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The lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union of Minnesota seeking the release of inmates with medical conditions from the federal women's prison in Waseca was dismissed last week ...
1931 Stromberg v. California, 283 U.S. 359 (1931) - represented Yetta Stromberg; 1932 Powell v. Alabama, 287 U.S. 45 (1932) - represented the Scottsboro Boys; 1933 United States v.
Legal cases in which the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has played a significant role, either by representing a party, filing an amicus brief, or otherwise participating in a substantial manner.
In 2004, the ACLU sued the federal government in American Civil Liberties Union v. Ashcroft on behalf of Nicholas Merrill , owner of an Internet service provider . Under the provisions of the Patriot Act, the government had issued national security letters to Merrill to compel him to provide private Internet access information from some of his ...
Nov. 28—State officials and a civil rights group say they have hashed out a new plan to work on long-term reform of Maine's system for providing attorneys to poor defendants without compromising ...
American Civil Liberties Union v. Department of Defense, No. 1:04-cv-04151, 389 F. Supp. 2d 547 (S.D.N.Y. 2005) (ACLU v.DoD), is a case in United States Federal Court, wherein the American Civil Liberties Union sued the Department of Defense and the Central Intelligence Agency under the Freedom of Information Act for the release of still-secret materials —specifically those related to abuse ...
Facebook recently paid 1.4 million Illinois residents $397 in 2022 as part of a class action lawsuit for facial recognition breaches through its “Tag Suggestions” feature, per CNBC.
American Civil Liberties Union v. National Security Agency, 493 F.3d 644 (6th Cir. 2007), is a case decided July 6, 2007, in which the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit held that the plaintiffs in the case did not have standing to bring the suit against the National Security Agency (NSA), because they could not present evidence that they were the targets of the so-called ...