A pregnant detainee at an immigration prison near San Diego, jailed in violation of Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s own policies, was released this week, the day after the ACLU sent a demand letter.
Read moreThe American Civil Liberties Union said Monday that an undocumented pregnant woman with a history of high-risk pregnancies is being held in an immigrant detention facility and denied access to basic medical care in violation of Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s own policies.
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Settling the first lawsuit to challenge the travel ban, the Trump administration agreed to inform all people turned away from airports because of the order of their right to reapply with groups eager to provide free legal counsel.
Read moreThe American Civil Liberties Union says California election officials may have discarded over 45,000 ballots during the November 2016 election without notifying the affected voters.
Read moreFederal agencies must start producing records on President Donald Trump’s travel ban to avoid a court order that would require a speedier release of documents, a federal judge said Thursday.
Read moreA Houston ordinance that bars homeless people from sleeping in tents on public property may violate their rights against cruel and unusual punishment, a federal judge ruled Tuesday, blocking the law with a temporary restraining order.
Read moreAfter drawing heavy criticism for defending organizers of the white supremacist protest in Charlottesville, Virginia, the American Civil Liberties Union said Thursday it will no longer represent hate groups that demonstrate with loaded firearms.
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The American Civil Liberties Union on Thursday settled its lawsuit against two psychologists hired by the CIA to develop a torture program for terrorism suspects.
Read moreA homeless man represented by the American Civil Liberties Union sued Indianapolis on Thursday over the city’s recent declaration of an emergency and prohibition on lying on the public sidewalk or congregating under certain underpasses.
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A class action filed in Nebraska federal court early Wednesday wants the Nebraska Department of Corrections and state parole board to address several prison issues including overcrowding, inadequate health care and a lack of accommodation for disabled prisoners.
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A panel of federal judges has refused the Homeland Security Department’s request to consolidate 13 Freedom of Information Act lawsuits from the ACLU, seeking information on how President Trump’s travel ban is being enforced across the country.
Read moreThe organizer of a Saturday rally of white supremacists in Charlottesville, Va. that left one person dead and 19 others hospitalized was forced to flee his own press conference Sunday after an angry crowd rejected his assertions that city officials were to blame for the tragedy.
Read moreWashington, D.C.’s public transit system illegally rejects ads that “might give offense,” the ACLU says in a constitutional complaint on behalf of a right-wing provocateur, an abortion provider and an animal rights group.
Read moreNew Hampshire’s secretary of state will send voter data to President Donald Trump’s election-integrity commission but the information will not be made public in a digital file, after the state reached a resolution with the local chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union.
Read moreA federal judge has struck down Alabama’s one-of-a-kind law that enabled judges to put minors seeking abortions through a trial-like proceeding in which the fetus could get a lawyer and prosecutors could object to the pregnant girl’s wishes.
Read moreAfter a bench trial, a state superior court judge ruled Monday that a Massachusetts law requiring voters to register at least 20 days before an election in order to cast a ballot is unconstitutional.
Read moreThe American Civil Liberties Union is demanding that four federal agencies release information about an executive order President Donald Trump reportedly planned to sign carving out religious-freedom exemptions the group says target the gay community.
Read moreFive registered Florida voters and the American Civil Liberties Union sued the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity, claiming the Trump administration panel is violating their privacy rights by attempting to collect their personal data.
Read moreThe President’s Commission on Election Integrity was slapped with a new legal challenge, even as it agreed to stop using a Department of Defense website to collect state voter data as a result of a previous lawsuit.
Read moreA Byzantine law removing disabled adults’ right to counsel in guardianship proceedings targets the poorest people of Utah, the ACLU says in a federal lawsuit against the state.
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