A year-long investigation into conditions at three homeless shelters in Orange County uncovered rampant sexual harassment, age, race and gender-related abuse, and rodent-infested facilities that lacked heat on cold nights and flooded during storms, according to a report released Thursday.
Read moreThe federal government’s immigration enforcement agency is using mass surveillance techniques to track immigrants and local police agencies are participating, according to the American Civil Liberties Union.
Read moreA federal judge Thursday ticked off what an attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union called “bombshell” facts when he weighed whether the family separation class action should be expanded to include potentially thousands more families separated at the U.S.-Mexico border before the policy was formally announced by the Trump administration.
Read moreThe Iowa Legislature’s latest effort to ban early-term abortions was struck down as unconstitutional Tuesday by a state judge who said the detection of a heartbeat does not necessarily indicate a viable pregnancy.
Read moreA public records lawsuit filed Thursday seeks to pry loose files on the government’s alleged mass surveillance and retention of people’s social media activities, a practice civil liberties watchdogs warn could chill free speech.
Read moreThe American Civil Liberties Union of Alaska filed multiple suits against Alaska’s newly elected Republican Gov. Mike Dunleavy, his Chief of Staff Tuckerman Babcock, and the State of Alaska Thursday on behalf of three former state workers.
Read moreThe American Civil Liberties Union filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of an Indiana man claiming Fulton County put up a Christian nativity scene outside of its courthouse in violation of the First Amendment’s ban on the endorsement of a particular religion.
Read moreArkansas argued before the Eighth Circuit on Thursday that a federal judge was wrong to issue a preliminary injunction barring enforcement of a set of laws aimed at banning abortions that the state says dismember the fetus.
Read moreIn a concise history of U.S. immigration-detention policies, the ACLU claims in a federal complaint that Immigration and Customs Enforcement is detaining thousands of asylum-seekers in violation of its own directives
Read moreTwo 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.
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