ACLU/SC News Releases For 1998

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December 1998

ACLU Reaches Agreement With California Dept. of Education on Improving Conditions at Compton Schools (12/16/1998)

ACLU of Southern California Decries Impeachment Vote As Dangerous To Civil Liberties and Constitutional Values (12/14/1998)

November 1998

Civil Rights Advocates Urge Police Commission to Ensure Strong Civilian Oversight of Los Angeles Police Department (11/17/1998)

Opposition to Privacy Protection Act of 1998 - HR 3224 Introduced by Congressman Gallegly (11/11/1998)

October 1998

ACLU Joins Coalition Calling For INS To End Abusive Immigration Raids (10/13/1998)

ACLU Threatens Legal Action Against San Bernadino County if Coroner Releases Fetuses For Religious Burials (10/9/1998)

"Driving While Black or Brown" Bill Vetoed By Governor (10/5/1998)

ACLU of Southern California Threatens To Represent Those Sued By City of Banning For Filing Petition To Reverse Merger of City Fire Department With State Forestry (10/1/1998)

September 1998

US Supreme Court Will Hear California's Challenge of Ninth Circuit and Federal District Court Rulings (9/29/1998)

Judge Grants Preliminary Injunction in ACLU/SC Federal Lawsuit For Disabled Bus Riders Who Use the MTA (9/28/1998)

City of Los Angeles and Valley Vote Announce Settlement of ACLU Lawsuit For Signature Gatherers in Independent City Movement (9/23/1998)

ACLU Sues City of Pasadena To Block New Handbill Ordinance (9/14/1998)

ACLU of Southern California Announces Plans to Expand Girls Softball Lawsuit to Represent All Girls in the City of Los Angeles (9/8/1998)

August 1998

Judge Grants ACLU Motion For Class Certification in Disabled Bus Rider Lawsuit Against MTA (8/24/1998)

ACLU of Southern California Files Lawsuit For Group Seeking Signatures For an Independant City in the San Fernando Valley (8/17/1998)

ACLU Tells El Monte Police Chief to Ensure Safety of Clinic Patients (8/4/1998)

July 1998

ACLU of Southern California and MALDEF Seek Temporary Restraining Order to Stop LA Unified School District From Implementing Prop. 227 (7/31/1998)

ACLU of Southern California Demands AIDS Medication For Federal Detainee (7/30/1998)

Civil Rights Advocates File Lawsuit Against Contra Costa County For Excluding Women and Minority Businesses in Violation of Federal Anti-Discrimination Law (7/29/1998)

Civil Rights Groups, Minority Law Enforcement Join in Supporting AB 1264 - California "Driving While Black or Brown" Law (7/27/1998)

ACLU of Southern California Urges Schools and Libraries to Reject Internet Filtering Software (7/24/1998)

ACLU of Southern California Condemns Use of Stun Belts As Punishment in Los Angeles County Courtrooms (7/21/1998)

Ramona Ripston, Executive Director, ACLU of Southern California Appointed to the State Commission on Judicial Performance (7/20/1998)

ACLU of Southern California Sends Demand Letters to Los Angeles Municipal and Superior Court Presiding Judges Calling For Courts to Cease Use of Stun Belt to Punish Non-Threatening Defendants (7/17/1998)

ACLU of Southern California Condemns Use of Stun Belt to Silence Defendant (7/15/1998)

ACLU of Southern California Seeks Political Asylum For Mexican National (7/1/1998)

June 1998

ACLU of Southern California Tells Kern County Board of Supervisors to Remove Human Relations Commissioner Douglas Hearn For Making Anti-Gay Remarks (6/26/1998)

ACLU Seeks Court Order Forcing MTA To Serve Disabled Bus Riders (6/24/1998)

Japanese Latin Americans Imprisoned By US During WWII Win Bittersweet Victory From Department of Justice (6/12/1998)

Civil Rights Groups File Class Action Lawsuit to Block Proposition 227 (6/3/1998)

May 1998

ACLU of Southern California Opposes Supreme Court Ruling Waiving Officer Liability in Deaths From High Speed Police Pursuits (5/26/1998)

ACLU of Southern California Amends Lawsuit as a Class Action Against MTA For More than 5,000 Disabled Bus Riders in Los Angeles County (5/20/1998)

Judge Rejects Landlord Attempt to Block Cross Complaint in Tenants-Rights Case (5/18/1998)

April 1998

Parties Settle Civil Rights Suit (4/29/1998)

ACLU of Southern California Goes to Bat for Girls' Softball League (4/16/1998)

Civil Rights Groups Sue State Over End To Contract Monitoring (4/2/1998)

March 1998

ACLU Files Lawsuit Against City of Los Angeles For Censoring Venice Mural (3/23/1998)

California Supreme Court Upholds Discrimination By Boy Scouts ACLU Says Ruling Tarnishes Scouting (3/23/1998)

Federal Judge Issues Final Ruling on Prop. 187 Measure Unconstitutional (3/18/1998)

Civil Rights Groups Urge California Legislature To Keep Outreach and Recruitment Programs (3/16/1998)

Twins Who Refuse To Affirm God in Oath Awarded Eagle Scout Badge (3/16/1998)

California Court of Appeal Rules That Couple Who Conceived Child Through Surrogate Are the Legal Parents (3/10/1998)

Court of Appeal Issues Decision Allowing Open Meeting Lawsuit Against Governor and UC Regents For Anti-Affirmative Action Vote (3/10/1998)

February 1998

Judge Rules Boy Scouts May Not Deny Eagle Scout Status To Twin Brothers (2/24/1998)

ACLU of Southern California Challenges Landlord Seeking Preliminary Injunction to Stop Tenants From Organizing (2/20/1998)

ACLU of Southern California Opposes Personal Privacy Protection Act As Over-Broad Violation of the First Amendment (2/17/1998)

ACLU of Southern California Challenges Companies Who Force Employees to Waive Their Right to Sue as a Condition of Employment (2/17/1998)

ACLU of Southern California Stops "One Strike" Evictions of HUD-Subsidized Tenants For Crimes Committed By Visitors (2/10/1998)

ACLU of Southern California Responds To Final District Court Ruling in Challenge To Proposition 209 (2/6/1998)

ACLU of Southern California Files Federal Lawsuit Challenging Arrest of Tenant Organizers in Pico Union HUD Apartments (2/2/1998)

January 1998

Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Upholds District Court Decision Blocking California From Reducing Benefits to New Eligible Residents (1/28/1998)

ACLU Hails Victory as California Library Agrees to Remove Internet Filters From Public Computers (1/28/1998)

ACLU Warns of Legal Action if California Library Fails to Remove Internet Filters From Public Computers (1/21/1998)

ACLU of Southern California Files Federal Lawsuit to Force MTA and Bus Company to Serve Disabled Bus Riders (1/16/1998)

ACLU of SouthernCalifornia Announces Partial Victory in Challenge to Official Prayerat Blythe California, School District (1/12/1998)

ACLU ChallengesAnti-Gay Discrimination by Boy Scouts Before California Supreme Court (1/5/1998)