http://topics.edition.cnn.com/topics/feeds/rss/American_Civil_Liberties_UnionFind stories, videos, and photos about American Civil Liberties Union from CNN.com.en-usCable News Network LP, LLLP.Thu, 26 Nov 2009 01:02:38 GMT5http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.element/img/1.0/logo/cnn.logo.rss.gifhttp://topics.edition.cnn.com/topics/feeds/rss/American_Civil_Liberties_Union14433Find stories, videos, and photos about American Civil Liberties Union from CNN.com.http://edition.cnn.com/2009/US/11/15/scotus.detainee.photos/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://edition.cnn.com/2009/US/11/15/scotus.detainee.photos/index.html#cnnSTCTextThe 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.Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:33:00 ESThttp://edition.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/09/18/florida.school.prayer/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://edition.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/09/18/florida.school.prayer/index.html#cnnSTCTextA judge has ruled in favor of two Florida school administrators who faced contempt charges for saying a prayer at a school luncheon, according to a group that helped represent them.Fri, 18 Sep 2009 15:54:00 EDThttp://edition.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/09/17/florida.school.prayer/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://edition.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/09/17/florida.school.prayer/index.html#cnnSTCTextTwo Florida school administrators were due to appear in federal court Thursday to face contempt charges for saying a prayer at a school luncheon.Thu, 17 Sep 2009 17:51:00 EDThttp://edition.cnn.com/2009/US/08/27/borders.computers/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://edition.cnn.com/2009/US/08/27/borders.computers/index.html#cnnSTCTextA new policy sets guidelines for how long U.S. border officials can hold computers and downloaded information seized at checkpoints, and with whom they can share that information.Fri, 28 Aug 2009 21:25:00 EDThttp://edition.cnn.com/2009/TECH/08/27/cnet.aclu.facebook.app/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://edition.cnn.com/2009/TECH/08/27/cnet.aclu.facebook.app/index.html#cnnSTCTextThe 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.Fri, 28 Aug 2009 14:46:00 EDThttp://edition.cnn.com/2009/US/08/17/Florida.school.prayer/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://edition.cnn.com/2009/US/08/17/Florida.school.prayer/index.html#cnnSTCTextTwo Florida school administrators face contempt charges and possible prison time for saying a prayer at a school luncheon.Tue, 18 Aug 2009 11:13:00 EDThttp://edition.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/05/29/scotus.detainee.photos/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://edition.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/05/29/scotus.detainee.photos/index.html#cnnSTCTextThe Obama administration is turning to the Supreme Court as it seeks to block public release of photos apparently depicting abuse of suspected terrorists and foreign soldiers in U.S. custody.Fri, 29 May 2009 16:27:00 EDThttp://edition.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/05/14/holder.detainee.photos/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://edition.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/05/14/holder.detainee.photos/index.html#cnnSTCTextU.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said Thursday the Justice Department is prepared to defend in court President Obama's decision to oppose the release of Defense Department photos showing alleged abuse of detainees.Fri, 15 May 2009 00:56:00 EDThttp://edition.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/05/12/us.genes.lawsuit/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://edition.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/05/12/us.genes.lawsuit/index.html#cnnSTCTextMyriad 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.Thu, 14 May 2009 19:51:00 EDThttp://edition.cnn.com/2009/US/04/28/extraordinary.rendition/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://edition.cnn.com/2009/US/04/28/extraordinary.rendition/index.html#cnnSTCTextIn 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.Wed, 29 Apr 2009 00:52:00 EDThttp://edition.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/04/24/prisoners.photos/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://edition.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/04/24/prisoners.photos/index.html#cnnSTCTextThe Pentagon will release hundreds of photographs showing alleged abuse of prisoners in detention in Iraq and Afghanistan between 2001 and 2006, Pentagon officials said Friday, but they said the photos did not show a systemic problem.Sat, 25 Apr 2009 00:25:00 EDThttp://edition.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/04/23/aclu.prisoners.photos/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://edition.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/04/23/aclu.prisoners.photos/index.html#cnnSTCTextThe 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.Fri, 24 Apr 2009 02:56:00 EDThttp://edition.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/04/02/us.torture.documents/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://edition.