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Appeals Civil Rights Health 

Appeals Court Blocks Indiana Law Limiting Abortion Rights

April 20, 2018 LORRAINE BAILEY
Abortion, aclu, disability, Indiana, planned parenthood, Seventh Circuit

The Seventh Circuit struck down Indiana’s law banning abortions motivated by a fetus’ gender, race or disability, which primarily impacted women seeking to abort rather than have a baby with Down syndrome.

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Civil Rights Regional 

Missouri Accused of Violating Federal Voter-Registration Laws

April 18, 2018April 18, 2018 LORRAINE BAILEY
aclu, driver's licenses, Missouri, Voting

The League of Women Voters of Missouri sued the state Tuesday, claiming it did not follow federal voting-rights law requiring it to update the voter database with information from motor-vehicle records, which the group says impacts half a million residents every year.

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Civil Rights Government 

Expert Says Trump’s CIA May Do End Run Around Torture Laws

April 13, 2018April 13, 2018 HELEN CHRISTOPHI
aclu, CIA, immunity, torture

Dror Ladin, the ACLU attorney who won a landmark settlement for terrorism detainees subjected to CIA tortures designed by two psychologists, warned Thursday that immunity laws may become more widely applied because of that case.

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Government Health Law 

Abortion Ban

April 11, 2018 BRIEF
Abortion, aclu, Brief, Kentucky

Kentucky’s last remaining abortion clinic sued state officials over a new law banning dilation and evacuation procedures, claiming it effectively eliminates abortions for any woman at or after 15 weeks of pregnancy.

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Appeals Civil Rights Government 

Feds Appeal Abortion Ruling in Favor of Immigrant Teens

April 9, 2018 BRITAIN EAKIN
Abortion, aclu, Class Action, D.C. Circuit, immigrants, teens, Trump administration

The federal government filed an appeal Monday of an injunction that prevents the Trump administration from blocking unaccompanied immigrant minors from getting abortions.

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Uncategorized 

Immigration Detentions Draw Class-Action Fire From ACLU

April 5, 2018April 5, 2018 AMANDA OTTAWAY
aclu, Bail bonds, Class Action, Habeas, immigration detention, New York, U.S. Supreme Court

The American Civil Liberties Union brought national firepower Thursday to the case of a man with schizophrenia who has been denied a bond hearing while he faces deportation to Haiti for subway-turnstile mischief.

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Civil Rights Government Regional 

Orange County DA & Sheriff Sued Over Use of Jailhouse Informants

April 4, 2018April 5, 2018 MARTIN MACIAS JR
aclu, informants, inmates, Jails, Orange County California

Orange County, California, law enforcement officials ran a “secret jailhouse informant operation” in violation of state and federal laws, according to a lawsuit filed Wednesday by the American Civil Liberties Union. 

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Civil Rights Government Law 

Court: Government Can’t Block Immigrant Teens From Abortion

March 30, 2018 ASSOCIATED PRESS
Abortion, aclu, Trump administration

A federal court in Washington told the Trump administration Friday that the government can’t interfere with the ability of pregnant immigrant teens being held in federal custody to obtain abortions.

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Civil Rights Regional 

Iowa Man Wins Free-Speech Case Over His City’s Odor

March 30, 2018March 31, 2018 ROX LAIRD
aclu, Free Speech, injunction, Iowa, plants, threats

A federal judge issued an injunction against Sibley, Iowa, ordering it to stop threatening to sue a local man who runs a website saying the city smells like “horrible rotten blood and stale beer.”

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Civil Rights Regional 

Transgender Ohioans Sue for Right to Change Birth Certificates

March 29, 2018March 29, 2018 MATT REYNOLDS
aclu, birth certificates, discrimination, due process, equal protection, Free Speech, Ohio, transgender

Three transgender women and one man backed by the American Civil Liberties Union sued Ohio for refusing to let them change the gender on their birth certificates, claiming the policy exposes them to workplace discrimination and a risk of violence.

