ACLU/SC News Releases For 2010

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August 2010

Suit Charges LA-Area Federal Contractor with Exploitation and Discrimination of Immigrant Workers (8/31/2010)

ACLU/SC Calls On Los Angeles County Sheriff To Abandon Plan To Use Weapon-Like ‘Military Assault Device’ on Jail Inmates (8/26/2010)

ACLU/SC Suit Seeks Information on U.S. ‘Proxy Detention’ of American Citizen in the U.A.E. (8/18/2010)

ACLU Hails Historic Decision And Urges Efforts In Other States To Ensure Success On Appeal (8/4/2010)

ACLU/SC & Partners File First Class-Action Lawsuit On Behalf of Immigrants with Mental Disabilities (8/2/2010)

July 2010

ACLU/SC Seeks Records About FBI Collection of Racial And Ethnic Data (7/27/2010)

California ACLU Affiliates Endorse Prop. 19's Move Toward a Rational Marijuana Policy (7/22/2010)

June 2010

ACLU Files Lawsuit Challenging Unconstitutional "No Fly List" (6/30/2010)

ACLU Issues Arizona Travel Advisory (6/30/2010)

Muslim Denied Citizenship Because of Discriminatory Practices in Naturalization Process: Civil Rights Groups File FOIA to Uncover Racial and Religious Profiling (6/16/2010)

Outstanding Attorneys, Hit CBS Show “The Good Wife” Honored at ACLU/SC 16th Annual Law Luncheon (6/10/2010)

Legal Team Agrees to Drop Lawsuit against Santa Monica after City’s Treatment of Homeless Changes (6/8/2010)

ACLU/SC Testifies Against Arizona Racial Profiling Law (6/1/2010)

May 2010

Judge Grants Injunction in Landmark Education Lawsuit That Will Prevent Further Teacher Layoffs at Three LAUSD Schools (5/12/2010)

Overcrowded Men’s Central Jail Plagued by Violence and Hazardous Living Conditions, New ACLU Report Finds (5/5/2010)

April 2010

After Supreme Court Decision, ACLU to Continue to Argue That Mojave Cross Land Transfer to Veterans Group Does Not Remedy Establishment Clause Violation (4/28/2010)

Statement from Ramona Ripston, Executive Director of the ACLU/SC, on the Death of Former LAPD Chief Daryl Gates (4/16/2010)

Despite Lancaster Ballot Measure, Sectarian Prayers Prior to City Council Meetings Are Unconstitutional (4/14/2010)

James Gilliam Is Named Deputy Executive Director of the ACLU/SC (4/5/2010)

March 2010

Immigration Officials Announce Release of Detainees with Mental Disabilities Who Were Lost in Detention for Years (3/31/2010)

Death Penalty Sentencing In Decline Across United States (3/30/2010)

Immigrants with Mental Disabilities Lost in Detention for Years (3/26/2010)

ACLU/SC Urges LAPD to Examine Policies After Officers Fatally Shoot Autistic Man (3/22/2010)

ACLU/SC Sues Veterans Administration for Denying Free Speech Rights to Veteran (3/16/2010)

Costa Mesa Halts Enforcement of Anti-Solicitation Ordinance After Civil Rights Groups Sue (3/2/2010)

February 2010

Massive Teacher Layoffs at Three LAUSD Schools Violated State Guarantee of Equal Education for All (2/24/2010)

Longtime ACLU/SC Executive Director Ramona Ripston Announces Retirement (2/23/2010)

ACLU/SC Expands Effort to Oppose Death Penalty, Hires Full-Time Organizer (2/11/2010)

Hector Villagra Appointed Legal Director of the ACLU of Southern California (2/9/2010)

Lawsuit Challenges City of Costa Mesa's Anti-solicitation Ordinance (2/2/2010)

January 2010

Landmark Federal Class-Action Lawsuit Targets Los Angeles County for Failure to Educate Youth in Probation Camps (1/12/2010)

ACLU/SC Calls for Overhaul of Inglewood Civilian Review Board (1/11/2010)