A three-judge panel on Wednesday declined to throw out a gerrymandering lawsuit against Republican officials in Ohio, finding that a group of Democratic voters established legal standing to bring the challenge.
Read moreNew Hampshire can’t enforce a law that allows poll workers to throw out absentee ballots over penmanship, a federal judge ruled Tuesday.
Read moreA federal judge Friday praised the joint plan by federal officials and the American Civil Liberties Union to quickly reunite families separated at the U.S.-Mexico border under President Donald Trump’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy.
Read moreAttorneys for the federal government revealed for the first time Thursday how it plans to reunite parents deported without their kids under President Donald Trump’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy, but its plan appears vague and puts the onus on the American Civil Liberties Union to reunite families.
Read moreA South Dakota jury may have wrongfully sentenced a gay man to death based on some jurors’ belief that he would enjoy life in prison with other men, several civil rights groups claim.
Read moreA federal judge in Los Angeles probed U.S. attorneys Monday as to why several hundred people are being held at a federal prison in the Mojave Desert, during a status hearing in a federal lawsuit filed on behalf of immigrant detainees.
Read moreThe ACLU et al. sued California Secretary of State Alex Padilla for failing to ensure that all state offices that administer programs that primarily serve people with disabilities also act as voter registration agencies, as required by the National Voter Registration Act.
Read moreDuring a Friday status conference in the family separation class action out of San Diego, government attorneys revealed only a fraction of families have been reunited but said they’re going “full steam ahead” to meet next week’s reunification deadline.
Read moreA federal judge in California asked the government Friday to give 12 hours’ notice before reuniting children separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border with their families so no one is left stranded as agencies prepare to reunite nearly 3,000 detained children.
Read moreA judge signed off on a settlement Tuesday that lets distressed Michiganders pay $1,000 to stay in their homes and seek exemption from property taxes.
Read moreParents separated from their children at the U.S.-Mexico border were coerced by border officials into giving up their claims for asylum and other legal protections with the promise that they would see their children again sooner, the American Civil Liberties Union alleged in a second amended complaint filed on Tuesday.
Read moreRiverside County, Calif., and its Probation Department unconstitutionally discriminate against children of color through an “astonishingly punitive and ineffective law enforcement program” called the Youth Accountability Team, “treating them like criminals” for “normal, childish behavior” such as being “defiant” or “easily persuaded by peers,” the ACLU claims in a federal class action.
Read moreThe White House may have slipped up and acknowledged the existence of records relating to a 2017 controversial raid in Yemen that the CIA wants to withhold from the ACLU, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.
Read moreThe American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio said Tuesday that the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision to sidestep two partisan-redistricting cases helped clarify its legal claims in an amended gerrymandering lawsuit against state officials.
Read moreAn immigration attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union told a federal judge Friday he’s the “only person left” who can help asylum-seeking kids reunite with their parents after being torn apart under the Trump administration’s zero tolerance immigration policy.
Read moreSave The 1, an anti-abortion advocate for protecting children born of rape and incest, filed a motion to intervene Tuesday in a case challenging Iowa’s new fetal-heartbeat law because it says the law includes too many exceptions.
Read moreKansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach got more bad news Tuesday when the American Civil Liberties Union brought a federal class action against him, claiming a voter database system released personal voter information to the public.
Read moreThe Trump administration on Wednesday told a federal court in Washington it plans to release into Syria a detained American citizen accused of fighting for the so-called Islamic State, but his lawyers say that’s a “death warrant” and they will ask the court to intervene.
Read moreA federal judge found late Wednesday the government’s practice of separating immigrant parents and their minor children who come to the U.S. seeking asylum potentially violates the families’ due process rights.
Read moreAn Iowa judge on Friday agreed to issue a temporary injunction barring enforcement of the state’s newly enacted fetal-heartbeat law that critics say would outlaw almost all abortions in the Hawkeye State.
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