Two clinics challenging Iowa’s new law banning abortions when a heartbeat is detected urged a state judge Friday to rule in their favor on summary judgment rather than take the case to trial.
Read moreIn a win for a group of Democratic voters, a three-judge panel ruled Monday that the former chairman of the Republican State Leadership Committee must turn over emails and other documents about the 2011 redistricting of Ohio’s legislative maps.
Read moreThe ACLU asked a federal judge Wednesday to make the Department of Justice unseal any docket sheets and rulings on its motion to hold Facebook in contempt of court, which was heard on Aug. 14, after Facebook refused to let investigators wiretap encrypted voice calls made using its Messenger app.
Read moreA federal judge didn’t cut any slack for the Justice Department, which filed a stay Tuesday on a Nov. 19 order to lift the ban on the Trump administration’s asylum policy pending an appeal to the Ninth Circuit.
Read moreA Kansas county does not have to open a polling site in Dodge City because it would likely confuse voters, a federal judge ruled late Thursday.
Read moreThe Sixth Circuit ruled Wednesday that Ohio’s elections board must count provisional ballots cast in next week’s midterm election by residents who were purged from voter rolls between 2011 and 2015.
Read moreThe American Civil Liberties Union sued a Kansas county election official in federal court Friday, alleging that her moving of Dodge City’s only polling location to a site half a mile outside of the city’s southern border creates a burden on the city’s majority Hispanic population.
Read moreAn expert witness for the anti-affirmative action group suing Harvard University over the use of race in its admissions process argued on the stand Monday that a socioeconomic emphasis would improve that process.
Read moreOn the fourth day of trial, attorneys for an anti-affirmative action group suing Harvard University over its admissions standards continued to interrogate administrators Thursday over the role race plays in getting into the Ivy League institution.
Read moreA Trump administration proposal to allows employer to opt out of providing contraceptive coverage in the health insurance plans on moral or religious grounds could be finalized at any time, and the uncertainty over when that rule will be finalized is causing concern among civil libertarians.
Read moreAn affirmative action case against Harvard University finally went to trial Monday, four years after a lawsuit was filed claiming the nation’s oldest college discriminates against prospective Asian-American students by considering race in the admissions process.
Read moreA federal judge in San Francisco struck down a lawsuit Thursday by the American Civil Liberties Union that claimed U.S. Health and Human Services violated the separation of church and state by allocating millions of dollars to faith-based groups that took in unaccompanied immigrant minors but refused to give them birth control or access to abortions.
Read moreThe state of Arkansas told an Eighth Circuit panel Thursday that a federal judge’s injunction of a law prohibiting begging is overly broad and the case challenging the law’s constitutionality should be dismissed for lack of standing.
Read moreAttorneys with the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation pressed ahead Friday with their efforts to block the Trump administration from coercing unaccompanied minors into carrying unwanted pregnancies to term.
Read moreDallas County’s automatic money bail system violates poor defendants’ civil rights by not considering their ability to pay, a federal judge ruled late Thursday.
Read moreDenial of methadone to prison inmates with opioid addictions constitutes cruel and unusual punishment, the ACLU claimed in federal court Wednesday.
Read moreThe Seventh Circuit heard oral arguments Friday in Indiana’s appeal seeking to vacate a settlement between the Marion County Sheriff’s Office and the American Civil Liberties Union that prohibits cooperation with federal immigration authorities without a warrant.
Read moreAn Iowa judge denied an anti-abortion group’s motion to intervene in a lawsuit brought by two abortion providers who argue the state’s new fetal-heartbeat law is unconstitutional.
Read moreFacing legal action, Michigan election officials on Thursday certified a ballot measure allowing residents to approve same-day voter registration and no-reason absentee voting.
Read moreThe ACLU brought a federal complaint Tuesday against the Departments of Homeland Security and Defense for documents of law-enforcement plans to surveil and police Keystone XL protests.
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