Schema-Root.org logo

 

  cross-referenced news and research resources about

 American Civil Liberties Union projects

Schema-Root.org logo
images:  google   yahoo YouTube
spacer

updated Fri. August 9, 2024

-
The American Civil Liberties Union and partner organizations are challenging the ban. ACLU ... Trump is brought by the American Civil Liberties Union, ACLU of Maryland, National Immigration Law Center, and the International Refugee Assistance Project, on behalf of HIAS, IRAP, the Middle East Studies ...
Wang added, “We will continue this litigation until the Muslim ban is ended once and for all.” International Refugee Assistance Project v. Trump is brought by the American Civil Liberties Union, ACLU of Maryland, National Immigration Law Center, and the International Refugee Assistance Project, on behalf ...

In a recent span of 10 days, four courts issued decisions that could literally save lives. Our clients live across the United States, but all have been swept up in ICE's aggressive new campaign to target communities previously considered low-priority for immigration enforcement, with ICE attempting to deport ...
But beyond the fun merchandise it offers, including tees, beanies, caps, mugs, and pins that read “ITMFA,” more than $200,000 has been raised for Planned Parenthood, the ACLU, the International Refugee Assistance Project, and hurricane relief in Puerto Rico. Since Savage created ITMFA in 2006 in ...
We understand it can be difficult to prioritize projects, but the DOE has had almost half a century to take care of this. Legal and constitutional mandates cannot be relegated to a 'wish list.'” “The disparities described in the article are especially troubling in light of our 2010 litigation against the DOE and the ...
The American Civil Liberties Union is suing the state of Alabama, saying the state discriminates against transgender people who try to get a drivers license or ... According to Julie Ebenstein, a senior staff attorney for the ACLU's Voting Rights Project, 80% of transgender individuals in Alabama do not have a ...

Thanks in large part to the indigenous-led mass mobilization at Standing Rock, there has been a major shift in public awareness and celebrity support for environmental activism. In turn, the government has gone to new lengths to suppress and criminalize this brand of activism. With President Trump's ...
There is no way to escape the isolation for exemplary conduct, demonstrated self-improvement, or aging beyond the point that criminality commonly occurs. Today, the ACLU's National Prison Project, ACLU of Pennsylvania, Abolitionist Law Center, and cooperating counsel from law firms Drinker Biddle ...
This is certainly true for the ACLU's clients in the Arizona Department of Corrections, where we represent thousands of women behind bars in a case called Parsons v. Ryan. Our clients tell us that they are only allowed 12 thin pads a month at most, and once those run out, they must ask for more. One of our ...
After calls by the American Civil Liberties Union for an investigation into possible racial profiling of black and Latino motorists by Michigan State Police, ... for a law enforcement agency," said Mark Fancher, staff attorney for the ACLU's Racial Justice Project, who in January sent a letter to MSP Director Col.
It's a sign of the times that one of the hottest tickets at this year's Art Basel Miami Beach is a dinner for the American Civil Liberties Union. Wednesday night's ... Serra said that he hopes the project will help communicate the ACLU's mission, which has long been important to his family. “My uncle Richard ...
If you want to experience 2017 in a nutshell, check out the billion-dollar lawsuit filed by an oil and gas company against Greenpeace and other environmental groups for their roles in the Standing Rock protests. In a 231-page complaint filed by Donald Trump's old law firm, Energy Transfer Partners, the ...
By Brian Hauss, Staff Attorney, Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project ... For example, if the ACLU filed a lawsuit challenging a government surveillance program, ETP's theory of liability could make us civilly, and perhaps even criminally, liable for the actions of any hacker that attempted to take down the ...
8, we will be in court, along with our co-counsel from the National Immigration Law Center and the International Refugee Assistance Project and ... Once again, this Muslim ban was successfully challenged and blocked in a suit brought by the ACLU and partners as well as another case brought by the state ...
“In fact, all the testimony at the hearing was that our client was perfectly peaceful and perfectly well behaved in court,” said attorney Brian Stull with the ACLU's Capital Punishment Project. “There was a juror in this case, and he actually made a report to the court officers and said this guy looks very anxious, ...
The ACLU represents Dave Mullins and Charlie Craig, who were planning their wedding in 2012. With Charlie's mom, Debbie Munn, they went to the Masterpiece Cakeshop bakery to talk about ordering a wedding cake. As soon as the bakery's owner, Jack Phillips, learned that it was Dave and Charlie ...
By Stephen Kang, Detention Attorney, ACLU Immigrants' Rights Project ... The American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Northern California, Cooley LLP, and the law offices of Holly S. Cooper recently won a federal court ruling that prevents the federal government from detaining juveniles like F.E. ...

