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- Daily Record News Briefs: October 21, 2008
- St. Joseph's malaria initiative A 16-member humanitarian team from Towson-based St. Joseph Medical Center will leave for Tanzania on Oct. 25 to distribute 62,000 insecticide-treated bed nets with the goal of reducing deaths from malaria. The effort will target 21 villages with a total population of 70,000 people....
- Research articles 2008-10-21
- Congress Cannot Grant Wholesale Immunity to Telecoms; FISA 2008 Act is Unconstitutional, ACLU Tells Court
- CHICAGO -- Congress and the Bush White House overstepped their constitutional authority and violated the rights of millions of customers when they passed and approved legislation granting sweeping immunity to telecoms that collaborated in illegal spying. That assertion is contained in a court filing today by three California affiliates and...
- Research articles 2008-10-17
- Mary Jane looks to prop up the 10th Amendment
- In California on August 20, U.S. District Court Judge Jeremy Fogel denied a request by the federal government in Santa Cruz v. Mukasey to dismiss a lawsuit brought by Santa Cruz city and the Wo/Men's Alliance for Medical Marijuana that accuses the federal government of unconstitutionally trying to nullify California's...
- Research articles 2008-10-13
- Law restricting sex offenders' movements on Halloween challenged in
- The American Civil Liberties Union wants a federal court to declare unconstitutional a new Missouri law requiring registered sex offenders to avoid "all Halloween-related contact with children." In addition to avoiding contact with children, registered sex offenders are required to remain in their homes on the evening of...
- Research articles 2008-10-07
- ACLU wants federal court to declare new Missouri sex offender law
- The American Civil Liberties Union wants a federal court to declare unconstitutional a new Missouri law requiring registered sex offenders to avoid "all Halloween-related contact with children." In addition, to avoiding contact with children, registered sex offenders are required to remain in their homes on the evening of...
- Research articles 2008-10-07
- Report: Maryland State Police surveillance was unjustified
- An overzealous Maryland State Police force, apparently oblivious to the constitutional rights of peaceful protestors, conducted improper undercover surveillance of anti-war and death penalty opposition groups in 2005 and 2006 without any reasonable suspicion they were involved in any past, present or future criminal activity, former Maryland Attorney General Stephen...
- Research articles 2008-10-02
- Commentary: Paying the fee for the damage done: Student plaintiffs
- In my last column, I told you how an obscure school district outside Pine Bluff, Ark., banned students from wearing black armbands to protest a new dress code policy. The district did not think the landmark decision on the subject, Tinker v. Des Moines Indep. Cmty. Sch....
- Research articles 2008-10-01
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit Case Summaries:
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit Freedom of Information ACLU v. Department of Defense 06-3140-cv Appealed from the Southern District of New York Background: The U.S. Department of Defense and the Department of the Army appeal from...
- Research articles 2008-09-24
- Milwaukee branch of NAACP puts Southeastern Wisconsin Regional Plan
- The Milwaukee branch of the NAACP asked the federal government to cut off the Southeastern Wisconsin Regional Plan Commission if it doesn't commit to racial diversity. As the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People pushes for affirmative action, the commission argues about 13 percent of its...
- Research articles 2008-09-19
- STRANGE TIMES
- Fun for the whole family New Russian laws are making it illegal to dress 'emo'-a subculture fashion inspired by hardcore punk, goth and indie music-following criticism that the emo culture encourages anti-social behavior and glorifies suicide. The new laws regulate emo culture websites and ban emo and gothic dress styles...
- Research articles 2008-09-01
- The Daily Record News Briefs: August 27, 2008
- Bay Bridge traffic alert! The Maryland Transportation Authority said it has closed a lane of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge to install safety measures following a fatal accident earlier this month. The closure of the right lane of the eastbound span will remain in effect for the next two...
- Research articles 2008-08-27
- ACLU Suit Against City of Lake Forest Dismissed With Prejudice
- LAKE FOREST, Calif. -- The City of Lake Forest and the Lake Forest City Council entered into a stipulated agreement to dismiss a lawsuit pending in U.S. District Court brought by three day laborer organizations - La Asociacion de Trabajadores de Lake Forest, the Colectivo Tonantzin and the National Day...
- Research articles 2008-08-22
- Letters: Jill's assault on religion
- RE JILL PORTER'S July 25 column:Jill really searched high and low to find something that SHE doesn't like, and wants to impose on everyone else.You pick on Eileen Evans for being a faithful Christian and being proud of it. So proud and thankful that she's not ashamed to even put...
- Research articles 2008-08-20
- Controlled representation?
- Today at Game On! Does policy violate privacy? The University of Iowa's social network monitoring of the athletic department goes into effect Friday and an American Civil Liberties Union official tells USA TODAY the new policies could start what he called a...
- Research articles 2008-07-28
- Antioch, police named in discrimination suit
- The Antioch Police Department has been named in a federal class- action lawsuit contending the department's Community Action Team unfairly targets African-American families enrolled in the subsidized-housing program known as Section 8. Filed in U.S. federal court in San Francisco on Wednesday by the ACLU of Northern California...
- Research articles 2008-07-16
- Unbelievable
- UNBELIEVABLE: A bill has passed the South Carolina legislature authorizing the production of license plates with the phrase "I Believe" and picturing a Christian cross over a stained glass window. The bill became law without the signature of Governor Mark Sanford, who said, "While I do, in fact, 'believe,' it...
- Research articles 2008-07-15
- Legislative Lowdown
- Your Inside Report From Capitol Hill Coburn Angers Reid by Blocking Vote on Spending Bills Sen. Tom Coburn (R.-Okla.) has angered Majority Leader Harry Reid (D.-Nev.) so much that Reid is planning to force through a vote on a so-called "Coburn Omnibus" bill before the August recess. The...
- Research articles 2008-07-14
- Convention cities brace for political protests
- The cities hosting the Democratic and Republican conventions also will inevitably host thousands of protesters -- and those visitors have already taken Denver and St. Paul to court. Both cities have been sued by the ACLU and protest groups planning to mobilize at the political confabs....
- Research articles 2008-07-09
- Pro Bono: Staking a claim for Elkton's homeless campers
- Matthew G. Summers was reading through e-mails listing pro bono opportunities in March 2007 when he came across a request to help a group of homeless people in Elkton who had been forced out of a makeshift campground by town officials. "That piqued my interest," said Summers,...
- Research articles 2008-06-23
- Institutional economics as social criticism and political philosophy: remarks upon receipt of the Veblen-Commons Award
- Preliminary Remarks I would like to thank the Association for Evolutionary Economics AFEE for the 2008 Veblen-Commons Award which you have just given me. I would also like to thank Dale Bush, Glen Atkinson, Bill Dugger and the Award Committee for their role in bestowing the award. Most...
- Research articles 2008-06-01
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