ACLU News

JACKSON, Miss. a ' The DeSoto County Public School District has asked a federal judge to reject the ACLU's request to lift the suspension of a student who was accused of using gang signs during a school assembly.

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Here's the text of a press release published today by the ACLU regarding a Court of Criminal Appeals decision in the Max Soffar case.

Canyon County commissioners in southwestern Idaho have agreed to pay $190,000 to the American Civil Liberties Union for legal fees stemming from a federal lawsuit the group filed earlier this year.

Here are a few facts we can't overlook. *A retired Army lawyer speaking at a TEA Party rally this past week explained the dangers this trail poses to national security.

The American Civil Liberties Union of North Carolina Legal Foundation filed a lawsuit against the Town of Cary Thursday challenging the town's assessment of fines against a Cary homeowner who spray-painted a protest on the front of his home.

November 18th, 2009, Fairfax, VA - Americans for Limited Government President Bill Wilson today condemned 10 Republican Senators for voting to invoke cloture on Barack Obama's controversial nomination of Judge David Hamilton to the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals.

HUBBARD, Ohio -- The American Civil Liberties Union has asked an Ohio school to stop punishing a student who refused to stand and recite the Pledge of Allegiance.

SANTA ANA, Calif. a " A federal judge has denied a request by the American Civil Liberties Union to block an injunction that forbids members of an Orange County street gang from associating in public.U.S. District Judge Valerie Baker Fairbank wrote Tuesday that the ACLU's request was 'not appropriate.'The lawsuit filed in September challenged the ...

Several groups have come together to demand that Enfield school officials stop holding high school graduation ceremonies at a Christian church, calling the ceremonies a violation of the separation between church and state.

Judge David Hamilton The Senate voted for cloture, or to begin debate, on President Obama's first judicial nominee, and 10 Republicans voted 'yea' on Judge David F. Hamilton, a former ACORN fundraiser who once made an injunction against saying Jesus' name in the Indiana Legislature.

Reporting from Washington - The plotters of the 9/11 attacks will be tried as terrorists and criminals in a federal court in Manhattan, just blocks from the site of one of the terrorists' targets, the World Trade Center, U.S. Atty.

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission says the rights of a Rastafarian baggage screener at Boston's Logan International Airport were violated when he was threatened with firing unless he cut his hair.

A lawsuit has been filed against the Cheatham County School Board alleging that school officials have promoted their own religious beliefs and allowed and encouraged public prayers at school events.

Democrats, with a bit of Republican help, voted 70-29 to limit debate on U.S. District Judge David Hamilton, exceeding the 60 votes needed and assuring his confirmation to the Chicago-based appeals court by a simple majority of the 100-member Senate.

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Illinois has made it easier for people who have had sex reassignment surgery to change their birth certificates to reflect their new gender.

Like many New Yorkers and members of the families of the nearly 3,000 innocent Americans murdered on that horrific Tuesday morning eight years ago, I'm outraged and insulted by President Obama's decision to transfer Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the admitted mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, to New York City for trial in civilian federal court.

NASHVILLE - A federal lawsuit filed Monday on behalf of students accused Cheatham County schools of promoting Christianity and violating the U.S. Constitution.

The Supreme Court is staying out of a dispute in Miami between school officials and civil libertarians over a book about Cuba that depicts smiling children in communist uniforms but avoids mention of problems in the country.