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Activism and what you can do

ACLU Staff Sends Hopeful Video Message To Bullied LGBT Youth

MALDEF Files Class Action Suit Against Ottawa County For Refusing Michigan Latino Couple the Fundamental Right to Marry

  • By: Mexican American Legal Defense & Education Fund
  • 05/11/2010
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SPLC Lawsuit Ends 'Shockingly Inhumane' Abuses of Children in Mississippi

  • By: Southern Poverty Law Center
  • 05/11/2010
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Children's rights

Southern Poverty Law Center Files Federal Lawsuit Targeting State-Funded Juvenile Facility in Florida

  • By: Southern Poverty Law Center
  • 10/08/2010
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New Minor Consent Mental Health Law to Take Effect January 2011

  • By: National Center for Youth Law
  • 10/07/2010
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ACLU Staff Sends Hopeful Video Message To Bullied LGBT Youth

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Criminal Justice

Southern Poverty Law Center Files Federal Lawsuit Targeting State-Funded Juvenile Facility in Florida

  • By: Southern Poverty Law Center
  • 10/08/2010
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Saddled with Debt, Indigent Defendants Face New Paths Back to Prison

  • By: Brennan Center for Justice
  • 10/04/2010
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Canadian RCMP Conducting Criminal Investigation of U.S. and Syrian Officials for Maher Arar's Rendition to Torture

  • By: Center for Constitutional Rights
  • 06/14/2010
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Disability rights

5 Communities Re-examine Use of Police to Intervene in Mental Health Crises

  • By: Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law
  • 07/06/2010
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NAACP Applauds US Secretary Duncan’s Speech Affirming Renewed Commitment to Quality Education and Civil Rights Protections

New York Lawyers for the Public Interest Lauds Rite Aid For Improving Access for the Deaf and Hearing-Impaired

  • By: New York Lawyers for the Public Interest
  • 02/24/2010
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Education access

MALDEF'S President and General Counsel Responds to Senate Vote on DREAM Act

Department of Education Clarifies ‘Battered Immigrants-Qualified Aliens’ as Eligible for Financial Aid

Fifth Circuit Remands English Language Learner Case to Determine Cause of "Alarming" Failure Rate of Students

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Environmental justice

EPA Moving Forward to Save Waters and Protect Local Community From Harm

Federal Court Orders Patriot Coal to Pay $45 Million to Treat Toxic Selenium from W. Va. Coal Mines, Holds Patriot in Contempt

BX Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr., Assemblymember Linda Rosenthal, New York Communities for Change & NYLPI Call for NYC Dept of Education to Remove Toxic PCBs from Classrooms

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Environmental protection

EPA Moving Forward to Save Waters and Protect Local Community From Harm

Environmental Groups Intervene to Defend U.S. EPA Air Rules

Sierra Club and Earthjustice Sue U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to Uphold Clean Air in Texas

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Federalism

Study: Majority of States Bar HIV Tests

  • By: The Associated Press
  • 10/10/2007
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State and city healthcare reforms collide with a U.S. law

  • By: The Christian Science Monitor
  • 09/27/2007
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General civil rights

Saddled with Debt, Indigent Defendants Face New Paths Back to Prison

  • By: Brennan Center for Justice
  • 10/04/2010
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Statement by Wade Henderson on Stalled Judicial Nominations and the Senate Recess

  • By: Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights
  • 10/01/2010
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U.N. Report Highlights Need For U.S. Civil And Human Rights Commission

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Health care access

New Minor Consent Mental Health Law to Take Effect January 2011

  • By: National Center for Youth Law
  • 10/07/2010
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Environmental Groups Intervene to Defend U.S. EPA Air Rules

VA eases rules allowing Vietnam vets to get treatment for Agent Orange exposure

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Housing rights

ACLU Seeks Public Records To Determine Constitutionality Of Foreclosure Proceedings In Florida

Civil Rights Groups Call for Moratorium on Home Foreclosures

  • By: Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights
  • 10/07/2010
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Lambda Legal and HIV-Positive Retiree Settle Lawsuit Against North Little Rock Assisted Living Facility

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Immigrants' rights

ACLU Asks Kentucky Zoning Board To Reverse Improper Permit Denial For Muslim Prayer Space

MALDEF'S President and General Counsel Responds to Senate Vote on DREAM Act

Hazleton, PA Anti-Immigrant Law Is Unconstitutional, Federal Appeals Court Rules

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Judicial nominations

Statement by Wade Henderson on Stalled Judicial Nominations and the Senate Recess

  • By: Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights
  • 10/01/2010
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One is a Lonely Number on the Eighth Circuit

  • By: National Women's Law Center
  • 06/02/2010
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Alliance for Justice Decries Republican Obstruction of Joseph Greenaway

  • By: Alliance for Justice
  • 01/27/2010
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Key cases

ACLU Seeks Public Records To Determine Constitutionality Of Foreclosure Proceedings In Florida

Judge Slams City for FDNY Refusal to Hire New Firefighters

  • By: Center for Constitutional Rights
  • 10/19/2010
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Southern Poverty Law Center Files Federal Lawsuit Targeting State-Funded Juvenile Facility in Florida

