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ImmigrationProf Blog
Lawsuit Challenging Cave Creek, Arizona Day Laborer Law
Today, the American Civil Liberties Union Immigrants' Rights Project, ACLU of Arizona and the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF) announced the filing of a lawsuit challenging an…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
ACOG’s Position On Religious Refusals Criticized by Some Doctors As “Elevat[ing] the Patient’s Autonomy”
American Medical News: New ACOG position on abortion refusal drawing fire, by Kevin O'Reilly:A recent American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists' position statement outlining the limits of conscientious refusal in…
The Right Coast
Scouting is cool everywhere but the USA Tom Smith
The ACLU would have you believe Scouting is an atavistic movement created to teach kids to be bigots. In fact, Scouting worldwide is one of the planet's most important groups…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Low-Income Immigrant Rights Conference in December
Save the Date! December 6-8, 20076th National Low-Income Immigrant Rights ConferenceWhere? Doubletree Hotel Crystal City, in Arlington, Virginia (Just outside Washington, DC)Who are the conveners? American Federation of Labor -…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Blog With Updates on the Hazlton Trial
The ACLU of Pennsylvania (here) is providing updates on its blog on the trial on the lawfulness of the Hazlton immigration ordinance. Yesterday, three Hazleton residents testified about how the…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
Those Harping Pro-Choice Activists
Andrew Sullivan complimented "Democrats and pro-choice abortion activists" for their "smarter" strategy of focusing on ways to reduce unintended pregnancy. (Time Magazine, The Case for Compromise on Abortion, 2/27/05) He…
ImmigrationProf Blog
ACLU Suit Challenges Escondido Ordinance
The American Civil Liberties Union and other rights groups sued the city of Escondido in an effort to overturn a new law that prohibits landlords from renting to undocumented immigrants.The…
Labor Law Prof Blog
Penn Urges Protection for Undocumented Workers
The University of Pennsylvania Law School's Transnational LegalClinic, along with the American Civil Liberties Union and the NationalEmployment Law Project, are urging the Inter-American Commission onHuman Rights to find the…
The Right Coast
Will the real ACLU please stand up? Tom Smith
Showing my age with that title. But, couldn't a strong argument be made that by squashing internal dissent, spying on employees, kicking out revisionistes, etc. etc. the ACLU is remaining…
Labor Law Prof Blog
Paging the ACLU: Fascism Alert
See these flags to the left? Well, if these were hanging in my public school classroom in Colorado, I could lose my teaching job. I kid you not (via The…