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TUCSON — Tucson Sector Border Patrol holds men, women, and children in freezing, overcrowded, and filthy cells for extended periods of time in violation of the U.S. Constitution, a group of legal organizations allege in a class-action lawsuit filed Monday.
NEW YORK — Several Arizona health care providers filed a new lawsuit in federal court today challenging a recently passed state law that forces doctors to mislead patients by telling them that it may be possible to reverse a medication abortion (filing here).
TUCSON—In letters sent today to two southern Arizona counties, the ACLU of Arizona demands 911 operators change the way they handle wilderness distress calls from individuals known or perceived to be border crossers.
TUCSON—Lee Gelernt, deputy director of the ACLU's Immigrants' Rights Project, will be presenting oral arguments before U.S. District Court Chief Judge Raner Collins in the ACLU's case Rodriguez v. Swartz on Tuesday, May 26, 2015, at the Evo A. DeConcini U.S. Courthouse in Tucson, Ariz.
PHOENIX--The ACLU of Arizona is a proud founding partner of Competitive Arizona, a coalition working towards equality for all Arizonans, including lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people.
TUCSON -- The ACLU of Arizona today filed notices of two claims (available here)with the federal government under the Federal Tort Claims Act (“FTCA”) on behalf of an Arizona woman seeking monetary damages for egregious and repeated rights violations by U.S. Border Patrol agents.