued the federal government, demanding that a system be created to determine the mental competency of detained immigrants who represent themselves, the Orange County Register reported. [read post]
30 Jun 2022, 10:56 am
As the Civil Rights and Discrimination Center at Justia explains, state and local governments have adopted their own civil rights laws as well. [read post]
10 Apr 2008, 1:03 am
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) petitioned the IACHR, an autonomous arm of the Organization of American States (OAS) [ [read post]
21 Jul 2011, 11:54 am
[JURIST] The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the Hispanic Interest Coalition of Alabama (HICA) [advocacy websites] and several other civil rights groups jointly filed a motion for preliminary injunction [text, PDF] on Thursday in an effort to prevent an Alabama immigration law from taking effect on September 1. [read post]
8 Apr 2008, 6:43 am
In court papers filed Friday, the American Civil Liberties Union of Arizona and the Mexican American Legal Defense and [read post]
29 Aug 2007, 12:50 am
New report from the ACLU:"The American Civil Liberties Union released a report revealing continuing incidents of racial injustice and human rights abuses on the Gulf Coast since Hurricane Katrina devastated the area two years ago. [read post]
12 Apr 2018, 3:34 am
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) [official website] filed a lawsuit [text, PDF] in the US District Court for the Western District of Kentucky [official website] Tuesday challenging the Kentucky abortion measures that Governor Matt Bevin [official website] signed into law earlier that day. [read post]
27 Aug 2004, 4:57 pm
At the end of the first week of military commission trial proceedings for terror suspects held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, observers for four human rights groups accorded observer status - Human Rights Watch, Human Rights First, Amnesty International and the American Civil Liberties Union - called Friday for the US government to replace military commissions with "fair and and impartial trials [read post]
13 Sep 2010, 2:07 pm
The vigil was hosted by New York Neighbors for American Values, a coalition of more than 100 religious and civil rights organizations including the ACLU and New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU). [read post]
13 Jul 2012, 7:40 am
[JURIST] The Center for Reproductive Rights and the American Civil Liberties Union of Arizona [advocacy websites] filed a lawsuit [complaint, PDF] on Thursday challenging an Arizona law [HB 2036 materials; JURIST report] that prohibits abortions after 20 weeks into a pregnancy unless there is a medical emergency. [read post]
15 Sep 2016, 9:01 am
Human rights groups, including the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Human Rights Watch (HRW) and Amnesty International (AI) [advocacy websites], are calling [HRW press release] on US President Barack Obama to pardon former National Security Agency (NSA) [official websites] contractor Edward Snowden [BBC profile] with a campaign launched [AI press release] on Wednesday. [read post]
22 Oct 2015, 12:35 pm
[JURIST] The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) [official website] filed a federal class action lawsuit [complaint] on Wednesday against the city of Biloxi, Mississippi, the Biloxi Police Chief, a Municipal Court judge and Judicial Correction Services, Inc. for allegedly arresting and jailing poor people illegally in debtor's prisons. [read post]
21 Mar 2016, 1:00 pm
Weinrib, University of Chicago Law School, is publishing From Left to Rights: Civil Liberties Lawyering between the World Wars in Law, Culture, and the Humanities. [read post]
16 Mar 2016, 6:30 am
This article focuses on three phases in the relationship between the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the courts in the period between the world wars: first, the ACLU’s attempt to promote worker mobilization by highlighting judicial hypocrisy; second, its effort to induce incremental legal reform by reshaping social values; and third, its now familiar reliance on the judiciary to insulate minority views against state intrusion and majoritarian abuses. [read post]
5 May 2009, 10:40 am
Of course it does not violate anyone's religious liberty for a state to enact same-sex marriage, let alone civil unions. [read post]
9 Jan 2011, 12:54 pm
The petition [text, PDF], filed [ACLU press release] by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), MALDEF , the National Immigration Law Center (NILC), the Asian Pacific American Legal Center (APALC), National Day Laborer Organizing Network (NDLON) and... [read post]
14 Oct 2019, 10:34 am
The state chapters of the American Civil Liberties Union and the League of Women voters filed the complaint in Commonwealth Court against the acting head of the Pennsylvania Department of State. [read post]
27 May 2022, 7:00 am
Moran, The Pocketbook Next Time: From Civil Rights To Market Power In The Latinx Community, 73 Am. [read post]
2 Jul 2014, 10:49 am
House of Representatives on H.R. 7152 (the Civil Rights Act of 1964). [read post]
