ACLU News
Is the Debt Ceiling a Civil Liberties Issue?
Date Published: Wednesday, August 3, 2011
You're Cell Phone Knows Where You Were Last Night...Who else does?
Date Published: Wednesday, August 3, 2011
What Happens in Arizona Stops in Arizona
Date Published: Wednesday, March 9, 2011
The Kansas State House is trying to pass copycat legislation that, like the bill passed in Arizona, targets immigrant and ethnic minorities. Learn more about the bill here.
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Judge Temporarily Blocks Kansas Law Restricting Federal Title X Funds
Date Published: October 18th, 2011
KANSAS CITY, KS – A Kansas judge today temporarily blocked a state law that restricts federal funding for family planning and reproductive health services after the American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Kansas and Western Missouri last month filed a lawsuit challenging the law’s constitutionality.
ACLU Challenges Kansas Ban on Insurance Coverage for Abortions
Date Published: August 16, 2011
TOPEKA, Kan. – The American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Kansas and Western Missouri filed a lawsuit today challenging a Kansas law that prohibits insurance companies from including coverage for abortion in their comprehensive plans.
ACLU Obtains Dismissal of Trespassing Charges in Westport Case
Date Published: July 29, 2011
Kansas City, MO – The ACLU of Kansas & Western Missouri is once again defending constitutional rights of people to be on the public streets and sidewalks in the Westport area of Kansas City, Missouri.
ACLU Settles First Amendment Retaliation Claim against the City of Bolivar, Missouri
Date Published: July 7, 2011
Marilynn Gehrlein, the ACLU's client, had been charged with violating the city's harassment ordinance because of e-mails and Facebook messages she sent to the City Administrator.
Surviving Partner Of Missouri State Trooper Killed On Duty Challenges Discriminatory Benefits Policy
Date Published: December 2, 2010
Missouri offers survivor benefits to spouses of state troopers who are killed in the line of duty, but excludes committed same-sex partners from receiving those benefits. Glossip is seeking the same survivor benefits provided to opposite-sex partners.
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