Topic - American Civil Liberties Union

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  Mendelson: Occupiers not target of D.C. crime bill language on protests

  A crime bill that asks the D.C. Council to tighten up a mix of public safety laws includes provisions that strike at the heart of public demonstrations — a frequent and common practice in the nation's capital taken to new levels during the Occupy D.C. protest.

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  Appeals court rules Calif. gay-marriage ban unconstitutional

  A federal appeals court on Tuesday declared California's same-sex-marriage ban unconstitutional, paving the way for the legalization of gay marriage in the nation's most populous state and setting the stage for a showdown before the U.S. Supreme Court.

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  Public surveillance from private property questioned

  When D.C. police began installing surveillance cameras in neighborhoods more than five years ago as crime-fighting tools, privacy concerns voiced by civil liberties groups limited their scope and use.

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  U.S. No-Fly list doubles in 1 year

  Even as the Obama administration says it's close to defeating al Qaeda, the size of the government's secret list of suspected terrorists who are banned from flying to or within the United States has more than doubled in the past year, the Associated Press has learned.

• Newark, NJ, told to produce Facebook pledge papers

  The state's largest city must produce a list of documents related to a $100 million pledge to its public schools from Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, a judge ruled Friday.

• Newark, NJ, told to produce Facebook pledge log

  The state's largest city must produce a list of documents related to a $100 million pledge to its public schools from Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, a judge ruled Friday.

• LETTER TO THE EDITOR: U.S. judges should only rely on our legal code

  In 2010, voters in Oklahoma approved by a 70 percent majority the Save Our State Amendment. The measure would prevent courts from using Shariah, Islamic law, in deciding cases.

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  REILLY: Religious intolerance, California-style

  The Obama administration proved Friday that California laws continue to have national influence. But this time, the pattern has wrought a serious violation of the First Amendment protection for religious liberty.

• High court: warrant needed for GPS tracking

  The Supreme Court ruled unanimously Monday that police must get a search warrant before using GPS technology to track criminal suspects.

• Warrant needed for GPS tracking, high court says

  In a rare defeat for law enforcement, the Supreme Court unanimously agreed on Monday to bar police from installing GPS technology to track suspects without first getting a judge's approval. The justices made clear it wouldn't be their final word on increasingly advanced high-tech surveillance of Americans.

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  BOOK REVIEW: 'Patrick Henry'

  Give us liberty, one occasionally wants to cry, echoing the great Patrick Henry's liberty-or-death moment at St. John's Church in Richmond. A great moment it was, as schoolchildren may still be taught. There was more, nonetheless, to Patrick Henry than lung power. The man had heart, and the soul to go with it.

• Court OKs immunity for telecoms in wiretap case

  A federal appeals court has ruled as constitutional a law giving telecommunications companies legal immunity for helping the government with its email and telephone eavesdropping program.

• Court OKs immunity for telecoms in wiretap case

  A federal appeals court has ruled as constitutional a law giving telecommunications companies legal immunity for helping the government with its email and telephone eavesdropping program.

• Immunity upheld in wiretap suits

  A federal appeals court in San Francisco on Thursday said a 2008 law granting telecommunications companies legal immunity for helping the National Security Agency with an email and telephone eavesdropping program is constitutional.

• EPPERSON: A lot at stake with the issue of public prayer

  A federal judge's decision saying that Forsyth County, N.C., commissioners must remove prayer from the start of their meetings is one more misguided effort to eliminate God from the public square.

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