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Civil Rights Government Religion 

Judge Allows Families to Join Fight Over Michigan Adoption Rule

March 23, 2018 LORRAINE BAILEY
aclu, adoption, discrimination, LGBT, Michigan, religious freedom, same-sex marriage

A federal judge ruled Thursday that Christian foster families may intervene in same-sex couples’ challenge of a Michigan policy allowing state-funded private adoption agencies to turn away gay and lesbian prospective parents for religious reasons.

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Appeals Arts Education Religion 

Seventh Circuit Approves High School’s Christmas Concert

March 22, 2018March 23, 2018 LORRAINE BAILEY
aclu, Christmas, concerts, establishment clause, holidays, Indiana, schools, Seventh Circuit

The Seventh Circuit found an Indiana high school’s Christmas Spectacular concert constitutional after the school added Hanukkah and Kwanzaa songs and replaced its live nativity with mannequins.

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Business Civil Rights Government National Politics 

ACLU Asks Greyhound to Stop Letting Customs Officers Harass Passengers

March 21, 2018March 22, 2018 DAVID LEE
aclu, Customs and Border Protection, transportation, warrant

The American Civil Liberties Union on Wednesday asked intercity bus operator Greyhound to stop allowing federal immigration agents to indiscriminately board its buses to illegally interrogate passengers unless they have warrants.

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Civil Rights Government National 

ACLU Sues Administration for Detaining Asylum Seekers

March 15, 2018March 15, 2018 CNS
aclu, Asylum, immigration detention

The American Civil Liberties Union sued the Trump administration Thursday, accusing it of blatantly  ignoring immigration law and its own stated policies by detaining immigrants legitimately seeking asylum in the United States.

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Courts Government Technology 

Don’t Stow Electronics

March 12, 2018March 13, 2018 BRIEF
aclu, Aviation, Brief, cellphones, FOIA, TSA

The ACLU on Monday sued the Transportation Safety Administration over its failure to turn over documents about its policies regarding searches of domestic airline passengers’ electronic devices, including cellphones, tablets and computers and even digital cameras.

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Health Law Regional 

Mississippi Lawmakers Pass Nation’s Strictest Abortion Bill

March 8, 2018March 8, 2018 ERIK DE LA GARZA
Abortion, aclu, bills, legislators, Mississippi

Mississippi lawmakers passed a bill Thursday outlawing abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy, a measure that would create the nation’s most restrictive abortion law if it is signed by the Republican governor who supports it.

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Civil Rights Courts 

Court Rules in Favor of Fired Transgender Funeral Director

March 7, 2018March 8, 2018 ASSOCIATED PRESS
aclu, LGBT, transgender

A woman was illegally fired by a Detroit-area funeral home after disclosing that she was transitioning from male to female and dressed as a woman, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday.

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Civil Rights Regional Trials 

Kobach, ACLU Spar as Trial Over Voter ID Law Kicks Off in Kansas

March 6, 2018March 6, 2018 JON PARTON
aclu, Kansas, Kris Kobach, voter ID

Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach defended his election fraud claims Tuesday in federal court, in a voting-rights case brought by civil rights groups.

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Business Government Law Regional 

Iowa Must Defend Controversial ‘Ag-Gag’ Law

March 1, 2018March 1, 2018 MATT REYNOLDS
aclu, ag-gag law, animal cruelty, farming, Free Speech, investigation, Iowa, PETA

The fate of an Iowa law criminalizing undercover investigations of slaughterhouses and meatpacking factories hangs in the balance after a federal judge ruled groups challenging the statute made valid free-speech claims under the First Amendment.

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Courts Regional 

Texas Judge Under Fire for Comments on Black Defendants

February 27, 2018 CAMERON LANGFORD
aclu, ethics, investigation, judges, newspapers, race, Texas

The American Civil Liberties Union of Texas asked a state judicial ethics commission Tuesday to reprimand a judge for saying he does not trust young black men to show up for court because he believes they don’t respect the criminal justice system.

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