  • By: Southern Poverty Law Center
  • 10/08/2010
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Language rights

Fifth Circuit Remands English Language Learner Case to Determine Cause of "Alarming" Failure Rate of Students

MALDEF Enters Statewide Lawsuit to Address Inadequate Funding for English Learners and At-Risk Students

Civil Rights Coalition Launches Second Run of Census Transit System PSAs Targeted at Hard-to-Count Communities

  • By: The Leadership Conference Education Fund
  • 02/01/2010
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Litigation

New Bureau of Prisons Rule Discloses Policies and Conditions in Experimental Segregation Units

  • By: Center for Constitutional Rights
  • 04/06/2010
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U.S. Trying to Block Calif. on Emissions

  • By: The Washington Post
  • 09/25/2007
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Billing in "pro bono" cases is fodder for ethics debate

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LGBT rights

New Minor Consent Mental Health Law to Take Effect January 2011

  • By: National Center for Youth Law
  • 10/07/2010
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ACLU Staff Sends Hopeful Video Message To Bullied LGBT Youth

U.S. Supreme Court Upholds Law School Non-Discrimination Policy: Lambda Legal Welcomes the Decision

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Media and Communications

Intel Official: Expect Less Privacy

Finding Love Abroad, Then Support Online for Visa Quest

  • By: The Washington Post
  • 10/29/2007
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Fake CNN Website Tries to Frame Hispanic Group for Wildfires

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National legislation

MALDEF'S President and General Counsel Responds to Senate Vote on DREAM Act

NSCLC Says Virginia Health Care Ruling is Purely Procedural

Civil Rights Groups Raise Concerns about Final Health Care Bill

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Racial justice

ACLU Seeks Public Records To Determine Constitutionality Of Foreclosure Proceedings In Florida

Judge Slams City for FDNY Refusal to Hire New Firefighters

  • By: Center for Constitutional Rights
  • 10/19/2010
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Civil Rights Groups Call for Moratorium on Home Foreclosures

  • By: Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights
  • 10/07/2010
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Senior citizens' rights

AARP Bulletin Releases New Comprehensive User's Guide to Health Care Reform

Aging and Gay, and Facing Prejudice in Twilight

  • By: The New York Times
  • 10/09/2007
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Aging inmates clogging nation's prisons

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States rights

U.S. Trying to Block Calif. on Emissions

  • By: The Washington Post
  • 09/25/2007
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What's happening in Congress

Statement by Wade Henderson on Stalled Judicial Nominations and the Senate Recess

  • By: Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights
  • 10/01/2010
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MALDEF'S President and General Counsel Responds to Senate Vote on DREAM Act

Rights Group Urges Congress to Lift Unconstitutional Cuba Travel Ban

  • By: Center for Constitutional Rights
  • 06/30/2010
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What's happening in the courts

ACLU Seeks Public Records To Determine Constitutionality Of Foreclosure Proceedings In Florida

Judge Slams City for FDNY Refusal to Hire New Firefighters

  • By: Center for Constitutional Rights
  • 10/19/2010
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Southern Poverty Law Center Files Federal Lawsuit Targeting State-Funded Juvenile Facility in Florida

  • By: Southern Poverty Law Center
  • 10/08/2010
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What's happening in the media

5 Communities Re-examine Use of Police to Intervene in Mental Health Crises

  • By: Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law
  • 07/06/2010
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NAACP CONTINUES ITS SUPPORT OF VAN JONES AND WHITE HOUSE GREEN JOBS INITIATIVE

  • By: NAACP Legal Defense Fund
  • 09/04/2009
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Fake CNN Website Tries to Frame Hispanic Group for Wildfires

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What's happening at the state level

ACLU Seeks Public Records To Determine Constitutionality Of Foreclosure Proceedings In Florida

Southern Poverty Law Center Files Federal Lawsuit Targeting State-Funded Juvenile Facility in Florida

  • By: Southern Poverty Law Center
  • 10/08/2010
  • more info

New Minor Consent Mental Health Law to Take Effect January 2011

  • By: National Center for Youth Law
  • 10/07/2010
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Women's rights

First Ever Domestic Workers Bill of Rights Becomes Law

ACLU Asks Alabama Court To Protect The Rights Of Pregnant Women

  • By: American Civil Liberties Union
  • 07/06/2010
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Department of Education Clarifies ‘Battered Immigrants-Qualified Aliens’ as Eligible for Financial Aid

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Workers' rights

Judge Slams City for FDNY Refusal to Hire New Firefighters

  • By: Center for Constitutional Rights
  • 10/19/2010
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First Ever Domestic Workers Bill of Rights Becomes Law

Report Highlights How Labor Law Anomaly Prevents FedEx Express Ground Transportation Employees from Being Represented by a Union

  • By: The Leadership Conference of Civil and Human Rights
  • 06/15/2010
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Other

Berkeley's Plan to Promote Diversity in Schools Stands

High Court won't hear two religion cases

Chemerinsky says UC Irvine rescinds offer to become law school dean

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