Press Releases

Jun 28, 2016

ACLU and Lambda Legal Condemn Failure to Repeal North Carolina’s Anti-LGBT H.B. 2

RALEIGH – Today, after draft legislation with proposed changes to the sweeping anti-LGBT measure, North Carolina House Bill 2, was released, the American Civil Liberties Union, A...

Issue Areas: LGBTQ Rights

Court case: Carcaño, et al. v. Cooper, et al

Jun 28, 2016

Major Settlement Approved to Improve Baltimore Jail’s Medical Care, Facilities

BALTIMORE – U.S. District Judge Ellen L. Hollander today approved the settlement agreement in Duvall v. Hogan, the class-action suit on behalf of detainees in the Baltimore City ...

Issue Areas: Prisoners' Rights

Court case: Duvall v. Hogan

Jun 28, 2016

Supreme Court Term More Liberal Than Expected, ACLU Says

Term May Represent 'End of an Era'

Jun 28, 2016

Supreme Court Ruling on Abortion Begins to Ripple Across States

NEW YORK — One day after the Supreme Court’s most important decision on abortion in decades, the Court’s ruling is already having an impact on similar restrictions in other s...

Issue Areas: Reproductive Freedom

Jun 28, 2016

Supreme Court Declines to Hear Case About Religious Pharmacy Turning Women Away

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court today declined to hear a case in which a pharmacy objected to rules that it stock and dispense common medications. The pharmacy argued that any req...

Jun 27, 2016

Thousands of Children Now Covered in Lawsuit Over Lack of Legal Representation in Immigration Proceedings

Federal Court Grants Class-Action Status in Challenge to Obama Administration

Issue Areas: Immigrants' Rights

Court case: J.E.F.M. v. Lynch

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