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ACLU claims bar association violated lawyer's rights
Louisville :: KY :: USA | 1 day ago
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Kentucky has challenged a lawyer disciplinary rule under which an attorney was warned about �publicly implying� that the state Legislative Ethics Commission mishandled an ethics complaint against Senate President David Williams in 2007. In a suit filed...
Tags: John M. Berry, KBA, inquiry commission, ACLU, David Williams, Senate Republican, Kentucky Bar Association, ethically commission, commission member, Paul Gudgel, Louisville, First Amendment to the United States Constitution, American Civil Liberties Union, Civil rights and liberties, Law Crime, American Bar Association Model Rules of Professional Conduct
E-mail request fought in school prayer case
Pensacola :: FL :: USA | 2 days ago
Credibility Attorneys for the Santa Rosa School District have asked a federal judge to quash a request by a Christian educators group for volumes of e-mails pertaining to the legal battle over faculty-led prayer. The district says the request came too late in the...
Tags: Christian Educators Association International, Judge Casey Rodgers, ACLU, Santa Rosa School District, consent decree, Pensacola, American Civil Liberties Union, Education, Religion Belief, Law Crime
People of Phoenix Complain About A Church That is Feeding the Hungry
The church is supposed to be those who take the lead in humanitarian causes throughout the community. Such is the case at Crossroads United Methodist Church in Phoenix, Arizona. Every day, the church feeds the homeless in the community at...
Tags: phoenix, church, crossroads, crossroads church, crossroads united methodist church, methodist, food, hungry, homeless, city ordinance, judge, aclu
ACLU Disputes Somali Man's Federal Detention
San Diego :: CA :: USA | 5 days ago
Credibility A Somali man held for 15 months at a South Bay detention facility could soon learn if he will be released, 10News reported. In 2006 in Somalia, Abdala Abdille and his cousin were kidnapped by members of the extremist group Al-Shabaab, which had alleged...
Tags: Abdala Abdille, federal detention, ACLU, detention facility, San Diego, Al-Shabaab, American Civil Liberties Union, Somali people
ACLU pushes for release of US torture photos
Baghdad :: Iraq | 6 days ago
Credibility 58 GMT Font size : The American Civil Liberties Union is pressing the US justice system to release the torture photos that demonstrate vicious prisoner abuses by US forces in Iraq and Afghanistan. In a recent measure, purportedly to safeguard US national...
Tags: ACLU, Afghanistan, American Civil Liberties Union, torture photos, prisoner abuses, Iraq, Baghdad
Little Brother Is iWatching
The LAPD has just released a commercial supporting it's anti terrorism iWatch program, which it defines as “a way to report suspicious behavior or activity that relates to terrorism”. Concerns were expressed by the ACLU about the program...
Tags: iWatch, terrorism, LAPD, Najibullah Zazi, ACLU, Mike German, Conspiracy, surveillance, Namomi Wolf
Racism Reincarnated
This is a story that should be a relic unearthed from less enlightened times. Sadly, it's not. An interracial couple tried to get a marriage license, but the justice of the peace refused to issue one specifically because it was an interracial couple....
Tags: black, white, new orleans, louisiana, marriage, racist, racism, bardwell, tangipahoa, aclu, discrimination, loving v. virginia
The Police Are Rioting: A Report from the G-20 Streets, Pittsburgh 2009
by David Rovics, professional musician & G-20 protester. There is a popular assumption that, although other countries such as Iran or China don't have freedom of speech and of assembly, we do. And that it's what makes us so great. Anybody...
Tags: Cindy Sheehan, David Rovics, G-20, protest, Bill of Rights, Joshua White, Sarah Wellington, Civil Rights movement, Shays' Rebellion, Pittsburgh, Kevin Rudd, police, First Amendment, Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Assembly, ACLU, BBC, NPR, CNN, martial law, Secret Service, FBI, LRAD, Holiday Inn, rubber bullets, tear gas
Pittsburgh police reluctantly stifle dissent at G 20 meetings.
Reports have been coming over the Independent Media Center - Pittsburgh wire (IMC-PA), from the G-infinity coverage team website, indypgh.org, saying that police are being used to stifle dissent to the G20 meeting, a summit of global corporations and...
Tags: Pittsburgh, G20, police, ACLU, harassment, Seeds of Peace, Flux Rostrum, tires, city council, protests, demonstrators, Landslide Community Farm, Landslide, Three Rivers Climate Convergence, 3RCC, corporate globalization, resistance, Pennsylvania
ACLU Sues to Remove WWI Memorial
Conflict: One person who visits the national park in the Mojave Desert in California. The person who spoke out does not even live in California, he lives in Oregon. Tragedy: The memorial was placed on the top of a hill with a plaque memorializing the...
Tags: religious rights, offensive symbols, ACLU, war memorial, WW I
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