The FBI on Monday dropped its investigation into the library records of a Connecticut library, concluding that the identity of patrons using a particular computer last February no longer posed a threat to national security. Four librarians...
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Civil rights groups urge Congress to renew Voting Rights Act after House vote delayed
Civil rights groups called Monday for the renewal of the 1965 Voting Rights Act (VRA) before Congress takes its Fourth of July recess. At a news conference in Atlanta, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) [advocacy...
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on Thursday filed a Freedom of Information Act request demanding that the US Department of Defense publicly release its files about the deaths of 24 Iraqi civilians ...
Pentagon documents detail despair at Guantanamo before suicides
Newly released Pentagon documents provide evidence of "desperate and immoral conditions" at the US detention center at Guantanamo Bay prior to the three suicides there earlier this month, according to...
New York AG office warns ACLU not to limit board members' speech
The American Civil Liberties Union confirmed Monday that a lawyer working for the New York attorney general's office informally warned the ACLU executive committee not to adopt proposed standards limiting ACLU board members from publicly...
The Maryland American Civil Liberties Union and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People filed a class action lawsuit in Baltimore Circuit Court Thursday alleging that Baltimore police systematically arrest people...
Australia Senate upholds federal override of capital district civil union law
The Australian Senate on Thursday narrowly voted down a motion to disallow a regulation approved by Australia Governor-General Michael Jeffrey allowing the federal government to effectively veto the Civil Unions Bill 2006 ,...
Most counts of New Hampshire GOP phone jamming lawsuit dismissed
A New Hampshire judge on Thursday dismissed 5 of 8 counts in a lawsuit brought by Democrats against Republicans after the jamming of Democratic phone lines in the 2002 Senate race between Sen. John Sununu (R-NH) [official...
US government sues to stop New Jersey AG probe of phone records turnover
The US government has filed a lawsuit in the US District Court for the District of New Jersey against New Jersey Attorney General Zulima Farber and other New Jersey officials, seeking to stop them seeking...
ACLU sues for documents on TALON military database of domestic terror threats
The American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit Wednesday seeking to force the US Department of Defense to reveal information collected for a domestic terrorist threats database that was allegedly used to spy on peaceful...