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Jail Doesn't Help Addicts. Let's Stop Sending Them There. 10 NYC_SKP Oct 2014 Oct 2014 14 4175

ACLU Defense of Religious Practice and Expression (including in the workplace) 0 NYC_SKP Oct 2014 Oct 2014 0 1766

Justice for Stanley Cohen 0 midnight Oct 2014 Oct 2014 1 1263

Alleged desecration of U.S. flag case held over for court 1 osaMABUSh Oct 2014 Oct 2014 2 1534

Ontario asks top court to throw out lawsuit from man who spent 31 years in jail for murder he didn’t 3 shockedcanadian Oct 2014 Oct 2014 2 1759

Cop's Tip For Not Getting Raped By A Cop: 'Don't Get Pulled Over' 1 Man from Pickens Sep 2014 Sep 2014 4 2342

Please help a victim of a police shooting! 1 Dr. Xavier Sep 2014 Sep 2014 1 2865

Texas Cheerleaders Still Begging Courts to Let Them Cheer for Jesus 4 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2014 Sep 2014 1 2646

VIDEO: Pregnant woman slammed onto street by NYPD cop in Sunset Park 2 Man from Pickens Sep 2014 Sep 2014 12 2295

U.S. attorney general announces grant to study police racial profiling 2 Eugene Sep 2014 Sep 2014 1 1608

Is It Torture Now? ISIS Apparently A Fan Of CIA’s Waterboarding Techniques 2 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2014 Aug 2014 7 1651

littlemisssmartypants suggested that I should cross post this thread here. 5 tblue37 Aug 2014 Aug 2014 10 2329

(REDACTED) memo released on killing (REDACTED) American overseas 0 jakeXT Aug 2014 Aug 2014 4 1487

Russell Rios shooting - Here is an interesting case 0 exboyfil Aug 2014 Aug 2014 3 1969

Membership in the ACLU. Only $5.00 2 NYC_SKP Aug 2014 Aug 2014 7 1590

Idiot Talk Show Host Michael Berry running a 1 exboyfil Aug 2014 Aug 2014 1 2478

Amnesty Intl: "This is not the Bush administration, this is torture happening under Obama" 1 bigtree Aug 2014 Aug 2014 2 1965

Police behaviour in woman’s background check ‘malicious,’ lawsuit alleges 0 shockedcanadian Aug 2014 Aug 2014 3 1346

Fresh doubts over a Texas execution 0 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2014 Aug 2014 4 1483

New York police unions lose bid to challenge stop-and-frisk settlement 1 Eugene Jul 2014 Aug 2014 2 1471

Microsoft must give prosecutors customer email stored on server in Ireland, federal judge rules 0 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2014 Aug 2014 1 1337

Andrew Leduc hit-and-run death: Civilian RCMP contractor cleared of wrongdoing 0 shockedcanadian Jul 2014 Jul 2014 1 1327

DOJ Says They Can No Longer Afford To Respect The Attorney-Client Privilege 6 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2014 Jul 2014 6 2810

Source Leaks Secret Guidelines for US Government "Watchlist" 1 friendly_iconoclast Jul 2014 Jul 2014 3 1939

Ohio judge favors camera speeding ticket refunds 3 Eugene Jan 2014 Jul 2014 3 1921

Provincial jails clogged with legally innocent Canadians 0 shockedcanadian Jul 2014 Jul 2014 1 1404

Innocence Project co-founder calls for audit of all Nifong cases 2 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2014 Jul 2014 8 1784

Toronto woman stunned by police revelation in background check 2 shockedcanadian Jul 2014 Jul 2014 2 1837

'You are being tracked': How cities use licence-plate scanners to create vast databases of vehicles 3 shockedcanadian Jul 2014 Jul 2014 1 1973

Police chiefs call for presumed innocence in background checks 1 shockedcanadian Jul 2014 Jul 2014 3 1397

Civil Liberties Continued...

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Inmate’s Gassing Death Latest In Complaints Against Florida Prisons 2 jakeXT Jul 2014 Jul 2014 3 1828

Public servant expects $1 million after human rights tribunal finds 'subtle scent of discrimination' 0 shockedcanadian Jul 2014 Jul 2014 0 1480

Durham police officers accused of faking 911 calls to enter homes 1 jakeXT Jul 2014 Jul 2014 9 1947

Do not take picturesof the Dorchester gas-storage tank... 6 Little Star Jul 2014 Jul 2014 6 2475

What intelligence agency in the West has absolutely NO oversight body or obligation to government? 3 shockedcanadian Jul 2014 Jul 2014 2 2074

Litigation for Libel Slander VS Public Defending 0 theexwife Jul 2014 Jul 2014 0 1395

Ask not what you can do for your religion, but what can the government do for your religion. 0 cheyanne Jul 2014 Jul 2014 0 1589

Break a window, and pay for life 0 shockedcanadian Jul 2014 Jul 2014 4 1918

NSA reformers dismayed after privacy board vindicates surveillance dragnet 1 Eugene Jul 2014 Jul 2014 1 1543

