ACLU sues to stop Trump policy on jailing asylum seekers

SEATTLE (AP) — The American Civil Liberties Union and other groups are again going to court to challenge the Trump administration, this time over its policy to bar detained asylum seekers from asking a judge to grant them bond. The American Civil Liberties Union, American Immigration Council and the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project filed a... Read More

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March 18, 2019

ACLU seeks to block fetal heartbeat measure in Kentucky

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Abortion-rights defenders opened a new legal fight against Kentucky on Friday to try to block one of the country’s most restrictive abortion measures, which would mostly ban the procedure once a fetal heartbeat is detected. Hours after Kentucky’s Republican-dominated legislature passed the so-called fetal heartbeat bill, the American Civil Liberties Union... Read More

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October 30, 2018

ACLU sues Dodge City over voting access for Hispanics

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Moving the only polling site in Dodge City, Kansas, outside the city limits will make it more difficult for the city’s majority Hispanic population to vote because they tend to have less access to transportation and flexible work schedules, according to a federal lawsuit filed Friday. The lawsuit also seeks a... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Immigration, News

ACLU

September 12, 2018

ACLU announces deal in fight-related immigration detention

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A lawsuit was settled by a Peruvian man who alleged police officers in a city north of Anchorage wrongfully detained him over his immigration status after he tried to break up a bar fight, the American Civil Liberties Union of Alaska announced Tuesday. In exchange for dropping his lawsuit against the... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Immigration, News

ACLU, Immigration

July 26, 2018

ACLU spends $720K in opposition to Joe Arpaio’s Senate bid

PHOENIX (AP) — The American Civil Liberties Union is spending $720,000 in the U.S. Senate race in Arizona to send people into neighborhoods to hand out fliers and run a TV commercial critical of former Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s treatment of immigrants. The legal advocacy group normally stays out of political races, but it is getting... Read More

Criminal Justice News, News, Politics

ACLU, Joe Arpaio

April 9, 2018

Trial over prison conditions in Mississippi comes to a close

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Closing arguments are set in a federal trial in which inmates say they live in unsanitary and excessively violent conditions in a Mississippi prison. The American Civil Liberties Union and Southern Poverty Law Center argue the conditions at East Mississippi Correctional Facility are unconstitutionally abusive. The state’s lawyers say the prison... Read More

Criminal Justice News, News

ACLU

April 6, 2018

ACLU asks judge to stop indefinite detention of immigrants

NEW YORK (AP) — The American Civil Liberties Union and an organization whose lawyers represent immigrants are asking a New York judge to stop the indefinite detention of some immigrants awaiting deportation. The ACLU and the Brooklyn Defender Services want to bring class-action status to a lawsuit filed in Manhattan federal court recently on behalf... Read More

Criminal Justice News, News

ACLU

January 12, 2018

Teacher: Lawsuit over her forcible removal seems likely

ABBEVILLE, La. (AP) — A Louisiana teacher ejected from a school board meeting and roughly handcuffed in a video-recorded arrest after she questioned her superintendent’s pay raise said she thinks a lawsuit is likely in the case. Deyshia Hargrave declined, at first, to say with certainty whether she would file a lawsuit in the matter.... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Law Enforcement, News

ACLU, Deyshia Hargrave

ACLU sues to stop Trump policy on jailing asylum seekers

ACLU seeks to block fetal heartbeat measure in Kentucky

ACLU sues Dodge City over voting access for Hispanics

ACLU announces deal in fight-related immigration detention

ACLU spends $720K in opposition to Joe Arpaio’s Senate bid

Trial over prison conditions in Mississippi comes to a close

ACLU asks judge to stop indefinite detention of immigrants

Teacher: Lawsuit over her forcible removal seems likely

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