Aug 14, 2025
Fifth Circuit Sides with Black Louisianians, Strikes Down Racially Discriminatory State Legislative Map
NEW ORLEANS — In a victory for Black voters and democracy in Louisiana, the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals today affirmed in full the district court’s ruling that the stat...
Issue Areas: Voting Rights
Court case: Nairne v. Landry
Aug 14, 2025
Brief Urges Alabama Supreme Court to Reject Effort to Expand Stop-and-Question Law
Case Involves a Pastor Who Was Arrested for Refusing to Provide Physical ID to Police While Watering Neighbors’ Flowers
Issue Areas: Criminal Law Reform
Court case: Jennings v. Smith
Aug 14, 2025
Suit Seeking to Punish Freedom from Religion Foundation for Advocacy Dismissed
The suit was brought by the Oklahoma State Department of Education in an attempt to silence FFRF’s advocacy
Issue Areas: Free Speech
Aug 14, 2025
ACLU Raises Alarm Over Trump Administration Seeking to Ban Non-Citizens from Accessing Community Health and Education Programs
HHS Reinterpretation of PRWORA Threatens Health and Education Outcomes for Children, People with Disabilities
Aug 12, 2025
District Court Grants Temporary Restraining Order Prohibiting ICE from Detaining Immigrants in Abusive Conditions at 26 Federal Plaza
Order places limitations on number of people allowed in holding rooms, grants access to legal calls
Issue Areas: Immigrants' Rights
Aug 12, 2025
Eighth Circuit Upholds Arkansas’s Ban on Gender-Affirming Care for Transgender Youth
Little Rock, Ark.--Following the Supreme Court’s ruling in US v. Skrmetti, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals has rejected a challenge to an Arkansas law banning gender-affirmin...
Issue Areas: LGBTQ Rights
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