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/04/02/us.torture.documents/index.html#cnnSTCTextThe 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.Fri, 03 Apr 2009 01:26:00 EDThttp://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1854339,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topicshttp://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1854339,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topicsThe 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. Wed, 29 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDThttp://edition.cnn.com/2008/TRAVEL/10/22/no.fly.lists/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://edition.cnn.com/2008/TRAVEL/10/22/no.fly.lists/index.html#cnnSTCTextThe federal government's terrorist watch lists are far shorter than have been reported, the secretary of homeland security said Wednesday.Thu, 23 Oct 2008 02:26:00 EDThttp://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1851800,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topicshttp://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1851800,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics (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-AmericansSun, 19 Oct 2008 06:00:00 EDThttp://edition.cnn.com/2008/US/10/08/detainee.treatment/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://edition.cnn.com/2008/US/10/08/detainee.treatment/index.html#cnnSTCTextNewly released documents show that military personnel watching over at least two American citizens held in U.S. Navy brigs feared that the isolation and austere conditions were threatening detainees' sanity.Thu, 09 Oct 2008 15:15:00 EDThttp://edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/09/05/rnc.protests/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/09/05/rnc.protests/index.html#cnnSTCTextPolice faced off with crowds of protesters outside the Republican National Convention, arresting 396 people after using tear gas and percussion grenades to turn them back.Fri, 05 Sep 2008 14:15:00 EDThttp://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1825602,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topicshttp://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1825602,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topicsA federal appeals court agreed with a lower court ruling that struck down a 1998 law intended to protect children from sexual material on the InternetTue, 22 Jul 2008 21:00:00 EDThttp://edition.cnn.com/2008/US/07/16/watch.list/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://edition.cnn.com/2008/US/07/16/watch.list/index.html#cnnSTCTextWashington lawyer Jim Robinson is a former assistant attorney general and once served as a U.S. attorney in Michigan.Wed, 16 Jul 2008 23:44:00 EDThttp://edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/06/19/congress.wiretaps/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/06/19/congress.wiretaps/index.html#cnnSTCTextHouse and Senate leaders Thursday announced a new effort to overhaul U.S. wiretapping laws that appears likely to let telecommunications companies escape lawsuits over the Bush administration's warrantless surveillance program.Fri, 20 Jun 2008 00:45:00 EDThttp://edition.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/04/20/polygamy.sect/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://edition.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/04/20/polygamy.sect/index.html#cnnSTCTextThe 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.Mon, 21 Apr 2008 03:16:00 EDThttp://edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/02/19/scotus.spying/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/02/19/scotus.spying/index.html#cnnSTCTextThe Supreme Court offered no explanation Tuesday for refusing to hear an appeal regarding the Bush administration's covert domestic surveillance program. Tue, 19 Feb 2008 18:10:00 ESThttp://edition.cnn.com/2008/US/01/22/prisoner.abortion.rides/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://edition.cnn.com/2008/US/01/22/prisoner.abortion.rides/index.html#cnnSTCTextA federal appeals court has upheld the right of female inmates to be transported at state expense for elective abortions.Tue, 22 Jan 2008 21:36:00 ESThttp://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1684963,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topicshttp://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1684963,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topicsSome foreign diplomats abuse and exploit their household help while serving in the U.S., advocacy groups chargeFri, 16 Nov 2007 18:00:00 ESThttp://edition.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/09/17/aclu.craig/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://edition.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/09/17/aclu.craig/index.html#cnnSTCTextConservative Sen. Larry Craig got support from an unexpected source on Monday. The American Civil Liberties Union filed a brief in court saying the lawmaker's bathroom bust was likely unconstitutional.Tue, 18 Sep 2007 02:48:00 EDThttp://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1659549,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topicshttp://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1659549,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topicsA judge struck down parts of the Patriot Act, saying investigators must have court approval before they can order Internet providers to turn over records without telling customersThu, 06 Sep 2007 18:00:00 EDThttp://edition.cnn.com/2007/US/law/09/04/aclu.military.ap/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://edition.cnn.com/2007/US/law/09/04/aclu.military.ap/index.html#cnnSTCTextNewly 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.Tue, 04 Sep 2007 02:16:00 EDThttp://edition.cnn.com/2007/US/law/07/26/immigrants.ruling/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://edition.cnn.com/2007/US/law/07/26/immigrants.ruling/index.html#cnnSTCTextA federal court Thursday struck down ordinances passed by Hazleton, Pennsylvania, that were intended to limit where illegal immigrants could live and work. Fri, 27 Jul 2007 07:05:00 EDThttp://edition.