The fall of Roe v. Wade shifted the battleground over abortion to courthouses around the country Monday, as abortion foes looked to quickly enact statewide bans and the other side sought to buy more time.
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US pulls out of settlement talks in family separation suits
The U.S. government withdrew Thursday from settlement negotiations to end lawsuits filed on behalf of parents and children who were forcibly separated under the Trump administration's zero-tolerance border policy, the American Civil Liberties Union said.
Read More »Report: 50 of 13,000 inmates voted from jail in 2020
A new report suggests that only 50 of the approximately 13,000 people in Wisconsin jails cast a ballot in 2020 elections.
Read More »ACLU of Wisconsin, WAAL to host legal observer training for protesters
The ACLU of Wisconsin and the Wisconsin Association of African-American Lawyers are offering a free, online legal-observer training session on Thursday.
Read More »Lawsuit seeks release of Wisconsin inmates due to virus
Two inmates with preexisting conditions joined together with Disability Rights Wisconsin and criminal defense attorneys on Friday to ask the state Supreme Court to release elderly and vulnerable inmates from the state prisons who would be at greatest risk from the coronavirus outbreak.
Read More »US Supreme Court allows broad enforcement of asylum limits
The U.S. Supreme Court is allowing nationwide enforcement of a new Trump administration rule that prevents most Central American immigrants from seeking asylum in the United States.
Read More »School lawyer: Despite birth certificate, Grimm still female
Gavin Grimm, the transgender man who sued after being barred from using boys bathrooms in high school, remains female today, no matter what his birth certificate or a Virginia judge might have said, a lawyer for the school board argued in federal court.
Read More »School’s transgender bathroom ban is back in court
Gavin Grimm, a young man who has become a national face for transgender student rights, returns to a Virginia courtroom Tuesday to challenge his former high school's bathroom policy.
Read More »ACLU seeks delay in decision on census question
The American Civil Liberties Union is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to hold off issuing a decision about whether to include a citizenship question on the 2020 census.
Read More »US searches of phones, laptops at airports rising, suit says
U.S. government searches of travelers' cellphones and laptops at airports and border crossings nearly quadrupled since 2015 and were being done for reasons beyond customs and immigration enforcement, according to papers filed Tuesday in a federal lawsuit that claims scouring the electronic devices without a warrant is unconstitutional.
Read More »ACLU sues to give juvenile lifers chance at parole
The American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit Tuesday demanding a federal judge ensure Wisconsin prisoners sentenced to life as juveniles receive a "meaningful and realistic" chance at parole.
Read More »US Supreme Court rules against immigrants in detention case
A divided U.S. Supreme Court ruled Tuesday against a group of immigrants in a case about the government's power to detain them after they've committed crimes but finished their sentences.
Read More »Jury awards $780,500 in transgender lawsuit
A jury has awarded a transgender University of Wisconsin-Madison employee and a transgender UW-Madison student $780,500 worth of damages after a federal judge ruled a state ban on insurance coverage for gender-changing surgery amounts to sexual discrimination.
Read More »Federal judge signs off on juvenile-prison deal
A federal judge has signed off on an agreement that would end the use of pepper spray and nearly eliminate the use of solitary confinement inWisconsin's juvenile prisons.
Read More »ACLU lawsuit accuses US of wrongfully denying asylum
The American Civil Liberties Union sued the U.S. government Tuesday over its efforts to prevent immigrants from seeking asylum due to domestic and gang violence in their home countries.
Read More »Milwaukee activists praise ‘stop-and-frisk’ suit settlement
Community leaders working against disparities in the criminal justice system are greeting the settlement agreement in the ACLU's stop-and-frisk lawsuit against the city with hope. The $3.4 million settlement was made official Monday when U.S. District Judge J.P. Stadtmueller approved it.
Read More »Milwaukee seeks to lower $6M stop-and-search settlement
Milwaukee officials are trying to lower the $6 million proposed cost to settle a lawsuit alleging that police officers targeted black and Latino residents for questioning without probable cause.
Read More »State agrees to end pepper spray, solitary at youth prison (UPDATE)
The state Department of Corrections has reached a legal settlement that calls for the agency to end the use of pepper spray and solitary confinement at Wisconsin's youth prison.
Read More »Walker not interested heartbeat abortion ban
Gov. Scott Walker is signaling he's not interested in pursuing a six-week abortion ban.
Read More »Vote on Milwaukee police lawsuit settlement delayed
Milwaukee officials considering settling a lawsuit accusing the police department of stopping minorities without probable cause say they want to know how much the city will have to pay before they make a decision.
Read More »Milwaukee reaches possible settlement in stop-and-frisk suit
The American Civil Liberties Union of Wisconsin and the city of Milwaukee have reached a tentative $1.9 settlement in a lawsuit alleging the city police department's stop-and-frisk policy unfairly targets minorities.
Read More »Madison police say drone program has been successful
The Madison Police Department says its drone technology has proven successful in its search-and-rescue operations and crime scene mapping.
Read More »Assembly approves limits on police body cam access
A Republican-backed proposal limiting the public's access to footage from police body cameras cleared the Wisconsin Assembly on Thursday, despite objections from open records advocates and Democrats who say it will quash the public's ability to view certain video.
Read More »Waukesha sheriff asks for immigration enforcement authority
The Waukesha County sheriff wants training for his deputies to perform the functions of immigration agents at his jail.
Read More »Judge orders changes at youth prisons by next week
The Wisconsin Department of Corrections must make a series of changes at Wisconsin's juvenile prisons to "drastically reduce," by July 21, the use of solitary confinement, pepper spray and shackles on young inmates, a federal judge ruled Monday.
Read More »Youth prison plans give DOC time for policy change
The Wisconsin Department of Corrections says a plan for changes in confinement at the state's juvenile prisons will give the department time to train staff on the new policies.
Read More »Judge orders changes at juvenile prisons (UPDATE)
A federal judge issued a stinging rebuke Friday of disciplinary practices at Wisconsin's youth prisons, saying state officials have demonstrated a "callous indifference" to the harm caused to juvenile inmates by the use of solitary confinement, pepper spray and shackles.
Read More »Judge to weigh solitary confinement, pepper spray at prison
A federal judge is set to hear evidence in a case seeking to halt the use of solitary confinement, pepper spray and the shackling of inmates at Wisconsin's troubled youth prisons.
Read More »Appeals court deals blow to Trump administration travel ban
A federal appeals court dealt another blow to President Donald Trump's revised travel ban targeting six-Muslim majority countries on Thursday, siding with groups that say the policy illegally targets Muslims.
Read More »Milwaukee police chief denies stop-and-frisk allegation
Milwaukee's police chief denies that the police department has a stop-and-frisk policy, though he maintains that traffic stops in "high crime areas" reduce crime.
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