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City of Pittsburgh settles G-20 case involving mass arrest
BY Staff | Pittsburgh, PA | 2/18/13
The city of Pittsburgh agreed Feb. 14 to pay $400,000 to settle the claims of 13 people who were swept up in a mass arrest of demonstrators, observers and passersby in the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh, hours after the 2009 G-20 Summit ended.
ACLU, G20, Police Brutality, right to protest
Puerto Rican Governor Fortuño signs repressive penal code changes; lawsuit filed to stop it
BY Brad Sigal | Puerto Rico | 8/08/12
On July 30, Puerto Rican Governor Luis Fortuño signed a highly controversial and sweeping new penal code into law that includes sharp restrictions on a broad range of civil liberties and rights. It’s slated to go into effect on September 1. A week after Fortuño signed it, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a lawsuit to stop the new law, calling it unconstitutional.
ACLU, anti-imperialism, civil liberties, colonialism, Luis Fortuño, Puerto Rico, Repression
Lawsuit filed by ACLU to protect Occupy Minneapolis
BY Staff | St. Paul, MN | 11/24/11
The American Civil Liberties Union of Minnesota filed a lawsuit against Hennepin County, Nov. 22 on behalf of Occupy Minneapolis. The lawsuit argues that the county’s new restrictions on the OccupyMPLS unconstitutionally restrict the demonstrators’ free speech rights.
ACLU, American Civil Liberites Union, civil liberties, Occupy Minneapolis, Occupy Wall Street, OccupyMN
LA lawsuit against FBI for spying on Muslims
BY Carlos Montes | Los Angeles, CA | 2/25/11
The Council on American-Islamic Relations of the Greater Los Angeles Area (CAIR) and the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California (ACLU) filed a lawsuit against the FBI on Feb. 22.
ACLU, CAIR, FBI, Muslims
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