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The American Civil Liberties Union has dropped a lawsuit against the Transportation Security Administration that claimed a man was wrongly detained the St. Louis airport because he was carrying about $4,700 in cash.
A federal judge ruled Friday in a case on detainees at Guantanamo Bay that the government can maintain the secrecy of portions of some records that allegedly describe torture and abuse.
A judge cited national security concerns in ruling Wednesday that the CIA does not have to release hundreds of documents related to the destruction of videotapes of Sept. 11 detainee interrogations that used harsh methods.
A lawsuit filed Thursday against the Transportation Security Administration alleges a Ron Paul supporter was unreasonably detained at the St. Louis airport because he was carrying about $4,700 in cash.
Lawyers who work on patents in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries are sweating bullets today. It is not a bad thing when patent lawyers are feeling queasy.
Five previously unacknowledged secret memos revealing new information about the Bush administration's interrogation policies remain hidden in government file cabinets, a Senate report disclosed Wednesday.
A judge has given the CIA a month to begin releasing documents related to the destruction of videotapes of detainee interrogations.
The American Civil Liberties Union elected a new president on Saturday, choosing a constitutional law scholar who said she would reach out to African-Americans and to religious communities where the group has often been viewed more as foe than friend.
Death row inmates at the federal prison in Terre Haute are routinely denied access to medical, dental and mental health care, the American Civil Liberties Union said Wednesday in a letter to a governmental official.
The U.S. Forest Service systematically harasses people who attend Rainbow Family gatherings on public lands, the Wyoming chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union contends in a report.
The American Civil Liberties Union announced by far the largest fundraising campaign in its 88-year history Monday, eying a dramatic expansion of its work on social justice issues in relatively conservative states such as Texas and Florida.
American Civil Liberties Union President Nadine Strossen announced Friday that she will step down in October after leading the group for nearly two decades.
The CIA must let a judge view a 2002 memo purportedly including waterboarding among interrogation methods to be used on prisoners in U.S. custody so he can decide whether it should be made public, the judge ruled Thursday.
A federal judge said Thursday that the CIA appeared to have violated a court order by failing to disclose that it had videotaped two al-Qaida suspects undergoing a harsh interrogation at an overseas prison.
The CIA was not required to preserve videotapes of terrorist interrogations for a lawsuit brought against it over the treatment of detainees, the government said in court papers released Friday.
A U.S. government attorney urged a judge not to interfere with the decision to block a prominent Muslim scholar from entering the country.
New documents released Tuesday regarding crimes committed by U.S. soldiers against civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan detail a troubling pattern of troops failing to understand and follow the rules that govern interrogations and deadly actions.
The American Civil Liberties Union on Thursday filed its fifth religion-related lawsuit in 13 years against an eastern Louisiana school district, this time alleging that a principal improperly allowed people to distribute Bibles to students.
A civil rights group asked a judge Friday to find it unconstitutional for the federal government to exclude a prominent Muslim scholar or anyone else from the United States on the grounds that they may have endorsed or espoused terrorism.
Citing national security, a federal judge Tuesday threw out a lawsuit aimed at blocking AT&T Inc. from giving telephone records to the government for use in the war on terror.
The American Civil Liberties Union is investigating complaints from more than a dozen black employees at a Six Flags theme park who were told their hairstyles were inappropriate.
A group of young women claim they were ordered to leave a book signing featuring Sen. Rick Santorum because of their political views.
The Voting Rights Act would be severely weakened if provisions such as federal clearance of some local election changes and protections for voters who do not speak English are not renewed, activists say.
Al Qaeda's Civil Liberties Union by Thomas Joscelyn A look at the other terrorists embraced by Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's ACLU lawyers.
Senate approves radical judge David HamiltonWhen President Clinton nominated David Hamilton to the district court, he was rated "not qualified" by the American Bar Association.
Filibusted: Republican senators do an about-face on judicial filibustersIn their quest to thwart President Obama, Republicans do not fear the hobgoblin of consistency. The article is two pages long. If you prefer to view it on one page with fewer graphics, click here.
