The American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan has filed what it is calling a "first-of-its-kind" lawsuit against the state, its Department of Education and one Detroit-area school district for allegedly failing to teach students to read at grade level, as mandated by state law and its constitution.
Nine months after a Justice Department investigation castigated Puerto Rico's police department, another exhaustive report, this one by the American Civil Liberties Union, discloses evidence of widespread abuses and violations of civil rights.
Having been denied participation in a Georgia's adopt-a-highway program, a local Ku Klux Klan chapter has turned to the American Civil Liberties Union for help. And the civil rights organization may represent the group.
Nine couples filed a lawsuit in Illinois on Wednesday to challenge the constitutionality of a state law that denies same-sex couples the right to marry.
Don't want the police or your local government to know where you are? Then put your cell phone in airplane mode or turn it off.
Your Facebook password is none of your new boss' business.
Women in Arizona may be forced to share certain private medical conditions with their employers if they want their contraception to be covered by health insurance, a bill proposes.
A leading organization advocating individual rights is recommending new rules and limits to protect the privacy of Americans in advance of expected expanded use of domestic drones by police and other law enforcement agencies.
A federal judge has temporarily blocked a controversial Florida law requiring all welfare applicants to be drug-tested.
A class-action lawsuit has been filed on behalf of three immigrant women who were allegedly sexually assaulted while in the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Texas, the American Civil Liberties Union said this week.
Nearly 400,000 people were deported from the United States in the past fiscal year, the largest number in the history of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, the government announced Tuesday.
The Supreme Court on Monday turned away an appeal from an Ohio judge who wanted to post a copy of the biblical Ten Commandments in his courtroom.
Information about how and when the government gathers and uses cell phone location data to track certain criminal suspects should be made available to the public, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday.
The ACLU of Louisiana is seeking to block the enforcement of a new state law that limits sex offenders' use of the Internet, arguing that it is overly broad and infringes on constitutional rights.
A federal judge on Monday rejected arguments that the CIA should be held in contempt for destroying videotapes allegedly showing the torture of detainees during interrogations.
Think about all the data -- photos, videos, text messages, calendar items, apps, call log, voice mail, and e-mail -- on your cell phone right now. If you're arrested, could the police search your cell phone? And would they need a warrant?
New documents obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union show "unjustified homicide" of detainees and concerns about the condition of confinement in U.S.-run prisons in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay, according to the ACLU.
Defendants with limited English-language skills have a constitutional right to court interpreters in criminal trials, the Supreme Court of Georgia ruled Monday.
Bullying and harassment in schools often includes violations of federally protected civil rights, the federal government warned Tuesday in new guidelines for educators on how to address the problem.
The Haskell County, Oklahoma, Commission has 10 years to pay attorneys' fees of $199,000 after it was forced to remove an 8-foot-tall Ten Commandments monument.
The city council in Fremont, Nebraska, voted Tuesday to delay enforcement of a new illegal immigration law in light of court challenges by civil rights groups.
updated: Wed Jul 28 2010 05:20:00
Filmmaker Michael Moore sounds off on the Arizona immigration law, and says he has joined the boycott of the state.
The American Civil Liberties Union is seeking records from more than two dozen FBI offices around the nation about the "collection and use of race and ethnicity data in local communities," according to a press release issued by the civil liberties group.
The city council in Fremont, Nebraska, will decide Tuesday whether to delay enforcement of a new illegal immigration law in light of court challenges by civil rights groups.
A school district in Mississippi has agreed to pay a recent high school graduate $35,000 in damages and adopt a policy prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation, according to a statement released Tuesday by the American Civil Liberties Union.
Dozens of affiliates of the American Civil Liberties Union have issued travel alerts for people heading to Arizona this Fourth of July holiday weekend -- the group's latest effort to condemn the state's new immigration law.
updated: Thu Jul 01 2010 16:44:00
Gov. Bill Richardson blames Congress for the lack of immigration reform and says Obama should challenge the Arizona law.
When radio was invented in the late nineteenth century by the likes of Marconi, Edison, and Tesla, government and industry faced a conundrum. Who would own the limited band of electromagnetic frequencies that made this new invention possible?
The American Civil Liberties Union is pushing for a quick legal decision, hoping to save a high school prom that was allegedly canceled because two lesbians wanted to attend it together.
updated: Fri Mar 12 2010 20:50:00
A New Orleans hotel owner says he can host a high school's prom, after a Mississippi school canceled it.
A Mississippi high school faces a lawsuit over its decision to cancel its prom rather than allow a lesbian high school student to attend with her girlfriend.
For most of this school year, Sharail Reed has dreaded going to her third-period history class. In a very real sense, the class hasn't had a teacher all year. Instead, a parade of no fewer than 10 substitute teachers has been placed in charge of the class.
The Supreme Court has ordered a lower court to re-examine an ongoing dispute over public release of photos apparently depicting abuse of suspected terrorists and foreign soldiers in U.S. custody.