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/07/06/court.domestic.spying/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://edition.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/07/06/court.domestic.spying/index.html#cnnSTCTextA federal appeals court Friday ordered the dismissal of an ACLU lawsuit challenging President Bush's domestic surveillance program. Fri, 06 Jul 2007 06:05:00 EDThttp://edition.cnn.com/2006/US/03/28/abu.ghraib/index.htmlhttp://edition.cnn.com/2006/US/03/28/abu.ghraib/index.htmlThe Defense Department has withdrawn its appeal challenging a district court order requiring it to turn over to civil rights groups 74 photographs and three videotapes depicting images of abuse at Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad, officials said Tuesday.Wed, 29 Mar 2006 02:10:00 ESThttp://edition.cnn.com/2006/LAW/01/17/aclu.nsa/index.htmlhttp://edition.cnn.com/2006/LAW/01/17/aclu.nsa/index.htmlTwo 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.Tue, 17 Jan 2006 12:34:00 ESThttp://edition.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/12/06/cia.rendition/index.htmlhttp://edition.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/12/06/cia.rendition/index.htmlA suit was filed Tuesday in the United States on behalf of a German man who alleges he was kidnapped and tortured by U.S. agents for five months in 2004. The suit charges the man was mistakenly suspected of being an associate of the 9/11 hijackers.Tue, 06 Dec 2005 16:39:00 ESThttp://edition.cnn.com/2005/US/08/12/style.rules/index.htmlhttp://edition.cnn.com/2005/US/08/12/style.rules/index.htmlThe 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.Fri, 12 Aug 2005 13:31:00 EDThttp://edition.cnn.com/2005/LAW/06/27/materialwitness.study/index.htmlhttp://edition.cnn.com/2005/LAW/06/27/materialwitness.study/index.htmlCivil liberties groups will release a report Monday that accuses the Justice Department of violating individual rights under material witness statutes.Mon, 27 Jun 2005 11:31:00 EDThttp://edition.cnn.com/2005/US/05/25/gitmo.quran/index.htmlhttp://edition.cnn.com/2005/US/05/25/gitmo.quran/index.htmlDetainees at the U.S. naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, alleged in 2002 that guards mistreated the Quran, according to some of the hundreds of FBI documents released by the American Civil Liberties Union.Wed, 25 May 2005 17:22:00 EDThttp://edition.cnn.com/2005/ALLPOLITICS/03/23/patriot.act/index.htmlhttp://edition.cnn.com/2005/ALLPOLITICS/03/23/patriot.act/index.htmlConservative and liberal groups normally at each other's throats over the direction of government are finding common cause in wanting to gut major provisions of the government's premier anti-terrorism law.Wed, 23 Mar 2005 22:14:00 ESThttp://edition.cnn.com/2005/TECH/01/06/passports/index.htmlhttp://edition.cnn.com/2005/TECH/01/06/passports/index.htmlA 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.Thu, 06 Jan 2005 18:33:00 ESThttp://edition.cnn.com/2004/LAW/12/15/aclu.pentagon/index.htmlhttp://edition.cnn.com/2004/LAW/12/15/aclu.pentagon/index.htmlThe 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.Wed, 15 Dec 2004 15:30:00 ESThttp://edition.cnn.com/2004/LAW/10/15/ramasastry.patriot.act/index.htmlhttp://edition.cnn.com/2004/LAW/10/15/ramasastry.patriot.act/index.htmlIn 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.Fri, 15 Oct 2004 14:56:00 EDThttp://edition.cnn.com/2004/US/10/10/terror.watch.list/index.htmlhttp://edition.cnn.com/2004/US/10/10/terror.watch.list/index.htmlThe "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.Mon, 11 Oct 2004 01:06:00 EDThttp://edition.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/08/30/gop.delegate.web/index.htmlhttp://edition.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/08/30/gop.delegate.web/index.htmlThe 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.Tue, 31 Aug 2004 01:00:00 EDThttp://edition.cnn.com/2004/LAW/08/26/abortion/index.htmlhttp://edition.cnn.com/2004/LAW/08/26/abortion/index.htmlA U.S. judge Thursday became the second in the nation to rule that a federal ban on a particular type of late-term abortion is unconstitutional.Thu, 26 Aug 2004 17:12:00 EDThttp://edition.cnn.com/2004/LAW/08/01/aclu.donations/index.htmlhttp://edition.cnn.com/2004/LAW/08/01/aclu.donations/index.htmlThe 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.Sun, 01 Aug 2004 12:46:00 EDThttp://edition.cnn.com/2004/LAW/06/29/scotus.web.indecency/index.htmlhttp://edition.cnn.com/2004/LAW/06/29/scotus.web.indecency/index.htmlThe 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.Tue, 29 Jun 2004 15:55:00 EDThttp://edition.cnn.com/2004/LAW/04/06/no.fly.lawsuit/index.htmlhttp://edition.cnn.com/2004/LAW/04/06/no.fly.lawsuit/index.htmlA 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.Tue, 06 Apr 2004 15:56:00 EDThttp://edition.cnn.com/2004/US/03/12/crime.database/index.htmlhttp://edition.cnn.com/2004/US/03/12/crime.database/index.htmlNew