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The Defense Department's longstanding policy barring women from thousands of ground combat positions was challenged today in a federal lawsuit by four servicewomen and the Service Women's Action Network. Read More

Today the ACLU of Northern California (ACLU-NC) and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed a federal class-action lawsuit to block implementation of unconstitutional provisions of Proposition 35 - a ballot measure passed by California voters Tuesday that restricts the legal and constitutionally protected speech of all registered sex offenders in California. Read More

Today the ACLU of Northern California and the Electronic Frontier Foundation filed a federal class-action lawsuit to block implementation of unconstitutional provisions of Proposition 35 - a ballot measure passed by voters that restricts the legal and constitutionally protected speech of all registered sex offenders in California. Read More

Arguments were held before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit today in a challenge by the American Civil Liberties Union and other groups to the most extreme abortion ban in the country. Read More

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The American Civil Liberties Union of California today called Gov. Jerry Brown’s decision to veto AB1081, known as the TRUST ACT, a missed opportunity to protect Californians from unnecessary and unjustified detentions and deportations, but vowed to continue the fight to see it become law Read More

The American Civil Liberties Union of California and the law firm Morrison & Foerster LLP today announced they would dismiss a class action lawsuit filed against the state of California on behalf of public school students who had been charged fees as a condition of taking academic courses. The announcement follows Gov. Jerry Brown’s Saturday signing of Assembly Bill 1575 (AB 1575), a bill authore... Read More

One year after the implementation of California's historic prison realignment plan, the state has failed to adopt the kinds of reforms necessary to ensure its success and a lasting reduction both in the number of people behind bars and recidivism rates, the American Civil Liberties Union of California said in a new assessment released today. Read More

Today attorneys for 21 UC Davis students and recent alumni announced the details of their settlement of the federal class-action lawsuit against UC Davis over the shocking incident in which campus police repeatedly doused seated, non-violent student demonstrators with military grade pepper spray at close range. The lawsuit charged that the police violated state and federal constitutional protectio... Read More

Several of the state’s leading reproductive rights groups applauded Governor Brown for signing SB 623, an important bill authored by Senator Christine Kehoe (D-San Diego) that will allow the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), to continue evaluating the safety, effectiveness and satisfaction rates of early abortions performed by nurse practitioners, certified nurse midwives, and physic... Read More

On Sep. 19, 2012, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals will rehear the ACLU of Northern California's federal class-action challenge to a California law that mandates that DNA is collected from anyone arrested on suspicion of a felony, whether or not they are ever charged or convicted. The oral argument is scheduled for 10am in Courtroom 1 at the James R. Browning US Courthouse in San Francisco. Read More

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of California today announced its endorsement of Proposition 30, the Schools and Local Public Safety Protection Act. Read More