ACLU/SC News Releases For 2008

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December 2008

Affluent Beach City Sued for Treating Disabled Homeless People as Criminals (12/23/2008)

Appeals Court Rebuffs Effort to End School Desegregation Programs (12/20/2008)

LAPD Skid Row Officers Banned from Unlawful Searches under Settlement with the ACLU/SC and National Lawyers Guild (12/18/2008)

ACLU/SC Demands Big Bear High School Officials Reverse Decision to Prohibit Student from Wearing Anti-Prop. 8 T-shirt (12/15/2008)

U.S. Embassy Will Protest to Government of United Arab Emirates Over Treatment of American Citizen, Who Says U.S. Officials Participated in His Interrogation and Torture (12/12/2008)

Earvin “Magic” Johnson, David Linde, Jermaine Dupri and Betty and Stanley K. Sheinbaum to Be Honored at ACLU/SC Awards (12/4/2008)

U.S. Citizen Severely Tortured While Detained in the United Arab Emirates at the Behest of the United States (12/3/2008)

November 2008

California Supreme Court Grants Review In Prop 8 Legal Challenges: Court To Determine Constitutionality Of Prop 8 (11/19/2008)

ACLU/SC Sues to Free American Citizen Imprisoned In the Middle East on the Orders of the U.S. Government (11/19/2008)

Legal Groups File Lawsuit Challenging Proposition 8: Legal Papers Claim Initiative Procedure Cannot Be Used To Undermine the Constitution’s Core Commitment To Equality For Everyone (11/5/2008)

San Bernardino County Agrees To Allow Religious Head Scarves In County Jails (11/3/2008)

October 2008

U.S. Citizen Who Was Illegally Detained and Twice Deported Is Latest Victim of Government’s Unconstitutional Immigration Enforcement Policy (10/29/2008)

New Report Shows Blacks and Hispanics Are Stopped, Searched Frisked and Arrested Disproportionately by the LAPD (10/20/2008)

Congress Cannot Grant Wholesale Immunity to Telecoms; FISA 2008 Act is Unconstitutional, ACLU Tells Court (10/17/2008)

ACLU/SC’s Longtime Leader Ramona Ripston Honored At Ceremony Dedicating Building in Her Name (10/15/2008)

New Feature Film "Tru Loved" to Premier with a Family-Friendly Tale of LGBT Youth (10/8/2008)

September 2008

ACLU/SC Wins Asylum for Sri Lankan Farmer Falsely Accused by U.S. Officials of Being a Terrorist (9/30/2008)

Garden Grove Reaches Agreement with Buddhists Over Controversial Temple Zoning Issue (9/17/2008)

Religious Group That Feeds the Homeless Reaches Settlement With California Parks Officials (9/15/2008)

ACLU/SC Wins Key Ruling Related To Orange County Free Speech Case (9/11/2008)

ACLU California Affiliates Join Forces to Compel Government Data Centers to Release Information (9/9/2008)

ACLU/SC Director of Immigrant Rights and National Security to Speak at Public Forum on Government Repression (9/9/2008)

August 2008

ACLU/SC Applauds Calabasas Mayor and City Council for Ordinance Change (8/29/2008)

ACLU/SC Reaches Agreement with County Defendants to End Lawsuit over First Amendment Rights of Day Laborers (8/28/2008)

ACLU Seeks Release of Tortured Refugee (8/14/2008)

July 2008

Pioneering Actress Nichelle Nichols to Receive ACLU/SC Liberty and Justice Award at Outfest 2008 (7/18/2008)

ACLU/SC Letter to Calabasas: Ordinance Infringes On Residents’ First Amendment Right to Freedom of Speech and Petition (7/16/2008)

Defendants in “Material Support of Terrorism” Case Seek Dismissal on Grounds of Government Conflict of Interest (7/15/2008)

June 2008

California's Death Penalty Too Costly and Unfair, State Commission Report Says (6/30/2008)

Judge's Ruling on Special Order 40 Affirms Balance Between Crime Fighting and Immigration Enforcement (6/25/2008)

ACLU/SC to Honor Top Lawyers Fighting Drugging of Detainees and Hospital Patient Dumping (6/19/2008)

ACLU/SC Supports the California Voters FIRST Initiative on the November Ballot (6/18/2008)

Statement from the ACLU/SC’s Ramona Ripston on Today’s Supreme Court Ruling in the Guantanamo Detainee Case (6/12/2008)

New Orange County Sheriff Will Find ACLU/SC Records Request Waiting on Her Desk (6/10/2008)

ACLU/SC Supports Effort to Restore Voters Right to Choose Their own Legislators (6/4/2008)

ACLU/SC Applauds Settlement Between Hospital and Patient Who Was Dumped on Skid Row (6/2/2008)

May 2008

Inmates with Disabilities Face Discrimination in Los Angeles County Jails (5/29/2008)

Court’s Decision on Marriage Should Go into Effect on Schedule, Says Legal Brief on Behalf of Couples (5/28/2008)

Congress Asked to Probe Surveillance of California Muslims (5/28/2008)

Lesbian and Gay Couples Win Freedom to Marry in California (5/15/2008)

ACLU/SC Protects The Rights Of Those Who Feed The Poor (5/8/2008)

ACLU/SC and Partners Win Settlement In Equal Rights Fight for a Husband to Adopt His Wife’s Surname (5/5/2008)

ACLU/SC Says LAPD Has Not Addressed Root Causes of Last Year's Melee (5/5/2008)

April 2008

ACLU/SC and Civil Rights Groups Support a Halt to Immigration Workplace Raids in California (4/17/2008)

March 2008

L.A. County Jails Plan Offers Long-Overdue Relief From Overcrowding and Inhumane Conditions (3/13/2008)

February 2008

Family of U.S. Citizen Illegally Deported to Mexico Says Government Endangered His Life (2/27/2008)

Death Penalty Flaws Under Fire at Hearing in Los Angeles (2/20/2008)

ACLU/SC Backs Community College Students in Racial Profiling Incident by L.A. Sheriff’s Deputies (2/7/2008)

ACLU/SC Supports Police Officer Privacy in Locker-Room Videotape Case (2/5/2008)

January 2008

ACLU/SC Board Endorses Impeachment of President Bush and Vice President Cheney for High Crimes (1/24/2008)

Paraplegic Man Sues Hospital for Dumping Him in Skid Row Gutter Without a Wheelchair (1/17/2008)

U.S. Ends Forced Drugging of Immigrants After Shocking Lawsuit (1/14/2008)

ACLU Argues in Federal Court That Prolonged Detention of Immigrants Is Illegal (1/7/2008)