Aug 10, 2023
ACLU Applauds Louisiana Governor for Calling on Board of Pardons to Review Clemency Petitions
BATON ROUGE, La. — This week, Gov. Edwards exercised his constitutionally provided executive authority to call on the Louisiana Board of Pardons to review the clemency petitions ...
Issue Areas: Capital Punishment
Aug 10, 2023
Supreme Court Amicus Brief Supports ADA Tester’s Legal Challenge to Hotel Inaccessibility
Civil Rights Organizations File Brief in Acheson Hotels, LLC v. Deborah Laufer Urging Supreme Court to Hold That Civil Rights Tester Has Standing to Sue Over Hotel’s Discrimination Against People with Disabilities
Issue Areas: Disability Rights
Aug 08, 2023
Idaho Educators File Lawsuit Challenging State Law Censoring Professors’ Speech on Abortion
The law violates educators’ First Amendment right to academic speech by criminalizing teaching and scholarship on pro-abortion viewpoints at Idaho’s public universities.
Aug 08, 2023
Midwives and Doctors File Lawsuit Challenging Alabama’s De Facto Ban on Birth Centers
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — A group of midwives and doctors filed a lawsuit in state court today challenging ongoing actions by the Alabama Department of Public Health (ADPH), which have ...
Issue Areas: Reproductive Freedom
Aug 07, 2023
Federal Court Rejects Challenge to Trans-Inclusive Restroom Policy at Ohio School District
COLUMBUS, Ohio – Today a federal judge in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio issued a judgment on the pleadings in a lawsuit challenging Bethel Local Schoo...
Issue Areas: LGBTQ Rights
Aug 07, 2023
ACLU Deeply Concerned by Oregon’s Passage of Unnecessary and Overbroad Law Criminalizing Domestic Terrorism
Group Says HB 2772 is Latest Example of Law Enforcement Seeking to Suppress Public Protest Via Domestic Terrorism Authorities
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