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Death Penalty
Guest Post: Cut This: The Death Penalty by James Clark
By Terry Lenamon / Reba Kennedy
[The following post is being republished here with the permission of its author, James Clark, field organizer for the ACLU, Southern California. It was previously published on the Huffington Post…
School Law
United States District Court for the Southern District of Indiana Issues Preliminary Injunction Barring Student-Led Prayer At High School Graduation Ceremony
On April 30, 2010, the United States District Court for the Southern District of Indiana issued a preliminary injunction barring a student-led prayer at a high school graduation ceremony. The…
ImmigrationProf Blog
MALDEF, ACLU and NILC to Announce Challenge to Arizona Racial Profiling Law at Press Conference in Phoenix on Thursday: Civil Rights Leaders Dolores Huerta and Richard Chavez Joined by Famed Musician and Arizona Native Linda Ronstadt to Condemn New Law
On Thursday, April 29, 2010 at 11:00 a.m. (MST), MALDEF, the American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Arizona and the National Immigration Law Center (NILC) will hold a news…
Media Law Prof Blog
New Coalition Wants Stronger Privacy Laws
From the New York Times, news of the formation of the Digital Due Process coalition, made up of the ACLU, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Center for Democracy and Technology,…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Immigrants with Mental Disabilities Lost in Detention for Years
The ACLU of Southern California reports on how "[f]or five years, two men with mental disabilities have languished in immigration detention, effectively lost in a system that has no established…
ImmigrationProf Blog
ACLU Files Amicus Brief in Support of Family of Immigration Detainee Who Died Of Cancer That Went Untreated
The health care provided to immigrants in detention has been frequently criticized. The American Civil Liberties Union yesterday filed a friend-of-the-court brief with the U.S. Supreme Court arguing that the…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals Condemns Shackling of Pregnant Prisoners in Labor
ACLU press release (10/2): Federal Appeals Court Condemns Shackling Of Pregnant Prisoners In Labor: ACLU Client Shackled During Labor In ArkansasRuling in the case of an Arkansas woman who was…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Detainee Settlement Improves Conditions
The American Civil LibertiesUnion of Southern California, the National Immigration Law Center andthe Paul Hastings law firm obtained a settlement that will improve the conditions of immigrants detained in a…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Immigrants of the Day: Jameel Jaffer (Canada) and Amrit Singh (India)
In 2003, our Immigrants of the Day, Jameel Jaffer and Amrit Singh, two junior lawyers at the American Civil Liberties Union, wondered whether news reports of the abuse of prisoners in U.S.…
Media Law Prof Blog
Richard Hatch, Let Out For Home Confinement, Rejailed For Giving Media Interviews
The American Civil Liberties Union says that Richard Hatch, recently allowed out of prison to serve the rest of his sentence for tax evasion under home confinement, should not have…