The Pentagon is blocking public release of photos apparently depicting abuse of suspected terrorists and foreign troops in U.S. custody, and urging the Supreme Court to dismiss a lower court ruling ordering the photos to be publicly disclosed, according to court documents.
Two Florida school administrators were due to appear in federal court Thursday to face contempt charges for saying a prayer at a school luncheon.
The Northern California chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union has put out a campaign designed to raise awareness of the privacy implications of Facebook's developer platform.
updated: Tue Aug 18 2009 07:13:00
A high school principal and athletic director are facing charges after praying at a luncheon on school property.
Two Florida school administrators face contempt charges and possible prison time for saying a prayer at a school luncheon.
Myriad Genetics, a Utah-based company, vowed Wednesday to "vigorously defend" itself against a legal challenge to its patents on two human genes linked to breast and ovarian cancers, its attorney told CNN.
In a setback for the government, a federal appeals court Tuesday revived a lawsuit from five men who claim they were secretly transported to countries where they were tortured.
The Defense Department will release "a substantial number" of photographs showing abuse of prisoners at prisons in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to the American Civil Liberties Union.
The release of sensitive "torture" documents has been delayed again after an agreement between lawyers for the Obama administration and the American Civil Liberties Union, a source said Thursday.
The former ACLU president talks to TIME about her toughest sparring partners, the tension between national security and civil liberties and why the upcoming election is even more important than people may realize.
updated: Wed Oct 22 2008 22:26:00
Homeland Security says "no-fly" list numbers are smaller than previously reported. Jeanne Meserve reports.
The federal government's terrorist watch lists are far shorter than have been reported, the secretary of homeland security said Wednesday.
(NEW YORK) -- The American Civil Liberties Union elected a new president on Saturday, choosing a constitutional law scholar who said she would reach out to African-Americans
updated: Wed Jul 16 2008 19:44:00
The TSA is criticized for having more than one million names on its terror watch list. CNN's Drew Griffin reports.
Washington lawyer Jim Robinson is a former assistant attorney general and once served as a U.S. attorney in Michigan.
The Texas branch of the American Civil Liberties Union said it was concerned that the basic rights of the children and mothers connected to a Texas polygamist ranch were violated during a recent raid and custody hearing.
The Supreme Court offered no explanation Tuesday for refusing to hear an appeal regarding the Bush administration's covert domestic surveillance program.
updated: Tue Feb 19 2008 13:10:00
President Bush says the U.S. is in more danger of being attacked because Congress failed to renew a wiretapping law.
Some foreign diplomats abuse and exploit their household help while serving in the U.S., advocacy groups charge
Newly released documents regarding crimes committed by U.S. troops against civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan detail a pattern of troops failing to understand and follow the rules that govern interrogations and deadly actions.
A federal appeals court Friday ordered the dismissal of an ACLU lawsuit challenging President Bush's domestic surveillance program.
Two lawsuits were filed Tuesday against the National Security Agency over its no-warrant wiretapping program, claiming the domestic eavesdropping is unconstitutional and that President Bush exceeded his authority by authorizing it.
The newest school fashion trend is not ripped from the pages of the latest magazine -- it comes from the principal's handbook as a growing number of school districts are adopting more stringent dress codes and implementing school uniform policies.
A controversy is brewing over a U.S. State Department decision to put identification chips inside all new passport covers, a program scheduled to start by late 2005.
The abuse of naked Iraqi prisoners received the bulk of publicity, but those incidents were just some of many clandestine occurrences in which detainees endured shock, burns and mock executions, newly released Pentagon records reveal.
In late September, a federal district judge in New York, Victor Marrero, ruled that a key component of the USA Patriot Act is unconstitutional. The ruling made headlines, for it is the first to strike down any of the vast new surveillance powers the act authorized.
The "no-fly" watch list -- billed as a post-9/11 weapon in the United States' war on terror -- lacks guidance on adding and deleting names and a method of consolidating more than a dozen lists maintained by various government agencies, a review of government records revealed.
The Secret Service is investigating an Internet posting of some Republican delegates' phone numbers, e-mail addresses and the hotels where they would stay during the party's national convention, federal law enforcement officials said Monday.
The American Civil Liberties Union has withdrawn from a federal donation program, refusing to follow U.S. Patriot Act rules requiring use of a government anti-terrorism watch list to check employees' names, a spokeswoman said.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday blocked enforcement of a law intended to protect children from pornography on the Internet, saying the law probably violates free-speech guarantees.
A federal government list designed to keep terrorism suspects off commercial airline flights has subjected "hundreds, if not thousands" of innocent passengers to repeated interrogation, detention and stigmatization, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday.
An 82-year-old American brand is getting a makeover, complete with a new logo and a multimillion-dollar ad campaign to attract a younger demographic. None of which is particularly remarkable--excep...
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For the second time in five years, the traditional towering Christmas tree will be absent from the front of ((Pittsburgh's)) City-County Building. The administration has opted instead for two small...
