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Sep 29, 2010
Pacific News Service v. Cate
The ACLU Foundation of Northern California filed a lawsuit in March 2006 raising a constitutional challenge to California's three-drug execution protocol. The lawsuit states that part of the three-drug regimen used to carry out executions in California acts as a chemical curtain. The drug conceals significant information, violating the First Amendment rights of the press and the public to be fully informed about executions.
May 10, 2010
ACLU Foundation of Northern California to School District: Students Have First Amendment Right to Wear U.S. Flag
May 05, 2010
People v. Gallego
Should the police be able to follow you around and collect and analyze your DNA from something you discard, without a warrant or even a reason to believe you have committed a crime?
Apr 06, 2010
ACLU Foundation of Northern California Calls on UC Berkeley to Respect Constitutional Rights in Student Disciplinary Process
Feb 01, 2010
In re E.J. on Habeas Corpus (Prop 83 Residency Restrictions)
Can the State of California retroactively enforce Prop 83's residency restrictions against sex offenders who committed their offenses before the law went into effect?
Jan 25, 2010
Darensburg v. MTC
On November 23, 2009, the ACLU Foundation of Northern California and civil rights allies filed an amicus brief in Darensburg v. Metropolitan Transportation Commission. Plaintiffs argued that MTC, the planning body for all twenty-six independent transit operators in the Bay Area, consistently under-funded AC Transit, a bus line with high minority ridership, in comparison to other transit systems like BART, with lower minority ridership.
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