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Immigrants' Rights
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A Call to Amend the Ohio Rules of Juvenile Procedure to Protect the Right to Counsel
11/20/2009 | Children's Rights, Immigrants' Rights, Immigration Detention, Racial Justice
Achieving the Ideals Embodied in the CRC
11/19/2009 | Children's Rights, Criminal Justice, Women's Rights
“An Environment Which Fosters the Health, Self-Respect and Dignity of the Child”
11/18/2009 | Racial Justice
Heather Ellis Case is One in a Long Line of Missouri's racial injustices
11/18/2009 | Sentencing and Penalties
Justice Roundtable Coalition Letter of Support for S. 1789, the Fair Sentencing Act
9/21/2009 | Criminal Justice, Drug Law Reform, Immigrants' Rights, Women's Rights
Pottawattamie County v. McGhee
11/2/2009 | Free Speech, Women's Rights
Court Upholds Right Of Scientists And Patients To Challenge Gene Patents
10/29/2009 | Children's Rights, Juvenile Justice
Pivotal Juvenile Justice Legislation Passes First Hurdle
10/24/2009 | Drug Law Reform, Organization News and Highlights
ACLU Honors Regina Kelly, Plaintiff In Landmark Civil Rights Case, With Baldwin Medal Of Liberty Award
10/20/2009 | Abortion, Criminal Justice
Court Rules that Sheriff Joe Arpaio Can No Longer Block Prisoners' Access To Abortion Care
11/20/2009 | Children's Rights, Immigrants' Rights, Immigration Detention, Racial Justice
Achieving the Ideals Embodied in the CRC
11/19/2009 | Children's Rights, Criminal Justice, Women's Rights
“An Environment Which Fosters the Health, Self-Respect and Dignity of the Child”
11/18/2009 | Racial Justice
Heather Ellis Case is One in a Long Line of Missouri's racial injustices
11/18/2009 | Sentencing and Penalties
Justice Roundtable Coalition Letter of Support for S. 1789, the Fair Sentencing Act
11/12/2009 | Conditions of Confinement
Amanda Davis. et al. v. Canyon County, Idaho, et al. - Consent Decree, Order And Judgment
11/10/2009 | Education, Juvenile Justice
Dignity In Schools Campaign Letter to the U.S. Department of Education on Proposed Changes to School Discipline Information in the Civil Rights Data Collection
11/9/2009 | Education, Juvenile Justice
ACLU Comments On Department of Education’s Proposed Changes to the Biannual Civil Rights Data Collection
Racial Justice, Drug Law Reform, Immigrants' Rights, Women's Rights
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The ACLU and the Public Patent Foundation (PUBPAT) are bringing a landmark case on behalf of researchers, pathologists, breast cancer and women’s health groups, and individual women affected by the patents on two genes associated with breast and ovarian cancer. It's wrong for companies to own the rights to pieces of the human genome.
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