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Nonprofit Law Prof Blog
Nonprofit Bail Funds
The ACLU characterizes the cash bail system in the United States as wealth-based incarceration industry:After an arrest — wrongful or not — a person’s ability to leave jail and return…
Nonprofit Law Prof Blog
After School Satan Club Wins First Amendment-Based Access Challenge
See here for previous coverage of the After School Satan Club and Satanic Temple. This morning, the ACLU is celebrating its role as devil's advocate after a federal district court…
Media Law Prof Blog
Tilley on The First Amendment and the Second Sex @CristinaTilley @arizlrev
Cristina Tilley, University of Iowa College of Law, is publishing The First Amendment and the Second Sex in volume 65 of the Arizona Law Review (2023). Here is the abstract.Modern…
Religion Clause
ACLU Launches Abortion Criminal Defense Initiative
The ACLU announced this week that it is launching an Abortion Criminal Defense Initiative. It is offering legal representation, or assistance in finding a lawyer, for individuals facing criminal investigation…
TortsProf Blog
Tilley on the Sexism and the First Amendment
Cristina Tilley has posted to SSRN The First Amendment and the Second Sex. The abstract provides:Modern American law describes speech in stereotypically masculine terms: it is a “marketplace” where participants “joust”…
ImmigrationProf Blog
How the Arizona Attorney General Created a Secretive, Illegal Surveillance Program to Sweep up Millions of Our Financial Records
Logo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons Last week, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) published a report on a mass surveillance program facilitated by the Arizona Attorney General’s office and the Department of…
Lawrina Blog
8 Photography Laws Every Photographer Must Know
Photography involves participating in the mortality, vulnerability, and mutability of another person (or thing). It is usually about catching the most intimate moments of one’s life. Since, in most cases,…
ImmigrationProf Blog
ACLU Says Immigration Detention Facility Should Be Shut Down
Average daily population of detained immigrants held by the United States government for the fiscal years 1994–2018. Courtesy of Wikimedia CommonsEileen Sullivan for the New York Times reports that"[t]he American…
For Good
Bloomberg and Proskauer Sponsor Equal Justice Works Fellow at the ACLU Voting Rights Project
Bloomberg and Proskauer are sponsoring Equal Justice Works Fellow Casey Smith, who will work at the American Civil Liberties Union Voting Rights Project. Casey, a recent graduate of Yale Law School,…
On Point
Got a client at or heading to Lincoln Hills or Copper Lake?
By Wisconsin State Public Defender
Then listen to yesterday’s WPR interview with ACLU staff attorney Tim Muth about the continued horrible conditions there. They have severe staffing shortages–a 40% shortage of guards, 50% shortage of…