Press Releases
Jun 26, 2023
Supreme Court Rejects Appeal from Public Charter School Seeking Permission to Violate Students’ Constitutional Rights
WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court of the United States today let stand a federal court decision holding that a North Carolina public charter school must respect its students’ ...
Issue Areas:
Women's Rights
Free Speech
Court case: Peltier v. Charter Day School
Jun 23, 2023
Immigrants’ Rights Advocates Sue Government Over Asylum Ban and Rapid Deportation Process that Places Asylum Seekers in Grave Danger
WASHINGTON — The American Civil Liberties Union, ACLU of the District of Columbia, Center for Gender & Refugee Studies, and National Immigrant Justice Center today sued the B...
Issue Areas:
Immigrants' Rights
Jun 23, 2023
ACLU Comment on Supreme Court Ruling in United States v. Texas Immigration Case
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected a challenge from Texas and Louisiana to the Biden administration’s immigration enforcement priorities in United States v. Texas...
Issue Areas:
Immigrants' Rights
Court case: United States v. Texas
Jun 23, 2023
ACLU, Federal Defender Respond To Supreme Court Ruling That Limits Federal Law Seeking to Criminalize Speech About Immigration
The court ruled that a federal law making it a crime to encourage unlawful immigration must be interpreted narrowly to avoid impinging on First Amendment rights
Issue Areas:
Free Speech
Immigrants' Rights
Court case: United States v. Helaman Hansen
Jun 23, 2023
ACLU Condemns Congressional Bill To Patent Human Genes, Nature, and Abstract Ideas
A new bill would overturn decades of Supreme Court precedent and would tear down some of the public’s only protections from the worst patent abuses.
Jun 22, 2023
ACLU Reaches Landmark Settlement in L.A. County Jails Case
LOS ANGELES – Today, U.S. District Judge Dean D. Pregerson approved an extraordinary settlement between people incarcerated in Los Angeles jails — represented by the ACLU Natio...
Court case: Rutherford v. Luna
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