Gates Blocks Photographs of Prisoners The American Civil Liberties Union had sued for the release of 21 color photographs showing prisoners in Afghanistan and Iraq being abused by Americans. Federal courts had rejected the government's arguments to block their release, so Congress gave Mr.
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Decision: Republicans Blast It, ACLU CelebratesNews broke this morning that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other Guantanamo detainees will be tried in federal court in New York.
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Judge OKs Challenge to Patents on Human GenesA federal judge ruled Monday that a lawsuit can move forward against the Patent and Trademark Office and the research company that was awarded exclusive rights to human genes known to detect early signs of breast and ovarian cancer. More Articles
By Thomas E. Brewton Some groups like the ACLU, who advocate abolition of the death penalty for murder or rape, enthusiastically endorse murder by abortion.
Obama Urged to Fully Comply with Anti-Torture Treaty The 50th anniversary of the U.S. ratification of the United Nations Convention Against Torture passed last week with little fanfare and virtually no press attention from the mainstream media here.
The ACLU and its herd mentalityA week before the September 11, 2001 attacks, Anthony Romero took charge of the ACLU as executive director and it was here where the Romero cult of personality began.
Is School Board's proposed policy on public comments at meeting overbroad?"Public comment, the content of which is irrelevant, beyond the authority of the board, willfully disruptive of the meeting, repetitious, slanderous, offensive, inflammatory, irrational, amounts to personal attacks or interferes with the rights of other speakers, is prohibited."
American Flag Ban at Oregon Apartment Complex Reversed After Outcry An Oregon apartment complex reversed its ban prohibiting residents from flying American flags from dwellings and parked vehicles after the property manager decided she didn't have the legal standing to do so, KATU in Portland reported Wednesday.
Ohio Ten Commandments Judge Loses AgainJudge DeWeese tried to pretend that he had a secular purpose in putting up the display:My purpose in creating and displaying this poster was to express my views about two warring legal philosophies that motivate behavior and the consequences that I have personally witnessed in my …
Peace Prize Winning Warmongerer Likely To Succeed In Suppressing Torture PhotosI sincerely hope the Liberals out there will wake up and start criticizing Barack Obama. After Code Pink's betrayal, I'm glad to see that the ACLU has stuck to its scruples and shown that justice does not bend for any party...
ACLU Says Extracting DNA From Suspects UnconstitutionalA lawsuit (.pdf), filed by the American Civil Liberties Union on behalf of two Californians who were arrested and released, seeks to overturn a voter-approved law that became effective this year.
High court affirms same-sex partners rightsThe Montana Supreme Court Tuesday upheld parental rights for a Missoula woman who'd been part of a same-sex couple that cared for two adopted children, saying she's entitled to joint custody of the kids.
New York to fight terrorism with more street-corner camerasBut the science of cameras is progressing fast, raising the possibility of even more "Big Brother"-like scenarios.
What is the ACLU thinking! If I had an ACLU membership card in my wallet right now (and, at various times in my life, I have) I would take it out, tear it up, put on my high heels and stomp on it.
Judge Says She Knows What's Best for Homeschooled ChristiansA girl has been forced to attend public school by a judge who was concerned that she was a Christian who needed exposure to "world views." As is true of properly homeschooled children, Amanda Kurowski was significantly ahead of her public school peers academically, but the c …
U.S. Supreme Court won't review Pledge of Allegiance lawThe U.S. Supreme Court refused to review a Florida law requiring students to recite the Pledge of Allegiance without a parent's note. But some Florida school districts don't enforce the law strictly.
Give Peace a Seat at Cabinet TablePolitical Liberty is to be found in Moderate Governments
Voters Seeing Red Over ACLU AttackGeneral Douglas MacArthur famously noted that "old soldiers never die; they just fade away." Sometimes, though, before they fade away, they get angry. And a case being argued in the Supreme Court Wednesday has veterans seeing red, white, and blue-but mostly red.
Texas DA tries to use illegally seized assets for own legal defense | Raw Storyexcerpt: ""The American Civil Liberties Union on Friday filed a brief with the Texas Attorney General's office arguing that either the county or state must be forced to represent a county district attorney accused of illegally seizing money from mainly black motorists -- in amou …
Ex-Bush Officials Face Lawsuits Over Their ActionsInjustice in the name of justice
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