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February 2008 Archives From "Dispatch from the Culture Wars" Blog: ACLU and ADF Agree on Illinois Anti-Gay T-Shirt Policy February 22, 2008 http://scienceblogs.com/dispatches/2008/02/aclu_and_adf_agree_on_illinois.php read more » From the Houston Chronicle's Blue Bayou Blog: ACLU defends anti-gay student February 22, 2008 http://blogs.chron.com/bluebayou/2008/02/aclu_defends_antigay_student.html read more » From the Daily Herald: ACLU gets into Bolingbrook teen's T-shirt case February 20, 2008 The ACLU may not like the content of a Bolingbrook student's speech, but the organization is defending his right to say it. Or, in this case, wear it. The ACLU filed a brief late last week with the U.S. Court of Appeals, 7th Circuit, arguing that sophomore Alexander Nuxoll should be allowed to wear a T-shirt to school that reads "Be Happy, Not Gay." read more » From the Naperville Sun: ACLU supports anti-gay T-shirt February 20, 2008 Indian Prairie School District 204 should allow students to express their sentiments about homosexuality by wearing "Be happy, not gay" T-shirts, according to the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois. The ACLU filed a legal brief that supports Neuqua students in their lawsuit against District 204. In its Monday release, the ACLU summarize the conclusion of its brief. read more » Updates From Geneva by Harvey Grossman, ACLU of Illinois Legal Director February 18, 2008 Today, I am blogging from Geneva, Switzerland at the meeting of the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD). My name is Harvey Grossman and I am the legal director of the ACLU of Illinois and a member of the team of lawyers which the National ACLU has brought to Geneva to speak to the CERD about the issue of racial discrimination in the U.S. read more » A Burning Issue February 08, 2008 Sometimes you never know which stories are going to break big! Yesterday, I received a phone call from a reporter at the Chicago Tribune. Seems that a resident in suburban Wheeling was ticketed recently after the Tribune ran a story... read more » Pharmacy Refusal February 07, 2008 Last week, we filed an amicus curiae brief in the case of Morr-Fitz v. Blagojevich, now pending before the Illinois Supreme Court. The case involves a challenge by two pharmacists and three pharmacy companies to an Illinois regulation that requires pharmacies to assure seamless access to contraception when an individual pharmacist refuses to fill a contraceptive prescription. The Illinois regulation - adopted after several women faced undue delay and harassment in trying to fill prescriptions for contraception - simply makes clear that the pharmacy must provide some efficient procedure to allow such prescriptions to be filled, even when one pharmacist objects. The plaintiffs in this case have argued to the Supreme Court that the Illinois rule is invalid, because it violates their rights as protected by the Illinois Health Care Right of Conscience Act. We believe, and argue in our brief, that this is an overly broad reading of this law, and that the Health Care Right of Conscience Act must be balanced against the fundamental right of women to contraception. A copy of the brief available for you to download from our website at http://www.aclu-il.org/legal/courtdocuments/morrfitz.pdf. If you would like to watch a short video describing our position, you can watch at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-JKTG4ArkY. read more » Are you registered? February 04, 2008 read more » Up Against Big Brother: A profile of EFF and the case against AT&T February 04, 2008 Our sister organization the Electronic Frontier Foundation has been profiled in California Lawyer magazine. The article is an interesting read and talks a great deal about the wiretapping case against AT&T in which the ACLU of Illinois is also involved. read more » |
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