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ACLU sues over North Carolina’s same sex adoption ban
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on Wednesday announced that it had filed a lawsuit challenging North Carolina’s second parent adoption ban, which effective prevents same sex partner’s from adopting children. The lawsuit filed in federal court on behalf of six same sex couples claims that the law violates the…
ACLU: U.S. is paying dearly for elderly inmates
Harsh sentencing laws of the 1980s and ’90s have resulted in a U.S. prison population that is increasingly aged. According to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), care of elderly prisoners is placing a heavy burden on state and federal institutions. Elderly prisoners cost nearly twice as much to provide…
Georgia denies KKK’s request to ‘Adopt-A-Highway’
The Georgia Department of Transportation announced Tuesday that it would not allow the Ku Klux Klan to participate in the state’s Adopt-A-Highway program. “The impact of erecting a sign naming an organization which has a long rooted history of civil disturbance would cause a significant public concern,” the department wrote…
The Daily Show’s Aasif Mandvi thanks ACLU for Social Responsibility in Media Award
The Daily Show correspondent Aasif Mandvi on Friday thanked the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California for giving him the 2012 Social Responsibility in Media Award. He received the award “[f]or his work on Comedy Central’s The Daily Show, satirizing and offering commentary on Islamic, Middle Eastern and South…
ACLU files lawsuit over ‘misleading’ Minnesota voter ID ballot question
The American Civil Liberties Union on Wednesday filed a lawsuit in the Minnesota Supreme Court to challenge a voter ID amendment they claim is misleading to voters. “This ballot proposal is incredibly troubling because it asks voters to put an amendment in the constitution in a manner that is misleading,…
Same sex couples sue Illinois seeking the right to marry
The American Civil Liberties Union and Lambda Legal on Wednesday filed two separate cases challenging the constitutionality of an Illinois law that denies gay and lesbian couples the right to marry. Last year, Illinois legalized civil unions for same sex couples, granting them some of the legal rights of married…
Documentary on U.S. torture seeks to begin process of truth-telling
Since the close of the Bush administration, there has been little official attention paid to the policy during those years of using torture on accused terrorists in order to extract administration. As a result, the American Civil Liberties Union and the writers’ and human rights group PEN have conducted their…
Atheist student who sued school: You can’t imagine the things I’ve heard
An atheist student who sued over a public prayer display at her public school described her experiences at the Reason Rally in March. “I have a confession to make, I am ‘evil little thing,’” Jessica Ahlquist said in a video of her speech uploaded to YouTube on Wednesday. The American…
Thousands of Twitter usernames and passwords exposed online
Twitter said that it was trying to figure out how user names and passwords from thousands of accounts apparently wound up posted at an online file sharing website. Information posted on Pastebin.com pages appeared to be from about 35,000 Twitter accounts, not counting about 20,000 that seemed to be redundancies,…
Twitter challenges subpoena seeking user data
NEW YORK — Twitter is challenging a court order to turn over to law enforcement data on one of its users involved in Occupy Wall Street in a case described by a civil liberties group as a major test of online freedom of speech. The motion filed Monday in a…
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