The public will have the last word in Orange County, California. The county on Tuesday agreed in a settlement to update its public comment rules and allow speakers to direct their comments at individual elected officials during public meetings.
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The Seventh Circuit heard arguments Tuesday in Indiana’s appeal of a ruling that found a state law requiring providers to report medical complications associated with abortions is unconstitutional.
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The First Circuit struggled Tuesday with a policy that lets border agents look through the phones or laptops of travelers returning from abroad.
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The federal judge who temporarily blocked enforcement of a set of Arkansas abortion restrictions is once again being asked to rule on whether the four anti-abortion laws tangled up in court for years should finally take effect as early as Tuesday.
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Demanding to see the paper trail, the ACLU complained in federal court Wednesday that the Trump administration is staying mum about its efforts to track immigrants’ movements using cellphone location data.
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Two American citizens who claim they were wrongfully detained for speaking Spanish in public settled their lawsuit against the U.S. Customs and Border Protection and individual agents, the ACLU announced Tuesday.
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Missouri’s efforts to reduce the time poor criminal defendants must wait for a public defender are commendable but they don’t make the state’s waiting list constitutional, an ACLU attorney said Wednesday during closing arguments of a two-day bench trial.
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The Seventh Circuit heard arguments Thursday over whether an Indiana county’s Christmas nativity scene on courthouse grounds violates the Constitution’s ban on state-sanctioned religion.
Read moreA group of unhoused people in Minneapolis are suing the city and several officials in an effort to stop police from evicting them from burgeoning encampments in city parks.
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Civil rights groups led by the American Civil Liberties Union called on Dallas officials Thursday to slash their police budget by 37% and restrict cops on the use of deadly force, two days after the police chief quit over her handling of this summer’s George Floyd protests and the city’s soaring violent crime rate.
Read moreNew Mexico has refused to provide incarcerated people “even the most basic protections” required to protect them against coronavirus, plaintiffs, including the American Civil Liberties Union of New Mexico and the New Mexico Criminal Defense Lawyers, claim in a complaint filed in state court Monday.
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Civil rights lawyers slapped the Puerto Rico Election Commission with a federal lawsuit on Thursday, claiming the U.S. territory failed to ensure people older than 60 can safely vote during the Nov. 3 presidential election.
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Three fatal shootings by police in Southern California violated a state law that says police should only use deadly force when there is an imminent threat to life according to a complaint filed Friday.
Read moreCalling the Imperial Regional Detention Facility “a lone bright spot for Imperial County,” a federal judge Wednesday declined the American Civil Liberty Union’s request to order the release of at-risk immigration detainees in the facility, which despite being in the center of California’s coronavirus hotspot, has only had two detainees test positive for Covid-19.
Read moreThe American Civil Liberties Union, the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Washington Post lost their appeal in the Ninth Circuit of a district court’s refusal to unseal documents in a contempt proceeding against Facebook relating to a technical assistance wiretap order.
Read moreA federal judge Friday considered whether to order the removal of at-risk immigrant detainees at a Southern California immigration detention facility which, despite being in the heart of the state’s Covid-19 hotspot, has so far only had two positive cases among detainees.
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Detroit residents backed by the ACLU filed a federal class action Thursday accusing city and state officials of not having a plan in place for low-income residents who face water shutoffs during the coronavirus pandemic.
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Calling it an unconstitutional curb of free-speech rights at a “pivotal time in our history,” a federal judge blocked Indiana from enforcing a new panhandling ban set to take effect Wednesday
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A judge in Virginia’s capital denied a request for an injunction blocking the use of tear gas and enforcement of a controversial riot law against protesters in a case brought by ACLU.
Read moreThe American Civil Liberties Union filed a class action lawsuit against Portland, Oregon police on Sunday, claiming journalists and legal observers were targeted and attacked by officers while covering protests over the killing of George Floyd.
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