American Civil Liberties Union

Judge temporarily delays 12-week abortion law in Arkansas

2013-05-17 14:27:00

An Arkansas law that bans most abortions after 12 weeks of pregnancy was temporarily blocked by a federal judge on Friday. In a ruling from the bench, U.S. District Court Judge Susan Webber Wright in Little Rock granted a preliminary injunction...

Arizona's limits on immigrant driver's licenses upheld

2013-05-18 00:00:00

TUCSON — Young people granted immigration relief and work permits under a new Obama administration program still won't be able to obtain driver's licenses in Arizona, a federal judge has ruled. Although the decision is a win for Republican Gov....

ACLU calls twerking suspensions "illegal and ill-advised"

2013-05-16 17:31:00

The suspensions meted out to 31 high school students in San Diego for being in a "twerking" video were "illegal and ill-advised" and should be reconsidered, the ACLU said in a letter to the school principal Thursday. The two-day suspensions do not fit...

Tattered flags in West L.A. anger veteran

2013-05-14 22:51:00

An upside-down American flag is considered a signal of distress. And that's the feeling Robert Rosebrock had when he looked up and noticed the red, white and blue street-lamp banners outside the Department of Veterans Affairs' West Los Angeles Medical...

Federal judge lifts LAPD consent decree

2013-05-16 21:04:00

The federal judge who oversaw a dramatic, forced transformation of the Los Angeles Police Department has freed the department from the final vestiges of federal oversight. In a brief, three-line order Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Gary Feess formally...

Angelina Jolie, the Supreme Court and gene patents

2013-05-14 15:29:00

It's hard to imagine Supreme Court justices paying much attention to the travails of Hollywood's rich and famous. Still, there's an interesting connection between Angelina Jolie's disclosure Tuesday that she underwent a double mastectomy and a case the...

Angelina Jolie and the fate of breast cancer genes

2013-05-14 16:17:00

Angelina Jolie’s Op-Ed in the New York Times about getting a double mastectomy after learning that she was at risk of getting breast cancer struck a chord with fellow celebs as well as with Los Angeles Times staffers Anna Gorman and Paul Whitefield,...

Government secretly obtains phone records from journalists

2013-05-13 21:33:00

WASHINGTON — Federal prosecutors secretly obtained telephone records from more than 20 lines belonging to the Associated Press and its journalists in an attempt to learn who leaked information on how the CIA thwarted an apparent terrorist plot...

Assembly OKs bill allowing transgender students in sports

2013-05-09 19:30:00

SACRAMENTO — Schools would have to allow transgender students to participate on sports teams and use bathrooms that correspond with their gender identity, not their sex, under a measure passed by the California Assembly on Thursday. Advocates said...

California Senate backs requiring warrants when police want emails

2013-05-13 14:36:00

SACRAMENTO -- The state Senate on Monday approved a measure that would expand instances in which law enforcement officers in California would have to get search warrants before they can access the public’s email. Sen. Mark Leno (D-San Francisco)...

Letters: A little more light on jails

2013-05-09 00:00:00

Re "An insider bashes Baca," Editorial, May 2 We strongly agree with The Times that recent news about Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca's mismanagement of the jails should push the Board of Supervisors to hire an independent inspector general to...

Senate indicates it won't consider CISPA

2013-04-29 08:19:00

Well, so much for CISPA.� Not long after the House passed the controversial�Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act of 2013, the Senate has indicated it has no plans to consider the bill.� Citing sources on various committees, several...

Glendale Unified students take part in the ACLU lawsuit announcement in 2011.

2013-02-06 11:17:00

ACLU

2012-07-17 13:48:00

ACLU sues over reading right

2012-07-12 12:53:00