As a gay person, I grew up knowing I was different. Hearing other kids call anyone who deviated from traditional gender expectations a “fag.” Getting called a “lesbo” at age 11. I hadn't come out to anyone and didn't even really understand what it meant, but I knew it was an insult. At an early age, we learn ...
She got to meet people working on several projects at the ACLU, ... It made me so happy and proud to be there and bring my project to a close.
The famous appellate judge Richard Posner once wrote, “A civilized society locks up [criminals] until age makes them harmless, but it does not ...
They tried this earlier this year, and the ACLU threatened to sue then, ... group to threaten to sue; The Tennessee Equality Project also said it ...
RI ACLU hotline will take complaints about food-stamp delays .... computer system known as the Unified Health Infrastructure Project, or UHIP.
OKLAHOMA CITY - The state's ACLU chapter and disability legal advocacy group ... In a release Thursday afternoon, the American Civil Liberties Union of ... A DHS spokeswoman said the agency is project to see $4 million in ...
The American Civil Liberties Union of Tennessee sent a letter to ... ACLU-TN sent the letter on behalf of Elite Productions and Envy Restaurant Bar & Grill. .... ▻More: Tennessee Equality Project threatens to sue Portland if ...
By Brian Hauss, Staff Attorney, Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project ... Law Center and the North Carolina Justice Center, the ACLU filed a ...
A new letter, drafted by the ACLU and joined by 150 death penalty lawyers and law professors, registers the capital defense community's ...
By Chase Strangio, Staff Attorney, ACLU LGBT & HIV Project ... The ACLU sued him immediately, and today we're in federal district court in ...
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on Thursday asked a ... Joshua Block, senior staff attorney with the ACLU's LGBT Project, said in a ...
Richard "Midnight" Pursell, one of the plaintiffs in the ACLU's case, ... they had expected to get a proposal from the city about the project, but ...
ACLU Benefit Album to Feature 10 Cleveland Acts ... Given the current political climate, the American Civil Liberties Union, the nonprofit that strives to ... “Everyone involved in the project believes that safeguarding these ...
In the ACLU lawsuit, the inmates ask that the Nebraska Department of ... director of the ACLU's National Prison Project, that ran in August in the ...
By Carl Takei, Staff Attorney, ACLU National Prison Project ... In Oklahoma, the ACLU recently filed suit on behalf of people who were sent to ...
ACLU asks judge to free nearly 300 Iraqi detainees ... held unjustly, according to a motion filed Tuesday by the American Civil Liberties Union. ... said Judy Rabinovitz, deputy director of the ACLU's Immigrants' Rights Project.
The panel featured Washington, D.C. ACLU legal director Arthur Spitzer, ... Arthur Spitzer, legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union of ...
Notre Dame to drop birth control coverage, named in pending ACLU suit ... it one of the targets of a lawsuit from the American Civil Liberties Union. ... An attorney with the ACLU's reproductive freedom project, Brigitte Amiri ...
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has filed a lawsuit ... Michael Tan, staff attorney with the ACLU's Immigrants' Rights Project, called it ...
The American Civil Liberties Union announced Tuesday it is suing the ... Michael Tan, staff attorney with the ACLU Immigrants' Rights Project, ...
... it one of the targets of a lawsuit from the American Civil Liberties Union. ... An attorney with the ACLU's reproductive freedom project, Brigitte ...
... reversals in the case, the American Civil Liberties Union says that Jane Doe was ... Amiri, senior staff attorney with the ACLU Reproductive Freedom Project. ... Doe also thanked the ACLU, her lawyers, and those who have ...
The city of Galveston has issued guidelines requiring contractors who bid for neighborhood projects to certify that they're not boycotting Israel, ...
Trump — the case brought by the ACLU and its partners at the National Immigration Law Center and International Refugee Assistance Project ...
The American Civil Liberties Union sued Tuesday in a challenge to federal ... Kaye, an attorney with the ACLU Reproductive Freedom Project.
International Refugee Assistance Project v. Trump is brought by the American Civil Liberties Union, ACLU of Maryland, National Immigration Law Center, and International Refugee Assistance Project (IRAP) at the Urban Justice Center on behalf of HIAS, IRAP, the Middle East Studies Association, the ...
HOUSTON -- The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) says the U.S. ... staff attorney with the ACLU's Immigrants' Rights Project, said in a ...
In September, the Trump administration brutally up-ended the lives of some 800,000 young people who have lived in America since they were ...
Last night was the first night in a month that I was able to fall asleep without worrying about whether Jane Doe would get the medical care she ...
Goldman will jointly own the project with Sagamore Development Co., ... the American Civil Liberties Union, have argued that the development ...
The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a motion asking a ... staff attorney with the ACLU's LGBT and HIV Project, said in a statement.
Imagine serving your country for over a decade in the armed forces — many of those years hiding the truth of who you are, but still showing up ...
The ACLU, along with the National Immigration Law Center (NILC) and the ACLU of Maryland, filed International Refugee Assistance Project v.


 

news and opinion