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ACLU of Tennessee v. Bredesen Petition for a Writ of Certiorari (05/01/2006)
ACLU of Tennessee v. Bredesen Petition for a Writ of Certiorari

Motion Of Plaintiffs-Appellees For Stay of Mandate Pending Filing of Petition For Certiorari (04/07/2006)

Ward v. State of Texas - Amicus Brief (03/30/2006)
This case is the result of a prosecutor's decision to put a novel, sweeping, and impermissible construction on a statute. Looking to Senate Bill ("S.B.") 319, which amended the definition of "individual" in the Penal Code, the Potter County District Attorney maintains that Texas Health & Safety Code § 481.122, the statute prohibiting the delivery of a controlled substance to children, applies to the conduct of pregnant women towards their fetuses. But neither the statute nor the legislative history contains any hint of such an intention. The prosecution of the Appellants here violates the United States and Texas Constitutions in at least three fundamental ways.

ACLU of Massachusetts v. Secretary of U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (05/16/2005)
Defendants have provided more than one million dollars of public funds to an organization called the "Silver Ring Thing" (or "SRT"). The Silver Ring Thing is a ministry that uses abstinence education as a means to bring "unchurched" students to Jesus Christ. Federal dollars support the Silver Ring Thing's religious activities and religious content. Both because the federal funding of the Silver Ring Thing constitutes a direct government grant to a pervasively sectarian institution and because the federal dollars are demonstrably underwriting religious activities and religious content, the funding violates the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.

ACLU Brief in ACLU of Louisiana v. Foster (01/20/2005)

Letter Addressing Settlement Violations in ACLU of Louisiana v. Foster (11/15/2004)

ACLU Brief in ACLU of Tennessee v. Bredesen (08/02/2004)

Emergency Motion submitted In re Guardianship of J.D.S., Jennifer Wixtrom, Appellant (08/14/2003)

ACLU renewed brief submitted In re Guardianship of J.D.S., Jennifer Wixtrom, Appellant (08/14/2003)

ACLU Brief Submitted In re Guardianship of J.D.S., Jennifer Wixtrom Appellant (08/07/2003)

Complaint in Doe, et al. v. Reid, et al. (07/08/2003)

ACLU Amicus Brief In re Guardianship of J.D.S. (06/17/2003)

ACLU Brief Submitted In re Guardianship of J.D.S., an adult (05/13/2003)

ACLU Amicus Brief in G.P., C.M., C.H., L.H. vs. Florida (10/30/2002)