York pulled out of the Matrix program Thursday, making it the latest state to withdraw participation from the multistate, anti-terrorism information exchange.Fri, 12 Mar 2004 17:43:00 ESThttp://edition.cnn.com/2004/LAW/03/02/online.smut/index.htmlhttp://edition.cnn.com/2004/LAW/03/02/online.smut/index.htmlA lawyer for the Bush administration has argued that the U.S. Supreme Court should uphold a law that protects children from Internet pornography.Tue, 02 Mar 2004 22:05:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2002/11/25/332593/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2002/11/25/332593/index.htmAn 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...Mon, 25 Nov 2002 05:01:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1996/11/11/218207/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1996/11/11/218207/index.htmA PRISONER SHORTAGE Mon, 11 Nov 1996 05:01:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1996/04/29/211877/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1996/04/29/211877/index.htmINVESTING IN PRISON Mon, 29 Apr 1996 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1994/12/26/80085/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1994/12/26/80085/index.htmFor 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...Mon, 26 Dec 1994 05:01:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1994/12/01/200332/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1994/12/01/200332/index.htmAnswer 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...Thu, 01 Dec 1994 05:01:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1994/07/25/79541/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1994/07/25/79541/index.htmLeave 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...Mon, 25 Jul 1994 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1994/06/27/79438/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1994/06/27/79438/index.htmFourteen-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...Mon, 27 Jun 1994 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1994/06/13/79386/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1994/06/13/79386/index.htmTraditional 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))...Mon, 13 Jun 1994 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1994/05/30/79370/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1994/05/30/79370/index.htmIRA 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...Mon, 30 May 1994 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1994/04/18/79180/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1994/04/18/79180/index.htmIn which Keeping Up returns to its traditional search for Senator Biglib, the most liberal member of the current upper chamber. Two years ago the menace to society turned out to be Democrat Pat Lea...Mon, 18 Apr 1994 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1994/03/07/79031/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1994/03/07/79031/index.htmThe 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...Mon, 07 Mar 1994 05:01:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1993/08/09/78170/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1993/08/09/78170/index.htmOr perhaps just taking in a movie with someone else's wife? Laural Allen, 23, and Sam Johnson, 20, had been working for Wal-Mart in Gloversville, New York, for several months when they began dating...Mon, 09 Aug 1993 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1993/03/22/77628/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1993/03/22/77628/index.htmThis 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...Mon, 22 Mar 1993 05:01:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1992/03/09/76135/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1992/03/09/76135/index.htmNORFOLK, VA. -- The American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Virginia . . . filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of a student who was suspended . . . for wearing to school a T-shirt saying ''Drugs...Mon, 09 Mar 1992 05:01:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1992/02/24/76086/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1992/02/24/76086/index.htmLITTLE 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...Mon, 24 Feb 1992 05:01:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1992/02/24/76087/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1992/02/24/76087/index.htmWho is the most liberal member of the U.S. Senate? The last time we asked this fateful question (June 19, 1989), the surprising answer was Claiborne Pell, the spaced-out aristocrat from Rhode Islan...Mon, 24 Feb 1992 05:01:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1992/02/10/76039/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1992/02/10/76039/index.htmYour 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...Mon, 10 Feb 1992 05:01:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1992/01/27/75991/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1992/01/27/75991/index.htmLOS 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...Mon, 27 Jan 1992 05:01:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1991/06/03/75059/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1991/06/03/75059/index.htmBruce 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 '...Mon, 03 Jun 1991 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1991/02/25/74691/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1991/02/25/74691/index.htmWe 