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A Amateur video captured Gwaltney's arrest in downtown Roanoke last May during a local group's "Must See TV" art demonstration.

The American Civil Liberties Union of Nevada has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against police and public officials on behalf of two Las Vegas Strip street performers after one was arrested in March.

A U.S. flag being flown upside down as a protest in a small northern Wisconsin village was seized by police before a Fourth of July parade.

The week after Independence Day has seen a lot of action nationwide on the gay-marriage front.

Two convicted sex offenders forced to live under a causeway bridge are challenging a Miami law that prohibits them from living within 2,500 feet of places where children gather.

Prisoner and free-speech advocates are demanding a written guarantee that inmates at a Virginia jail can receive letters containing religious material after a prisoner said his mail was censored.

Thursday, July 09, 2009 Ind. Courts - "ACLU Lawsuit claims Indiana law examiners violate the ADA " Leigh Jones reports in today's National Law Journal in a story that begins: The American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana has launched a class action against that state's board of law examiners, asserting that inquiries into the mental health of those ...

The American Civil Liberties Union has closed its North Dakota office. The organization attributes the closure of the Fargo facility to the poor national economy and to losses major contributors suffered in the Bernard Madoff scandal.

How we will come to terms with the government abuses unleashed in the aftermath of 9/11 is a historic test of our highest principles.

If good teachers are not frustrated with their jobs, they should be. Start with their fundamental goal, what brought them to the profession: to educate children.

A Las Vegas man won a courtroom battle Wednesday with the Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles over his "HOE" license plate, which the agency refused to renew on grounds that he was using a slang reference to prostitutes.

The Rhode Island affiliate of the American Civil Liberties Union asking the federal court to declare Narragansett's controversial "orange sticker" policy, meant to clamp down on unruly off-campus parties, unconstitutional.

The American Civil Liberties Union yesterday accused the Obama administration of using statements elicited through torture to justify the confinement of a detainee it represents at the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba .

Lawrence County Schools officials have agreed to stop offering single sex classes next year after the American Civil Liberties Union became involved.

The Rhode Island Affiliate of the American Civil Liberties Union and the National Center for Law and Economic Justice have sued the state Department of Human Services alleging that its failure to promptly process food stamp applications has left thousands of Rhode Islanders hungry and suffering in the midst of the worst economy in decades.

Many convicted killers seek solace in the Lord in their final days, and Donald Lee Leger is among them.

The American Civil Liberties Union is again asking an Arizona court to stop Maricopa County Sheriff Joseph Arpaio from preventing female inmates from accessing abortion services.

That's the question Mohammad Jawad's defense attorneys are trying to answer with a motion filed Wednesday afternoon in the Guantanamo detainee's habeas petition, charting a course into some new legal territory and arguing that statements made to U.S. and Afghan interrogators should be rendered inadmissible in U.S. courts, given the conditions that ...

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The American Civil Liberties Union has asked a Denver appeals court to deny a request by Haskell County commissioners to reconsider its decision last month against a Ten Commandments monument.