Fifty Years Ago Today: the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was signed into law 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2014 Jul 2014 1 1646

Question about the Hobby Lobby decision. 7 JDPriestly Jul 2014 Jul 2014 8 3115

U.S. privacy board says NSA Internet spying program is effective but worrying 0 Eugene Jul 2014 Jul 2014 2 1499

Massachusetts high court says accused criminal must decrypt computers for police 5 Eugene Jun 2014 Jun 2014 0 2066

Q about discrimination and "sincerely held religious belief" 4 DetlefK Mar 2014 Jun 2014 0 1917

Prisons of “type C”: A new test field in the Greek experiment 0 no more banksters Jun 2014 Jun 2014 0 2112

‘No judgment, no discretion’: Police records that ruin innocent lives 2 shockedcanadian Jun 2014 Jun 2014 3 1728

There is a man in our community who is being harrassed by the police, 6 pennylane100 Jun 2014 Jun 2014 6 3318

Jean Paton and the Struggle to Reform American Adoption - 0 me b zola Jun 2014 Jun 2014 3 1679

I wonder if people can read at times 4 Leme Jun 2014 Jun 2014 2 3229

Human Rights Code gives convicted Ontarians more workplace protection than the innocent 0 shockedcanadian Jun 2014 Jun 2014 0 1232

U.S. Marshals Seize Cops’ Spying Records to Keep Them From the ACLU 0 friendly_iconoclast Jun 2014 Jun 2014 5 1403

Ontario privacy watchdog takes legal action against Toronto police: Star Exclusive 0 shockedcanadian Jun 2014 Jun 2014 2 1425

Darryl Howard and the rampaging prosecutor: Durham learns little from Duke lacrosse debacle 4 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2014 May 2014 2 3027

No charges, no trial, but presumed guilty 1 shockedcanadian May 2014 May 2014 2 2118

State Surveillance: The Munk Debate (Glenn Greenwald & Ohanian v. Dershowitz & General Hayden) 0 Electric Monk May 2014 May 2014 0 1482

Supreme Court Justice Argues That States Should Be Permitted To Set Up Official Religions 5 mahatmakanejeeves May 2014 May 2014 1 2601

Oakland PD's surveillance center's primary purpose is fighting protesters, not crime 2 friendly_iconoclast Dec 2013 May 2014 1 2036

ACLU: Know Your Rights Constitutional Free Zone Map 4 NYC_SKP Apr 2014 Apr 2014 15 2333

U.S. will not appeal judge's ruling on no-fly list mistake 0 Eugene Mar 2014 Mar 2014 3 8575

New York City, rights group seal deal to end stop-and-frisk 2 Eugene Jan 2014 Mar 2014 0 1811

Civil Liberties Continued...

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Illinois Supreme Court strikes down eavesdropping law as too broad 0 Eugene Mar 2014 Mar 2014 4 1474

So, now that we're starting to see studies that link sleep deprivation to brain damage 0 Erich Bloodaxe BSN Mar 2014 Mar 2014 13 1913

Federal Judge Rejects Justice Department's Request To Hold NSA Phone Records 0 Eugene Mar 2014 Mar 2014 2 1400

PA's Worst: Republican Pushes Pro-Discrimination Proposal in PA House [VIDEO] 2 Counterpoint PA Feb 2014 Feb 2014 2 2301

Edward Snowden Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize 0 GoLeft TV Jan 2014 Jan 2014 5 1360

Man spends four decades in mental hospital for stealing $20 necklace 2 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2014 Jan 2014 13 1930

Judge names monitor to oversee Arizona sheriff in profiling case 1 Eugene Jan 2014 Jan 2014 7 1730

U.S. Supreme Court to weigh cell phone searches by police 0 Eugene Jan 2014 Jan 2014 0 1718

ACLU seeks probe of alleged abuses at Arizona border checkpoints 0 Eugene Jan 2014 Jan 2014 2 1491

The effort to normalize drone surveillance 8 Android3.14 Dec 2013 Jan 2014 0 2843

ACLU sues for details of U.S. surveillance under executive order 1 Eugene Dec 2013 Jan 2014 6 1720

Obama concedes NSA bulk collection of phone data may be unnecessary 4 Eugene Dec 2013 Dec 2013 5 2072

Chinese labor camp inmate tells of true horror of Halloween 'SOS' 6 shockedcanadian Nov 2013 Dec 2013 4 2340

Teen Kills 4; Judge LITERALLY Lets Him Off Because He is Rich! 8 appleannie1 Dec 2013 Dec 2013 4 3474

From The Department Of Can You Believe This 5 DallasNE Sep 2013 Nov 2013 3 2219

NSA bulk data collection violates constitutional rights, ACLU argues 1 Eugene Nov 2013 Nov 2013 2 1639

These are all over NOLA, on high-end suvs since Katrina. 2 RosettaStoned77 Nov 2013 Nov 2013 1 2631

Spinning Against Innocence Projects 1 LegalScholar Nov 2013 Nov 2013 2 1573

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