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Organizers of a one-day street festival in Minneapolis sued the city Thursday, saying an ordinance that limits events around the time of Major League Baseball's All-Star game in July is unconstitutional. The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court by the American Civil Liberties Union of Minnesota, claims the city ordinance gives MLB the authority to approve activities in certain areas for 15 days surrounding the July 15 All-Star game at Target Field. Organizers of the One Day in July Street Festival, which will commemorate the 80th anniversary of a deadly Teamsters strike in 1934, say MLB shouldn't have control over...

NSA Claims Broad Authority to Monitor Americans' International Calls and Emails Agency Retains Purely Domestic Communications Without Warrants, Documents Show

Immigration and Customs Enforcement has agreed to begin providing medical care that goes well beyond emergency treatment, as a result of a lawsuit filed by the ACLU. The suit alleged that ICE was not treating “immigration detainees with constitutionally adequate levels of medical and mental health care.” Among the many services which ICE will now provide illegal aliens in their custody are heart surgeries, cancer biopsies, treatment for diabetes, dental care, and treatment for mental depression. On Thursday, Elizabeth Alexander, former Director of the ACLU National Prison Project and lead attorney in the suit said: "For the first time, ICE...

Last night, I was accosted by my professor due to a question we recieved on our midterm test: A non-partisan, legal organization that defends all individual rights and liberties by the Constitution and laws of the United States is: A: American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) B: American Bar Association (ABA) C: Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) D: Association of Pension Lawyers (APL)" Well, on my midterm, I wrote below the choices (E) None of the above. While we were grading, he specifically called me out and told me to defend my point, where I counted SEVERAL ways why the questioning...

David Ogden, nominated by President Obama to help lead the Department of Justice, was grilled by lawmakers yesterday during his confirmation hearing. Ogden’s nomination has been a source of controversy, due to the fact that he has a long record of arguing against child pornography laws, and for a virtually unlimited abortion license. He has represented clients such as Playboy, Penthouse, and the ACLU. "You've taken some very extraordinary positions, some left-leaning and unorthodox positions," Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz. told Ogden during yesterday’s hearings. In the process of the hearing, however, Ogden experienced what Fidelis, a coalition of pro-family organizations,...

In defense of the City Of Lake Forest CA and other municipalities intimidated by litigious threats from unscrupulous representatives of the American Civil Liberties Union, a broad spectrum of citizens' groups, political activists and private citizens will descend upon the doorstep of the ACLU in Orange, CA. to air their grievances. City councils may be terrified by threats from the ACLU but the citizens are not. All who have been aggrieved by offenses of the American Civil Liberties Union are welcome to join.