Answer true or false. Legally, your boss can: Rifle through your desk drawers. Videotape you without your knowledge. Read E-mail and computer files addressed solely to you. Eavesdrop on your phone...
Leave it to . . . the American Civil Liberties Union to get out a provocative message at Chicago's 25th Annual Gay and Lesbian Pride Parade . . . ''A-C-L-U. We defend your right to screw,'' ACLU pa...
Fourteen-year-old Astrianna Johnson . . . wanted to make a bold statement about the importance of safe sex. She pinned condom packs to her shoes and clothes at school. Her campaign got Astrianna su...
Traditional parochial school attire is catching on in Bay Area public schools . . . Parents and administrators claim uniforms help students concentrate on learning rather than their clothes ((and))...
IRA GLASSER, 56, head of the ACLU, preparing archconservative William F. Buckley Jr., 68, to attend his first pro baseball game ever: ''You will be pleased to know I stand obediently for the nation...
The American Civil Liberties Union ((is)) suggesting ((that)) a legislative prayer caucus ((in the Georgia House of Representatives)) may be violating the constitutional separation of church and st...
This book review will be less favorable than the one above, as we began talking back to the ACLU's Restoring Civil Liberties: A Blueprint for Action for the Clinton Administration at the first word...
LITTLE ROCK -- American Civil Liberties Union lawyers ((will)) represent a Ku Klux Klan group seeking to participate in a state Adopt-A-Highway anti-litter program . . . Members of the Knights of t...
Your servant has had some moments of deep doubt in preparing this item. For openers, the controversy being covered is one in which he nervously finds himself on the same side of the barricades as t...
LOS ANGELES -- The American Civil Liberties Union, in a clash with local and national efforts to curb rampant gang activity, has challenged the constitutionality of an ordinance banning gang member...
Bruce Ennis, formerly national legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union . . . ((had)) some difficult moments ((in arguing before the U.S. Supreme Court that nude dancing was protected '...
We sulkily declined to answer Ira Glasser's letter to the editor a while back (January 28), and had definitely planned to cease ''baiting'' the American Civil Liberties Union -- this being executiv...
Your servant was recently browsing through Nexis, reading about the death penalty, not because this is his idea of a good time, honest, but because he was thinking of writing something about the in...
Try imagining this scenario: An organization behaving somewhat like the Mafia has gone after a major corporate employer in a large American city. It tells the employer it will put him out of busine...
We open with an inside story. Occasionally, your servant comes to a fortnight when it is time for Keeping Up to go to press, and there is no Only in America item in the cupboard. What can the poor ...
A fortnight ago, we were dwelling heavily on the curious unwillingness of the New York Times to label certain congressional Democrats ''left wing.'' Having raised this prickly subject, we feel it w...
Challenge in the last issue: to figure out, with the help of 13 clues, which of ten Senators was the ''most liberal'' -- i.e., which had the highest total when you added the scores assigned each of...
LOS ANGELES -- Long Beach City College will upgrade its women's sports program and pay $85,000 to settle a discrimination suit. The American Civil Liberties Union sued the college four years ago, a...
And now for a bit of brain exercise. Several weeks ago, we were flipping the pages of The Sciences, a high-class magazine published by the New York Academy of Sciences, and came across the followin...
After years of debate and acrimony, the Employee Polygraph Protection Act is at last in place. Thus far the results seem unsurprising and yet oddly illuminating. It turns out that personnel folks, ...
SALT LAKE CITY -- A Utah State Prison proposal to ((build)) a modern, steambath-type sweat lodge for American Indians would violate the inmates' religious rights, American Civil Liberties Union att...
PARCHMENT, MICH. -- Requiring boys and girls to wear graduation gowns of different colors is unconstitutional, an American Civil Liberties Union official charged. The ACLU has written a letter to t...
A FEDERAL INVESTIGATOR, acting without a search warrant, gains access to incriminating evidence stored in a computer databank. A corporate spy picks up trade secrets as he monitors the satellite fe...
SAN FRANCISCO -- A federal judge Monday authorized a . . . ''comparable worth'' suit on behalf of about 90,000 women -- present and former state workers who claim pay discrimination. But Judge Mari...
Various improbable events have been much in the news lately, and Keeping Up's senior handicapper has been laboring overtime to figure out the odds and betting angles on such suddenly interesting lo...
The purpose of this memorandum is to . . . inform you of an important development . . . In 1983, in a situation involving termination of four employees for the same minor dishonest acts, an arbitra...
To be severely logical about it all, we should actually be grateful to Ira Glasser of the American Civil Liberties Union, he whose denunciatory letter to the editor is even now lurking on page 15. ...
Mr. Gorbachev trusts that better planning could help Soviet industry to grow by maybe 1 1/2% to 2% more a year. He is readier than his predecessors to orchestrate belly laughs about the inefficienc...
The American Civil Liberties Union has a lot going for it these days. Its national membership is around 250,000, an all-time high. It has several hundred local chapters, and its views and legal res...
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