American Civil Liberties Union

noun

1. an organization founded in 1920 to defend the civil rights of all U.S. citizens. ACLU, A.C.L.U.

American Civil Liberties Union

1. An organization founded in 1920 in the wake of the red scare to defend civil liberties. The ACLU has often defended the rights of individuals aligned with unpopular causes, including American communists and Nazis.

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“This bill flies in the face of the basic American principles of fairness, justice and equality and will not protect anyone’s religious liberty,” Jennifer Riley-Collins, Executive Director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Mississippi, said in a statement.

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The American Civil Liberties Union once cautioned that allowing private judges in Rhode Island would create a “two-tiered system of justice that allows for swift resolution of cases only for those wealthy enough to afford private proceedings.”

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"The actual malice here is the knowing dissemination of something that was purported to be verbatim, but which is not," said Mr Neuborne, the former national legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union.

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In 2016, Preven and the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California took a lawsuit all the way to the California Supreme Court, which ruled in his favor, finding the public had a right to know how much the county was paying outside lawyers in closed cases.

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Peter Eliasberg, chief counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California, agreed, adding that the Sheriff’s Department has a history of not thoroughly reviewing video and failing to hold deputies accountable for improper use of force and other wrongdoing — even when it’s caught on camera.

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