Immigrants' Rights
Prisoners' Rights
Racial Justice
Women's Rights
Tesmer v. Granholm Petition for Rehearing En Banc
11/4/2009 | Women's Rights
Photos from the Ron Jackson State Juvenile Correctional Complex (Brownwood Texas)
11/4/2009 | Prisoners' Rights, Women's Rights
ACLU Statement for Girls in the Juvenile Justice System Hearing
11/2/2009 | Free Speech, Women's Rights
Court Upholds Right Of Scientists And Patients To Challenge Gene Patents
10/29/2009 | Prisoners' Rights
ACLU of North Carolina Calls on Governor Beverly Perdue and Attorney General Roy Cooper to Respect the Rule of Law
10/29/2009 | Children's Rights, Juvenile Justice
Pivotal Juvenile Justice Legislation Passes First Hurdle
10/20/2009 | Abortion, Immigration Discrimination
Court Rules that Sheriff Joe Arpaio Can No Longer Block Prisoners' Access To Abortion Care
10/30/2009 | Prisoners' Rights, Reproductive Freedom
Ending the Inhumane Practice of Shackling Prisoners During Childbirth
10/22/2009 | Free Speech, Women's Rights
Breast Cancer, Patenting Human Genes, and Your Civil Liberties
11/4/2009 | Women's Rights
Photos from the Ron Jackson State Juvenile Correctional Complex (Brownwood Texas)
11/4/2009 | Prisoners' Rights, Women's Rights
ACLU Statement for Girls in the Juvenile Justice System Hearing
11/4/2009 | Prisoners' Rights, Women's Rights
ACLU Statement for Girls in the Juvenile Justice System Hearing
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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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Breast Cancer and Patenting Human Genes
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