Wednesday, April 7, 2010 as of 11:14 AM ET
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is a nonpartisan non-profit organization whose stated mission is "to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed to every person in this country by the Constitution and laws of the United States." It works through litigation, lobbying, and community education.
Read More at Wikipedia ›A New Jersey man claims a local Rite Aid refused to sell him the morning-after pill because he is male, prompting the American Civil Liberties Union to launch a battle against the drugstore's alleged discrimination.
Andrew Andrade, a 25-year-old graduate student, was trying to buy Plan B for his girlfriend last month. According to FDA guidelines, anyone 17 and over can purchase the drug, which is an over-the-counter form of emergency contraception also known as the "morning-after pill.""They said, 'I can't sell it to you because you are male,'" Andrade, of Jersey City, said Wednesday, according to The Star-Ledger."I was really upset and I knew they were wrong," he added, according to the paper.ACLU-NJ Deputy Director Jeanne LoCicero sent a letter to the Pennsylvania-based national chain on behalf of Andrade, claiming Rite Aid's refusal to sell him the drug "amounts to discrimination.""Couples who share responsibility for healthcare decisions should not face unnecessary obstacles," Lo...A San Francisco-based federal appeals court ruled in 2002 that every aspect of an execution should be open to witnesses, from the moment the condemned enters the dea...
The American Civil Liberties Union of Florida is criticizing Florida A&M University's decision to cancel a summer band camp and block students from joining clubs dur...
The Supreme Court says it will consider shutting down a legal challenge to a law that lets the United States eavesdrop on overseas communications. A federal appeals ...
The Supreme Court says it will consider shutting down a legal challenge to a law that lets the United States eavesdrop on overseas communications.A federal appeals c...
Troy Anderson is a mentally ill inmate in isolation at the Colorado State Penitentiary, deemed for more than a decade too dangerous to be among other offenders.His l...
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Unmanned drones could soon be buzzing in the skies above many U.S. cities, as the federal government green-lights the technology for local law enforcement amid wides...
Public symbols of Christianity are under attack around the nation, but not in Branson, Mo., where county officials have approved a 200-foot cross that will rival Ame...
A U.S. court has ordered that all gated communities in Puerto Rico find a way to grant access to Jehovah's Witnesses so they can proselytize.Communities with guards ...
The American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit Thursday against the U.S. Border Patrol seeking to bar agents from making traffic stops, saying people are being p...
With terrorism fears heightened following the discovery of another plot to blow up a plane using an underwear bomb, the American Civil Liberties Union is trying to h...
The American Civil Liberties Union is suing a northwest Indiana school district that it says expelled three eighth-graders for joking on Facebook about which of thei...
The U.S. Forest Service's use of Border Patrol agents as language interpreters and for law enforcement in stops involving Latinos on Washington state's Olympic Penin...
A federal judge said Thursday she plans to rule within a month on the constitutionality of an Indiana law that bans registered sex offenders from using social networ...
At North Valley Academy in the heart of Idaho's dairy country, a typical school day might seem like an over-the-top Fourth of July celebration elsewhere.The public c...
The Giles County School Board has voted to remove a copy of the Ten Commandments from the wall of a school.The American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia had sued on...
More than two dozen gay and lesbian couples filed lawsuits Wednesday arguing that it's unconstitutional for Illinois to deny them the right to marry, a move advocate...
Building on the momentum of President Barack Obama's recent support of gay marriage, two major civil rights groups in his home state filed lawsuits Wednesday in hope...
Jackson public schools will no longer handcuff students to poles or other objects and will train staff at its alternative school on better methods of discipline.Miss...
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