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...Mon, 25 Feb 1991 05:01:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1991/01/14/74548/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1991/01/14/74548/index.htmYour 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...Mon, 14 Jan 1991 05:01:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1990/12/31/74496/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1990/12/31/74496/index.htmTry 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...Mon, 31 Dec 1990 05:01:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1990/12/17/74440/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1990/12/17/74440/index.htmWe 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 ...Mon, 17 Dec 1990 05:01:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1989/09/11/72428/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1989/09/11/72428/index.htmA 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...Mon, 11 Sep 1989 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1989/08/14/72330/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1989/08/14/72330/index.htmPerplexities abound when you ponder the instantly famous ruling just issued by the New York Court of Appeals. For openers, how do you parse the lead sentence of the ACLU press release enthusiastica...Mon, 14 Aug 1989 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1989/06/19/72105/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1989/06/19/72105/index.htmChallenge 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...Mon, 19 Jun 1989 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1989/06/05/72036/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1989/06/05/72036/index.htmLOS 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...Mon, 05 Jun 1989 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1989/06/05/72035/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1989/06/05/72035/index.htmAnd 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...Mon, 05 Jun 1989 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1989/03/27/71756/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1989/03/27/71756/index.htmAfter 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, ...Mon, 27 Mar 1989 05:01:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1989/03/27/71758/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1989/03/27/71758/index.htmSALT 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...Mon, 27 Mar 1989 05:01:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1987/06/22/69159/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1987/06/22/69159/index.htmPARCHMENT, 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...Mon, 22 Jun 1987 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1986/05/12/67532/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1986/05/12/67532/index.htmIn which Kindly Dr. Keeping Up groaningly assays the latest demarche of a certain editorial board that is known to be in the pay of the New York Times and yet is driven to solemnly comment on alleg...Mon, 12 May 1986 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1986/04/14/67383/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1986/04/14/67383/index.htmA 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...Mon, 14 Apr 1986 05:01:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1985/09/30/66442/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1985/09/30/66442/index.htmSAN 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...Mon, 30 Sep 1985 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1985/09/30/66441/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1985/09/30/66441/index.htmA question we have often thought deeply about in the zone between 4 A.M. and 5 A.M. is how the New York Times decides which errors to correct. The question is truly puzzling, and the suspicion has ...Mon, 30 Sep 1985 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1985/09/30/66439/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1985/09/30/66439/index.htmVarious 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...Mon, 30 Sep 1985 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1985/09/30/66438/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1985/09/30/66438/index.htmThe 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...Mon, 30 Sep 1985 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1985/09/30/66437/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1985/09/30/66437/index.htmTo 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. ...Mon, 30 Sep 1985 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1985/09/30/66440/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1985/09/30/66440/index.htmMr. 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...Mon, 30 Sep 1985 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1985/09/02/66363/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1985/09/02/66363/index.htmThe 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...Mon, 02 Sep 1985 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1985/09/02/66374/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1985/09/02/66374/index.htmWe twitched noticeably the other day upon reading that Ernie Fitzgerald was in the news again. A. Ernest Fitzgerald is quite often in the news, and the story is always the same. The story, which gr...Mon, 02 Sep 1985 04:01:00 EDT